EBS_freak

For me, heft is more about the attack and weight of the resulting note. You can get many rigs that will produce the notes from say 40hz up to 15khz - but it's how those notes (particularly those in the lower end of the spectrum) is delivered that is important to me. I think there is an important interaction going on between player and rig. Much like a guitarist likes the way valves interact with what is being played (with say sag and natural compression), as a bass player, I like to dig in and have my notes delivered with zero sag - with full attack at the beginning of the note - right through to the end.

I don't like the Sadowsky preamp at all. Yet in a band situation, they always seem to sound amazing (mostly with other people playing them!). I'm the same with a P bass. Played solo, I find that they sound utterly miserable. In a band... they are always thunderous.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1465297682' post='3066850'] If you're not shaving the pennies, then the Powersoft Digam range are pretty much as good as it gets, and tick every box you can imagine. [/quote] Powersoft is where it's at... although you will be paying a pretty penny for it.

[quote name='obbm' timestamp='1465288807' post='3066724'] That's nice to hear. I'd often wondered if she'd managed to destroy it yet. [/quote] Quite impressive given the fact that at one point she seemed to be getting through an XLR a gig... Just shows you that the mass produced soldering options are not always economically a sound choice! Spend a bit extra for a hand soldered quality lead people!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1465286795' post='3066706'] I used to buy all the components and make up my own leads, because I had my own home studio and required cable runs of very specific lengths and often different connectors wired in very particular ways at each end of the cable. However when I need some more basic jack-to-jack leads for my new bass rig 6 years ago, I ordered them from OBBM. I could have probably made my own for slightly less money, but certainly not once I figured in the cost of my time to do it. All these leads are still functioning as perfectly as the day I received them. They most definitely last longer than any of the shop-bought leads I've owned. [/quote] This. And the "singerproof XLR" he made for me, is still going.

Psst. OBBM. Just making sure you get the idea! :-p

Just backing up...

You think their mixes are bad? The amount of artists that complain about their IEM mixes...

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1465160123' post='3065780'] He smelled the biscuits I'm tellin ya, I bet he has pockets full of digestives! [/quote] He'll be getting all Andy Dufresne, sneaking biscuits out of here.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1465158057' post='3065741'] All of this and more is exactly why I don't come on here anymore [/quote] Does anybody else see the fundamental problem with this post...?

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1465072214' post='3065150'] I thought he would be using a Maruszczyk by now... [/quote] :-p

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1464974264' post='3064336'] Personally I think it's brilliant that Alex had an idea an ran with it. And to attract someone of TC's quality is great and will no doubt help fill the order book. With so many start up companies going under within 12 months of starting I would have said Alex was utterly mental to set up a manufacturing company in the UK. But he's managed it, and whether I like the cabs or not (only tried the One10, and I've got my order in for a second one) it's a very welcome success story. I wonder if Larry Hartke would get the repeated slagging on here that Alex gets? Somehow I doubt it. [/quote] Where is Alex getting slagged?

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1464956096' post='3064120'] <tangent>John Entwistle. I think he was the perfect bass player for The Who and the band wouldn't have been the same without him. However I don't get it. Especially in later years he had probably one of the worst bass tones I've ever heard in my life and his clickety clackety, typewriter falling down stairs style does absolutely nothing for me.</tangent> [/quote] Given his liaisons with the ladies and his affection for the white stuff, I figured tone didn't really figure up his list of priorities in latter years.

Marquees eat volume... but having said that, just make sure you put out a balanced sound... so in other words, if you are the quietest, make sure everybody is only as loud to be balanced with you. I don't know what the event is but if it's something like a wedding, you only have to be loud enough to fill out the dancefloor and not necessarily the whole marquee.

It all depends upon the context of a band. I'd quite happily do a coffee shop gig with a 1x12... You'd probably get away with it in quiet more acoustic focused bands... but you'd likely be wanting if you got much louder or larger venues. Probably worth clarifying whether this 1x12 has got to provide for front of house too... or whether it is just monitoring... or whether it's working whilst being supported by a PA (and of course, what PA - as that will change depending upon venue)

[quote name='skychaserhigh' timestamp='1464882544' post='3063500'] You have just announced your not liking of a Barefaced cab ...out loud on Basschat... *puts on crash helmet and waits for the fan club to wade in* Is anyone else going to the shops...?? [/quote] Best get some arnica and some plasters too. EDIT: hopefully it won't get to stitches. EDIT2: or broken limbs.

[quote name='Mudpup' timestamp='1464881124' post='3063482'] Has TC got some new cabs then? - I was looking at that tatty old Ampeg and thought he would be able to afford a nice new class D amp by now I thought we would be discussing the anti heft brigade...... [/quote] Oi, what you doing around these parts, get off to the shop.

[quote name='Mudpup' timestamp='1464880760' post='3063472'] nips to shop for more biscuits....... [/quote] Best take the van.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1464876988' post='3063422'] Finally what? That post implies we were in the throws of battle and you've just won? If that's how you feel then well done! All I ever said on this thread is that it's a great endorsement, and honestly it feels like you have been picking away at my posts, attempting to prove me wrong about something. I always thought you were a pretty cool dude and liked and respected your posting style. I guess I should have continued to avoid the BF threads but Timmy C is a bit of an idol for me so I thought I'd join in. [/quote] I hope you don't feel like that. I enjoy your posts too. I'm not picking away at your posts either - the finally comment was more of an acknowledgement of somebody getting what I was trying to get across.

[quote name='AndrewJordan' timestamp='1464875965' post='3063405'] And with that question you have kind of reinforced Alex's point! [/quote] No, it's called a control. If you are measuring one variable, you have to keep the other a constant - aka a control.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1464873290' post='3063365'] They're probably playing a small part in a very complicated chain and mix. [/quote] Finally.

So which is it? Is it good to overpower the FOH mix or not? If it's not overpowering the FOH mix then the audience aren't hearing the cab directly... and the loudness of the cabs is kind of a moot point. Or if it is... That's not very good for a balanced FOH mix is it?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1464870455' post='3063300'] Barefaced are one of the very few cab manufacturers to publish full specifications of their products. [/quote] Or are they? How do you know?

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1464870417' post='3063298'] I've never seen one of these famous "barefaced bashing threads" before and I'm quite perplexed now that I'm actually in one. Anyway, just on the point of close-micing - I do a lot of recording, and I've recorded a lot of different bass cabs with 10" speakers. They all sound different to me, no matter how close my mic is. [/quote] But do all these lots of different cabs have the same 10" speaker?