Mr. Foxen

Lame http://www.flickr.com/photos/leadtowill/7610407178/

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? [/quote] Ah, think I recall seeing that in there. Do the rest of the caps, and move it on, get a Matamp.

Turns out got a gig on 21st, given choice between playing with everyone else's gear, and playing my own really stupid loud (like two Barefaced Super 15s and 200w valve heads), my stuff gettin an airing wins. If the wind is in the right direction, y'all should be able to hear it though.

I have a guitar rig along with the bass rig. Drive and definition from that, just the girth from the bass rig.

[quote name='rageingtelephone' timestamp='1378988561' post='2207379'] I reside in Bristol. So far I have had it serviced by an independant guy called Jesse James and later on by Justin @ [url="http://www.heronmusic.co.uk/"]Heron Music[/url]. [/quote] Justin is Subthumper on here. I send ampeg stuff to him, because I don't like working on it, despite the rep, the stuff is plain badly made. Throwing valves at a problem amp is rarely the way, problem is elsewhere, if its more than about 15 years old, its probably capacitors, ampeg way underspecced them and they die pretty early. finding the problem is fun because of the way ampeg make the amps, can't run them open to figure whats going on without specialist looms, forcing you to go to Ampeg approved techs who just bulk replace entire PCBs and charge you accordingly.

Loud entirely depends on cab. Passive valve FMV eq is about as musical as you will get. If you get the eq wrong, something else is wrong. 500w is enough.

Heh, this next gig is gonna be ridiculous, street party.

Shim material is pretty unlikely to have made that dramatic a change. Lowering action can a bit, generally up to a point, high action sounds better. The high side of 'right' basically (where I keep my stuff), lots of people are into the clinky clunk thing though.

[quote name='JPJ' timestamp='1378843993' post='2205547'] Still for sale on Big Ginger Gits and on [url="https://www.facebook.com/groups/musiciansmartne/"]https://www.facebook...usiciansmartne/[/url] I advised the seller of this place but so far he doesn't appear to have taken the bait. If any basschatters are interested, I'm only 3 miles from this if you need an intermediary for collection/courier pickup. In his post on facebook he claims to have the original packaging so courier should be no problem. [/quote] If you are cool to cash the guy if I paypal gift/bank transfer, and I can sort a courier, can work with that.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1378839497' post='2205450'] By tilting from the neck pocket you are keeping the correct string to body angle at 90 degrees and passing over the pickups evenly too, lowering it your way on a Jazz would mean the bridge pickup would need screwing in further, on a Stingray the strings would pass over the poles at a funny angle. [/quote] Know why there is two screws on one side of a MM pickup? So you can change its angle. Fender would have used less screws if he could without losing function.