All Activity

It's Over - Badfinger

Curve ball alert. If low fan noise and transparency are important what about an Orange Terror? Before you mock me, remember it has a clean switch that gets rid of all that lovely Orange overdrive.

My Apocalypse - Metallica.

I don't normally contribute to questions like this, I'm not a user of exotic amps and tend to go direct to PA at gigs and use in-ears but I do have a Monza as my back up and a couple of micro amps so here's my 10p worth. The Warwick Gnome and the Trace Elf 130W into the Monza give me plenty of volume for medium sized gigs and as a stage monitor for the whole band. I don't play full throttle bass for a rock band but that isn't what you are looking for. Either of them fit the easy fit criterion. The Gnome in particular sounds hi-fi a really clean sound, the Trace is more err... Trace, with a good dollop of midrange suckout. A really appealing sound out of the box but not neutral. As it happens I also have the Bugera BV1000M. I wonder what "Hi fi " means to you? For me it is that clean open sound, not overwhelmed by bass or worse the boost around 120Hz you get from underdamped speakers. It should also sound light and airy. My initial feeling with the Gnome is that it was just that. We did some frequency response measurements on these amps and it turns out that 'hi fi' and flat aren't the same thing . The Gnome has a quite pronounced boost at higher frequencies and the low bass is largely absent. The Bugera has an almost flat response with the tne controls set flat but sounds 'neutral' rather than 'hi fi' to my ears anyway. On my amps the fan is quieter on the Gnome thatn the Elf. DI on the micro amps is post though so not ideal for you. The last thing is the Monza, it's got a great horn and driver and is crossed over really accurately. It's also designed for you to hear those mids and tops with the clever radiation pattern. Are you just hearing sonds that were therebefore but inaudible from your playing position? I wonder if you could just filter out the unwanted high frequency elecctrical noise and let the Monza concentrate on giving you just the bass sounds you need from that wonderful mid range

Terrific work as usual, congratulations again @Basvarken, it's always a delight to read your posts and look at the photos.

That is funky!! Good competition as the Tye Zamora model has no Fender DNA, but looks like a pretty conventional set-up for a bass of it's type - whereas this Adrian Younge thing looks 100% Fender but is completely unconventional 😂

John aka @chienmort tested a number of amps at the SW Bash Bash a few years ago. The Veyron was one of them. It had a completely flat frequency response, which is at least half way towards a transparent amp. I still have one and don't find the fan loud, although I think some may be louder than others. It works well with the Monza, I can say, and is the bargain of the century in bass heads. The amp I actually use is the Trace Elliot TE1200, which is superb - and does the 3D/projection thing very well. I know @Clarky has a Monza and a TE1200. Maybe he'll chime in if he sees this. The Trace is a bit pricey, unfortunately, and probably not as portable as the OP is looking for.

I’ve messaged him a few times and he’s always replied, seems like a really nice guy and he knows his stuff

I saw a YouTube clip of the Okko Motorbass, as well as full on Lemmy it looks like it can do a pretty decent low-level drive.

I don’t know why, as I used one as a provided amp at a gig and really liked it. Maybe people are wary, following the SVT 7-PRO and PF500 issues? Shame, was a really good sound, just tweaked eq slightly on line check and away I went.

Not easy to source but found some on EBay

An old fart like me remembers hifi stuff that were equipped with tone defeat switches. The only thing was that there usually was something hidden behind that switch, like bass boost. Flat, what is a flat response if it wasn't measured? Even better, could the system (amp&cab) be equalized to flattest possible? I belong to the group of people that wants the electronics of the bass to be lo-Z and adjustable (if not transparent). Hi-Z electronics usually colour the sound and cut highs so much.

Barely a year ago the For Sale section was full of amps and only two ads for cabs on the first four pages. It's just a coincidence.

They look very interesting

I'm using Labella Flats on my 71 Jazz , very smooth I never tried the old Sadowsky Blue flats but I have a New set on my Tobias and very good indeed I liked GHS flats on a fretless Jazz I had.

Thank you for posting that. Jo built an amp for me last year.