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Post by BigSeth on Aug 10, 2010 11:16:36 GMT -5
How hard is it to rewire an 4 ohms 4x10 bass cab to a 8 ohms?
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Post by olegrinder on Aug 10, 2010 17:39:58 GMT -5
How hard is it to rewire an 4 ohms 4x10 bass cab to a 8 ohms? Not hard, tho it depends on the ohm rating of the speakers in the cab. Do you want to run 2 x 8 ohm cabs to run your bass amp at 4 ohms, or
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Post by BigSeth on Aug 11, 2010 1:43:27 GMT -5
How hard is it to rewire an 4 ohms 4x10 bass cab to a 8 ohms? Do you want to run 2 x 8 ohm cabs to run your bass amp at 4 ohms, or I dont know what you mean exactly? I have one 8 ohm 4x10 and a 4 ohm 4x10. I wont to be able to use my head on both. the head is 8 ohms.
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Post by olegrinder on Aug 11, 2010 11:45:42 GMT -5
Do you want to run 2 x 8 ohm cabs to run your bass amp at 4 ohms, or I dont know what you mean exactly? I have one 8 ohm 4x10 and a 4 ohm 4x10. I wont to be able to use my head on both. the head is 8 ohms. When you hook two cabs up to an amp, the impedance of the cabs is divided by the # of cabs. 2 - 8 ohm speaker cabs will run the amp at 4 ohms. Some amps can't handle running at 4 ohms, they'll sound like shit and you run a greater chance of burning the amp out. If the amp only runs a load of 8 ohms +, you'll need to wire the two cabs at 16 ohms each. Two 16 ohm cabs = 8 ohm load when both plugged into the amp, or when the amp is plugged into one of the cabs and then you run a speaker wire to the other cab. If your amp is solid state, and can handle 4 ohms, you can leave the cabs as is, you're running at 6 ohms. If it's tube, you'll need to rewire them. Let me know what make-model of amp you have, I'll DL the manual for it and help you figure out how to wire the cabs.
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Post by j-rad on Sept 8, 2010 20:41:29 GMT -5
To the drummers:
What's your preferred snare head? I just bought an Evans Genera HD Dry yesterday because Andy from HSW plays one and sounds great, but it kinda lacks in my set. It's loud and defined, but seems to have no life to it.
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Post by hummerofdoom on Sept 8, 2010 23:35:40 GMT -5
To the drummers: What's your preferred snare head? I just bought an Evans Genera HD Dry yesterday because Andy from HSW plays one and sounds great, but it kinda lacks in my set. It's loud and defined, but seems to have no life to it. I think a lot depends on what kind of drum you have. I have no idea how you go about finding the right head for it, I just stick one on there and play it until it breaks. Currently I have an Aquarian Hi-Energy head on my snare. My friend put one on his 12-inch piccolo snare one day. The head is triple-reinforced, so it's thick in the middle. It made that small thin snare sound like a regular drum (which is good because I hate the piccolo snare sound), but when I played it my sticks were still flying off of it like a piccolo. I got excited and got a Hi-Energy head for my standard 14-inch snare...not nearly the same feel. But it wasn't bad, and it's been very durable. I dunno. If you can afford to, experiment with different heads.
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Post by yeastydeath on Oct 2, 2010 12:41:42 GMT -5
Just picked up one of these:
So fucking stoked.
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Post by monollectif on Oct 2, 2010 13:19:12 GMT -5
dude that pedal sounds fucking great, never heard of the fuzz war before, im definetly getting one if i see it....
right now im looking for a musket fuzz or the mighty boss fz-2, but those pedals are crazy expensif when you find em
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Post by olegrinder on Oct 2, 2010 14:07:41 GMT -5
That looks like a cool pedal! I just missed out on a bass Great Wall double fuzz this past week on ebay. The Musket Fuzz looks cool too! I'm thinking about a Battering Ram OD-Fuzz myself... I'd like to know what Mountain King's Magnetar bass fuzz is going to sound like too - the Megalith sound pretty awesome...
I bought a trio of OD & dist pedals in the past couple weeks - a Marshall Guv'nor GV-2 (to mod for a bass overdrive!), a Coffin Case Blood Drive (killer OD pedal!), and a Digitech Death Metal (to copy nick! lol ). The Death Metal is OK, but I remember my old DOD FX86 Death Metal to be more raw sounding - anyone know if that's true?
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Post by monollectif on Oct 2, 2010 15:00:36 GMT -5
haha
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Post by yeastydeath on Oct 3, 2010 12:02:08 GMT -5
I tried e-mailing Mountain King before I picked up this one, because I thought about getting a megalith, but never got a response. I really hated the Digitech death metal for the short time I had one. Just remember it sounded really cheap and not in a good way.
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Post by BigSeth on Oct 3, 2010 13:03:28 GMT -5
I picked up a DOD Ice box chorus pedal.. Using it on my bass, sounds super fucked up.
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Post by olegrinder on Oct 3, 2010 17:45:02 GMT -5
I tried e-mailing Mountain King before I picked up this one, because I thought about getting a megalith, but never got a response. I really hated the Digitech death metal for the short time I had one. Just remember it sounded really cheap and not in a good way. I've e-mailed Alan from Mt King a couple times - once for info about maybe getting a Ruckus, and just last week about the Magnetar, and I've always gotten replies from him in three or four days. In fact, he told me I could order a Magnetar! I like the Death Metal better than the Metal Zone I traded away, but that's about all I have to say for it. Wait - it was also cheap - $20 ppd! I picked up a DOD Ice box chorus pedal.. Using it on my bass, sounds super fucked up. Dude, your bass sound was already sick... I like those old DOD pedals.
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Post by yeastydeath on Oct 4, 2010 9:07:11 GMT -5
Bummer, I e-mailed almost two weeks ago. Nothing. Sucks because I was really interested in a megalith, you know what the price is like on those? Or any of the pedals I guess.
Those Death by Audio pedals are fucking sick though, listening to the clips on the site I want to buy one of each of them.
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Post by BigSeth on Oct 4, 2010 9:30:46 GMT -5
Yea DOD pedals rule!
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Post by olegrinder on Oct 4, 2010 10:23:07 GMT -5
Bummer, I e-mailed almost two weeks ago. Nothing. Sucks because I was really interested in a megalith, you know what the price is like on those? Or any of the pedals I guess. Those Death by Audio pedals are fucking sick though, listening to the clips on the site I want to buy one of each of them. The Megalith pedal was $265, maybe a hair more? I notice he doesn't list the prices on the myspace page now. The Ruckus was $125. I think the more complex pedals were in that near-300 range, and the simple ones were 100-200. He didn't give me a price on the new bass fuzz. If you really want a Megalith, write him again! He'll get back to you. (and then we can do a one-off noisecore/ pedal jam recording! i'd drive to Il to play thru a fuzz war and a megalith. lol ) I wanna get my old FX86 death metal fixed.
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Post by yeastydeath on Oct 4, 2010 23:19:01 GMT -5
Word, I might do that here in a while, thinking I might play around with my current fuzz for a bit. Also thinking about picking up a Total Sonic Annihilation though, just because that seems like it could be loads of fun. I'm totally down, but you're playing drums, haha. I can't do that worth a shit.
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Post by geeheeb on Oct 6, 2010 13:41:04 GMT -5
I just picked up a Peavey VTM 120 and its a fucking total gnarly monster of a head. Its exactly the sound I want (HHiG).
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Post by j-rad on Oct 12, 2010 20:38:54 GMT -5
Have any of you dudes ever owned a BBE Sonic Maximizer? I'm contemplating buying one, but I just kinda need someone to talk me into it, haha.
I play my bass through my Carvin B500 with the gain around 9, and I'm hoping it would cut some of the mud from my signal.
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Post by olegrinder on Oct 12, 2010 22:53:15 GMT -5
Have any of you dudes ever owned a BBE Sonic Maximizer? I'm contemplating buying one, but I just kinda need someone to talk me into it, haha. I play my bass through my Carvin B500 with the gain around 9, and I'm hoping it would cut some of the mud from my signal. You'd probably be better off with a bass OD pedal that lets you mix the amount of clean and distortion signals, and use that for your gain. Like a Boss ODB-3 instead of a Sonic Maximizer. More gain on bass = more mud. You can dual amp or bi-amp for less mud and more punch too.
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Post by yeastydeath on Oct 12, 2010 23:25:46 GMT -5
If anyone is interested in a 1974 Sound City 120r, let me know. Recently serviced. I just picked up that Enforcer and don't need 3 tube amps right now.
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Post by j-rad on Oct 13, 2010 1:35:11 GMT -5
Have any of you dudes ever owned a BBE Sonic Maximizer? I'm contemplating buying one, but I just kinda need someone to talk me into it, haha. I play my bass through my Carvin B500 with the gain around 9, and I'm hoping it would cut some of the mud from my signal. You'd probably be better off with a bass OD pedal that lets you mix the amount of clean and distortion signals, and use that for your gain. Like a Boss ODB-3 instead of a Sonic Maximizer. More gain on bass = more mud. You can dual amp or bi-amp for less mud and more punch too. I owned an ODB-3 for a month before I returned it. I hated the lacked picking-response to 16th-32nd notes and the flat tone, to be honest.
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Post by swilliam on Oct 13, 2010 5:23:05 GMT -5
I had a sonic maximizer and couldn't tell a difference with it. it was hard to get rid of too because no one wanted it.
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Post by olegrinder on Oct 13, 2010 13:02:12 GMT -5
I owned an ODB-3 for a month before I returned it. I hated the lacked picking-response to 16th-32nd notes and the flat tone, to be honest. Yeah, they need to be modded for the pedal to really sound good. Esp if you're looking for richer sound and picking dynamics. You can try the same type of thing with a dirt pedal in a mixable fx loop too. Dial the mix back so you have the rattle of distortion, but still have the clear punchy low end. I had a sonic maximizer and couldn't tell a difference with it. it was hard to get rid of too because no one wanted it. Yes and yes. The first one I had, just the SM, was the same way. It sounded great at home jammin' volume, but made zero difference at band volume. I have a BBE Sonic Maximizer preamp that I've had for years. It comes in handy for a couple different uses, and no one wants to buy it.
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Post by manticoreisthebastard on Oct 13, 2010 20:18:37 GMT -5
It sounded great at home jammin' volume, but made zero difference at band volume. this is dead on. i think they sound great in mixing but terrible with amps. since your amp has a tube (12AX7, I think) preamp, i'd recommend you try out a few clean level boosters, something like a tube screamer or similar mid boosting overdrives might add too much color. you also want to watch out for effect pedals which have rather selective filtering on the input, which is designed to suit the spectrum of a guitar but when you plug in a bass it takes everything out of the sound. i'll see if i can find anything more barebones, i know they exist.
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