bassmayhem

200 watts or 400 watts, that means a gain(!) in output volume with 3 dB. Should you have - God forbid! - an 800 Watt tube amp you win another 3 dB. Not worth breaking your back for... We did some shootout tests with an Ampeg SVT and the Ampeg mini solid state SVT some years ago: the little one played LOUDER but not prouder...

I'll use this Double Four on an "unplugged" gig soon. No doubt it is going to be heard with the acoustic bass guitar...

+ on that! The ones you mentioned in your initial post are toys; this is a real bass amp, yet tiny...

The Phil Jones T500 should is a potential king... http://www.guitaramplifierblueprinting.com/pjb.html

I had an amp with fixed mid bands, and found that a slight boost at 800 Hz made the Precision Bass more... precise. Sort of. It kinda climbed out a bit. The Jazz Bass got more balls with a boost around 250 Hz. I've tried that on other amps and other P's and J's too, and it works rather well...

Phase 90 has better specifications. I suspect also better components... MXR Phase 95 SPECIFICATIONS Input Impedance 800 kΩ Output Impedance < 6 kΩ Max Input Level -8 dBV Max Output Level 8 dBV Noise Floor* -95 dBV Speed Range 0.125 Hz to 10 Hz Power Requirements 8 mA @ 9VDC MXR Phase 90 SPECIFICATIONS Input Impedance 1 MΩ Output Impedance 10 kΩ Nominal Intput Level -20 dBV Nominal Output Level -20 dBV Noise Floor* -96 dBV Bypass True Hardwire Current Draw 5 mA Power Supply 9 volts DC

It will have the same footprint as the T-70.

My custom ordered COG Dual Cascade Knightfall BassMayhem 556. Built right now...

3Leaf Audio Wonderlove

COG T-70!

I bought my Le Bass second hand at a ridiculously low price from the first owner. I've read in the thread about noise issues, but mine is nice, clean and slient, except for my bass tone. I won't use it for overdriven tones, but more like a mixer between my "hi tech" Dingwall basses and my "low tech" passive basses. My fear was that it would be very mid scooped - as it is - but it is east to tweak: just set bass and treble on 8-9 o'clock and get a "flat" response on the clean channel. The preamp does a good work flavouring a dry bass tone in a nice manner, especially for rock, blues etc. Maybe not for jazz gigs. I have used it in front of a bass rig - a hyper clean EBS rig - as well as through my PJB Double Four and for pushing my old tube bass amp, but also with different headphones: my studio phones and my "phone phones". The unit sounds equally good in any environment. No hiss, no hum, no noise from power supply. I'll mount it on my big overkill pedalboard.

A beauty!

My COG T70...

A bass exactly like this one: Samick Valley Arts 6 string. Terrible balance, terrible tone, terrible spacing! I took the neck, that was a really, really good neck, and threw the rest in the garbage recycling. With a friend's assistance I made a Jazz Bass body of 60 years old solid dried birch, equipped it with EMG DC45 and Hipshot bridge. It ended up being a very good bass. I sold it some years ago to a studio, where it was used a lot. It looked like this when rebuilt:

[quote name='Endbass' timestamp='1509107586' post='3396674'] [color=#191919][font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]I'm looking for high quality preamp/DI in pedal form, based on the Neve 1073. Like the API Tranzformer LX pedal, but then the Neve version. I know about the JHS Colour Box, but I'm looking for something of higher quality. Does it exist? Or does anyone know someone who could build that for me?[/font][/color] [/quote] I've had the JHS Colour Box: it was a big disappointment. You could get things dirty, but not clean. I wouldn't call it a preamp, just a kind of overdrive/distortion unit. I gave it away...

Well, I may have found an Aguilar TLC at a very reasonable price. I'll try that one...

I have a Boss ES-8 on my pedalboard, and I am thinking of putting a compressor in the loop with my 3Leaf Audio Wonderlove. In the loop but after the envelope, so both switches on simultaneously. Just to tame any "burping" that can occur and drive other pedals nuts. It won't be used as a compressor by itself; I have a Diamond for that job. A cheap but good analog compressor is what I look for. An old EBS, maybe? Please, give me some suggestions...

This would be my choice, last in the effects chain, nice and quiet:

This moved in today: Skyline Hollowbody made in Indonesia. Very nice, better than my old Korean built...

My bass sounded sh*t with the Realist, but fantastic with the Realist Lifeline. I had to get an adjuatable bridge, though. After that I need nearly no eq:ing other than some low cut.

A "nice" tone tends to be drowned in the band mix. Add a tad of "cardboard box tone" and you'll sound good in the mix but awful on your own. Just the way a P-bass works: no flattering mids, but a lot of mature burrrrp, if you got my point...

My Skyline 55-02... My Stambaugh ODB... My Project bass: an old Fender defretted neck on a chambered body made by Tommy Bizzotto in Sweden. Not completely reday to fly yet...