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[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1453822138' post='2963115'] Like a tree falling in a forest, if nobody notices you "vanish", have you really vanished? [/quote] Who said that?? [quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1453833686' post='2963274'] I don't get many backs up... [/quote] That's what YOU think.

[quote name='synthaside' timestamp='1453840812' post='2963381'] ...perhaps you come round have a nice Belgian beer, or soft beverage of your choice and a noodle on it... [/quote] Soft beverage and a noodle on it?? What's that, then - some kind of Chinese hipster drink??

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1453821353' post='2963093'] Do people realise that the tone of their amp on stage is not the same as the punters out front are hearing? [/quote] I'm pretty sure punters can't tell the difference between the sound of a bass guitar and an explosion in a dildo factory.

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1453821473' post='2963096'] Wow, "built-in electricity"... [/quote] Yes, apparently it generates its own magic smoke even when switched off.

Do what I did and sell it on a first-refusal basis, i.e. if the buyer ever moves it on he lets you know and you get first dibs. That's how I got my USA 76P back after five years in the wilderness (it was actually under Rumple's bed). I've learnt my lesson.

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1453821219' post='2963091'] Sound garden had two ampegs die in as many songs in Birmingham, probably on you tube, their best two songs performed without bass that a di box would have solved :-( [/quote] Tsk! Can you imagine a professional band relying on Ampeg equipment!? Mad!!

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1453819775' post='2963061'] How often does an amp fail? [/quote] In my experience, once every forty years. Your mileage may vary. Edit: Make that twice. But the other time wasn't during a gig.

I'm probably wrong as I know not a lot about Jaco, but didn't he use Acoustic gear..? Edit: OK, OK, I've read the letter now. Edit 2: What, wait - HOW MUCH??

I'd prefer the head of Alfredo Garcia.

[quote name='keefbaker' timestamp='1453799879' post='2962763'] MUST NOT BLOW 10 GRAND ON A BASS! [/quote] Too right mate, though I'm finding it pretty easy to resist for some reason...

Love everything about it, enjoy! Hnng! I thought I'd finally shed my illogical Jazz GAS and this isn't helping one bit. I like stack knobs, they're much more versatile tonally compared with the v-v-t layout. Nice one.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1453763234' post='2962635'] ...they do a range of idiotic stop-bars. Not sure which is the most hilarious - possibly the skull & crossbones-meets-dogturd. [/quote] Oh, they're nasty. I'm going to introduce a range of authentic faux-dead rats which you hang from your headstock. Just as useful but more of a punk vibe, or something. It seems that people will buy almost anything, given the opportunity.

Oh I dunno. If it were black and Tony Iommi were playing it it might be OK...

Sweet! Your audience will be recovering after you've hit 'em with that.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1453725532' post='2962108'] I would love an old P bass... Can't really justify the cost at the moment, but some day maybe... [/quote] I've found a Limelight P makes a good [i]doppelgänger [/i]while one is amassing the funds for the genuine article...

[quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1453727558' post='2962134'] But you have a great little rig already... [/quote] I know! But I'm going to be gigging a lot in 2016 and were talking 18kg v 7kg! That's quite a difference!

[quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1453676345' post='2961782'] @Mark. Leave now :-) [/quote] Too late! In fact, I've already contacted Alex re suitability with my amp and band... his reply: 'Yes, that should be a great little rig! It'll be fine with the bottom end, even up against a moderately loud drummer.' So now I'm in trouble. Again.

[quote name='bonzodog' timestamp='1453724960' post='2962093'] I have a customer that builds distressed looking teardrop caravans [/quote] Are they good for metal..?

I don't need a bass to look distressed... just to feel and play like it's not brand new. I have an aversion to shiny chrome and a pristine finish, not least because I'm afeared of putting the first ding in it. I certainly don't need a bass with 'the belt-sander look' - which is horrible.

Bloody hell. Now I want a Barefaced One10. Cloth grille. If they are as good as everyone says they are, a revolution is imminent!

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1453679312' post='2961813'] Steve Wright is one of the reasons I quit R1 in the first place. [/quote] He is just awful. Dogmatic right-wing moron with verbal diaohrrea. Can't even stand the sound of his voice. Terrible, terrible man and a crap DJ. Apart from that he's OK.

[quote name='Lownote-LA' timestamp='1442766798' post='2869310'] [color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Excuse the long post--which is itself a variation on what I posted on the BG Forum at TalkBass--but since I have several Barefaced Cabinets I thought my experience might be helpful. I was lucky enough to be sitting at my computer when the email from Alex arrived announcing the One-10 and the introductory pricing. I currently own a Big Baby 2 and a Super Midget which I use on their own and paired, primarily for upright playing but also for bass guitar and doubling gigs. These are the best speakers I have ever owned bar none, and I jumped at the opportunity to get one of Alex's speakers designed for low volume, small group play that is light as a feather. I will primarily use it for upright duo and trio gigs, and if it is as good as I hope it will be, it will replace my Mike Arnopol fibreglass Crazy 8 that I have been using for low volume gigs. I immediately hit the purchase button and it was confirmed today that I was lucky enough to get one at the introductory price of £199. [/font][/color][color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]My speaker--serial number 002--arrived Friday 11 September. It is beautifully constructed and a step-up quality from the already high standards of the latest generation Barefaced cabinets. I had a chance to play around with it at home on upright bass and to A-B it to one of Mike Arnopol fibreglass Crazy 8 speakers which has been my go-to box for small gigs. I've been having some troubles with the Crazy 8 rattling and vibrating so it isn't a totally valid comparison but I thought the new One-10 sounded much more solid and substantial. For swing music I was able to get the big punchy sound I look for on upright bass--think tones that are like "cubes with eased edges" rather than blobs--if that makes any sense to people. Like other BF speakers I wasn't able to get it to fart out or distort noticeably, driving it with AI Clarus SL (one of the old ones.) I found that using a HiPass filter in front of my amp (that doesn't have one built in) helped to firm up the sound and allow me to increase the volume to an even higher level.[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]I had a gig on Saturday night with a jazz quartet of bone, piano, drums and me, which I thought was going to be quiet background jazz during the cocktail hour of a wedding to be followed by a DJ for the dancing. Off I went with the new speaker thinking this would be a perfect test run. Unfortunately when I arrived I found that I was playing more of a neo-swing dance gig in a big marquis with volumes way up, well beyond what the One-10 is designed to do. If I'd had my Big Baby 2 and new Midget pairing, it would have been perfect. Fortunately there was good PA support and I was able to go into the PA for sound out front. The One-10 did make an excellent stage monitor however, [/font][/color][color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]and I like the fact that it fits into a padded cajon bag along with my AI Clarus and an extension reel for easy over-the-shoulder load-in.[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]20 September Update: I've still not had the right gigging situation yet for the new speaker--yesterday's job was an outdoor 30's swing gig on upright without PA support. Because I was concerned about volume and overloading the One 10, I took the Super Midget instead. Upcoming gigs include a 17-piece loud big band and a quartet backing a female vocalist in a jazz club with a back line amp wired into the PA so I've yet to get the perfect gig to try out the new speaker. [/font][/color] [font="verdana, geneva, lucida, lucida grande, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"][color="#141414"]However, I did spend a bunch of time today with both upright and bass guitar in my large front hall (15' X 25' with a 12' ceiling) and thought my experience with the One10 and my other speakers might be helpful. I'm not a professional equipment reviewer, just a jobbing musician, so I might not have the lingo down, but here are my thoughts in sort of random order.[/color][/size][/font][list] [*]The One10 alone gets incredibly loud with no farting out at all on the E string with either upright or BG. I was driving the speaker(s) with an Acoustic Image Focus Series III so there was gobs of clean power. The upright has a bridge wing piezo pickup called the Revolution Solo. To make the double bass sound "right," I set the high pass filter to about 85 hz, and for BG, I rolled it all the way down to the lowest setting of 35 hz. On upright I get a very punchy and yet fat and rich sound that is clean as a whistle, mirrors the sound of my bass but projects like crazy. The One10 is much fatter when sitting on the ground and I put it down on the long side so that the cylindrical port was pointing out the side and not down to the bottom. When I put a speaker on the floor, I like to slip a foam wedge under the speaker so that I can hear it better and this would cover up the port if it was sitting with the narrow end down. The One10 also sounded good when played alone while sitting on top of another speaker--boomy rooms may well call for the speaker to be up off the floor. [*]This was the first time I played a BG (Status Graphite 4-string Streamliner) through the speaker and was bowled over by what a fat funky sound it produced with just the One10 on its own. For smaller pub gigs where there is no drummer or the drummer isn't super loud, I think you could get by just fine with this speaker alone. Certainly for a drummer-less duo or trio playing background jazz in almost any size room, or any kind of folky or bluegrass gig, the One10 will do the job on either/both upright and BG. [*]Somewhat surprisingly I didn't like the sound of the One10 with the Big Baby 2 although I love the sound of the SuperMIdget paired with the BB2. The BB2 alone has been a wonderful speaker, particularly as a stage monitor with a loud 5-horn band in a touring Rat Pack theatre show that I play with. It is a bit hard to describe why I didn't like the One10/BB2 pairing but the sonic palette just didn't seem to mesh that well. It helped when I turned the crossover on the BB2 almost all the way to the side that favours the woofer and not the horn. [*]However, the pairing of the SuperMidget and the One10 is absolutely wonderful and I highly recommend this pairing for both upright and BG. Loud, rich, clean, punchy and well disbursed are descriptors that come to mind. This will be a rig that I'll go out with often especially since the One10 fits in a Cajon bag and the SuperMidget fits in a Bass Cajon bag, making transport safe and relatively easy. I didn't want to stop playing this combination. [/list] [font="verdana, geneva, lucida, lucida grande, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"][color="#141414"]Having owned a ton of small speakers (Wizzy 10, Schroeder 10, Acme B-1, GK 112MBX, Arnopol composite Crazy 8) the Barefaced One10 is the very best one I've played to date and I could have saved a ton of money if they had come along sooner. Barefaced Speakers are relatively unusual in that they sound equally good with both upright and BG, and this is rare indeed.[/color][/size][/font] [color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Cheers,[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Erik Hansen aka Lownote-LA[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Edinburgh, Scotland[/font][/color] [/quote] Thanks for this very comprehensive review... must admit I'm very intrigued by this little cab.