The Last Bass Outpost

Must say I never saw that link. Thanks.

It's a thin-bodied Guild M-85 with Ricky 4005 f-holes!

Probably a foolish purchase. But it reminded me of my Yamaha SA-17 hollowbody which I still use from time to time.

Tres kewl! I've never bothered to open mine up. I'll be real curious as to what you do with it. 

Thanks PBM.

You can land more gigs if you can provide sound. But most bands don't want to pay a sound man a share. Or a set fee.

It can be really contentious, but your post above shows why it can be really worthwhile.... IF the person is good.

Ah well.

150-180Hz can be particularly troublesome; it's "woofy" enough to sound bassy but almost ALL cabinets are comparatively too efficient in this region and it's high enough to have directional characteristics, which means if multiple cabs are producing it, (stage/subs/mains) it's being phase-smeared and introducing a whole set of audio peaks and troughs that would be totally absent in a properly tuned and run system. Be careful though; 220-250Hz is where the bulk of the midrange meat of a bass tone lies and if you cut excessively there, the bass will be even more indistinct.

I realize I worded my question wrong. (Rather than cut, I should have said cut over.) But what I really meant to ask is what is a good crossover point to set on the PA? 

The more I ponder what you all write, the more I believe that the crossover is what is killing us, when a rookie or house-mix guy or just-earning -a-couple-of-bucks person or, God forbid, a guitar player is in charge if the board!

The bass signal gets split and everything above the cut point is ignored and/or squelched.

Ah well..

I've wondered about that as well. It may be a function of the crossover point on the PA. As i understand it, the subs are just only picking up the frequencies below the crossover point. That would explain why you sound all boomy through the subs?

That's awesome! Especially to find a local with a collection of Japanese instruments. A few years back I marched through all of the guitar shops near Ochanomizu in Tokyo looking for a part for a Yamaha SA-15 guitar and maybe another SA-17 bass. Most stores only had US brands and maybe a few European instruments.  I think I only found one Japanese axe.

The sales guys were really interested in the photos I showed them of the two Yammies. ("Cho kakui yo!") One guy even called Yamaha to see if they had the part I needed but they didn't. 

Later in that week, I was in a saloon in Naka-Meguro and overheard a Japanese guy and two Americans talking. The Yanks ran a studio in LA and the local was a blues guitarist. I interrupted them and told the Japanese guy how I could find no Japanese guitars in Japan. He laughed and said "You will have better luck in the US. We did not respect Japanese brands back then!"

That said, there has been an upsurge in interest in quality Japanese guitars since then. 

Geez, that shouldn't have been allowed!  Imagine if a stray Russian Satellite had crashed to earth on that site? Or, god forbid, a sinkhole opened up below you guys? 

Don't you have any sense of responsibility?

But .... a Redneck? ....