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200w, all valve, gain, volume, no other controls thanks, pair of 8ohm outputs and a 4ohm output on the back along with a line-out / di. wrap that up in under 20kg and I'm very interested in gigging a prototype with a view to buying a production model! I love my orange ad200b but the tone stack is permanently set to 12 o'clock as I like the sound of it set 'flat' so why not get shut of it and keep the tone interruptions to a minimum

not if the exact sound you want is the sound of an all valve rig, modern digital/solid state/etc stuff sounds good (if you like it) but not the same at all

displeased in the extreme to have had to miss it at the last minute! I'll be there next year!!

just bought Dunc's collection of adaptors, very very simple transaction, all over and done in about 5 minutes! posted when he said he would, all arrived in perfect order. recommended. cheers bud

that looks amazing mate! a superb p with a great story behind it

the old rule of thumb was along the lines of twice the power of the guitarsits amp wasn't it? so if they've got 100w marshalls type thingies then a 200w bass amp (all valve of course) would be sufficient? a similar rule of thumb between all valve and solid state bass amps is you need 10x the power to get a similar volume with solid state yes? did I read those somewhere? happy to be wrong but I do know that my 200w orange is a sh*t load louder than the 900w genz I had! and is similarly louder and fuller than the LMIII I do have...

congrats mate!

could this lead to a compilation of which beverage correlates to your particular brand of music list?

I'm finding the opposite transition interesting at the moment, 20 years of playing in covers bands, playing all styles and everyone else's notes, it's really bizarre writing my own lines now and I find the prospect of playing these songs in front of people rather scary whereas I've not had stage nerves with covers for years!

drop him a pm if you wanna know?

not a clue matey, hazbeen is a mod so he could have locked the thread himself, there's sometimes an explanation of some sorts in the 'locking post' but occasionally stuff just gets locked and then sinks into bc history

play what you wanna play, reinterpret them rather than 'parrot fashion' them and they become 'your songs' anyway if that's whay you wanna do, go hayseed dixie style and do major reworkings but with just enough of a hint of where it came from to still be recognisable? ...conversely some friends and I started a new originals band in december and we've now got 8 superb songs with a couple more in the works, averaging a new one most weeks! We've now got a 35 minute set which is a support slot's worth and hopefully by June we'll be polished up and ready to go play to some folks. Lightning has struck in that we've got a front man who's voice is golden and who writes stunning storyteller style lyrics and melodies and the rest of the band slot together perfectly behind him...we're pretty happy thus far!

my ad200b runs on 1/4 volume and 1/4 gain and it's freakin' loud even through just on obc115 cab! there's bass everywhere, rich fruity huge bass, it's fills a cavernous church building and makes all the fittings rattle! I'd be terrified with even more power! for more volume just add more cabs!

[quote name='VTypeV4' timestamp='1394644500' post='2393678'] Wow, thats lovely.. Whats the valve config? 3x ECC83 and 4x KT88? Oh, and can I have a look at the chassis and transformers. Can you tell I like this amp? [/quote] This, exactly this! 200w is a perfect amount, given that the tone controls on my AD200b are set to noon and forget I'd go for a simple 2 knob gain and volume layout misself as if it sounds good, it sounds good... will he be doing cabs too? how cool would it be to tour a fully uk built bass rig in this era of 'the uk doesn't build anything'!

[quote name='woodyratm' timestamp='1394605450' post='2393153'] And thanks to an issue completely outwith my control - I wont back in the UK till Tuesday. So much for my offshore trip being 2 nights offshore... I've PM'd Alan to say I won't be coming now so my weekend ticket should be up for grabs. Sucks. [/quote] know how you feel mate, I'm out too due to family illnes (nothing serious just inconvenient!) so there're 2 tickets available now...

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