Recent content by SpacewitchIan

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    Tuners

    I'm having trouble finding a suitable tuner. Most seem designed for guitar rather than bass and a few I have tried have difficulty with low end (especially as I tune to drop Bb). The only really reliable one I have used is my guitar player's Boss Chromatic Tuner pedal - but I don't really want...
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    Ashdown 515 combo to cab conversion

    I have a 100w Ashdown five fifteen combo (the older cloth covered one) which is blown due to it accidentally being put through a 4 ohm cab. The repair cost seems to be non-economical, so I am thinking of converting it to a 1x15 cab. My only reservation is that my amp head is a Peavey 450 max...
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    Gauges for low tunings

    It's A# F A# D# - i.e. a standard C tuning with the lower string dropped by 2. In the UK most people I know call that dropped C - A "C" tuning which is dropped. I know y'all speak a different language over there ;-)
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    Gauges for low tunings

    I play a Fender precision in an old school rock and roll band, the last strings I bought were 45-105. So far so good. However, I have now also joined a doom metal band which tunes down to dropped C (i.e. the bottom string down to A#). Using my existing strings the bottom String JUST BARELY...