Al Krow
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The TC BG250 210 should also tick all the boxes. Even has a built in tuner. New for just under £300, so will leave him enough spare cash for a beer or two at the college bar after his gigs
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Can get in packs of 30 from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0769WBZHY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 If you don't need that many, I have a few spare which I can send you (for free) in the post - pm me.
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Any particular wood best for nobs?
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NAD: Markbass Marcus Limited (Yes the Iron Man one!)
Al Krow replied to fretmeister's topic in Amps and Cabs
Obviously the one thing the M900 does that this won't is provide you with the option of adding some harmonically rich dirt into the mix. But you could easily fix that with a dirt pedal of your choice. -
NAD: Markbass Marcus Limited (Yes the Iron Man one!)
Al Krow replied to fretmeister's topic in Amps and Cabs
Could be fun jazzing up the amp with some different knobs.... How about one of these for starters? -
@obbm - maybe trouble you to comment on the above, too, please while I have your attention!
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Yup agreed. The Eich T1000 looks like just the ticket - single input with two separate 500W outputs each with independent volume control. Apologies for the complete thread sidetrack to the OP and a much more expensive 'solution' than you're likely looking for!
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The other 'simple' solution I guess is a twin channel amp.
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Thanks for that. The Mooer has been routing around 150W to 250W (best guess) from my 600W Mesa M6 head for a couple of weeks without breaking into a sweat so far, but maybe it's not going to last! On the plus side it wasn't getting any use from me before this so at least it's going to a glorious end... 😁
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Thanks for that. Two follow up Qs, if I may: - is my passive Mooer AB/Y able to handle speaker size volts, without getting fried, because it's purely acting as a passive switch in the way I have it set up? - appreciate that typically a DI out from the amp which pre/post pre amp and not post power amp is what is fed into a mixer. Have you come across any mixers or simple splitters with volume controls that are able to hand speaker size volts? Or even a simple volume control that can attenuate the output from a power amp?
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I currently have two speakers connected up as follows: normal amp out --> Mooer Y/AB pedal --> 2 separate cabs. I've set it up in this way for me to easily A/B the two cabs, one at a time. Doesn't seem to be causing the passive Mooer pedal any issues whatsover. The Mooer is a relatively cheap unsophisticated AB/Y pedal and doesn't have a volume control. I suspect that a Boss LS-2 could do the job here - certainly in terms of sending its output to both cabs at the same time, and also has volume controls.
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The one knob compression on the two new amps is described in the manual as: "controls the amount of dynamic compression added to the Microtubes Engine." That is a little ambiguous wording for me as it kinda implies that the compression is only available when the Microtubes Engine i.e. the dirt is engaged. But that would be a bit weird to not also be available just on the clean tone, particularly given that the Microtubes Engine can already be used "to add natural compression" so adding further compression to the drive would seem potentially less useful than to the clean. Looking at the circuit diag. it seems to me that the compression, like the gain, sits outside the Microtubes and can be used on just clean And that would also tie in with the markings on the front which indicate that the compression and gain are both not part of the Microtubes engine @NancyJohnson @Kieran30803 You gents able to confirm that I've understood this correctly i.e. compression can be used just with the clean tone?
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Haha, yup "something like that"...except that my workhorse BB 1025 is also purely passive -
If instead of daisy chaining the two cabs, you route your bass to each via a small mixer (or an AB/Y pedal that has independent vol control for each output), you can adjust the output to allow for the different power handling of the two cabs / different volume requirements for on stage monitoring vs FOH.
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Kinda amusing as I did almost pm you before listing this, following your recent comment that you played your 735A mostly in passive mode. And you'll never need a battery for this one! 😁
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The P35 is Yamaha's top of the current line BB PJ range, made in Japan. Mine is less than 15 months old and in very good condition. Midnight blue. Alder/maple, lightweight hardware in a great satin finish. Strung with D'Addario EXL170-5 (as from the factory) and comes with a Yamaha 'plush' hardcase. It's purely passive, with VVT controls, and like all BBs, the range of tones available is great. 18mm string spacing, and a very comfortable neck. On my scales I make the weight 10.2 lbs, but very well balanced. I'm not in a particular rush to sell as it's such a lovely bass (and not particularly looking to trade). My work horse BB 1025 is capably meeting my rehearsal and gigging needs and, whilst the P35 is undoubtedly the higher end model, I'm struggling to justify holding on to both and this one will hopefully find its way into another pair of hands as someone's main gigging bass, which is what it deserves to be! Prefer collection from East London or happy to meet up half way if a reasonable distance, but I can arrange to courier (P&P extra) if needed.
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But will I be Back to the Future? 😁 -
Me and you both! - But planning to put in a bit of time on the "slap-board" to see if I can rectify that over the coming 12 months! Another favourite but relatively simple slap riff sounding great on a Yammy BB and also just going to show that you can slap on a PJ bass as well as a J or MM!
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Looks nice enough, gotta agree (and almost certainly sounds awesome!) But maybe could do with a bit of red and gold to spice things up a bit, tho'? 😉
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BB 1025 - it's the one that usually gets to rehearsal and gigs. (The little bit of feedback was something I noticed when getting up close and personal to my amp pre sound check and sorted in 5 mins flat by switching to PJ from solo J, so not a biggie from a band perspective).
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In my case it was a case of "Oooh, that new Yammy you're playing sits really nicely in the mix!"
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+1 ^^ Almost fully in agreement with you on this, Dave, particularly about nuances of bass tone being most easily heard at home. That point, together with weight, are the two big reasons for me keeping some of my higher end kit for home use and being very content with my BB1025 and BF SC for gigging. But I would say that both me and our drummer, who is the most attuned to bass amongst my band mates, can certainly hear and feel the difference in tone and how the bass is sitting in the mix of eg my Ibby SR J/J vs my Yammy PJ.
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Won't last as long as a normal single use 9V, but will certainly save you money and potentially any blushes in the long run. Two rechargeables on the go at any one point is my approach. However are any of your basses still purely active, TJ? And in your case the convenience of not having to bother more regularly swapping batteries over will almost certainly be a bigger factor and in the context of 150+ gigs a year the cost saving is going to be negligible.
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I guess there is an easy, low cost, green(!) fix available though! Rechargeable 9V batteries, freshly installed before a gig Looking good!
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Just remembered this earlier post, which might be of interest to you:
