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Your weird piece of gear you love thread

#61
alecduncan said:
I really love my weird 70's Peavey 212G cabinet, loaded with EV Force 12's. Crazy clear and great musicality!

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I am more than likely going to buy a larger set up one of these days but my current amp set up is perfect for the small sessions I'm doing now!
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Nice! I have the same cab with stock speakers that I use with my 5W Crate amp.

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#62
beans-on-toast said:
Spinning speakers like the Wurlitzer sound great.

Organs are a great source for parts if you are building an amp. Lots of tubes, transformers, speakers, etc. I have a tube based pitch shifting vibrato (AO-47) from a Hammond L-100 waiting to be incorporated into a preamp. Organ effects are so rich and full of harmonics. A lot of people have forgotten how good they sound. Unfortunately, lugging an organ around isn't high on anybody's list.
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I've got one of those salad bowl Leslies. One of these days I'm going to make an enclosure for it with a speed controller. That's project #748. I'm on #6 about now. ;)
 
#65
beans-on-toast said:
I know exactly what you mean. Also, at some point you have to start picking and choosing just what you think you can accomplish with what time you have left. Sigh!
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Heh. I looked at my leslie guts and discounted doing anything with it in moments.
 
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#66
beans-on-toast said:
That thing looks like it could do some damage if it let loose. I've only had Hammond organs with Leslie cabs but I love the sound of the Wurlitzer, especially with the echo.

The Leslie bottom rotor was pretty cheap plywood, nothing special. They used to wrap the drum in a cotton bag. I don't know if it was to keep the dust off it or if it was intended to act as a diffusor. The top high frequency horn came with a plastic cone shaped diffusor. A lot of people would snip them off.

Maybe the styrofoam one that you had just had a smaller drum with less of a scoop. Not sure if I ever noticed a difference between the wood and styrofoam drums of the same size.

The Fender Leslie Vibratone speaker cabinet used to have a styrofoam drum and no top horn.

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The purpose of cotton bag (or a woman pantyhose) is only to prevent air noise when the drum is in high speed.

Some organists remove the upper horns diffuser to increase the "clicks".

I played Hammond organ for many years, had a 1959 C3 and a solid state Leslie 770 (70's).

Leslie's wood lower drums sounds better.
 
#67
I have a 10 space rack from DC Case company that has casters and is carpet covered. I use it for everything from a work table to a roll around stool in my garage. I don't think I've ever had anything racked up in it, but it gets used all the time. Crazy huh?
 
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#68
zontar said:
There are other double picks out there--but I never see them in stores, so I don't know how good they are.
Mine like this I got years ago--and wish I'd bought more--they don't make them anymore--as far as I can tell.
They are patented in Italy, and called Triplet picks-probably because you can pick with any of the three points--a double point-and two corner points--that are different thicknesses.

I now make my own with a Triangle Tortex (1mm) and a regular Tortex (1.14mm) and I use a thin double sided foam tape to join them together, offsetting the tips.
I experimented with different gauges-and that's the one I like the best.
If I saw any double picks in a store, I'd be buying them--unless the price was ridiculous.
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Yeah, I searched around for other makers, but none seem as elegant as this one. Too bad.
 
#70
tedious1 said:
AH-HA! Thank you very much, something like this should work perfectly for my 210AVs, although I'll probably install some latches to board and cabs and use a larger second board, also with latches, to act as a base.

BTW, do you typically cross-fire and elevate? I've seen the graphs for cross-firing, and I've done this in rehearsal, but I wasn't sure if the benefits of cross-firing would apply when you elevate one of the pair...
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It was explained to me in this thread...http://www.talkbass.com/threads/placement-of-amp-on-stage-need-opinions.561829/
 
#71
argar said:
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If I had an outlet or strip in the back of my amp, I would do this.

In a past band, the best thing on my guitarist's pedal board was a large display digital travel alarm clock. Set to REAL (not bar time). So we could keep on track for set times and starts and ends without needing to look at a watch or the notoriously not correct bar clocks.
 
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#73
beans-on-toast said:
Fortunately, you can get some nice cell phone flashlight apps that are helpful when you need to sort things out behind an amp.
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Apple finally got the hint and included one in their OS this time around, and you don't even need to 'unlock' the phone to use it. I use it on the gig regularly.
 
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#79
JehuJava said:
What's that crazy thing?

I love this thread.
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It's 34" scale, with one fundamental and two octave strings. Sort of like a quarter of a 12 string bass. Kevin at Krappy Guitars made it for me, based off a drawing and some specs I sent him. It was originally designed for the top octave string to be tuned up a fifth so it's a lighter gauge than the other octave (was designed to be a-d-D tuning). It didn't really work though, the fifth popped out really loud above everything else. So I just kept everything tuned to D and it sounds cool like that (and actually intonates properly). The two different gauge octave strings give the chorus effect a little variation. It's pretty fun to play. I left a friend plug it into his guitar rig, with high gain metal tone, and it sounded a bit like a guitar with a lower octave in that situation.

Not an amp, I know, but definitely weird.
 
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Corey Y said:
It's 34" scale, with one fundamental and two octave strings. Sort of like a quarter of a 12 string bass. Kevin at Krappy Guitars made it for me, based off a drawing and some specs I sent him. It was originally designed for the top octave string to be tuned up a fifth so it's a lighter gauge than the other octave (was designed to be a-d-D tuning). It didn't really work though, the fifth popped out really loud above everything else. So I just kept everything tuned to D and it sounds cool like that (and actually intonates properly). The two different gauge octave strings give the chorus effect a little variation. It's pretty fun to play. I left a friend plug it into his guitar rig, with high gain metal tone, and it sounded a bit like a guitar with a lower octave in that situation.

Not an amp, I know, but definitely weird.
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That thing is cool!

Not comparing yours to this, but there is/was some company that makes a "punk rock bass".

It has one string...an E string. :)
 

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