Dood

Cheers Mark! Yes, I guess so, but I haven't really done much to try to sell it.. despite being as new and pretty much half the price of new. It certainly is an amazing amp, and if no one bites, I shall keep it.. It's one of the best out there (You only have to see who is using them to know that he he he)

It's small enough and light enough to keep stowed away, without *getting* in the way, so thats not a bad thing either.

We'll see what happens.. I have seen some things I would like to buy, but that will have to wait!

Oh sansamp! Yeah, not bad actually! I have found a sweet spot.. I have (as talked about in other threads) started using the BDDI in parallel with my M80. The best way to describe the possibilities tone wise would be the Ampeg BSB Pro on steroids!!! There's really nothing I can't do with the two pedals and my FX rack now. LOVE IT!!

Dood.

Offers?

Hi there! Well... may I recommed the power amp I have for sale, if weight is an issue? it's a 1u rack at just 8.5kg

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=20988"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=20988[/url]

Cab-wise, I think the suggestions above are pretty on the money. I'm on the slightly larger cab solution using a 6x10 from Epifani. It's a big box but, as we proved at the last bass bash, still a one man lift. Not sure if thats overkill though, for you? (Overkill!!! What am I saying!!!)

Oscar,

I'll just reitterate asomething I said in the effects forum re: the M80 and Sansamp. I think if you are looking for a repalcement for the M80, the Sansamp may not be it. I won both and would say that they are two very different beasts. So much so, that I use them both together, not 'instead' of each other.

If I lived clsoe I would be more than happy to let you hear them both together.. Maybe tehre is someone nearby you who has a Sansamp you can try? Doesn't hurt to ask I guess!

Just so you don't sheel out cash and then realise you needed to keep the M80! (Yes.. I had one.. sold it and had to buy another!!!!)

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='224329' date='Jun 22 2008, 06:36 PM'][/quote]


There's someone stood in the way of those 2 stacks.. "OY!!! get out the waaaaaaaayyyyyyy" *waves hand frantically sideways*

I was just looking at the top picture and saw in the background 'The Kids Cookbook'. I was curious to find out if it's best to marinade them first before going in the roasting tin?

Enough of that nonsense.. lol.. I do like the GS112's. Very capable!

[quote name='Dan_Nailed' post='225100' date='Jun 23 2008, 03:41 PM']Well a compressor works on detecting peaks in signal, and then reducing that signal. However, low frequencies especially in bass guitar usage are prominent and contain more energy than the high frequencies. Hence the low frequencies will trigger the compressor and squish the signal, but with the Contour button, the compresor ignores the low frequencies and hence all the information that is happening down there. This cleans up your low end and allows you to really work the compressor on the highs, which is what gets rid of finger noise and other such stuff.[/quote]


Hell yar!

Also stops pumping and compressor breathing.. and those annoying attack artifacts you get on bass notes under heavy compression.

Excellent compressor!!! I really wanted to find one of these at this price before I got my rack. Defintely in my top 5
compressors! Any with a side chain filter (or Contour as it is known on this one) is a massive plus for bass compression.

Have a bump on me!

I've deleted the other for you.

[quote name='Rogueporn' post='223877' date='Jun 21 2008, 10:51 PM']Tal Wilkenfeld, Rana Ross[/quote]


RIP Rana. I recall we had some very bizarre conversations via email way back when.

[quote name='Shockwave' post='223120' date='Jun 20 2008, 05:50 PM']which is damn good because MOSFETS are no longer sold new! Some of the resistors are giving me funny numbers.



Rob.[/quote]

They are, you just need to know where to look! Give these fellas a tinkle... [url="http://www.magnatec-uk.co.uk/"]http://www.magnatec-uk.co.uk/[/url] They have stocklists to hunt down the parts too [url="http://www.magnatec-uk.co.uk/stocklistindex.shtml"]http://www.magnatec-uk.co.uk/stocklistindex.shtml[/url] .

Not related really.. but reminded me of some CLASSIC guitar TV!

Fantastic! it's like the next step along the digital effects revolution from IK Multimedia's stomp IO [url="http://www.ikmultimedia.com/"]http://www.ikmultimedia.com/[/url]. I would LOVE to see VST plugin support. Ampeg SVX inside a stomp box would be ..well.. I can't begin to describe how good that would be!!!!!! By far my favourite amp plug in!!!

[quote name='johnnylager' post='222636' date='Jun 20 2008, 08:14 AM']Try [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=20920&hl=microbass"]here[/url], [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=12800&hl=microbass"]here[/url] and [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=19420&hl=microbass"]here[/url].

IMO EBS MicroBass II is best, SansAmp ParaDriver 2nd best, but I've not played with the MXR. Good luck![/quote]

I think with the EBS, the BDDI and the M80 you really are comparing apples bananas and oranges! They are all designed to do different tasks. As I have mentioned before on a couple of threads I own both the M80 and sansamp because one simply cant do all the things the other can. If I didn't have an EQ preamp section on my amp, I suspect I would need the EBS too.

heh heh!!! I'm going to sneak in and be one of those exciteable children waving frantically at the camera, just in view "Hi MOM!"

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='222081' date='Jun 19 2008, 12:58 PM']You never see Ampeg and light weight in the same sentence unless there is a not in there as well.[/quote]


SVT 8 Pro.... Full on valve preamp and DClass power amp.. about time too!!!!! I'm guessing it would sound nearly as good as my SVP and Powersoft poweramp did.

[quote name='Clarky' post='222456' date='Jun 19 2008, 08:17 PM']Sorry if this is re-hashing old ground but what does this do that a Sansamp doesn't?

I ask because I am thinking of getting an OD/DI pedal and considering a Sansamp VT bass (when they arrive; July I think), an MXR like yours or an EBS Multidrive (I used to have a Sansamp Bass Driver but couldn't get the tone I was after)

Ta, Clarky[/quote]


The two are very different in sound. The MXR kinda has two channels, where you can add the distortion (or a little bit of dirt if you wish) to the clean channel sound. So you have three settings. OFF, Clean on (with or without the colour preset and active EQ ON) , Clean + Drive (with active EQ ON)

I wont describe the Sansamp as you have had one already. The distortion and drive has a very different character. I would think of the MXR as a multi channel pedal, where the Sansamp to be is more of an amp / cab sim. FWIW, I don't like the drive sounds as much on the Sansamp either.. I run it on the edge of dirt with lots of direct signal mixed in. My MXR is run in parallel to it, not series and is adding lots of filth to my tone.

Hmm.. interesting.. I am parallel mixing my clean bass, with an amp sim sound and a filthy drive.. 3-in-1!!!!

You guys may find this helpful. *Apparently* these are the frequency centres for the M80 EQ and colour sections.

Bass +/- 18db 60 hz shelving
Mid +/- 10db 850hz
Treble +/- 12db 4Khz shelving

Colour +6db @ 80hz
-6db @ 650hz

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='221717' date='Jun 18 2008, 09:07 PM']Swap for your old BK Electronics Class D module? [/quote]

Hey! Long time no see!

Interested as part of a part ex mate! ;o)

Dan

[quote name='bassjamm' post='221485' date='Jun 18 2008, 04:07 PM']Hmm...interesting stuff!!! Well i have my first full on session with the SVT in it's repaired state tonight, and i'm taking my newly aquired SVP-Pro which i'll be running through my Hartke HA2000 to how that sounds. I'm guessing that if they both make the cabs go 'fartttt' then the cabs aren't doing so good, but if it's only with the SVT then that's because it's too powerful...crazy stuff!!![/quote]


I believe (and certainly the case with the SVP) the bass control on the SVT is centred around 40Hz shelving.. so if you crank the bass hard and the cabs don't want to prduce the bottom end, you'll be adding to movement on the speaker cones (excursion) which will exacerpate any likelyhood of 'farting'.Which is basically the speakers reacting to the signal pushed into them violently, but not able to produce any useful sound.

As I side note.. you know I was talking about those Yamaha power amps? I found if you set their active crossovers to 25Hz highpass it would stop 'farting' in its tracks, yet you wouldn't really hear any difference. This is because..as we have already found out .. 90% of bass cabs and speakers can't produce those frequencies enough to really hear anyway.A 'generic' bass cab *can* have a rolloff below 100Hz and defintely no useful bass end below 40Hz. May as well just filter out what the cab and speakers can't use.. it's wasteage.

You know when they are struggling, when they are flapping backwards and forwards, farting and generally sounding horrible? too much boost on a low frequency centred bass control is usually the culpret. I found that putting in a 25Hz filter stopped the cone from visually flapping, improved response, tightened up the bottom end and allowed me to turn the amp up MUCH louder.

To paraphrase SMART.. just a few thoughts!

[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='221493' date='Jun 18 2008, 04:10 PM']Do you think 2 people could play the guitar/bass simultaneously?[/quote]

Used to play in a band where my singer (who was also a very good bass player) would come over and play a song bassline on my 6er whilst I simultaneously played the guitarist's harmony part. God we were good!!!! ;o)

[quote name='ped' post='221502' date='Jun 18 2008, 04:26 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-PROFESSIONAL-12-STRING-GUITAR-6-STRING-BASS-ONENECK_W0QQitemZ190229644150QQihZ009QQcategoryZ4713QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-PROFESSIONAL-12-ST...oQQcmdZViewItem[/url]

This looks like fun. I think they actually look really good visually - probably a pig to play and I can't play guitar at all, but visually, great. This model looks a bit cheap but I have seen hand made custom jobs that looked better quality whilst keeping the same shape as this.[/quote]

I like the concept, but would love to see a bit more time spent on aesthetics and ergonomics! It looks pretty awful and would put me off buying straight away!

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='221560' date='Jun 18 2008, 05:21 PM']As little as possible LOL. I'm gonna stick with the Korg for the forseeable and see how I get on.[/quote]

that would rule out [s]any[/s] all of the suggestions I would have made then lol!

[quote name='cheddatom' post='221155' date='Jun 18 2008, 09:52 AM']Dood - the small footprint is cool. If I could actually afford to buy myself some usb memory I might do that instead of carrying my pc to and from the studio.[/quote]


[url="http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132173"]http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132173[/url] £18 for 8Gb USB2.... just don't go to the pub one night and it's paid for! Reaper as an install is 11Mb ... I tracked some bass for a new song and that was only 30Mb the other day .. so thats hulluva lots of USB space for zero cash!!!!

Fantastic rig!!

I haven't tried the 902 yet, but I played a 502 through the UL-610 cab I have now. I wrote the Epi heads off orginally as I was looking for a 1u solution (as you can see in the pic attached!)

I would be inetrested to hear how the F1 sizes up tonewise against the Epi heads. I suspect they are very similar!


Here's my Epi'...


[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=5094"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?act=Attach...ost&id=5094[/url]

[quote name='steve-soar' post='220909' date='Jun 17 2008, 08:14 PM']Come on people, this amp with your fav pre would be youge!!! [/quote]


[quote name='Finbar' post='220930' date='Jun 17 2008, 09:02 PM']If I'd had a bit more cash when putting my rig together, I'd have had it in an instant. That much power in something that light is obscene.

Good luck with the sale [/quote]


Thanks guys! it's an amazing amp! So clean and powerful.. no noise .. perfecto!