Mr. Foxen

I can't find enough Laney AOR series to satisfy demand. I just don't see enough Matamps that I ever have a chance to pick one up cheap.

My own auction, so didn't post until it was done, because not advertising my stuff, but what have I missed here, I had this down as a cheap nasty before I robbed all the bits off it. Loads of people fighting over it, I figured I'd be lucky to get the £25 start and it out the way:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300949307514?ssPageName=STRK:MESOX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1561.l2649

Also, a good modern conventional cab will be lightweight. Being heavy is something tech has moved on from.

I stuck a 3015 in an Ashdown MAG15 and lined it with knobbly foam, sounded good, but the ports are too small and it compresses before the driver is getting to its limit. So if you spend about £250 on top of the cost of the Ashdown cab, you get a sort of heavier, less loud Compact.

Edit: typo

Or best offer.

Edit: wait, handle is damaged, better dismiss their entire product line.

I've actually forgotten what the upper pic is, think it is the Viking PA, sort of like a selmer, needed loads of work that wasn't economic so on the duffer pile until it is worth it. Lower one is a burman preamp.

Heading to tempting. Should probably hold out to get the Matamp though, as not short of 100watters.

Get it without paying extra for an Orange badge: http://www.tubesync.co.uk/

Know a guy who is set up to fit these in Brighton sort of way.

You can achieve the distortion of old cabs via other means than underpowered drivers though. You need to work with the cab you have to get best tone, not set the tone for one cab, then swap in another and declare it not as good.

Sansamp variants sort of do it. The speaker breakup is considered, flavours though.

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Isn't the LB the linebacker and solid state? If it is valve and 100w (from the name) it is pretty unlikely to be cathode bias, 4 EL34 give something fair bit less than that in cathode bias. Might just not have a bias pot, older laneys tended not to.

Also, obligatory valve amp pic:

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Looks like a Hiwatt and a Vampower had offspring.

Do you have both pickups all the way up on the jazz? Try rolling one off a bit, might be the mids you are missing compared to the precision.

Left it laying about for the oil to cure, and considered what pickups to go in. Realised the originals are probably fine, but gonna lose the active bits. Stuck them in, and decide how to wire it:

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A wood block, some clamps and a table will provide an improvised jig, you don't have to push it hard. Also, heavier strings, always heavier, cures everything except bad setup.

String through body is the old fashioned way. Top loading was cheaper, so it got changes, less holes to drill, no turning the bass over in production. It gives better mechanical coupling to the body, which will show up tonal flaws from the body more, it also shows up poor quality strings, and bad stringing practice.

If it is your photo, you can report it as copyright infringement. I've done that and had a listing pulled, it showed photos of my living room. Also bought an amp that was in my living room, then got £50 back for not as described, he'd pulled one of my pics of an amp off the net, and it was slightly different.

I have one and its nice, but not getting much use out of it. Works pretty good for guitar too.

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This one looks to be better finished. Except, is that a coffee stain on the back of the neck? Is this made from a single piece of wood, apart from the headstock?

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Standard construction, laminated through neck, body wings attached, just similar coloured woods.

Do the valves have retainers? Easy damage is them coming out and smashing, so if something is holding them in, its OK, otherwise pull them and pack them inside. Loops of rope round the box make handling easier, and thus dropping harder.

Enough speaker there to be ok for bass, in oldschool terms, won't handle much power, doesn't need much power. Work ok for guitar too because drivers are probably guitar drivers for most purposes.

Its superior to paint. But the cab covering stuff is beyond paint. Tolex is not easy to maintain or repair, strip it off and start again is the only way, once you get beyond superficial digs and rips, that can't happen on hard coating. Carpet is all round terrible, too uneven a surface to show damage is its main upside.

Nut makes a difference when fretting because the tensile wave still travels past your finger, and is damped, reflected or passes through the nut depending on frequency, and the nut properties effect where those different frequencies are. Plus the harder nut retains its shape better, so a correctly shaped nut will remain correctly shaped. You can demonstrate the importance of the string below the fretting point to tone but fretting a not and playing it, and still fretting it and cutting the string below the fretting point, then comparing tone, the difference is certainly audible.

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I've never seen a bass with carpet on?
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[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1376658187' post='2177495']
Are most new basses shot with nitro?
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No, they've moved on to poly, but people still demand the inferior old way of doing it. Kind of like wanting tolex or carpet instead of hard coatings.