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The Outpost Cafe / Re: More than a bit goofy
« on: December 03, 2018, 09:15:34 PM »
Quote from: gearHed289 on December 03, 2018, 08:31:40 AM
As a singer, I think of him as the Dave Mustaine of "alternative rock".

Dave Mustaine had a LOT of talent once upon a time. Billy Corgan's best effort was writing Hole's "Live Through This" (he had to pay SOME penance for banging Courtney Love while she was married to Cobain) and having MTV grunge hipsters fawn over his mostly garbage music. There are a couple of bright spots that don't annoy me terribly and the meathead right-wing politics fit, but jeeze, Dave used to be a somewhat OK guy.  ...and his snarl had purpose and fit the music perfectly. Corgan just sounds like an elephant got a kazoo stuck in its ass and had a bad gas attack.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Gibson moving Memphis operations to Nashville
« on: December 03, 2018, 09:08:17 PM »
A guitar player I played with a few years ago used to do QC for Gibson Memphis. Said it was a VERY easy, boring job and he couldn't believe how lucky he was to get paid to do it, until they gave him some Nashville Gibsons to go over for some reason. Then he said he EARNED his money.

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: CURRENT CATALDO
« on: November 27, 2018, 05:13:26 PM »
I've played Cruise basses of that era with and without the 2Tek and it really brings things to life. I hate nasty artificial sounding high end and mids in bass tone and good bridges can make for an articulate bass that doesn't make me cringe and still has tons of low end. I'm fearful that I may be stuck on neck-through. My pawnshop Peavey Grind NTB is one of the nicest basses I've ever played and it's a Chinese bottom-of-the-budget-barrel bass. Although I DO like the Thunderbird Studio 5'ver, which is set neck...

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: CURRENT CATALDO
« on: November 27, 2018, 01:28:41 PM »
Quote from: dadagoboi on November 26, 2018, 05:59:30 PM
Has a 2Tek bridge, similar to this one on my Hamer Cruise...it was a 90s thing.  They've recently been reissued.  Might try to find a victim customer for one.

Are you doing any neck-through 'birds yet? I might volunteer. I like those 2Tek monstrosities.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Gibson Announces New Leadership Team
« on: October 28, 2018, 07:17:42 PM »
Quote from: Dave W on October 24, 2018, 08:13:32 PM
Levi Strauss moved manufacturing overseas a couple of decades ago, long before Mr. Curleigh joined the company. You can't be a big player in the clothing industry otherwise.

Their old factory is less than 5 miles from my house.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Greatest American Rock Bands of All Time
« on: October 23, 2018, 10:51:26 AM »
Quote from: ajkula66 on October 19, 2018, 11:21:14 PM
Nah. Not an Onion-type joke, unfortunately.

Millennials asking their friends on FB who they would include. 'Nuff said.

It reads to me more like an FM radio playlist from Clear Channel, proof that repetition matters much more than excellence.

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Bass Amps & Effects / Re: NPD: Sadowsky outboard preamp Mk.I
« on: October 22, 2018, 05:26:30 PM »
I'm curious about those because my Fender Marcus Miller Signature Jazz has Fender's copy of that preamp modeled after MM's original installed by Roger and it's VERY good. It's quiet and does what it says it does. I imagine the original is even better.

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Bass Amps & Effects / Re: 2x15 vs 1x15 + 4x10?
« on: October 08, 2018, 10:26:02 PM »
My favorite "non standard" bass cab setups: three 2x12 Bag End subwoofer cabinets off my now gone 400PS, my Aguilar db728 into Ernie Ball 2x12 bass cabs, and my old Marshall 4x15 paired with a custom 2x15 PA sub using JBL D130's

... or stacking multiple 8x10's: because sometimes you just LOVE showing off the aircraft carrier with the hangar deck empty!

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Bass Amps & Effects / Re: Reeves C225 developed a problem
« on: September 23, 2018, 06:01:15 AM »
Quote from: amptech on September 23, 2018, 12:14:22 AM
Checking speaker cable/jacks is vital, but I can't see that switching to Speakon can  solve anything.
Looking at repairs where the speaker plugs has been the problem, Speakon issues is a lot more common.
I must add to this that often it's just the sheer size of the plug and cable and how they are connected to a thin chassis material or PCB, but also loose components in the plugs and compatibility problems between manufacturers.

+1000

Years ago, some genius started talking about how speakon plugs were better for everything and the bass community ate it up like crazy. About the only benefit is the fact that it locks.  The actual contact surface for current transfer isn't much bigger than a normal t/s phono jack and as you mentioned, compatibility issues are a much larger problem between nonstandard sizes and plug configuration than a 1/4 plug popping out.

That said, I agree that whatever is wrong with the amp is in the stage coupling. Something in the power section, like a shorted OT causing that noise, would produce a much larger "whump" and fart.

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The Bass Zone / Re: Yamaha went shopping for more than just Gibson!
« on: July 19, 2018, 10:20:16 PM »
The Ibanez basses were luthite, a soft composite material with the consistency of pencil graphite whose structural stability was a hard outer finish/shell. Lucite is the see-through colored plastic, similar to lexan. Different stuff.

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Bass Amps & Effects / Re: Generation Gap
« on: July 19, 2018, 10:06:50 PM »
Quote from: Dave W on July 14, 2018, 09:45:12 AM
I only know the early Sunn amps (and not too well at that). Is the 300T the one FMIC put out starting about 20 years ago, or was there an earlier version? I know a girl who used an FMIC Sunn for several years, sounded good with her Stingray but definitely didn't sound like a real Sunn to me.

That is indeed the same amp, and it sounded NOTHING like real old Sunn amps. The old Model T sounds very much like a smaller SVT and the 200 and 2000S have a punchy midrange that sounds like a clearer Ampeg. FMIC also did a "reissue" Model T for guitar that was roundly rejected by guitar players and sounded even worse for bass at the same time.

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Bass Amps & Effects / Re: Generation Gap
« on: July 13, 2018, 10:19:11 PM »
Quote from: the mojo hobo on July 13, 2018, 07:47:35 PM
About the turn of the century I found the Sunn 300t and 215 and 410. That amp had tone on loan from god, 300 watts of all tube goodness. Absolutely the best amp I ever owned.

That's funny because my old Sunn300T is the SINGLE amp I have ever sold because I didn't like it and there are VERY few big tube bass amps out there that I don't either already own or have played.  Mine was bought used because of the four that I tried new, two of them blew up in the store, one was drastically overpriced and the other sounded like crap. After having been in them and seeing the awful over-complicated autobias circuit, that all makes sense now.

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Bass Amps & Effects / Re: Mesa OUT, Reeves IN............
« on: June 19, 2018, 07:16:00 PM »
Quote from: Dave W on June 19, 2018, 01:57:02 PM
Ampeg heads do have punch but there's that SVT cab cutoff that eliminates the low lows.

That's a myth. The fact that is is sealed means that you can electronically boost lows to compensate right up to the point of speaker power rating. Old SVT 8x10'a are quite capable of subterranean mayhem.

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Bass Amps & Effects / Re: Mesa OUT, Reeves IN............
« on: June 19, 2018, 01:00:07 PM »
The Reeves will certainly be much closer to "Sunn-land" while having a better upper-midrange punch. You're not imagining that Mesa gets thin in the extreme lows. All of Mesa's tube bass amps have the Fender tone stack but roll off below 80 Hz to keep the bottom from getting too woolly. It's a combination of the preamp voicing and undersized output transformers. Mesa's 400+ OT is tiny compared to most 200 watt tube amps. They have a great sound, but big clean beef ain't it. You like Ampeg punch and that's not what the Mesa does, so I totally see what you mean. Hiwatt/Reeves lends itself to preamp tone VERY well. My Trace Elliot VA/VR amps are quite similar to Hiwatt.

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The Bass Zone / Re: Yamaha went shopping for more than just Gibson!
« on: May 12, 2018, 09:15:55 AM »
BC Rich did a bunch of cheap lucite guitars around 2000. They didn't sell well, but they were also junk. I remember unboxing one and the bridge popped off with the box lid, pulled completely off by string tension and missing most of its mounting screws. How it held long enough for them to install strings and tune it up baffles me to this day.

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