i know right... i'm baffled myself that i somehow knew of it's existence
Now i'm gonna need more whiskey.
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Bass cabinet hookup question
- Thread starter Steve Young
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i know right... i'm baffled myself that i somehow knew of it's existence
Now i'm gonna need more whiskey.
Ric5
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- Jan 29, 2008
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Get a 4 ohm 4x10 and get one of these … run 2 4 ohm cabs in series for an 8 ohm load.
Smart Gadgets!!! They need to make them with the dual Speakons, though. I always cringe at 1/4" jacks handling any kind of power, as there is so little contact area at the tip.
The OP's Peavey cabinet is probably heavier than a Mercedes G-Class SUV!
You can still use both cabs - just not at once. Markbass's site says all their heads are good down to 4 ohms.
Hey, if you find that guy that stole your amp, see if he has my 1965 Fender Jazz Bass, my Standel MCIIB/SAM30B piggy-back amp, my Shure 565sd mic, my Shure 585sd mic, and my one Atlas mic stand with gooseneck attachement...was all stolen from me in 1976. Did leave me one Atlas mic boom stand. I think it was just too heavy to take both.
I'll be more than happy to help "teach him a lesson" if you find him...just saying...
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Nope.
We had just moved up to Oregon from LA in February 1976 and were staying at my in-laws house for a couple of weeks while we waited for our apartment to be ready for move-in. House was burglarized while everyone was away one night. Got back around 9 or 10. House had been ransacked and all my music gear was gone except for one of my two mic stands. Took me almost 10-years to find another Jazz Bass with the same neck profile as my '65. Found it in 1985 and that's it in my avatar.
Know what? I'm sorry. Poor form on my part to assume that. You may? forgive me because we read about it all the time. I'm truly sorry and that sucks.
No offense taken @David Jayne. It was a long time ago and I'm not sure I would trade my current Jazz for my '65 except for the memories. This one plays just like my '65 did, but has better sustain.
I make a point of not leaving my gear in my car. Actually, one of the nice things about a couple of cabs I have - a DNS-410 and a DNS-210 by DNA - both are RFID chipped. That's one of the things that DNA had the foresight to include in their amps and cabs. If there's ever a question whose amp or cab it is, all they have to do is scan it and the info comes up on what that cab is and who it is registered to, complete with contact info. That's not hardly a panacea, but every little bit helps.
The big problem with that theft was that it effectively put me out of the music business for almost 20-years. Replaced the bass around 10-years later, but didn't start gigging again until 1997. And I really didn't get back up to the pro-level of gear that was stolen from me until 2015 when I finally bought my DNS-410 cab. That along with my Eden WT500/800 amp gave me the ability to once again play any and all venues (indoors, outdoors, and Festivals) without worrying about "not enough gear for the gig". Even full-stack Marshalls aren't enough to worry me anymore.
As we get older, time seems to pass differently. It's probably not more sustain, you just don't have a good idea how long it's been since you played the note.
@micguy ...Uh...NO! I hope that was a joke. Perhaps put a smiley face to it next time?
If you were actually serious, I find your response and your presumption, patronizing, condescending, and infuriating.
You have no idea how much I played my '65 Jazz and how well I knew the characteristics of it. Besides playing that bass in high school and college groups, I toured using that bass playing 4 to 5-hours a night, 5-nights a week, 50-weeks a year, for 3 years and made a very good living doing that. I also recorded with that bass on two separate occasions, once for ATCO records. And then I continued to play that bass on weekend gigs right up until we moved out of the LA area up to Oregon, where it was stolen within 2 weeks of our arrival. And you presume to tell me I don't remember it because I'm old??? That's a pile of
if I ever heard it.My '65 had that stupid gray, open-cell, foam strip across the inside of the ashtray pickup shield that I had to remove just to get some sustain out of it. That strip was the stupidest thing Fender ever put on bass. Even without that foam strip, sustain was never its forte. When I plugged my current MIA Fender Jazz into my amp for the first time, I immediately noticed how much more sustain my "new" Jazz bass had and was pleased about that. My "White Lady" has a one-piece maple neck which supposedly has something to do with that.
But that extra sustain, is not imaginary. In one of the bands I'm in we do "Eminence Front" by The Who. To start that song off, our guitar does two measures by itself and then bass and drums come in. I hit the low F on my E string and let that note ring out for two measures (I do not use a compressor on it). It almost makes it the full 2-measures before I hit the Db (C#). My '65 would be lucky to hold that out for one measure, so the difference is substantial and is certainly NOT imaginary.
After holding each of those notes for two measures for 2 more cycles of the pattern, I change to holding each note for 1 measure, which starts to drive the song. Then once the singing starts, I'm finally free to move and I usually move up to the F on my A string and run my bass lines from there dropping down to the Db on either the A string or the E string, whatever is convenient for the line I'm playing. I couldn't do that with my '65 because the beginning would sound too empty.
For you to presume you know my '65 Jazz bass better than I do is about 6 million shades of ridiculous. Do you always presume to tell musicians that they don't know their instrument? Although I only owned my '65 Jazz from 1966 until 1976 (10-years) and I've owned my current Jazz for 34-years, I still have a ways to go before I've performed with my current bass more than I did with my '65. In that 3-years I toured with my 1965 Jazz alone, I performed with it for about 3,000 hours - remember 4 hours a night, 5-nights a week, 50-weeks per year, for three years. And of course, that doesn't include any rehearsal time...
Now, if you blindfolded me and swapped the two basses in and out without plugging them into an amp, I doubt I could distinguish between them. They play the same and they feel the same. Took me 10-years to find a bass that feels the same as my '65, but I did find it and they do feel the same when playing. But plug them into an amp and I could tell you from the first note which one is which.
And, if your original comment was meant as a joke. Please ignore my previous rant.
And, if your original comment was meant as a joke. Please ignore my previous rant.
It was. From the dates you reference, I know you and I are a couple of relatively senior musicians - it was a friendly jab from one oldster to another. I thought my initial sentence made that obvious; my apologies that it wasn't.
Hey @micguy, I am very relieved that it was. I've enjoyed your comments on TB and couldn't believe you said that. I had almost completed my rant before I re-read your comment and thought, "that might have been a joke." So thanks for that. I'm laughing at it now - would have been real funny in person. Sorry for going off.
I'm still trying to recall what that last note was...
No worries - we're good. You're opening of "I hope that was a joke" and the closing to the same effect made it clear that what came between was only meant if it wasn't a joke.
Anyway, you and I are old enough we only have so many words left to type. Sorry I made you use up so many of yours.
Yes, that was also a joke. We can now both resume sitting on our porches and telling kids to get off our respective lawns.
And even that was a joke. Just assume it's jokes from here on in.
