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[quote name='Al Heeley' post='1057704' date='Dec 13 2010, 08:31 PM']Are you saying the vol/power is greater with separate leads out to each cab?[/quote] It shouldn't make any difference. The speaker sockets on the amp are wired in parallel just like the ones on the cabs, so the end impedance is the same whichever way you go.

The basses in my avatar are all through-necks. I glued the wings onto the neck with a slight back rake, and then sanded down the neck portion to make the whole face flush. And similarly on the back I had to sand the whole thing flat again. You need to factor for these sanding reductions when sizing your wood. Cheers

Hey Dan, Holy crap that looks stunning!! That's the best finish I've seen on one of my bodies. Did you spray it yourself? How does it play & sound? Fantastic job! Cheers Ian

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1033197' date='Nov 22 2010, 10:16 PM']Doesn't change anything.[/quote] Surely you wouldn't pay import duty on a secondhand bass?

I've built a Jazz style bass with an EMG MM pickup at the rear and a CS at the front. I've got an Audere 3-band pre, and it is really flexible. The preamp has a passive tone as well as the 3-band, so I can get all sorts of tones. The MM pickup is a monster! Good luck with the mods.

What was the technical bollock he dropped? I watched part of the vid and most of the cabs sounded the same through my headphones!

Holy crap JTUK, what a great avatar pic!!!!

[quote name='jaje' post='938859' date='Aug 28 2010, 03:01 PM']Hi there..I'm new here but i also have similar problem with my TITAN V12 bass head. Could you tell me what did the techs do with your amp to sort the limiter issue.? I'm sending e-mails to mesa techs and trying this way also.Thanks[/quote] Sorry - I've only just seen your reply to the thread. I didn't even bother trying the head again after they 'modified' it. Apparantly the tweaked the circuitry to reduce the limiting effect. I don't believe they should even have attempted this on a new head. It would have better to have a defeat switch on the front. On a side, I recently tried a Carbine M9 head and it seemed so potent with a great tone. It could be I was just unlucky with the head and there was something else wrong to make it get so hot, and run out of power. The whole episode turned me right off Mesa gear though. Good luck with yours.

I tried finding a website - can you post a link?

By far the worst was a Warwick Thumb 5-string through neck. Neck dive, neck dive, neck dive.

I had one for a very short while, and it is not a loud amp in my opinion. And I was using with a 1x15 and 4x10 in a pub rock covers band, and we weren't blisteringly loud. If you're stuggling with your volume and the rest of the band are playing at normal gigging levels then you'll never be happy with it. Time to change it me thinks.

I've tried various compressors over the years and always found they take away dynamics. Never got on with them and really can't see how they can improve a bass sound in a live situation. Only my opinion mind you.

The Eden 410XLT is a great cab and you can get it in 4 or 8 ohms. Or the 410XST which seems to have more of a mid-scoop. People usually mix an XST with an XLT. I have a 210XST and 410XLT on order. The 210 goes deepest out of all the Eden cabs (on paper that is). I'm only suggesting these because you haven't said whether wight is an issue! And these are pretty heavy. Good luck.

[quote name='Zach' post='822735' date='Apr 29 2010, 09:47 AM']considering the rule of having to 10x the power to double the volume, power to volume is an exponential relationship, and therefore to stop your pot turning output also being exponential, you need the pot to be logarithmic to transform pot angle Vs output into a relationship that's closer to linear. hooray for A-level maths, lets just hope i've remembered it correctly. Edit: have thought of it more properly, you start of with something like 10^p=k.V, where p is power and V is volume, with k being some constant, and using log pots changes that to p=log(kV), so your response graph goes from [url="http://hotmath.com/images/gt/lessons/genericalg1/exponential_graph.gif"]exponentional[/url] to[url="http://people.richland.edu/james/lecture/m116/logs/logarithmic.gif"] logarithmic[/url], which is just a bit nicer.[/quote] Great - it makes perfect sense now! I will try log volumes and lin tone and see how it goes. Thanks for helping out.

[quote name='Ian Savage' post='821410' date='Apr 28 2010, 01:41 AM']Generally speaking, log for volume, lin for tone. Avoids the 'all-at-one-end' effect that you sometimes get with ill-though-out control setups.[/quote] Thanks Ian. Thats interesting because I asked the same question on Talkass (Paah!) and I got the opposite - Lin for volumes and log for tone. I guess I can try both options and se which works best.

Great, thanks for the heads up.

My next bass build will have passive wiring with single coil Nordstrands. My question is - whilst I can easily find a wiring diagram for vol, vol & tone, I cannot determine whether I need lin or log pots? Can anyone help me on this? Thanks!

I connect the line-out of my amp into this small mixer... [url="http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/802.aspx"]http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/802.aspx[/url] then use Shure earphones with the expanding foam replaceable surrounds. Can't remember the ones I have but they were about 50 quid and handle the low B great. Plus with the mixer I can take a monitor out from the PA into it and create my own mix. I have even used an overhead mic to pick up the rest of the band. I used to bulldog clip them to my strap to avoid snagging them out your ears.

I would definitely put it in. I built a bass for our very own Zapp here on Basschat and we had much more tonal variation than any Ernie Ball. Hugely powerful preamp with tons of bass boost if required. And there are lots of wiring vaiations to have switchable mid-frequencies. Do it!

[quote name='Stewart' post='757352' date='Feb 25 2010, 05:43 PM']You probably just need to replace one of the bulbs that GK use as tweeter fuses. I believe Thomann(.de) sell them (along with most if not all the drivers)[/quote] Or you can buy a bulb from Halfords. I had the same problem. It was like a car interior light bulb - same wattage just a fraction shorter.

[quote name='grimbeaver' post='755450' date='Feb 23 2010, 08:36 PM']If you were in uk I would invite you round for a cup of tea and a twang so you could hear them[/quote] Thanks! If I was still in the UK I'd definitely be round for a demo. I was considering the 410XST & 210XST but after reading the forum they all say that the best combination is an XST with an XLT, as the XLT has a pronounced low mid hump that the XSTs don't have. They are also advising me to get a 410XLT with a 410XST underneath. They all say that the XST range has incredible low end. One good thing here in Canad is the prices. The 410XST is equiv to 585GBP and the 210XST is 410GBP. Another reason why I'm keen to try Eden. But no bugger stocks them, hence why I'm keen to get comments from users. Cheers

Hi, I’m considering buying a couple of David Eden cabs and was wondering if anyone here has any good/bad comments or recommendations. Looking at the specs on their website I think I will get a 410XST for sure, but I’m not sure which second cab to get. I will be using an Epifani UL902C head (although nowhere near on full power!). An Eden 115 is only 400w and the 212 is the same. Plus the cabs frequency response is confusing me as the 410 seems the best of the bunch. Am I going to get a strong low B with the 410? I’m happy lugging around one 410, but not two. So the options are 410 and 210 or 410 and 212. If someone has any experience of any of those cabs I’d like to hear them. Thanks!

This was one of my amp choices a while back, and my only Ampeg. I got rid of it pretty quickly because it just didn't seem that loud. I don't know much about the tech stuff, but I suspect you aren't getting near full power because the speaker isn't 4-ohms? Does the amp go to 2 ohms? Can't remember.

I see the Epifani UL410 is now only 699 GBP - that's much cheaper than what I paid a couple years back. Seemed to handle my low B fine, although one cab driven hard sounded better than my two stacked together!