bass speaker help

[lduarte1973]

and finally alive and kicking

I would annoy my wife so much if i had that in my living room 😀

 

[tinitus]

I would annoy my wife........ 😀

I can imagine that 😀

happy to report all 'rattle' probelms I comlained about are gone

now I can pull them strings really hard, no problem
much more fun now 🙂

 

[lduarte1973]

now I can pull them strings really hard, no problem
much more fun now 🙂

you play bass or guitar?

 

[tinitus]

BASS guitar.....short scale

btw, I have a midrange horn
will try it later

need a better amp
only have a very small guitar combo
cheap 15watt CRATE

 

[lduarte1973]

what bass model do you use ?

 

[tinitus]

KIDD's bass, Jack&Danny Brothers

cheap, but quite good, and playable
it only needs very very careful tuning
or else its hopelessly unplayable

 

[lduarte1973]

i play a yamaha atitude and a ibanez trb 200

 

[tinitus]

ok, super

 

[tinitus]

need a better amp
only have a very small guitar combo
cheap 15watt

and new amp urgently needed
my small guitar combo is completely useless with bass 😱

my new midbass horn sounds nice tho, I guess

 

[lduarte1973]

have you tought of adding a tweeter ?

 

[tinitus]

###have you tought of adding a tweeter ? ###

you mean like this 😀

very cheap waveguide, its big, and I thought it looked real cool 🙄
tho not very practical 🙁

btw,
it's OT, but I'm also looking at some real nice preamps
found that some mic pre have special instrument input

 

[lduarte1973]

a tweeter helps when you want to bring the highs in the bass 😀 like when you´re slaping

 

[tinitus]

highs are actually quite good on this woofer, despite its a 15"

my main problem now is amplification
I can only play very 'silent'
then its nice and clean
but with higehr SPL the sound gets so blurred, and I can hardly hear one note from the other

there might be phase issues between front woofer and horn
but I'm sure this is a clear amp problem

 

[tinitus]

btw, the woofer is not moving much
actually, I can't see it moving at all

so I'm sure the woofer isn't played too hard

 

[lduarte1973]

what you need a amplifier that is powerfull enough and with matching impedance , that happened to me when i used a 30w amp

 

[tinitus]

I plan to buy bass amp classD module from Audiopower.it

have looked at various headamps
but fear it's generally cheaply built

alternatively I would buy a 10watt Phil Jones Bass Buddy,
said to a nice practice amp

would really like to build my own pream
but haven't got the time to do it
and it would probably not be cheap either

 

[lduarte1973]

it may seem to much but i believe 100w would be good for home practice

 

[tinitus]

I don't care much about big or small, but only interested in the quality of what I get

I think that's what decides peoples opinion of this or that kind of amp
maybe we know too much about how good amps are built
ofcourse the cheap amps are junk
what else to expect

the amp module I plan to buy is 500watt/4ohm
but that's not why I buy it
I think it looks good
and maybe the exstra power will make up fore a lower more moderate gain/input preamp signal

essentially it could result in a better working and harder driving power amp
cleaner sound with less distortion

 

[lduarte1973]

i like the sound of tubes in instrument amplification , how about a tube preamp (something simple) to go with the class d amp ?

 

[tinitus]

........ how about a tube preamp (something simple) to go with the class d amp ?

one of the mic amps above actually have both SS and tube, and with adjustable blend of both
sounds neat

but yes, I would prefer to build my own, absolutely
and interstingly, Broskie have announced a new Aikido MONO kit, with onboard supply

well, I will also need a balanced output trafo
or, mr Thel in Germany has a new active balanced module
what makes that one interesting is a possibel 12db gain
but maybe tube pre with lots of gain will be overdriving it

I feel a bit on thin ice with that stuff 😱

but it surely would be real nice to all of it in the same box