Absolutely! Bass tones will vary dramatically when driving through a 4-10 cabinet as opposed to a 2-15. Keep in mind that the Cabbone is designed to work with 100 Watt amplifiers. Using a more powerful amp at high volumes could cause the relays to arc. To make sure you do not damage the Cabbone or your amps, make sure you do not drive more than 100 Watts through the Cabbone.

Yes. Since a bass guitar has no acoustic resonator, the instrument needs to be amplified electronically. This is done by a 'Bass' Amplifier.

Yes. Although SWR bass amplifiers are designed primarily for use with electric bass guitars, they are perfectly capable of amplifying standard electric guitars. Simply make sure that you adhere to the set-up and operation instructions found in your owners manual.

Although it may work, the Cabbone is really not designed to do this. The electronics are designed for speaker loads, not low-level guitar signals and as such, you may encounter noise. Furthermore, there are no provisions for solving ground loop problems. The Radial Switchbone is an excellent AB-Y switcher designed specificaly for this job.

Yes. Just make sure you match the amp and speaker impedance so that the amp sees a proper load. If you are not sure about loads, have a look at 'Using the Cabbone' here or consult your dealer for assistance.

Yes. Although SWR Acoustic Series amplifiers are designed primarily for use with acoustic instruments, the California and Strawberry Blonde combos are perfectly capable of amplifying electric instruments. If you plan to do so, simply make sure that you adhere to the set-up and operation instructions found in your owners manual.

It's a question of gain: you could increase the amp's gain to around 100 to make it loud enough, but the noise floor will be unacceptably high. You need an amp design made for low noise with high gain. If you want a guitar monitor amp, I can't really help you, as I know next to nothing about guitars. Perhaps the mighty Google can help you find a suitable circuit.

Yes, however you must be able to pass the speaker signal from your amp through the Cabbone and then to the two sets of speakers. Most high-end combo amps will be equipped to do this.

Yes. Although SWR Acoustic Series amplifiers are designed primarily for use with acoustic instruments, the California and Strawberry Blonde combos are perfectly capable of amplifying electric instruments as well. If you plan to do so, simply make sure that you adhere to the set-up and operation instructions found in your owners manual. Your speakers are probably "out of phase.

The bass-line-out connector provides a flat 40-Hz to 180-Hz bandpass signal when no B1 bass modules are connected. We recommend unplugging the B1 bass modules to ensure correct EQ compensation of the Bass - Line OUT jack and phase consistency. The remote uses a special 7-pin DIN cable commonly referred to as "7-Pin Phantom MIDI Cable." This cable configuration is sometimes used to connect rack-mount guitar effects to their pedals. A standard 5-pin MIDI will not work.

Yes you certainly can. Some users say that the use of a pre-amp increases dynamics - especially transformer coupled designs like our Line-Only Pre-Amplifier. A pre-amp can also be useful if you need to use long signal cables. Click here to read an article where Andy Grove of Audio Note UK discusses some of the technical issues and benefits of 1x oversampling.

Several bass aficionados have taken a stab at notating the various synthesized bass riffs used throughout the show. A big giddy-up goes out to the following people, without whom this project could not have acheived its current level of completeness; Scott J.

The standard bass guitar has four strings (E,A,D,G). You can also get 5 or 6 string bass guitars. The 5-string bass guitar adds a low B string and the 6-string bass guitar adds a higher C string as well as the low B string.

Gretsch product service is available through our national network of Authorised Fender Service Centres.

Over the years Mike has used many different amp/speaker combinations. His favourite for a long time was an extensively modified blackface Fender Twin. Sadly this amp was stolen, along with his van and other equipment in London. He’s also used at various times a couple of hand built valve amps, various Jansen amps (Made in NZ), a Marshall JCM 800 stack and various other Fender’s, his favourite being a late-1950’s Bandmaster.

You will have to create a set of ¼” cables from your amp head, to the Cabbone and then back to your combo speaker and alternate speaker. Your dealer can help you with this if you are not experienced in making cables. can be found at auto supply shops and most music store techs also carry them. Finally, you would use another 1/4' speaker cable to connect the Cabbone to your 4x12" cabinet. Always use good 12 or 14 gauge speaker cable to make the connections.

As you may have seen in the Bookstore, many, many books have been written on the subject of musical instrument construction. Most of them are very good; a few are excellent. Here are seven that are continually recommended by MIMForum members. The first four are outstanding reference works. The last three, for mandolin, banjo, and woodwinds, are not as comprehensive but are the best available and will give you a good place to start.

Uhhh... we wish. But Mike can't read tabs and Joshy is far busier writing new songs with the rest of the band. Aww man! Psychostick is doing the songwritin' thang right now. So far, it's been described as, "dumber and heavier than any of our other crap. Hey, get out of here! *slams door*" The lyrics can be found in two places. Obviously, when you purchase a CD, you get the lyrics. Secondly, if you go download our music, you should be able to find the lyrics to those particular songs as well.

Fender Bassman amplifier was the original amp that lead Marshall and Fender to create all of their wonderful guitar amplifiers and many top guitar

No, as long as nothing is being damaged, whatever gets you your tone is okay. Be careful, though, with combo amps, as the speaker is more easily damaged by the low notes on a bass at high volumes. How do I add a tube to a Marshall? That steel seems too thick to do a lot of filing, and I can't get a reduced-shank 3/4" drill bit. This is why Greenlee makes chassis punches. Drill a pilot hole of 1/8" or so, then successively drill it out to 1/2".