Mr. Foxen

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1353853530' post='1878952'] Having all those pedals is a bit OCD I think, and having the signal buffered and re-amplified a few dozen times in the signal chain must cruisify the tone, surely a bass pod (or 2) could do everything that setup does ... [/quote] If the buffers are good, keeps the tone better than a bunch of cable and connections.

Not tried the 6550 specifically, but Shuguang power valves I have used (EL34b and KT88) have been good and very cheap. Trouble with the pre valves though.

Power compression is one of the the 'my rig was getting quieter so I turned it up some more, then there was a smell, so I turned it up more' thing that you hear often as a tech.

[quote name='BassPimp66' timestamp='1353833327' post='1878749'] What is meant here is: small amp wattage + big speaker wattage = DANGER for the amp. If you try to drive a 500W cabinet, with a 10 W amp, the amp may burn/explode/disintegrate trying to keep up. However, if you have bigger amp wattage , say 1000W amp, compared to 500W cabinet, that's fine. [/quote] That isn't what I mean. You can put a 10w amp into a 500w cab fine, you can put any amp into any cab fine. But the cab can't handle 500w thermal rating, because thermal ratings are not the place where amp power breaks cabs, the excursion limit is where bass guitar breaks cabs, and that is about a quarter to a half of the thermal rating in the passband of a cab, and less outside it, and it is easy to be outside it with silly eq. Thermal ratings of cab are pretty much meaningless, and should be ignored.

[quote name='jimi_1985' timestamp='1353761636' post='1878179'] Cool. I think I just like the assurance that I couldn't drive the cab too hard. Could you recommend any reasonably priced power amps? Thanks for the advice. [/quote] Doesn't really work like that. You can drive an amp too hard with an amp with a lower watt rating, because that isn't the thing that drives amps too hard.

Had a lefty acoustic sat around for a while. My crude guitar skills translated fairly quickly, like I could do the 3 open chords I have to hand right handed, left handed in about a week. Would probably me much more frustrating if I had some actual skills.

Any cabinetmaker should be able to sort it.

Don't like that there is no comments on them now, its useful resource, and means seller can come back to the same question loads of times instead of it being asked/answered in thread (as in possibly by someone else with the knowledge).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdxvVNlRiKs

I've got tons of old valves and a tester.

Says been up for 22 days, probably gone and hasn't figured how to pull the ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-isCMSaFZA

Watts don't break cabs. Stupid breaks cabs. Ask him if he's stupid, if he says 'no', you can assure him in that case the cab won't break. That's science.

Never been through to Malaysia when I've called. I've been sent £45 of ebay vouchers total since I started calling them.

Sort of says the issue is with the output to the computer. If it is the XLR and that is board mount, I'd do the soldering there, its a fairly chunky item to be board mounted.

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1353315926' post='1873433'] Crackling is likely to come from damaged pots or connectors, poorly soldered joints or cracks in the circuit boards or from the breakdown of components with electrolytic capacitors going first usually but not always. there are safety issues and you would need to check the power supply caps are discharged before fiddling around inside the amp. there are several thousand connections inside the amp and resoldering all of them is more likely to end up with you creating other problems especially if there are surface mounted components. You will need a specialist soldering iron with a very fine tip and thermostatic temperature control. You can often find the fault using a freezer spray but even this is a moderately skilled job, if you can read a circuit diagram and can solder then fine but if not you will probably struggle. It depends upon you, if you are happy to spend long evenings learning loads of new skills then what have you got to lose, if you want an amp that works then you will have to pay someone who has spent the long evenings learning this stuff. [/quote] Ashdown ABM stuff is simple inside, proper boards, would guess their digital mini ones will be surface mouth stuff.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1353276097' post='1873245'] Why do sellers constantly mis-advertise Squiers as Squires? Especially when it's written on the sodding headstock... [/quote] Autocorrect.

Does it still make noise if you keep playing after its off? Doing that will use most of the juice in the caps, it will be low voltage anyway. Mostly if its off for a while it should be fine. Valve amps are the ones that educate you.

Finding the cracked one is hard, soldering is easy. So reflowing all the possibles is the easy way. Happens a lot on amps with board mount stuff, and those are the symptoms. http://ampstack.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/ashdown-electric-blue-150/

So cracked solder, on the legs of some board mount stuff. Resoldering it all should fix it.

+1 on just getting the passive one. Should end up enough aside for a good fret job to bring it up to level too.

Not designing them, and making them anyway, is easy.

[quote name='SlapbassSteve' timestamp='1353244327' post='1872899'] Agreed. That and the chap in the states that buys new Fender basses just to sell all the parts separately. [/quote] Nah, he's dead useful for all the Squiers I have.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1353194134' post='1872696'] I agree with the post above that makes reference to all the junk seen when searching for 'Fender' on eBay, especially all those customized pickguards with photo's on, sometimes there's thousands of them, you can go through pages and not even see a guitar!! [/quote] Need to use the categories option. Just a result of so much stuff being on ebay. I wish there was an ignore seller option so I could lose that amp covers guy.

I linked mine in my sig, on various forums. I have sold 2 cds off the back of it.