Hellzero

The worst way to date a Fender is to use the serial number. First, this one has been refinished, the pickscratchguardplate is an aged one, as it has not shrinked and the thumbrest should be brownish. Ask for the neck date, the neck pocket inscriptions, the pickup pencilled date, the pots serial with the date to decode, the capacitor value, the bridge type, disassembled pictures of everyting to check the discolouration, uprising of the neck in the pocket, nickel or chrome hardware, close up of the logo on the headstock, tuners, screws, smell of the paint, colour of the solders, colour and type of wire, shielding, ... And then, you can start to rebuild the puzzle and date these old Fender's as it's really an historian work. 80% of the vintage Fender's sold today are fake and this one is 100% fake !

I posted this video a long time ago, and nobody even cared; Is this the Brexit effect ? Biréli Lagrène played lots of concerts in Germany and Italy in the 80's with a guy named Jaco Pastorius and they used to exchanged their instruments... Yes he is a great fretless bass player and he played fretless bass on some records too, like the first French Kiss album.

It's the other brand type of Peavey speakers. They had the Black Widow line and the Scorpion line. I've always preferred the Black Widow over the Scorpion, but the Scorpion wears its name correctly as it's more aggressive without being harsh. Make up your mind after the gig. 😉

The Sumo 1000 is really good, almost transparent, silent, no hiss except when everything is up to the max. Strangely it as a very progressive power response, so very usable all the way up... Even if I don't go that high, only 1/3 for "normal" use and it's pretty loud with a lot of headroom still available. I prefer to put the preamp to the max and use the input gain of the Sumo than doing the opposite because of the hissing you'll get this way. Of course, I gave it a run at full power and it's louder than my Hartke LH 1000 which is a class AB power amp rated at 1100 Watts. So yes, their proprietary power module delivers a lot of power. I'm waiting a Bugera BTX 36000 Nuke really measured at 1500 Watts RMS in class AB, so I could compare the raw power of both power amps. Eartquake forecast. 🤣

Yes, you can :

Wow, haven't listen to it for a while : what a mistake !

Isn't it the new Stu Hamm Custom Shop prototype made by the No Arms Blind Men Company from No decent Tools State ?

As promised, a picture of my dead silent rig (no fan at all) :

Just removed the one I had on my Capelli Custom 6 and threw it in the fire : ugly and useless to me, especially on this bass.

There is this one on eBay, the TNT 160 at a ridiculous price : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peavey-TNT-160-Bass-Combo-1x15/183684037023?hash=item2ac46bf99f:g:SFUAAOSwqhtcZAyI&redirect=mobile If you can collect it, it will follow him for years or even decades. It's heavy, but he is young. 😉

Those old Peavey TNT 115 with Black Widow are outstanding combos. You may not know him but Michel Hatzigeorgiou, the bass player who transcribed all Jaco Pastorius work (and who replaced him during masterclasses when he was too stoned) is still playing his faithful peavey TNT 150 of the 80's... And he's got a terrific sound.

And here, the real power measured. "Using a 1 Khz signal in, and a maximum of 2% distortion here's the results: 2 Ohm operation with only 1 channel = 930 WRMS 4 Ohm operation both sides at the same time = 625 WRMS per ch. 4 Ohm bridged = 1500 WRMS While in bridged mode I ran it up to 10% distortion and hit 1700 WRMS for quite a while before the 18 A on board breaker tripped." This will be the perfect companion for my Hathor 18134, rated at 1580 Watts AES under 4 Ohms. Earthquakes announced next week in the south of Belgium.

Yek, yek : bought it.

I mean its real measured power, not the lunatic one.

If you want loads of power, there is this "thing" for sale for a ridiculous price. Its power is close to 1000 AES... I had one, but the beast is very heavy and has a fan (I really can't stand fans). Apart from that, it was good sounding. Check this : https://www.zikinf.com/annonces/dispannonce.php?annonce=1664819

And these (now very rare) Czech MTD's are as good as the American ones : https://www.zikinf.com/annonces/dispannonce.php?annonce=1410363

Do you want to own a piece of history at a very decent price, look at this : https://www.zikinf.com/annonces/dispannonce.php?annonce=1500967

A friend of mine has a terrific Carvin LB70F neck through 4 strings, lined ebony fingerboard, with a D-tuner, a very rare 2Tek bridge and 3 bands EQ. All original and translucent blue. He'll come to say hello tomorrow. I can ask him if he wants to sell it...

Being mainly a (6 strings) fretless player for 3 decades, the idea of lack of defintion on the low B is quite strange... Why would it lack definition if the instrument is well made by a master luthier knowing how to craft an instrument to hear the fundamental of the note ? To me the best fretless basses are the ones made by Leduc. Try one Masterpiece (avoid the U-Bass as it's too demanding) and you'll understand. They don't come accross that often, but who knows.