SkinnyMike

I even looked on allparts and couldn't find them. YOU sir, are a legend!

Can anyone send me in the right direction of where to purchase these in the UK?

[quote name='Noisyjon' timestamp='1391027921' post='2352496'] Alex at the Gallery said they're fantastic amps if you can leave them set up somewhere and get someone else to hump it about for you when needs be ha ha ha! [/quote] That's fully living the dream right there... haha

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1391017812' post='2352350'] The same as my wife's arse. [/quote] Hahaha. [quote name='HotelEcho' timestamp='1391011223' post='2352248'] I swapped out some gear to pick up a 1993 "Premier" model Pro from here about this time last year. Ashamed to say, I've never even plugged in with it! My band split up at exactly the same time and I've no cabinet at home - and no will to piss off the neighbours with the sound level... Now I've possibly got another band on the go, and I'm on the verge of buying a new flightcase to make it [i]slightly [/i]easier to drag out of the house* - if there's a 4 Ohm speaker cab in the new practise space that can take it. Totally bonkers, unnecessarily overpowered for any use I can ever make of it, and I'd be much better served by something more modern & practical. But I can't get past the fact that it's [i]the [/i]sound of countless classic 90s rock and metal albums and I'm a big kid really! *According to my bathroom scales, the head + current flightcase weigh in at an eye-watering 38.6 Kilos... [/quote] That's one heavy amp! What made this SVT2 I've currently got is its cased within a flight case.. That flight case alone is easily 15kg. Outrageous overall weight to lug about but also so SO necessary.

Anyone else using these bad boys? I currently have my Orange ad200b in the repair shop getting a look at and was given one for the time being. All I can se is WOW does it sing through my two orange cabs! Might have to invest in one pretty soon...

Supported them at Camden's Jazz Cafe in December. They were unreal! The percussionist is a total hero too, she's got some serious rhythm.

Had a bit of a new year makeover to my website! Check it out and let me know if you require a Bass player, Sound engineer or a tour manager!

Yeah I understand you obbm. Now i'm thinking about it, putting the JDI at the start of the chain was an awful idea really. I'm surprised it's managed to last a year without any faults until now.

There's actually no reason why I couldn't place the JDI at the end of the speaker chain, I actually never thought of doing it like that if i'm honest. If I rigged it up the way you're suggesting Dad, I assume the signal strength would be halved after it comes out the 4x10? I'm probably talking complete tush but even if this is the case, wouldn't I still be getting pretty hot signal into my DI box, thus not solving this potential PCB frying problem?

Hi all and thanks for your replies! I have inspected every cable, (they are speaker cables btw) making sure they're perfectly fine and fired up the amp WITHOUT the JDI in the output chain at all. Firstly I can say it works and i'm getting clean sound and secondly, Switching the polarity back in phase has made a massive difference to the sound. It sounds much, much fuller. After 45 mins - 1 hour of playing it's singing just like it should. I'm glad it's working great but what's irritating me is I can't understand and would love to know why it cut out in the first place. Sure that's great news that it works and sounds great but I really don't want it to cut out on me again, ESPECIALLY while i'm on stage. So most of you think it's to do with the JDI and it would make sense considering even the JDI website says you shouldn't connect it the way iv'e been doing it for the past year.. The only reason I got the JDI in the first place was because I researched here on basschat and TB about a DI box that could be used to DI the tone of the power valves. After researching countless topics, I was under the impression it was fine to use the JDI in this configuration.. Quite a lot of people do this as well - We can't ALL be in the wrong can we?? Could it be the amp not understanding the load properly when its connected to the JDI first before any cabs? This makes sense to me but for it to cut out after a year of heavy use like this makes me think not. (Oh, the JDI is also fine, I tested it earlier to make sure that it hadn't been fried from the other week)

Something very strange happened to me on stage last week and I wonder if anyone can shed any light on this.. For a bit of background, I have an Orange AD200B paired up with a 4x10 and 1x15 cab. To DI this, I use a Radial JDI placed in-between my amp and 4x10 speaker. The amp was also serviced with new output valves by Orange back in July this year. Using the same cables and configuration I have done since I purchased the amp, I fired the rig up and played for 10 minutes or so during sound check. Everything was fine. As I took to the stage for my set however, it didn't sound 'right'. Second song the amp started farting like nothing I had ever heard before, and eventually completely cutting out. The DI signal also completely cut out, meaning It had to have been a complete amp failure. Post gig I bought a cable tester as I thought maybe it could be something to do with the cables as they were the oldest thing in my rig. Having tested all of them, I discovered that one of my jack/speakon cable was wired the wrong way round. I.E Positive to negative and vice versa. Could this have caused a problem with the amp confusing it perhaps? Best, Mike.