Mr. Foxen

Street party gig. Had to tune to a small boy:

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Used to venues that can't afford security to stop idiots coming on stage and messing with gear, but usually at those making your own physical arrangements with said persons is regarded standard practice, here, not so much, so my set suffered from a guy coming on stage and kicking the power off.

Thanks to TNT this is my forthcoming Barefaced repair:
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Note that all the braces in the port are disconnected, so can assume all the ones inside are the same. They'll pay out £100 if I'm lucky.

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Before the noise complaints began.

ECC83 in the preamp section, EL84 in the power section. Phase inverter might be an ECC81 or 82, can't remember

What is the deal with claiming things are prototypes? Has one ever genuinely been one? I've seen prototypes, they don't tend to be things that you'd want in favour of a proper thing. Pre production model, maybe.

How flat you can get the neck sort of depends on how level the frets are. Perfect frets mean thick paper sized gap, chances are you don't have perfect frets.

[quote name='kurosawa' timestamp='1379538240' post='2214043']
Interesting. Is it important for the laminations to be made of different woods?
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No to bits of wood are going to be the same. If you are laminating the same piece of wood chopped up, you flip them over so any tendency for it to develop a twist will oppose each other. Lots goes on internally in wood, not nearly as simple as all these statements make out.

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1379527274' post='2213771']
Interesting that. I've been mulling over switching to an S15 myself.
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Probably should bear in mind my idea of loud enough involves two S15s and two 200w valve amps.

I've found not quite loud enough even with a Barefaced super 15, for fairly polite stuff. Good for casual jamming.

[quote name='simon1964' timestamp='1379418070' post='2212363']
Which of those did McCartney do with the Beatles? I don't remember any clank or clang there.
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Left the flats on it.

They did a fair few funnies. There was one giant multi driver thing that only worked paired up with a specific trace head.

In that cab, the 5s will be midranges and don't factor into the wattage rating, since the watts are in the bass.

[quote name='Matte_black' timestamp='1379421737' post='2212437']
I read some catch fire, maybe due to the lack of a fan for the 8 kt88s?
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Lack of maintenance and abuse is generally the reason. The VBA400 is like the low bidder version, don't know how they fare.

[quote name='Matte_black' timestamp='1379421211' post='2212426']
A store has a Marshall 2001, maybe I should get it
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Think Thornybank on here has one still, might wind up better price. Those are beasty amps.

[quote name='Pete wilkinson' timestamp='1379354193' post='2211662']
Thanks for the replys . Mr F,I'd like something for home use and small shows . The v8 is brilliant but it's flight cased and isn't practical for me to transport . I suppose I'm looking for advice re smaller set up . . I use a fender P and my mine bass is a Gibson EB2 . All I want to achieve is a full bass sound that you feel . I imagine it may be difficult as I'm used to playing loud .
Forgive my lack of knowledge and hope you can help
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How small and light are you aiming? The Hrtke LH stuff has basically the same tone stack as the V-type if you use it clean. I have a Trace V-type pre that might be going, pair it with a light power amp, like and IPR, and score a valve power amp for when you want to go big.

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1379359638' post='2211807']
You could say much the same of most bass tones from the past few decades though. And even many of the supposedly "Hi-Fi" tones depend on a heavily voiced signal chain of some sort too...
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Dunno about most, within certain genres maybe. Even the SVT is fairly clean up until its cranked into drive. Loads of bass is done straight to desk, can't really do much cleaner than that. Like Motown.

When did a manual start coming with? Totally didn't see one with my S15, guess was a while back now.

Definite theme of all the tone come from a driven valve amp going on, even Macca, who you wouldn't generally associate with drive, has a small combo pushed thing going on.

V8 is big enough to be specialist, can ask a high price because not many about, but someone actually after one is gonna also be rare. Ampeg Portaflex is pretty not comparable in any way, so might need to put up some details as to what you want to do, to go anywhere with that.

Lame

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Got to have the power valves biased or it can either sound rubbish or eat the valves. Preamp valves are plug and play

Real question is why are you changing them all?

For power valves I like Shuguangs, but Gold Lions are getting good words from techy sorts. Preamp ones, I get boxes of Shuguangs and use my tester, bin the duff ones, you pay a lot extra for someone else to do this and stick their own badge on. I also have tons of old valves so generally use those for my stuff.

Those cabs pretty much suck. Shoulda come and tried it at the Doomhaüs through a proper cab.

Think they have that 'doesn't sound like valves unless its distorting all over the place' thing that Americans are into. They aren't horribly wired but not top end.

For big touring bands, I think using Ampeg is more about tour support than actually specifically wanting to use Ampeg. Wherever you go, there will be an Ampeg stockist to supply backline. Even bands that do this might still not trust them and carry an Ashdown head as backup though.

Passive bass? Loose something can give some distorty stuff even on a passive.

[quote name='rageingtelephone' timestamp='1379077916' post='2208447']
Yeah I have gathered they are pigs to work on! In fact I think Justin did swap out some caps last time I gave the head to him. Im not sure exactly but I think it may be from the early 1990s, if it's any help my amp is the exact same model as the svt2pro you can see half way down the page [url="http://www.chambonino.com/work/ampeg/amp4.html"]here[/url] (the one with blue and red writing for the "svt II pro" part). So think I should carry on with these seemingly endless attempts at repair?
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Ah, think I recall seeing that in there. Do the rest of the caps, and move it on, get a Matamp.