Quite a collection ! I guess the 5 string was a DIY modification or am I wrong ?
I like that fretless bass. Does it have an Ebonol fingerboard or is this ebony ?
My DMZ 6000B has the same shape and PU configuration like your white double P pickup bass. The difference is the type of bridge and the wood/colour used for the body:
http://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/graphics/kramer1979_2S.jpg
I like that fretless bass. Does it have an Ebonol fingerboard or is this ebony ?
My DMZ 6000B has the same shape and PU configuration like your white double P pickup bass. The difference is the type of bridge and the wood/colour used for the body:
http://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/graphics/kramer1979_2S.jpg
the Vaccaro 5-string is factory - the neck has stayed straight. The fretless is a bass hand-made by a friend and has an ebony fingerboard. Does your DMZ have contoured body edges? - two of my fretless aluminum neck basses are "missing" - I'm not sure how they sound overall.
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My DMZ has just roundover (hope the term is correct) body edges. But since the body is quite small compared to other basses it doesen't bother in any way.
Regards
Charles
Regards
Charles
I like the little funky-shaped bass in the middle for sitting - those pickups are less neutral than most "P"
back to the loose-tuned cabinets - they get double cabinet volume per driver and quite high tuning when 1/2 of the drivers are removed
btw - the double K-tube kannon and 6.75hp grille speaker look wickedly unconventional
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back to the loose-tuned cabinets - they get double cabinet volume per driver and quite high tuning when 1/2 of the drivers are removed
btw - the double K-tube kannon and 6.75hp grille speaker look wickedly unconventional
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forgot about a 5-string Dean - I think it needs a magnetic pickup instead of the horrid piezo http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/8538/6i1g.jpg
Thanks, the neighbors have been sitting on their porch looking at it pointing at them for the last 4 days (undercoating paint takes days to dry).
Regarding 1/2 drivers, this is pretty much why I wrote this. Most are calling this detuned. It is not.
This is an old threat, but I thought I would add some practical experience. That is what I look for myself when I come here.
I have been playing rock for ages, have build my own tube amps, speakers and EFX and also HiFi of all variances ... recievers, amps, speakers, cables ...
I have managed to build some fantastic good sounding equipment, and normally play a Marshall JCM800 clone with some add ons, and a 4x12 closed
back cab with 2 Celestion G12/65 and 2 Celestion Gold 12 crossmounted series/parallel 8 ohm. I also have one with 4 G12-H30 low res. 50 Hz I think
it is. (... Like Henrix 🙂 )
I have a lot of respect for Kevin O´Connor, but this detuned cab thing is a misnomer.
The loudspeaker data will have a lot of influence on how the cab will sound, and you are just plain lucky if it works well.
If you have an existing cab try it out, dont build one for this purpose unless you can use it otherwise.
I bought some very nice unfinished 1x15 open back cabs from Tube Town in Germany which seamed practical to fit to
different configurations, they measure about: 23" x 26" x 11", and it is easy to close the back and change the front baffels.
I fitted one as a detuned cab with an EVM12L speaker which I have used a lot, and which I like a lot, and I had an open
back cab about the same size to compare to. The open back cab had about an 5" opening assymetric placed, which works
fine. I tried it myself and together with af friend who is a very skilled blues guitarist.
The open back cab sounded fine, the detuned cab sounded terrible, boomy, too much mid range, unfocused accentuating
some freq. too much and others too little. Unlinear in a very unpleasent way. My friend rejected it almost immidiately
and in a later rehearsel the band told me to take this cab off the rig after only one song, thats how bad it sounded.
Another cab was mounted with 2 Eminence Ragin Cajun 10", paralleled to 4 ohm and burnt in by a function generator
and a power amp for 8 hours.
This configuration sounded very good, but maybe a little too much ´in your face´, because of accentuating some freq.
too much. The band like this cab a lot, but for me it were only close to what I want. I think it again were too unlinear
in an unmusical way. For instance in ´Parisienne Walkways´ you have to sustain a tone in a solo forever. That normally
works very well with my 4x12s, but on this cab the tone died on my fairly quikly. And I had some unexpected and
uncontrolable feedback in some freq areas.
Next step will be to convert the EVM12L to an 1x12 open back cab, and the 2x10 to a 4x10 closed back, if I can make
the 4 speakers fit in the cab.
So much for my experiences with detuned cabs and I wish you luck experimenting. You can only come some of the way
to a good sounding guitar rig thinking and calculating.
Best regards
Arthur.
I have been playing rock for ages, have build my own tube amps, speakers and EFX and also HiFi of all variances ... recievers, amps, speakers, cables ...
I have managed to build some fantastic good sounding equipment, and normally play a Marshall JCM800 clone with some add ons, and a 4x12 closed
back cab with 2 Celestion G12/65 and 2 Celestion Gold 12 crossmounted series/parallel 8 ohm. I also have one with 4 G12-H30 low res. 50 Hz I think
it is. (... Like Henrix 🙂 )
I have a lot of respect for Kevin O´Connor, but this detuned cab thing is a misnomer.
The loudspeaker data will have a lot of influence on how the cab will sound, and you are just plain lucky if it works well.
If you have an existing cab try it out, dont build one for this purpose unless you can use it otherwise.
I bought some very nice unfinished 1x15 open back cabs from Tube Town in Germany which seamed practical to fit to
different configurations, they measure about: 23" x 26" x 11", and it is easy to close the back and change the front baffels.
I fitted one as a detuned cab with an EVM12L speaker which I have used a lot, and which I like a lot, and I had an open
back cab about the same size to compare to. The open back cab had about an 5" opening assymetric placed, which works
fine. I tried it myself and together with af friend who is a very skilled blues guitarist.
The open back cab sounded fine, the detuned cab sounded terrible, boomy, too much mid range, unfocused accentuating
some freq. too much and others too little. Unlinear in a very unpleasent way. My friend rejected it almost immidiately
and in a later rehearsel the band told me to take this cab off the rig after only one song, thats how bad it sounded.
Another cab was mounted with 2 Eminence Ragin Cajun 10", paralleled to 4 ohm and burnt in by a function generator
and a power amp for 8 hours.
This configuration sounded very good, but maybe a little too much ´in your face´, because of accentuating some freq.
too much. The band like this cab a lot, but for me it were only close to what I want. I think it again were too unlinear
in an unmusical way. For instance in ´Parisienne Walkways´ you have to sustain a tone in a solo forever. That normally
works very well with my 4x12s, but on this cab the tone died on my fairly quikly. And I had some unexpected and
uncontrolable feedback in some freq areas.
Next step will be to convert the EVM12L to an 1x12 open back cab, and the 2x10 to a 4x10 closed back, if I can make
the 4 speakers fit in the cab.
So much for my experiences with detuned cabs and I wish you luck experimenting. You can only come some of the way
to a good sounding guitar rig thinking and calculating.
Best regards
Arthur.
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