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Hi, Anyone got one of these new Ampeg heads ? What do you recon to them ? I tried one in PMT , and bought it there and then, brilliant sound. I use it with my modified ( 2 tuned ports - thanks Alex ) 4x12 cab......AWSOME SOUND ! I was told they were made in Japan ( says Korea on the back, a bit concerned at first - but aint the Blackstar Guitar amps made in Korea ! ) Don`t bother me where it was made, the sound is what you go by ! Pete

[quote name='TheFear' post='946110' date='Sep 5 2010, 01:01 PM']Just bought a PeaveyBx cab from Pete, extremeley nice bloke to deal with, good price, cab description spot on , now i just need the Mrs to hump it around at gigs to save my back, lol[/quote] Thanks for those kind words lol, my misses almost left me when I asked her to hump it around.......so beware !

[quote name='Beedster' post='571007' date='Aug 16 2009, 08:19 PM']Hi mate, thanks for the post. I've tried everything and am pretty sure it's actually dodgy. I gigged it Friday and the switches were unusable, firstly because the sound was mud and secondly because the volume changed dramatically from one to the other. Also although the high and low boost controls work predictably, they do not makes anything like as much difference at gig volume despite than my J-Retro which is in turn way less than most other pre-amps I've used (e.g., Sadowsky. Bart, Aguillar etc). I'm going to uninstall it tomorrow and try it with my Nordstrands in case the suggestion above that for whatever reason the Audere doesn't like Fender PUPs is actually true. I'll update tomorrow Chris[/quote] Hi Chris, I have just bought one (JZ3) on e-bay, had a problem when I fitted it to my American Standard Jazz. No output from the bridge p/up. Checked the wiring, re checked , and rechecked, could find nothing wrong. Got a mate to check it, he found straight away that I had connected the bridge earth to the bridge p/up earth input ! What I am saying is ......get someone else to check the wiring........new pair of eyes and all that. Once I had corrected that ........WOW .......what a difference the active EQ makes ! Pete

Hi All, Just a few lines to thank Alex Claber ( openly) for all the information and suggested mods to my 4x12 bass cab. It started by me asking him if Barefaced Cabs make a 1x15 and 2x10 combined cab. The reply was no, but then he asked me why. I informed him that the cab I had was not giving me enough "bottom " (mid`s and top ok ) , even though it was "tuned "as per instructions from Celestion - port length etc. Alex asked me for the internal volume / speaker spec`s / port sizes / Head I was using etc, and within about an hour he got back to me, saying the port length was wrong, and suggested I mod them to the sizes he recommended. I was GOB SMACKED after I modded the ports to his recommendations. The bottom end was there ! THANKS AGAIN ALEX - BRILLIANT FREE ADVICE ! Pete

[quote name='DHA' post='837046' date='May 14 2010, 12:00 PM']It will need rebiasing. The matching is saying that all four new valves are matched (which they need to be) but the amps bias current needs to be set to work correctly with them.[/quote] Thanks ......... Pete

Hi, My Hiwatt 200W Valve Head has just blown a Valve ( a crack has appeared around the glass on one of the KT 88 Valves ) It blew the mains fuse ( which I assume it should do ) . My question is .........I have just bought a set of 4 matched Electro Harmonix KT 88 valves ( the original valves have been in there for at least 3 years, so they must be getting "worn out " ), do I need to get them re-biased, or because they are a matched set of 4 just plug and play ? Any info would be appreciated......... Pete