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There are two main mechanisms that will make a humbucker produce less treble than a single coil: 1. It will generally have higher inductance due to more windings and more permeable iron in the magnetic circuit. This will make the voltage of higher frequencies get stuck over the pickup instead...

The intonation on my Ortega is ok after i changed to pyramid strings. The original rubberband type were so thick that a single note on sounded untrue by itself. Which is to be expected from physics. The rubber strings also made it impossible to slide fingers or playing with a pic. The action...

The PA will be the bulkiest things i'll ever transport. But then there are the horse trailer type that are walk in height, the ones with a fiberglass cover that fold up and the tarpaulin kind. We borrowed the horse- type once and it worked fine but those are kind of large, heavy and expensive...

Hello fellow TB:ers. My band has a few shows coming up this summer. I'm also the proud owner of a PA with two 18in bass bins, tops, monitors and the shebang. My band travels without a PA so i guess the most space i will ever need is when travelling with the PA. What type and size trailer would...

I remember a white hollowbody Gretsch beeing used by Twiggy on live shows. I thought that it looked and sounded cool to the point that i wanted one myself. But they are truly expensive instruments.

Been thinking myself about building a cab with a Faital 15" and a 8" or 6,5" on a sloped top part of the baffle. I'd use passive crossovers set to 300 Hz. You can choose a 15" that is optimized for bass. To match an existing 15" cab, i'd build a separate enclosure with a 30° upward slope plus...

In the hifi world there are attempts at isolating drivers from the baffle (Linn?). KEF and a few more also mount bass drivers on oposite sides and connect them inside to cancel out forces on the cab. Decoupling of the driver has to be pretty loose so the resonance comes in below the bass range...

I kept the pickup cover on my 4003 and i put my palm on it same way as i would do on the brige of a guitar, playing with a pick. The angle of the hand also helps keeping your forearm of of the sharp binding. I bought the 4003 in vain. The S or 4004 may be comfier instruments but they are not...

Also do a phase check. Set all speakers close together. Set the two channels at equal volume. Input the crossover frequency from a smartphone with a tone generator app and play one channel. If volume decreases when you switch the other side on, channels are out of phase and one of them needs to...

A stereo power amp with digital crossover will give you all the flexibility. One side for the 8x10's and one or two passive 18" subs on the other. Lowpass the subs and higpass the 8x10's at maybe 120hz. Poweramp can be driven directly from a sansamp with DI. Turn up the 8x10's to volume and then...

With an empty heart and a dollar ten?

How much does it weigh? Can i fit a thumbrest and a jazz neck? Does it have that P "thump"?

This song is not particulary easy to play on downstrokes like Dee Dee does it. Ramones also had a hard time finding a drummer that could do the hihat 8ths at their tempo.

Make friends with somebody who owns a 3D printer? I've made a lot of parts for basses and amps with my Prusa.

With a larger cabinet, you can get a better combination of bass depth and efficiency. It's called Hoffmans iron law- find it, read it and understand it. In this case, Markbass, according to the spec, went for 1dB higher sensitivity and f-3 down 6Hz. If the 602 is not loud enough for you, the 802...