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A large number of cabinets/drivers is ultimately necessary if you want decent output down low. The Ampeg fridge, while it doesn’t go all that low, actually uses drivers that are not very efficient - it gets around that issue by using 8 (originally 16) drivers; the array gain/mutual coupling...

A sealed design demands much more excursion at the lowest frequencies than a ported one, which means it's gonna distort much more than a well designed ported design down there. The "cleanest" solution is not sealed.

The early work (which often gets quoted or misquoted, without understanding the context) on "missing fundamentals", where the ear/brain system "fills in" the missing fundamental were done for early communications - telephones and things like radios for the military. There, the point was not...

So, in your neck of the woods, nobody knows how to set up a PA properly.

I use some mil spec Honeywell pots for volume controls, and Dunlop Super pots for tone controls. Built a couple dozen basses with Warmoth wood; no problems with shaft lengths. I’ve also used CTS and Bourns pots that fit just fine. The wood is about .200” thick.

120 dB will drive audiences out of a venue - very quickly.

He certainly is - he's done some interesting things for the government, and wildlife (calling elephants from long distances, etc...he's a very interesting guy who's work (and maybe his personality) are both a little "out there". He never really does anything by the "book" - always a twist or two.

So long as you have a decent forklift, moving a 218 is a breeze. I don't see a problem.... ;-)

The papers I've seen on that topic (when you study this stuff in college, you find out a lot of these details) show that, up to about 500 Hz, yes, if it's loud enough, your body senses the vibration. It's well studied, and well known.

A lot of folks blame the subs for poor sound at low frequencies. A poorly setup PA is the cause, not the subs. In a couple of the places I play, we now have cardioid subs, which send the lows into the audience, but on stage, it's....to me, too quiet - I could use a bit more rumble back there...

With clean hands, I easily get a year out of a set of stainless strings - sometimes more. I do have a few basses, but I also practice 2 to 3 hours per dayz They last longer than nickels - easily.

The subwoofers that are used on big tours and in venues where they put on big concerts go down to about 30Hz - they cover the fundamental of the low B of a 5 (or 6). There are tradeoffs (as in many things in life) - in loudspeakers, there is a 3 way tradeoff - efficiency, low frequency...

There are various points within a bass or guitar that you could, in theory, solder ground wires to. If you have copper shielding tape in the cavities, you can solder wires to that, but behind that shielding tape is... wood, which you're going to heat damage to some extent if you solder wires...

There are certain artists that you know are going to do whatever THEY want to do - Neil Young often does wildly different things for different tours (but he advertises what it is he's doing ahead of time - Crazy Horse, acoustic, Blue Notes, etc.), and those you know going in you're not going to...

My first bass was a Ric 4001. Chris Squire was an influence on the purchase (it was the 70's), but I never really sounded like Chris. I played a few years with that as my bass, and it was the best bass I had ever had. Yes, it was also the only bass I'd ever had. Once I started playing other...