What amp looks like this?

[newbold]

Hey!

So I'm thinking about a DIY cab and head case build: Tolex, Piping, GrilleCloth etc. and I figure that I should keep in mind what I'd be loading it with sooner and later.

So...

What classic amp has a metal stripe look like my BBT500?

[ShawnStones]

The old school Peavey cabs? The stripes are vertical, but are definitely silver stripes.

[newbold]

I was thinking more along the lines of this



but you're right about Peavey.

[SurferJoe46]

Is that little Billy Barty drum there?

I've never seen anything like that set-up - can you enlighten me?

[newbold]

that photo was taken from the propellerhead website...a website for a bass plugin for reason - it illustrates different miking techniques on bass amps...

the amp is an old Ampeg fliptop.

If you're talking about the Yamaha amp, it's been discontinued for years but it's still great nevertheless.

I intend to make an Head Case to fit my BBT500 if I keep it. The case will match the design motif of my DIY cab, sort f like the way you can get an amp case for Mesa products.

I was thinking classic Marshall Grille Cloth, but I may go black with either red or white piping on a couple of BFM Jack10's to hide that ugly piezo array.

[R Baer]

Originally Posted by SurferJoe46

Is that little Billy Barty drum there?

I've never seen anything like that set-up - can you enlighten me?

Can't tell the brand, but it is similar in function to the Yamaha Sub Kick. Basically, a very simple microphone.

We took a 6.5" speaker and shock-mounted it into a 10" drum shell and reverse-wired it to an XLR jack to convert the speaker diaphragm into a microphone diaphragm. This allows Subkick to pick up the low-end that a normal microphone can't.

http://www.yamaha.com/drums/drumprod...l?CNTID=544671

[JimmyM]

i think it is a subkick. i have a drummer buddy who really likes his. never would think to use it on a bass cab in a million years, though.

[SurferJoe46]

So-o-o-o a drummer kicks this thing and there's a mic inside it?

Why?

I've been outta the musical loop for a long time (40+ years) and some things make me go all snake-eyed when I see them.

[JimmyM]

no, the drummer kicks his bass drum as usual. the subkick is the mic. you don't strike it.

[SurferJoe46]

Uh huh. I think.

Then the bass drum is using this as a passive mic. ? ! ?

I gotta see one of these somewhere - I've got a trip to GC next week (57 miles away) and I'll get a demo.

What I don't understand is why a bass drum - or any drum - needs to be mic'd at a live performance.

I wonder at the ability of a speaker to respond like a drum head too.

But I will wait to hear one for myself at GC like I said. My how things have changed.

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by SurferJoe46

Uh huh. I think.

Then the bass drum is using this as a passive mic. ? ! ?

I gotta see one of these somewhere - I've got a trip to GC next week (57 miles away) and I'll get a demo.

What I don't understand is why a bass drum - or any drum - needs to be mic'd at a live performance.

hoo boy, have you been living in the jungle since 1965? you mic it so it can be heard in the pa and mixed all professional-like.

[SurferJoe46]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

hoo boy, have you been living in the jungle since 1965? you mic it so it can be heard in the pa and mixed all professional-like.

Nah I wuz married. Well I still am although my first wife died in '92.

Just that music wasn't all that available to me in that time period with the kids, jobs and businesses.

[JimmyM]

i can dig. well now everything goes through the pa so it can be mixed to sound more uniform and more like what we hear from cd's.

[SurferJoe46]

G'morning - old guys like me need to sleep - sorry for not staying up late and talking about this last night.

Subject, back to:

Well I guess that's all well and good - but I miss some of the sounds of live stuff in a big auditorium and everybody just hammering on drums that took control of the stage w/o amps.

Sigh.

I "hung around" in The Rendezvous and the Pavalon during the days of The Standells, The Surfriders, Eddie & The Showmen, Dick Dale, The Ventures and such other surf bands and they never really needed all that stuff - but then again we only had 33s and 45s to play at home (those were records - flat vinyl disks that turned on a --- well, never mind) ----------

MP3s have spoiled all that with their digital sounds that can hear and reproduce the heartbeat of the sound engineer - so I guess it's all good.

Good grief - today I have more wattage in the cabs in my bedroom than the Beatles had in Shea Stadium!

But Oh My! it was fun to be there then when it was all just starting.

Remind me to tell you stories about Les Paul & Mary Ford and how I played in their "studio/garage" when I wuz as a kid.

Or the time I stared/watched Jimi Hendrix playing a warm-up session in Diamond Head for his show later that night in Honolulu. There was just me and another guy off my ship as the whole audience.

I digressed again - sorry, old guys do that a lot. Thanks for being understanding, James.

[newbold]

So does anybody even want to approach the thread topic anymore?

Any other metal stripe controls against a black backdrop amps that come to mind?

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by newbold

So does anybody even want to approach the thread topic anymore?

Any other metal stripe controls against a black backdrop amps that come to mind?

not really. sorry most amps today are plain old project boxes with some paint on them.

[newbold]

I know that TecAmp's been making their heads with a similar yet opposite look.

I guess maybe it's probably a better to open up a question like 'what amps do you think look really slick?' but who knows...back to the hijack?

[DerHoggz]

Originally Posted by newbold

I know that TecAmp's been making their heads with a similar yet opposite look.

I guess maybe it's probably a better to open up a question like 'what amps do you think look really slick?' but who knows...back to the hijack?

Yes, to the hijack. The subkick is extremely useful in church situations where the set is in a cage, thats how my church does it on all their sets. They also do the standard mic in the porthole to get a good mix.