umph

Do you really need to go that low? most of what you hear is the second harmonic

[quote name='umcoo' timestamp='1319107880' post='1409931']Now the real question is... if you had a spare 2.5k lying around, would you get this, or get a Matamp GT200 and spend the rest on other fun items?[/quote]

i'd go for that, if bb king says its the best amp hes used it's gotta be special

want

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1318963051' post='1408376']He has feedback of (4). He has sold two (2) items. Both in 2007. Now he's selling something special. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Custom-Made-Hugh-Manson-5-String-Bass-/150679044641?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item23152bc221 Bidding starts at £1250 ... get in there.[/quote]

don't see whats wrong with using ebay to sell things?

i'm up in sheffield if you get stuck.

rick + superbass = epic mid forward distortion.

You might wanna check out some other gear if you wanna get deep sounds

get another cab if you're running outta head room

[quote name='citymariner' timestamp='1318020927' post='1397468'] It built up a grand suspense to a grand looking cab! Just a (possibly naive) thought, how would you mic a cab like this? Would you need three mics and three different mics for the different types of driver? CM[/quote]

i'd stick an Re-20 about 2' away.maybe more pointing toward the upper 12. That should capture all the speakers fairly well and get an accurate representation of what you're hearing.

Guess if you're only sharing the stage with a drummer bleed wouldn't be a huge issue either! i'd definatly take a di to aswell though.

[quote name='matt_citizenbass' timestamp='1317656424' post='1392827']The micro synth sounds cool. But it sounds like it decays too quickly for me. The only problem with blending my clean sound is that my clean sound isn't very bassy. What I could do is blend the clean sound with added EQ... but still, haven't pedal to do it all might be nice...[/quote]

Put in a stereo jack run your neck pick up clean and the bridge distorted ;D

sounds like you want a harmonic perculator or one of its clones. You're sounding a bit steve albini.

Personally though for more low end i'd look into splitting your signal and running another amp, can never hurt in a two piece

how open are you to modding the pedal?

bump, microsynth is gone

[quote name='H the Bass' post='1369415' date='Sep 11 2011, 02:07 PM']What makes you say that m8[/quote]

he only had 3 heads through the years and none of them had the arsehole label on the front aparently. Price is still good though

so tempted by this, although the more research i do the less likely it seems lemmy used this

the jack in the middle was for a reverb footswitch or something but it's currently not connected to anything

sundee

[quote name='Truckstop' post='1359074' date='Sep 1 2011, 06:15 PM']Well, that's the tricky part. It sounds awesome to my ears, but I'm not sure when it last got revalved (if ever) and i'm wondering if it'd sound even MORE awesome if it got revalved!

Truckstop[/quote]

if it sounds great why mess with it? don't think you'd be very chuffed with it if the valves were on the way out, it'd not be very loud and probably start blowing fuses.

[quote name='Truckstop' post='1358893' date='Sep 1 2011, 03:32 PM']Cheers, thanks for the info.

I don't think anything's wrong with it, but because I've only had it for a couple of months, I don't know if it sounded 'better' a year or two ago if you know what I mean. Would you recommend getting it to a tech to make sure everything's hunky dory? It's from the 70's (no indication of date inside casing etc) and is made by an italian firm called Gem. The model is a Saturn Bass 50 and I simply cannot find any information on it anywhere! I don't know how well it's been maintained and I can't even see what valves it has, there's no markings or anything.

Truckstop[/quote]

Do the valves not have any markings on them themselves? guessing they're gonna be EL34's in the power amp and ecc83s in the pre.

Basically you'll know when you'll need new valves because it'll start sounding a bit pants

bump,

Microsynth and whammy both come with power supplys.

Bump with addition of whammy

BUMP

[quote name='Thornybank' post='1346828' date='Aug 20 2011, 11:55 PM']If they were bigger, you couldn't lift them....

Mains trannie
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Output trannie
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aye is epic stuff. 3inch stack of DVVM

dude, do you have any paper work to say this was lemmys? if so i'll definatly have it

[quote name='mr_russ' post='1345729' date='Aug 19 2011, 06:43 PM']Really sorry to hear this, but its got to be the least DOOM thing I've ever read[/quote]

cats are dvvm ;<

If you've heard of this before you'll know how much of a beast this is but if not basically This was marshalls answer to the svt, It has two channels - one similar to the b15 and another which is marshalls take on the svt. Both channels can be bridged and are foot switchable. It has a inbuilt compression circuit and a 600 ohm POST power amp balanced line out which is awesome.

It's been serviced with the aid of john at champ electronics and we've had it on the bench doing 420W and is good to go, although you might wanna invest in some cooling since it really runs the valves hot. It has a brand new octet of kt100's


It weighs an absolute tonne due to the epic transformers it has in it (polar oposite of the underrated ones in the newer 400W amp) so i'd recomend pick up but i could post it if you like.

Looking for around £1050OBO for this.










sorry about the quality did these pictures with my phone. Also feel free to ask any questions about it