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[Koldunya]

I’m going to resurrect this MFer instead of babbling in the Show Us Your Amps thread with all the gobbletygook I’m talking about over there.

(the subject matter looking at potentially modding an old Carvin RL410T, make it lighter, etc)

I found sellers on Reverb selling both the Celestion BN10-200X and Eminence Basslite S2010 for $100 which is a steep discount, and I found an Eminence document on building 1x10 and 4x10 cabs with the S2010 (volume needed, port design, etc).

https://www.eminence.com/pdf/Basslite_S2010_cab.pdf

The RL410T has an internal volume of about 5.43 4.9 4.4 cubic feet, guesstimated by external dimensions and subtracting apparent plywood thickness, and I may have messed up somewhere along the way…

I really don’t know what any of this means, though

But either way, if I keep this old Carvin I can relatively inexpensively drop its weight into boutique cab territory for not a ton of money, and potentially have something pretty awesome. Maybe. I need to find, or become, a math wizard (or download WinISD or whatever it’s called). But at first blush it looks like it should handle the Basslite relatively okay…

So far the BN10-200X and Basslite S2010 are the lightest neo speakers I have found.

Also considering removing the red horn and spraying it purple

Edit I found IRs of a Celestion BN10-200X 4x10 (sealed) and think it sounded really nice. But I can’t find specs on the cab…

Edit 2 in 2008 someone on TalkBass said the BN10-200X needed 1.09 cu ft per speaker, nearly perfect for my cab’s size (roughly). In 2016 the numbers were updated to 1.84 cu ft o.O

Edit 3 I keep finding the Celestions should be in a ported enclosure due to T/S calculations on enclosures, but Celestion themselves made a 4x10 sealed box for it to make some IRs o.O The hunt continues…

[Billn]

I’m going to resurrect this from the dead for some help. I have a guitar with a coil split humbucker. The single coil mode works, and if I tap the pickup with a screwdriver one coil is active and the other coil is not. The humbucker mode has no output. There’s also a “straight pipe” mode that bypasses the volume and tone pots and uses the humbucker that also has no output. This leads me to believe that there’s either an internal break in the second coil wiring or a bad connection on the humbucker side. Because the tone/volume bypass mode makes no difference and those controls work in single coil mode I believe the problem is on the pick-up or the switch, not the pots or jack.

I found this video with the guitar opened up at 14:10 and I believe the switch is wired the same way:

I can’t find a wiring diagram for the squier paranormal Esquire guitar I have or the squier wrhb with wires labeled. I’m not familiar enough with pickup wiring to know where I should be checking continuity here to verify the pick-up is good.

Here are some pictures and my attempt at sketching the wiring arrangement: