Higgie
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Didn't think I'd ever be doing this, as I love this amp to pieces, but a recent purchase, and the realisation that it has had just as much use the year before the pandemic as it did during, I have come to the conclusion I just don't need an amp of such devastating power and quality. I moved to IEMs a couple of years ago, and 99.9% of my gigs require no backline whatsoever, so this is surplus to requirements. My Bergantino cabs will be up for sale shortly too. 9.8/10 condition Darkglass Microtubes 900 V1. It comes with the Intelligent footswitch, and original box. Outstanding clean amp, with tons of EQ and power on tap, plus two of the best distortion pedals ever to grace a pedalboard built in? Recipe for greatness. I actually preferred the circuits in the amp to the original pedals, the VMT in particular. So much so that I sold both the B3K and VMT that I owned at the time! I don't know what is different about them (if anything) but just found it much easier to dial in the sounds I was looking for. I actually had 2 of these amps at one point, as I wanted a backup in case anything happened to the first. Safe to say it never once let me down and I ended up selling the backup as it just wasn't needed! I have a nice Lowepro messenger camera bag that fits the amp perfectly, with pockets for cables/footswitch that I will also throw in if wanted. I will also include the IEC cable and a high quality Speakon. £525 posted -
Being solderless they are bound to fail if you you are one of those people that reorganises their board a lot, or just a lot of plugging/unplugging. And it is definitely a pain when one goes down. I use Lava cables and have to admit the failure rate for me is not far off as with soldered cables! I had a load of spare jacks and cable that I'd bought years ago, and was frustrated when I attempted to make a a few new ones up from memory and they didn't work, but after watching this video to refresh myself with the procedure, every single one has worked perfectly.
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I'm literally teetering on the edge of buying this, and I don't even use an amp anymore! Seriously good deal on what is possibly the greatest bass amp ever made. -
COG Knightfall V1 SOLD, V2 is still available -
Purely from a legendary status POV: Musitronics Mutron III Moog MF-101 LPF Lovetone Meatball DOD FX25 My personal list (only ones that I've used): Musitronics Mutron III Subdecay Prometheus (original or DLX - I have the original and love it, though the DLX has many more functions and features) Maxon AF-9 Broughton Josh Wah
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Mission Expressionator is excellent for linking an expression pedal to multiple devices
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Haha! Thanks mate. Well hopefully if they do a Steely Dan week we’ll get the call! 😂
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I wonder if he strung it up with dead roundwounds
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I've never seen one in the wild, but it's an option in Sibelius...So some mad bastards must use them 🤣
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Then don't be too alarmed about the triple dot 😁
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I've found that a lot of the adaptors for changing the barrel size (required by the Stomp/HX Effects as correctly mentioned by Hugsonic) ALSO reverse the polarity to centre +ve. So to get round that you can add a polarity reversing adaptor in between, so that the polarity is flipped back to centre -ve again. Your power chain would look like this: Power supply > Polarity Reverse Adaptor > Barrel Size adaptor. Obviously check you have the relevant adaptors first! Used my Stomp with Big Sur without any problems so far for the last few weeks.
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Looks great man! Much better than my solution. Definitely going to modify mine to be more like yours. Maybe retire the hairband. Maybe.
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You forgot the pink hairband
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Bit of Dirty Loops for you
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That's fair enough, and I agree, the tracking seemed good and it didn't sound bad. For me though, I'd like a bit more control over the tone of the octave. A modeller of this power I would've expected to have either a couple of different octave pedal models, or more control over the stock octave sound.
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Pretty impressed with that. Everything except the octave sounded pretty good I thought!
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The locking jack is TRS, but I just used standard unbalanced guitar cable and only soldered the Tip and Sleeve connections.
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The cables are taped together, and then fed through the hairband and a small leather strap to keep them attached to the guitar strap. I’ve been looking for a better way to do it, but in the meantime this has been working fine!
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I made myself some patch cables like you have suggested here, with a slight change. Right angled jack at the guitar end into a straight jack for the Backbeat, and the other cable is a straight jack to a locking female jack that my normal guitar cable plugs into. I also have a lovely pink hair band that I feed the cables through to keep them attached to the strap! 😂
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Easily one of the best things I've bought. 99% of all my gigs (pre-Covid of course!) are amp-less so this really helps me FEEL what I'm playing with IEMs. I know of a few people that didn't get on with it, but for me it's excellent! One thing to be careful of is some frequencies will cause the whole strap to resonate if you have it turned up too much, which will do the same thing to your bass and give you an infinite sustain effect. This is what made me realise I was running it too high, as I just love how it feels! I generally have it about 1/4 to 1/3 up now, and that's enough unless I'm wearing something super thick like a jacket or shirt & waistcoat.
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Thanks mate!
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Featuring some of my closest friends, and my old man sharing lead vocal duties with the guitarist from his band!
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You can indeed! https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/T8IeIyfUnDpwwMzSjdWrYJxbD3ssC0HxmJdpFhZRNkZ No bumps or dents. Besides the crack that was repaired, the fingerboard is in excellent condition, and so is the body, save for a couple of bumps as documented in the first post. I'd definitely consider shipping it, just might take a while to source something that I would feel comfortable handing it over to the courier in! A local(ish) sale would definitely be preferred though.
