taunton-hobbit

The Cash Converters route always worries me - when they started out (some time ago now) they were the first place that our local Plod called on if someone had a video recorder nicked...'course that was back in the day............

Loved it - Macca is a much-derided (& very talented) man - I wonder how old that clip is?

Rolling Stones - 1986 - Hot Rocks CD......Stands the test of time (& makes me feel old)

I've got a Crown XLS2000, it's a good powerful amp which requires a bit of thought about signal processing beforehand, otherwise it can all sound a bit clinical......but it is only supposed to 'amplify' the incoming signal, and it does that job very well.

I'm afraid this gets the thumbs down from me - This would look great as a shop window display - It would need padded gig boxes (yet more weight) and it just don't work financially - Bill FM has already commented on the sonic stuff and who am I to argue with him - get a degree in design by all means, but a gig kit designer you ain't.........(sorry...)

1) Check your impedances are ok for the amp - if in doubt email Barefaced, they are very good. 2)Some valve amps aren't designed for bass, the preamp (tone control front end) is the key to this, any competent amptech should be able to tell you/do a mod - it's usually only a couple of cheap bits to add/remove..... 3)Do it !

Depends on the make of amp (I'm not commenting at this point) - you need something with a bloody great big output tranny and it should sound like Thor on a good day...........

See, the problem I have with all this twaddle (how do you do the 'cross out' thing?) stuff is that I come from the 'bung another 83 in & it'll work' generation - and, amazingly, it did !

Does the Bassist have to still have his handle in place?

Ok, (only) slightly off-topic, I watched a tv show a few years back that had Rod Stewart & Tom Jones both with lyric sheets....(& they are worth how much?)

Had an amazing hotel in deepest Oxfordshire (s'probably retirement flats by now) that my agent used to throw at me when they were up sh*t creek - we demanded food as part of the gig (been doing a local carnival all day, had to drop everything to get to the hotel)-got there and their faces fell (the dislike was mutual) - anyways they grudgingly supplied us with tea and fingers of toast with something fishy on them........about ten minutes in we were asked to turn it down, because of complaints from an elderly guest that some idiot had put in directly above the function room - said complaints continued until we were playing lower than lift music, so after about an hour, we extracted our money and left...never saw the place again, thank goodness....

Look at something on the left field, like a rackmount 'disco' mixer - they will feed straight into a bunch of power amps and the lift/cut tone variants are many & varied (cheap, too)

Lee Perry - The Black Ark Years.......I listen to a lot of dub.......

Jeffs the man.....end of.......

About the same time Noah was building the Ark, the band that I was 'vocalist' for (mainly because I knew the lyrics to 'Baby Please Don't go) had their bassist jack it in, but left the guitar behind, so I got appointed bassist....it was a disaster (even worse than my vocal sh*t) - which is why I took up Sound System work & made a few bob - moral - find what you can do & earn off it?

Yup, awesome and made thirty-eight years ago.....point made, methinks.......

Jeff has the serial number records, which is what I was trying to get to - he's the current owner of Matamp and has an amazing grip of the Brand history - not all the numbers are to hand, before anyone gets carried away - without the number, its just another amp - the EBay pics gave a printed serial number of 250, from which I'm assuming that the 100 heads were different numbers to the 200s (of which I had two, both of which had painted numbers, one of which I'm fairly sure, was 325 - long time ago now)- I currently have a couple of 300 Matamp original slaves, of which there were only about 20 made (I know, roughly, the whereabouts of another two or three, one of which is in the USA)....the early stuff is nice, but getting well overpriced for what it is. Before you start ringing Jeff, he's a busy bloke...just sayin'......

WOW! All this from a simple(?) question........ I'd like to see what Bill Maurice or Alex Claber think.. ...imo if you stick another speaker in circuit that cuts out one of the existing pair, and space it as good distance away from the amp, you will spread your sound, which can give the illusion of 'more'.

I preferred my answer, but then I'm old & frail (shuffles off for Ovaltine laced with bootleg Vodka).

It's very quiet around here............(just an observation) (whistles to himself)

If it says minimum, it means it won't like 2 ohms a lot (burning smell) - I'd talk to Ashdown, but I think, like many, you are trying to get out of a situation at the minimum cost - nothing wrong with that, but 'yer gets wot yer pays for' at the end of the day...............

Can I offer a real-life example? Back in the Stone Age I did a short residency at the Marquee with David Bowie - he used, as I recall, a 50watt WEM amp and a set (pair) of column speakers - after the first gig, he came back with a duplicate set of kit and two mics, taped together, so he had a 100watt pa, using two amps, four speakers and two mics - it's easier these days........... .....................I realise that op was posting about bass, but the same principle applies............

London is a big place - I'd suggest that you do a net search for entertainment agencies and send some email/make a few calls - most of it will be a total waste of time, but I gigged the Marquee, 100 Club & a handful of others from Agency contacts. You just have to be sure that your agent knows what you do - a good demo is vital........ Edit: I'd offer some promoter suggestions, but most of the ones that I knew are dead - several deservedly so.........

I hate to be obvious, but if I want more volume/power, I add another amplifier (and speaker/s if not a combo) - dilemma sorted...........

Many, many years ago a band called The New Breed had a pirate radio 'hit' with 'Friends & Lovers Forever'. Musically it was a full lift of 'Hang on Sloopy' by the McCoys...................