Recent content by jak352

Thanks for this. It's a bit of a dilemma as to whether to buy a single replacement driver when all four have experienced the same envoronment/age and they no longer manufacture foam surround replacements (but currently have some stock). Any idea if the foam has a shelf life or if it is wear...

I have an old Phil Jones 4B extension cabinet and I noticed a "blown" sound and saw the foam surround was tearing around one speaker. The tear was less than one half way around. I then did a rather unsubtle job of applying Eclectic Products inc. E6000 Plus in a complete circle over the problem...

Thanks! I'm charging £1.50 GBP for worldwide shipping from Scotland, UK (so people aren't paying even more for getting these already expensive strings when they live further away). I'll do more videos in due course to demonstrate the differences and am grateful for the feedback. For the moment I...

Hi, I'm Jonathan Kemp, acoustic researcher and inventor of Kemp Strings. The sound examples were plucked 1 cm from the bridge and recorded straight into the soundcard in order to create enough clear measurements for the overtones to clearly measure their frequencies. I thought it was a good idea...

Hi, I'm Jonathan Kemp, acoustics researcher and developer of Kemp Strings (including lumped bass strings). Thanks for accurately describing the situation @ixlramp. I had never seen the Ray Ross bridge until now and I like the idea. The raised mass due to the knot at the bridge can be expected to...

I've also got a Green Rhino I use for bass (Sadowsky MV5) and it does the tube overdrive sound brilliantly for bass. Just switch it on and adjust the low boost until your bottom end matches the volume you had on bypass. You get the tubescreamer sound without loosing depth. It doesn't clean up...