Happy Jack

Luxury! Why, when I were a lad ...

So it turns out that buying new keyboards is just as addictive as buying new basses. Who knew? This is a genuinely excellent, light-weight all-rounder of a keyboard, extremely portable, and with four banks of SIXTEEN presets each, making it an ideal gigging unit. I haven't done a factory reset, so these are the settings I used for the presets at the last gig I played with it. Banks A and B are largely populated with presets from the factory (none of which were of any use to me) so my presets are in Bank C and Bank D is IIRC pretty much empty. Strong suits are pianos and brass - especially brass - whilst organs and synths are fine. Weak suit is the strings, which can be tweaked endlessly to get the sound you want but are not as instantly lush as those with - say - Yamaha kit. The carry handle is not just cute - it's really practical, especially at festival-style gigs. On the original padded gigbag, the original power supply plus a photocopied manual. How portable do you want it? This keyboard will even run off batteries with no loss of quality. Gigbag has built-in shoulder straps for gigging by public transport. Basschat is not a great place to sell keyboards (the clue's in the name) so I won't be leaving this here for months. If it hasn't sold within a week or two then off to eBay it will have to go. Trying to gauge prices for pre-owned keyboards is a f***ing nightmare. On eBay I've seen these selling recently for over £400 and I've also seen these selling recently for nearer £200, with no apparent reason for the wide range. Not many at the £200 end, mind. LOL It doesn't help that the Korg Kross II looks pretty much the same (no! really?) and people get confused.

Chris, if I didn't already have a Ui-24 plus a Ui-12 arriving tomorrow morning then I'd have this off you in a flash. I could almost be persuaded that I should do a deal for it anyway so that @Silvia Bluejay and I have a spare for our frontline (>80 gigs a year) mixer. How interesting would a bass need to be to get your attention?

I bought this to pair with my Trace Elf head and I love it to bits. Sad to relate, @Silvia Bluejay is the sound engineer for my bands and she's taken agin' it, doesn't like the sound, won't let me use it. Not best pleased, but what can you do? My loss, your gain. It's handy that there's a handy carry-handle which handles it duty with ease. Not pristine but a quick wipe with a damp rag would help. As you can see, I was dahhhhhn the lockup when I took these photos, and damp rags were in short supply. Thank God for that! I was getting quite concerned about the Formaldehyde, and positively apoplectic about the Casualdehyde. Listed at a silly-cheap price since I know that the main competitors for this cab have slashed their prices recently.

Dimensions weren't enough - people now want to know about the weight. According to my incredibly accurate and reliable bathroom scales, the amp head weighs near enough 18Kg, the flightcase weighs 8Kg, and the entire package (including appropriate heavy-duty Speakon cable + power cord) will be roughly 27Kg.

How about a thread from 2013 to cheer you up?

I've been asked for dimensions on this amp: W = 21" D = 9.75" H = 9.25" (+ handle)

Incidentally, I feel I have to point out that these were shot in September 2020, just before Lockdown #2 came over the horizon. The reason this matters is that I used Lockdown #2 as an opportunity to learn video editing so these two videos are pretty much the last I ever did before that. And they're both perfect, error-free "One-ers". Eat your heart out, Steven Spielberg ...

The rather 'arch' comment early on about rubber straplocks @ped was a then-current reference to something under discussion on Basschat at the time.

Oh looky looky looky what I've found - my original pair of NBD videos from five years ago!

Fundamentally, they're very closely related amps. The first AD200 was simply a re-badged Matamp. How closely this particular example compares with a selected AD200 rather depends on what valves have been installed - I'd be a liar if I said they sound the same, since I've never A/B'd my Matamp against a similar Orange.

Enough people have asked this question - or variations on it - that I should probably take this opportunity to reveal my God-like bass-playing abilities. 🙄 Grosman Piezo Jazz.mp3

You and half of Basschat, as near as I can make out. 😶

I'm really not good on diseased trees, Mick. 😂 OK, I can see it's not beech (I used to own a small beech wood), and I can see it's not pine (I've been to Ikea, y'know), but beyond that? Yup ... it's wood.

Thanks Steve - I really should have mentioned that.

So here's a game I play roughly once a year. I list a whole bunch of gear for sale (really not wanting to sell any of it you understand) and once a few things have actually sold 😩 I let the remaining listings slide down below the radar. Until the next time. I'm not selling because I'm desperate for the money, and if I was John Entwistle then I'd just keep the lot and have an ever-expanding collection, but the reality is that over half my gear gets used very little, if at all. Common sense says that at least some of this lovely kit should get back out in circulation. I have no interest at all in trades. Replacing an amp or cab that doesn't get used with a different amp or cab that won't get used seems like a complete waste of time and effort. On the other hand, much of my kit is pretty non-standard or left-field and therefore hard to price, so I'm not absolutely wedded to the figure stated. I'm in Harrow HA1, close to Sudbury Hill on the Piccadilly Line, and I gig regularly throughout Beds, Bucks, Herts & Middx, with occasional forays into Surrey. Pickup in person is always preferable to despatch (from home, or a mutually-convenient pub, or at one one of my gigs), but I've had nothing but good experiences with DPD so if you live more than - say - 50 miles from Harrow then that's an option. Here's the original blurb from 10 years ago: The aluminum specialists at Alusonic are getting into the bass cabinet world with the ALU112. Housed in an aircraft grade aluminum hardshell, the cab is loaded with a 12-inch aluminum cast frame woofer with a neodymium magnet. The ALU112 has an 8 ohm impedence with a nominal power handling of 400 watts RMS and continuous power handling of 600 watts RMS. The cab, which weighs in around 20 pounds, has rear bass ports and a top-mounted, recessed handle. It can be ordered with or without a one-inch compression driver, which would also add a 2.5kHz custom crossover with a variable tweeter control on the back panel. Other features include a frequency range of 32 hertz to 18 kilohertz, input and link Neutrik Speakon connections, and an epoxy-polyester finish. The Alusonic ALU112 is built in Italy. The price list for the standard version is approximately $869 while the cabinet with a tweeter goes for $995. This one has been daaaaaahn the lockup for a few months. Time to move on.