Mr. Foxen

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1349435738' post='1826229'] Barefaced have a pop-up door...what does that do? [/quote] For the tone.

You can get 200w from 4 EL34 if you run them right, most modern ones probably won't take it, and it isn't the standard way of running them: http://www.chambonino.com/construct/const7.html

I started doing grounding wire in guitars with solid wire, from leftover bits of mains cable from sorting the house electrics. Means that if your pot nuts come loose, the hard wire soldered to it stops it rotating or falling inside, ditto with the jack socket.

Have fun finding flat on the controls on an Ampeg. It isn't knobs in the middle. If you have a VT bass, might be able to go into an fx return if they have one, but don't think it will have the juice to do that.

[quote name='Chienmortbb' timestamp='1349337054' post='1824765'] With regards to the Cab design, I don't believe that most Bass cabs are designed to HiFi standards and if you take some of the best bass cabinets and put the figures through WinISD or another Cabinet Emulator, you will find that the response is far from flat. [/quote] Do that with hifi stuff and you find the same.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1349252967' post='1823763'] He had a Precision in the early 60's when he was playing hotel gigs with a lounge band. The hotel burned down, taking his bass with it. He moved to LA where he had to play a Japanese bass, which wasn't very good. Then someone offered him a second-hand Precision for $100 so he bought it. That's it. That's the lot. That's everything that a [b]top-level, iconic bass-player [/b]has to say about his instruments. In 240 pages. [/quote] This section is a pretty important lesson for most of us here I should think.

Upload the screenshot and tag them in it. Everyone, not just Wayne.

[quote name='thunderbird13' timestamp='1349277158' post='1824162'] ( knowing my luck they'll change it before you read this thus making me look like an idiot ! ) [/quote] Close enough I can get my Dad to pick it up, so now they can't change it.

Not many silver face compacts about, with the rest of the gear, I reckon we can figure who it is.

New or secondhand. Either way I'd budget a trip to someone from this thread as part of it, start off right is going to help loads: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/26654-recommended-luthiers/

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1349278138' post='1824183'] Definitely not! The only drawback with that amp range in fact... I'm considering some kind of parametric or graphic EQ pedal so that I can add some more mids.... Of course, if you like a scooped sound they are great! [/quote] I consider it an upside having seen how many players treat EQ.

[quote name='Wiggybass' timestamp='1349269917' post='1824036'] LOL!!! It surely will, a/ because the amp is now delivering about 25% more power (assuming you're connecting an 8 ohm extension cab to a combo that's fitted with drivers providing an 'internal' load of 8 ohms, thus showing it 4 ohms overall) and b/ because it's moving more cardboard. And that's a good thing! [/quote] 25% more power pretty much won't make an audible difference in itself. Whilst the thing about 3db being the smallest perceivable change in spl isn't true, the difference of 3db from double power isn't very much without a simultaneous comparison point, so only a quarter more power is going to be pretty much inaudible.

If you like the pre, keep it and get a Peavey IPR power amp, still kinda big, but light and powerful, you can rack it with an EQ, but heading toward another pre then. The hartke LH stuff won't give you more eq.

The V30 loaded Harley Benton cabs should be ideal. but do you have a cab involved in your guitar rig at current? Be good to match them up.

What's a good for the money sort of thing for recording casually, I've seen the jobs with two mics sticking out of them, look appealing, but pretty clueless on such things. Need to get something for note taking purposes. If they turn out reasonable enough for demos, that would be ideal. being able to interface with fancier stuff would be a bonus if I score some nice mics.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Japanese-Aria-RE550-bass-Original-1976-Spares-or-repair-/140860776072?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item20cbf4de88

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1349210433' post='1823454'] keeping to the same size drivers means you'll get a consistent sound from venue to venue. [/quote] Not really venue to venue, its more predicable depending on where you stand in relation to the cabs, a venue can still totally sound rubbish, you just have a much better chance of sorting it with eq with a consistent sounding rig over one with weird lumpy sound lobes.

I've found repairing old valve amps sufficiently viable enough its my main source of income after investments.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1349178838' post='1822765'] [size=3][font=Verdana][color=#000000]The seller said he believed it was a late 80’s reissue of the 70’s Super Bass head. He said it was handmade, hand wired, point to point, in Huddersfield Orange/Matamp factory, and was a very limited run of this model. This model is apparently based on the OR120 (as they all seem to be?), it has modified guts, to specifically suit bass. [/color][/font][/size][/quote] Matamp weren't making Orange in the late 80s, they weren't even making musical instrument amps by then, doing disco stuff. No Matamp or Orange were point to point, they were on PCB or sometimes tag or turret board, and currently on a hybrid of the two. This will be a PCB one.

Stuff sells if you ship it overseas to places where they have happy economies, or where personal economies are less related to national ones.

Since you are in Bristol, there is a Tmax 2x10 combo (the same head, mounted in a case). Give him a call. http://www.heronmusic.co.uk/

You can put bigger feet on. I put feet on the side of my S15, using the existing holes for the corners.

Sound City B50 looks right: [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/SC50003.jpg[/IMG] Nolan 100w: [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/Nolan001.jpg[/IMG] Vampower: [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/vampower.jpg[/IMG] Sound City 200: [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/colouredknobs-1.jpg[/IMG] Laney Klipp: [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/ebay.jpg[/IMG] My rig in full: [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/Rig002.jpg[/IMG]

Means you are probably clipping something in the amp, which isn't ideal if you are after clean.