Bone Idol Posted December 30, 2024 Posted December 30, 2024 (edited) Have been playing since the mid 1970's, mainly guitar & vocals but have always had a bass about the place so that I could occaisionally channel my inner 'Jack Bruce' 😀 or for recording bass lines etc. Just lately I'm getting more and more enjoyment from bass playing, (maybe it's an age thing?) anyway, I'm now looking forward to learning some new skills and making some new dicsoveries along the way. I also love repurposing or reviving old relics (myself included) and have recently messed about with a couple of old 1950's projector speaker cabinets, converting one of them into a bass cab! Now don't shoot me down in flames, I know this won't be an Ampeg killer.... But you have to have a bit of fun along the way! Here's a couple of before and after shots.... The 'before' photo is not my actual cab as I forgot to photograph it in its original condition... And I love its ratty beaten-up condition! It's an on-going process, I'm still undecided whether to go down the 'reflex port' route or not and I may change the grill cloth as this one from the 70's was all I had knocking about at the time when I removed the old extruded aluminium grill that rattled like a snare drum!... But that's a simple thing to do. I'd appreciate your thoughts... Edited December 30, 2024 by Bone Idol 4 Quote
msb Posted December 31, 2024 Posted December 31, 2024 I think it’s mostly guitar players that have been using projector amps and cabs. Some make gorgeous guitar amps , but not sure how they’d handle bass. Welcome. Quote
Bone Idol Posted January 1 Author Posted January 1 19 hours ago, msb said: I think it’s mostly guitar players that have been using projector amps and cabs. Some make gorgeous guitar amps , but not sure how they’d handle bass. Welcome. It's only for home use or low level rehearsal/open mic type of thing and it handles that ok, but I agree with you, it's certainly not man enough for a full on loud band. Quote
Richard R Posted January 1 Posted January 1 Welcome aboard! Lots of advice on cab building to be found here. Check out the threads on the 8" mini cab build for discussions about port lengths and such things. Your profile background image - Staff Card for the Rum Runner in 1984? Do tell! 1 Quote
Bone Idol Posted January 4 Author Posted January 4 On 01/01/2025 at 16:08, Richard R said: Welcome aboard! Lots of advice on cab building to be found here. Check out the threads on the 8" mini cab build for discussions about port lengths and such things. Your profile background image - Staff Card for the Rum Runner in 1984? Do tell! I'll have a look at that thread... I may have to start my own in order to get the right adivice about port sizes etc. as it's quite a perculiar shaped cab in that the sides taper inwards at the top! Rum Runner... Oh yes!... I was a customer for a long while, (late 70's to early 80's) and then went on to work there for the last year of the club's existance... Best job I ever had, not for the money, obviously... But it was like being paid to go out! When it closed I went on to work at Snobs (remember that place?), as it was owned by a different branch of the same family (The Berrows)... Such a disappointment, it was like chalk and cheese compared to the Runner... I didn't stay there very long!... I chose the photo for the profle page as I had to find something 'long & thin' to fit... I didn't realise people could expand the photo 😀 1 Quote
Richard R Posted January 4 Posted January 4 I was only 16 in '83, and into Prog rather than the New Romantics. I remember Snobs though - I was a very frequent borrower at of the record lending section of the Birmingham Library, so Paradise Circus was familiar. 1 Quote
Richard R Posted January 4 Posted January 4 (edited) https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/gallery/hidden-snobs-missed-many-city-23113456 There have been a LOT of changes to that part of Birmingham in the last 10 years. This article is 3 years old, there has been more work done since then. Edited January 4 by Richard R Always a ruddy typo! Quote
Bone Idol Posted January 6 Author Posted January 6 On 04/01/2025 at 21:22, Richard R said: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/gallery/hidden-snobs-missed-many-city-23113456 There have been a LOT of changes to that part of Birmingham in the last 10 years. This article is 3 years old, there has been more work done since then. I left Brum for Brighton in the Summer of 1985.... Looking at Streetview now, I hardly recognise the place. In my youth it was a tough, run-down industrial city, but that's what gave it its edge.... And trust me on this, it took a lot of guts in 1980 to get on a bus full of hard men from the factorys whilst wearing the outrageous clothes, make-up and hair of a New Romantic... Some nights it was a baptism of fire! What strikes me most is the lack of people in the clean modern city centre photos.... The 'dirty old town' that I remember was always rammed and the older photos bear this out..... But 40 years is an awful long time. Quote
Richard R Posted January 6 Posted January 6 All the people are down by the new Bull Ring and the bottom end of New Street where the shops are. Quote
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