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Instead of a bigger amp, I HIGHLY recommend building a second Jack. I used to play bass through a pair of 2510 loaded J10s, and if the characteristics are the same, adding a second cab (vertical stack) will greatly enhance the bottom end. I gigged once with the single Jack and the difference was qui...

Your craftsmanship is stunning.
I wish I were patient enough for my work to flow like this, but once it takes on a recognizable shape I can't help but rush...

My wife is getting irritated with me saying "wow" and "damn!" every couple of minutes.

We have a pair but only use one. Channel A is mains, channel B is the (4 16-ohm) monitors. The only time we've had any trouble was an outdoor gig with serious undervoltage issues where every other amp was deep into protection. It cut in from time to time quite unremarkably. Every other gig we've don...

Regarding Audacity: Frequency:Self-explanatory Amplitude:1 Length: 5 seconds, 3 weeks, whatever you want. Now either play it off a laptop or save it as a .WAV and burn it to a CD, do an export to MP3 and play it off your iPod, whatever works for you. If you need help burning a CD Google it. Hell, Go...

The problem for me with the gloves was that I'd get some PL on my hands and not realize it and then spread it all over the place.

I use a Presonus Studio channel. It has a tube stage, 3-band parametric and a compressor in a 1RU box. I don't bother with any other effects. One caveat though; it does like to be connected to an input with fairly high impedance. It outputs a fairly hot signal. I've had much better luck connecting ...

OK, cool. Now I just gotta get a router. =)

I use a Presonus Studio channel. It has a tube stage, 3-band parametric and a compressor in a 1RU box. I don't bother with any other effects. One caveat though; it does like to be connected to an input with fairly high impedance. It outputs a fairly hot signal. I've had much better luck connecting i...

Interesting stuff Ron. Thanks. I stopped at 22 volts because I ran out of source voltage. I was using a test tone generator on my phone and the output starts to get ugly when run at 100%. This weekend I'll be making some cleaner test tones on my computer and running it off those and maybe a mixer to...

You hadn't mentioned that when in Bridge or Parallel mono that you had indeed turned the channel 2 input fully down. If not this will cause the amp to distort and go into protect way early. Holy crap, I didn't. It was probably pointing at 10. I'm gonna throw the rig together and do some testing ton...

I was thinking that making some Masonite templates for tricky stuff like jack baffles and driver rings and using a router and pattern bit would yield more consistent results. Anyone try anything like this? How did it go?

Yeah, you guys are awesome. Those are good directions for me to look. My instinct is telling me that it was more than just a loss of boundaries. I've had better luck in a free-field environment with 350 watts into a traditional 1x15 and 2x10 stack. The voltage difference isn't much, but I don't thin...

Pole-mounted. The bottom of the bottom cab was at about 4 feet.

I recently acquired a Crown 460CSL on Craigslist for around $125.00. This thing is really... odd. Here's how my rig used to be: Bass pre-amp (Presonus Studio Channel) -> line mixer ->amp I had it wired so that the mixer presented a dual-mono signal to the amp and ran each Jack-10 to its own channel....

The hacker in me thinks this is awesome. The practical old man sees this as another fail point. It might be less dangerous to use an EQ pedal like the Boss BEQ or whatever you like. They're pretty plentiful used.