stjohn

Volvo estate + svt2 = no worries with weight! Cheers mate, I'll have a ganders!

I need to get a 4ohm 4x10 for my svt2pro. The obvious candidate is the ampeg 410hlf, however, I want the USA built one (so second hand). To the esteemed masses I ask..... Any alternatives that are within my 300quid price bracket?! criteria is need to be of a similar build quality to the ampeg (rugged) and around 400 watt. And 4ohm! I will pay a tad more for an ampeg in good nik, but defiantly am open to alternatives. Cheers!

I'm a valve amp user.having had solid states for years I will never go back to them. However, and it is a big however. My ampeg svt 2pro, when I got it second hand was the most unreliable piece of carp going. Stupid bypass safety cutout thing kicking in all over the shop, valves wearing out after 100 gigs or so, carp sound... Anyway. Had it rebuilt by a chap called Otto (sadly dead now) at the legendary rockfields studio and OH MY GOD! Cost 60 quid and I got back a working amp and a bag with about 100 components that he had replaced with top notch replacements. Consequence being it is reliable, sounds better than anything I have used and a set of valves lasts 3-4 times longer. Another thing to note with valve amps. When a tranny goes pop it is usually finished (ime) but with the valve amps it often is not a big/expensive fix. Svt's are the muts nuts anyway, but after having it rebuilt the difference is ridiculous.

Badass.

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1380308107' post='2223703'] Tony Reeves (Colosseum & John Mayall)), Glen Corneck (JethroTull), and Peter Cetera (Chicago) were my early influences. [/quote] Tony reeves! Good choice! Was he the player on 'beyond the turning point'?

Buy it. The silver series instruments are absolutely fantastic. The pick ups are a tad cheap but the stuff that matters is all there.

This has probably been done to death, but hey-i'm new. Who are your influences and why? A big influence for me is Mick Quinn (supergrass). Why? He optimizes tasteful, interesting bass lines. Every note is justified and the vast majority a cracking bit of writing.

I recon the key is to do your job and enjoy it. Faking it looks pathetic in 99% of circumstances! If you bounce when you're happy, so be it, if you do the chicken head when you get the groove going, great......someone's gotta do it!

Now that's something a few players could learn from!!!

Hi chaps and chapesses! I've been a bassest for 18 years now, played all over the county with a few acts and currently play in 'the will Killeen band'(swampy bluesy stuff) and 'the broome cupboard blues band' (pretty trad type stuff). Used to play in a band called the dandelion killers which split up 18 months ago. I'd consider myself an old fashioned bassest-can't stand slap and hate widdley bass playing. Kit consists of fender jazz (heavily modded with badass bridge, and p bass pick up and some extra chrome to stop people playing slap on it!) And an old Ibanez blazer. Amps are Ampeg svt2pro (last of the USA ones-totaly rebuilt by the amp Tec at rockfield studio in Monmouth and now usable) and trace Elliot quatravalve. Effects I have been known to use include a fuzzface (the posh one?), boss bass synth thing, Jimi Hendrix Octavia by Dunlop (armageddon in a box!) And all sorts of other stuff. Cabs were a ampeg 8x10 that I got rid of-amazing cab but TOO BLOODY BIG! Now on the look out for a 410hlf. Looking forward to chipping in towards duscussions. I worked in a guitar shop for 3 years and although not a 'gear head' love basses abd guitars. I hope I can contribute with some practical info I have picked up over the years as well as learn a load of you chaps.