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I put (ha, no. The bass doc put) one of those in an old Hohner Jack when the original died. With the caveat that it wasn't a Stingray it sounded great.

Do people not get that they're a parody band? A petition has actually been created and signed to remove a parody.

I've been looking for a cab-buildng project for ages and I saw this one frist time around, it's great to hear your review Phil. Some quick questions, if anyone has time: Would making one 2x12" that's double the volume be acceptable? Essentially two boxes permanently vertically stacked but with no divider between them. I'd obviously remove 2x the plywood thickness from the height to account for the top of one cab and the bottom of another. If I did this, would I just double the number or ports? Is the Celestion Pulse 12 still a good alternative speaker? I'm doing this partially because I'd love a tall, thin cab on wheels to use with a micro head but mainly because I just fancy a project, so if I can save some money that would be ideal.

I second this. I think the B3 was the firsst multi effects unit that sounded and worked as well as 'proper' pedals.

Fwiw I talked PMT down to £1300 for the rack, the control and a few assorted cables. Is it higher than even that now?

Yeah the prices were lower when I started looking compared to when I bought mine. Shame. I think it may be related to the fact the Line 6 have repeatedly (and rather believably) said that they have no plans to replace the Helix hardware for quite some time. Fractal have a new model out every 5 minutes, Line 6 and Kemper seem content for the moment.

Yey, a treble booster...

If it's really just for home use then I had a great play on the laney duo the other day. Surprising bass response at home and I'd imagine giggable on other instruments.

Rock, trebley, grindy, cheap? All of this screams Ashdown MAG surely? Not a problem to find 300W heads, 8x10s and 4x10s all for that budget.

I fear I may have made too much of an issue out of this. I too miss a manual volume control but it's not that bad. I set it to +15 for live work (where the hiss is not at all noticeable) and 0db for home use. There's enough gain in the helix, a Behringer Xr18, a Behringer MIC1000 or my Soundcraft Notepad to make up for any changes within the realms of 'loud' and 'quiet' that its not as though I feel the need to sit with a laptop and tweak "nono, this is a small gig, so I need to set the FR800 to +11db rather than +15". If I didn't use one of them at home I would never move then from +15. Next time, something similar to the QSC back panel please, but the current ones work fine.

It does sound a little but more like an overdrive, can you see still get dod 250s for cheap?

Me too. My first real amp was an Ashdown MAG full stack and if I had to buy an amp tomorrow it would be the ABM rack mount head. The cabs are too heavy for me but they do sound great. I noticed that your slap design didn't have ducts. I'd have assumed that his bass cabs would have but I suppose you're right they wouldn't be strong enough. I didn't understand the science behind it though. I mean, I still don't, but I might be a little closer so thanks anyway!

With product descriptions I always wonder how much of it is bad engineering (likely lots of it!) or just marketing speak (probably just as likely). He's put the ports on the side so they make handles (hey, it's a good idea and Bill does a well-executed and well-explained version in his SLAP) and then thought to himself "how can I spin this so people don't think it's weird?" and then written something that isn't technically a lie so that the great unwashed accept it, think it's novel, and buy his cabinets. If I was going to make a bass cab I'd make a 4x10" and a 1x15", because outside of Basschat that's all I really see around here. Then I'd fill the 4x10" marketing descriptions with terms like 'punchy' because everyone knows a 4x10" is punchier than a 1x15" and the 1x15" would be all 'bassy' and 'low-end'. The terms 'comb filtering' and 'bad off-axis response' don't really sit too well on an ebay advert. This is why Ashdown will have outsold all of the boutique makers that we care about on here put together this year despite the fact that regardless of preference a BFM, Greenboy, Barefaced, Audiokinesis, etc etc etc cab is inarguably technically better. It's sad.

You could pm him and ask what speaker is in it then you could plug the box into winisd and make an educated guess.

It works fine in Virtualbox for me. Linux Mint 18.3.

Yeah they accept XLR only. Please don't misconstrue my posts as being down on the FR800s. They're not perfect, but what is?

As I've typed that, it's hot me that there might be a way to do it using the 4 presets. If I remember rightly, the volume is 'master' and doesn't change with the presets but I wonder if there's a way to do it with the EQ filters. I could quite happily live with a 0 and a 15dB preset, that would cover it all for me as I can adjust more than +/-15dB with my preamps. Uh-huh. Had I really thought about it beforehand I'm not sure I would have gone the same way. It doesn't detract from an amazing cabinet: great sound, light, small, easy to carry, stackable, looks like a bass cab (AFAIK the only cab to do the last two). But then, there are loads of small, light, great sounding frfr cabs out there that do have bloody gain controls. It's not Barefaced's fault per se, the amp is off-the-shelf from Hypex. But, they did chose what amp to put in there.

The lack of a gain control is a massive downside. Obviously you can use the preamp for small/medium adjustments but I have to set it at +15dB for live use, which means that there's far too much hiss to use anywhere NOT at a gig. And to go down to say +0dB you have to use a laptop. Only major criticism from me.

Gain set to hit the preamp as hard as possible without overdriving. This depends on instrument and playing style more than desired volume. Boost to taste (HIGH!). Woofer to set overall volume. Or at least, that's how I did it...

Welcome! Please do fill out your profile as much as you can, Basschat is a big place and there might be a person from your country or even your city who can help with some local knowledge! I'd always buy second-hand first time around. As you've said, the better your bass is the more likely to are to enjoy learning and to keep playing. And whatever your budget you can always buy a better bass amp second hand than you can spending the same money on new items. Secondly, if you incorrectly and stupidly decide that playing bass isn't for you then you should be able to get nearly all of your money back on a used instrument when you sell it on. A used Mexican Jazz bought for £300 will sell for £300. A new Squier bought for £200 will only be worth £100 or so. All that being said, the Squier Jazz and amp is great choice, and if you've got the money then go for it. An Affinity P Bass and Fender Frontman 15B was bought for me, in a kit, brand new, from a shop, on my 13th birthday and I'm still here...

Basschat is tiny percentage of bass players. By default there's a self-selection bias as only a certain type of bass player will bother to seek out an online community and then actively participate. And you're right, only some of the members will frequent 'effects' and only some of those will click on a comp thread. Related story. The PhDs and postdocs in my uni would regularly send out emails and such to get other students to be participants in their research. I used to respond to these ads frequently because it was better than doing my own work so I once found myself in a very small, very warm office having my penis measured as part of a penis size study. After the measurement phase we all received further emails saying that we had been duped and the study wasn't about penis size at all, would we consent to our measurements being used for another purpose? That purpose? The study was actually on self-selection bias. The theory was, if people volunteered for the study then only proud men would volunteer and, as a result, the study's 'average' would be significantly higher than the actual average. Somewhere out there there's an unemployed psychology graduate who never got their next grant and it's all my fault for blowing their theory out of the water.

Stacking is the least bad way to do it. You will get cancellations but mostly in the vertical plane. This would be a massive problem if you kept lying down and then standing up, but for walking around horizontally it's not so bad.

I dunno if you have the storage space or a big enough car, but it strikes me that the easiest answer is to pick up an 8x10" or similar. They're super cheap these days as everyone moves to lightweight.

Indeed. I'm living proof of the inverse correlation between gear and talent.