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  1. Bassmec

    So glad to be getting out of the rehearsal studio biz after 40 years.

    So tonight I banned yet another customer. What did he do? like all music tech students in the UK he has a studio that he records his band in yet comes to mine to rehearse because of noise? for this I get £25 for 4hrs. I sound check the band and everybody seems totally happy with the balance of 3...
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    How about a 30" linear motor driver from 25Hz up to 120Hz?.

    In a cube 32" square?. Woof woof!.:-)X
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    Don't Even Look Unless You Have Some Serious Money.:-)

    It's those Retro Instruments guys again, not content with making a Perfect Reproduction of the Classic Gates Sta-Level varimu all tube compressor. Which to me always seemed to smoothly do exactly what I wanted in a bass compressor, now they have decided to make what appears to be a perfect repro...
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    Umm!

    Interested to hear that the Chinese have detected a couple of audio events in the Indian Ocean, with one of these hydrophone thingamajigs! Invalid Link Removed since the manufacturing is probably offshore these days. Invalid Link Removed:crying: Maybe something's a little loose on the PCB. I...
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    New UK Cabinet custom building company.

    Invalid Link Removed Link Removed So chaps! my eldest genius son Henry has his very own loudspeaker custom building business up and running, He has 14 years full time experience under his belt working for various loudspeaker manufacturers and other bespoke cabinet builders, now he feels its...
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    PLEASE Help find this stolen gear chaps!

    I KNOW EXACTLY HOW THIS POOR GUY FEELS. "Black Dog in Upstate NY Has Been Robbed. Hi all, So, we got robbed this past weekend. Black Dog Recording Studio | Albany, New York Area | Digital Gear | Analog Gear| Albany, NY area. Please, if you see any of these things around, let me know...
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    Help in cab design ideas please:-)

    Righto! so if an original Vintage Hiwatt 4x12 cab is only 4.8 cu ft internal volume. so I want to make a 1x12 at 1.2 cu ft internal volume for studio use with the loudspeaker in the far left hand column the std. Link Removed with metal dome anybody want to have a look at a graph from cabinet...
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    Matamp Bass Preamp!

    Here we are chaps I bet this would give a Jule Monique a very good run for its money.http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Matamp-bass-di-preamp-/181061359243?lgeo=1&clk_rvr_id=441574776539&vectorid=229508#viTabs_0 Shame I am broke at the moment. Or it would be mine!.:bassist:
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    Has anyone heard of this onboard pre amp.

    I just got an old weird custom built bass as a present and I have found a 3 band pre amp in it. marked on the PCB as: IN Yeon Industrial,Co.stp 001amp. Anyone know anything at all about this pre amp?. It is connected to a stingray 5 pickup of some description (probably Nordy?) It seems to...
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    ***!

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    ***!

    I just saw the driver from UPS here to collect a parcel to ship to France. He didn't actually volunteer to collect the parcel because it didn't have printed labels with a bar chart on them, he says in order to send a parcel to France you have to own a functional printer (mine is broken at the...
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    ***! Electrovoice/ Mesa Content!

    Was working on a down tune guitar sound mic setup, with a Vintage Mesa EVM half back cab you know the real expensive one with the big old heat sink thing on the speaker magnet, I swept it with a sine wave and heard an odd noise coming from the open back mic, after investigating I found a big...
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    Which amp do you prefer chaps!

    Two B Goodes tracks bass tracks recorded with two completely different amps and cabs but same mic setup which is your favorite amp and cab. BASS 1 by Springvale Studios on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free BASS 2 by Springvale Studios on SoundCloud - Create, record and...
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    New Old Lead Sled Day thursday!

    Well I am a little bit faffed off with switch mode power amps right at the moment as my lf amp in my active rig spat the magic smoke the other day and then thermal'd out and wont come back on and that was running into 4 ohms stereo?. its not going to have to move much so I thought old school...
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    Help Transistor amp Chaps!

    I was looking at this blown old traynor 25 guitar amp that someone abandoned at the rehearsal room and was shocked at the obvious quality and adaptability of the two printed circuits. They are covered in very nice mullard 280 tropical fish caps, mostly discreet transistors and hardly a lytic...
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    Simple 1st order passive crossover question

    So I have a simple passive Hi Pass filter a 40uf fat one in series with a 20uf thin one across a 16 ohm diaphragm voice coil. I get 13.33 uf and a high pass of 6 db per octave at 750 Hz odd. So what happens if I add an L pad to our little circuit so the sixteen ohm wire-wound track replaces...
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    All Tube Porn Chaps!

    This is a proper british amp chaps!, wish I could afford it. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-Vortexion-200-watt-valve-power-amp-8-x-EL34-/250706399052?pt=UK_Consumer_VintageAudio_RL&hash=item3a5f440f4c#ht_500wt_949 Aint she beautiful!:hyper:
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    New Speakers?

    I wonder if anybody has ever tried to model the old Acoustic 408 with a set of Eminence 3015lf's. Is modeling software able to predict the outcome of this sort of Quasi isobarik cab or is it just suck it and see on these?. :bassist:
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    Eden WT 800 Head

    We have an virtually unused WT800 thats converted for UK 240V operation what would you guys think its worth for a reserve price. Sensible answers only please:help:
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    Very Sad News Today! re: Joegeezer

    From the wife of the very talented engineer and long time talkbass member joegeezer: >On Tuesday March 23, my husband Joe passed away in his sleep. >Although I am not familiar with everyone that my husband kept in >contact with, I thought it best to use his email account to ensure >that...
  21. Bassmec

    BBC Monitor column wiring Help Please!

    So I just bought an interesting 60's ex BBC RG Jones PA Column thinking it might make an interesting power soaked bright box for the studio. Invalid Link Removed I haven't got it yet but I am intrigued to find out why it has two 3 pin female XLR's and one male 3 pin. So that 2 ins and one...
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    Re Stolen gear Long beach area

    Help If you can this has happened to me before so I know how it feels: Invalid Link Removed :mad:
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    Righto Chaps! Tube screamer 808 Mods?

    I have a trusty old reissue Ibanez TS 808 which suffers the usual bass light performance so if I change the clipping diode feed cap from the standard 0.047 Uf: http://www.muzique.com/schem/ts808.gif what oh doyens of the church of pedal mods do you suggest for best bass gtr performance...
  24. Bassmec

    An odd Valve failure KT 88 content

    So I run a recording studio and allow bands to use the drum room as a rehearsal space, Last night a band knocks on the control room door and says the bass amp has stopped working, thats rather odd as its a Simms Watts AP 200 super and has been fully recapped with hi quality caps and like old...
  25. Bassmec

    Capacitor Ideas Tube Amp Rebuild?

    So I have a very old Matamp with 3 ECC83/12ax7, 4 X EL34/6CA7 and 2 X 5U4G rectifier tubes. There are only 4 Electrolytic caps in it two dual section 35mm dia radials no problem there one other 50uf axial in the bias circuit also no bother but then there is a 3" diameter X 5 inch tall thing...
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    Help Can't find a sensible diagram

    I took my DSL 50 Guitard amp apart to repair it again! when I had finished removing the heat cracked carbon tracked belton octal valve bases with the unusually small pcb footprint?, well what do you know the circuit board carbon tracked in sympathy between pin 2 and 3 so I cut down with a...
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    Help Hum Loop Noise Issue Problem

    OK folks I have two 4 X KT 88 all tube amps stacked each amp is eq'd to match the cabs it drives. AT the moment I am using as bss DI Box from my bass feeding via the direct socket to one amp and the buffered socket to the other. Each amp is unusually quiet noise wise having got very good tubes...
  28. Bassmec

    What do you think of My rad new OP Trans Mod

    I know its only for a little fifty watt Marshall DSL GTR Head. But here is my uberformer mod with the help of those fine chaps at Sowter. Eat your heart out Mercury fat stack. So we should go for size T K which will just drop through a 68 x 68 hole and put the customer to the trouble of...