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    My speaker design program, updated

    The speaker design page gives a 'forbidden' error for me since a few weeks ago...
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    Speaker recommendation for 1x12 cab

    Did you get any further with this? I'm looking at a similar 1x12 project so I have the calculators and speaker data pages open at the moment, if you like I could plug in the numbers for yours and see what it looks like.
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    Amps with footswitchable enhancer + aux input

    The TC BH250 head has the same features. The only thing I'd say against it for 'silent practice' is that the fan comes on even when you're only driving headphones (which is why mine is now up on eBay, as it happens)...
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    Double Bass Double bass in a Ford S-MAX?

    Hi, My wife (a violinist) needs to give a bass player a lift to a gig - orchestral, so assume full-size instrument - and is wondering how many other passengers she's going to be able to fit in the S-Max. For those unfamiliar, this is a 7-seat vehicle where the rear seats each fold flat...
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    Getting Shocked

    You've obviously never stepped on one in bare feet... :D
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    What inspired you to play bass?!

    Carla Bley and Steve Swallow, 'Duets'.
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    What heads did Marshall make?

    So I was in Manchester with half an hour to spare yesterday and nipped in to Johnny Roadhouse to see what secondhand amps they had in, and had a go on a Marshall MBB15 combo, and was really impressed with the range of sounds that the fairly simple controls gave access to. I'd been intending to...
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    Is it bad to store Cabs in the cold ??

    The typical lower operating temperature spec for an electrolytic capacitor is either -25 or -40 °C. If you're actually using your amp at that temperature I'd be more worried about your fingers than the capacitors. As others have said, it's temperature changes and humidity that are more of a...
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    Speaker cabinet design for bass... a couple of questions

    Cool, thanks! I'll try and make the port in such a way that I can try out some different lengths.
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    Speaker cabinet design for bass... a couple of questions

    Thanks, Arjank. Tharjank! :D Here are a couple of graphs from Unibox. Does that look like an appropriate frequency response curve, with a bit of a hump between about 80 and 120 Hz, or should I be looking for something flat in this region? Or allowing more of a hump for more efficiency? On...
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    Speaker cabinet design for bass... a couple of questions

    Hi all, I've got a 12" cabinet, about 50 litres internal volume, and I want to fit it with a new speaker, and resize the reflex port to suit. I play 4-string with no plans to move to 5 any time soon and I currently have a (homebuilt) head that will do about 50 watts but plan to upgrade it to...