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I need to give one of these companies a call as I need 2 matched sets of 12 for my current rig as I think it will be with me for a very very long time

[quote name='stu_g' post='632048' date='Oct 21 2009, 06:37 AM']hi i think its a bulgin type socket i used to have the same thing on an old selmer amp[/quote] Yeah for sure. Get it replaced or you'll end up getting a nasty shock one day, won't cost much for a decent tech to do.

Just buy my 400+

Mine arrived today

[quote name='Plux_the_Duck' post='628791' date='Oct 17 2009, 03:35 PM']I doubt that, I play at a sensible volume, they'll last a long time[/quote] Erm I was talking about Ash's cab that is being built by Matamp, it's now either finished or nearly finished.

[quote name='ashevans09' post='626108' date='Oct 14 2009, 03:31 PM']Those hartkes are quality pieces of kit! [/quote] A little birdy tells me your cab will be finished very very soon

Well as for touring with tube amps, I gig loads and tour quite often and all my amps are tube, as our both my guitarists, we don't have problems with them. I just had my 400+ serviced and it was about £100 but at the same time it's from 1982 and none of the previous 3 owners (all bc'ers) mentioned that they ever had anything fixed. The tall and short of it is if you want a tube amp sound nothing but a tube amp will do you, regardless of people going on about the benefits of tube preamps and ss power amps, tube pre's do not add that extra harmonic depth. I'm looking at getting rid of my 400+ to get 2 Matamp GT200's, I also have 2 Mesa Boogie Stategy 400's that I'm going to pair with an Alembic F-1X, So I might end up with the Alembic and a Strategy and 2 GT-200's, or a GT200 and the Alembic and 2 Strategies or 2 GT200's and the 400+ Not sure at the moment, they all have their pros and cons the main Matamp con is the cost of buying 2 of them which I can't do outright and I can't sell my Mesa gear off to fund it as I'd have nothing gig worthy then but once the Alembic comes the 400+ can go and the first GT200 can come in then a Strategy can go as I can use a GT200 and Strategy and then the 2nd GT200 will come in and then I can take it from there.........maybe How I've broken it down recently is this Mesa 400+ [b]Pros[/b] Loud Rackmountable Cheap relationally to other tube gear (2nd Hand) Very robust and roadworthy Lots of eq and tone options and plenty of I/O for all your needs Mesa Tone [b]Cons[/b] Very expensive to retube No support from Mesa or Warrenty Mesa Tone (This is in both because you either love it or hate it, I plugged a GT200 into my Strategy and it still has all that clean top that Mesa's have, this can be great or awful) GT200 [b]Pros[/b] Loud Reliable Cheap to retube (£120 to do all the power tubes) Lifetime warrenty where most repairs are done for free Custom built to your spec both sound and asthetics [b]Cons[/b] Cost due to people never selling them second hand but at the same time still cheaper than Hiwatt and Orange Won't do a 2ohm load (But you were never going to run 2 8x10's on this like me) That's about all I can think of

You should have gone with the Audere preamp personally mate

Matamp have just booked a stall on the 3rd floor, so plenty of cabs and amps for people to try I'll also be there.

[quote name='Finbar' post='624351' date='Oct 12 2009, 08:10 PM']Be interested to know what you use for your 'cream pie' patch? My plan for the 6 effects is currently... Whammy, Octave, Synth, Delay, Reverb, Boost. And to keep separate drive pedals. But I may just filter everything off into two different scenes lumped into two groups of effects I commonly use together if I like the drive sounds. I can't wait to have a play though![/quote] Tube Comp

Sounds like you want a drone looper like the dd3 to fire a sound into and hold it

How does this sound to you? [url="http://www.grygrx.net/bass/tayste/Synths%202.mp3"]http://www.grygrx.net/bass/tayste/Synths%202.mp3[/url]

It was alright about 200m from the Riots but lots of police so was all good.

I posted these over on TB someone asked me to do these goatkeeper settings only thing I adjust in this clip is the speed, I don't use trem often so just playing it by ear and guessing something that shows it off. [url="http://www.grygrx.net/bass/tayste/Goatkeeper.mp3"]http://www.grygrx.net/bass/tayste/Goatkeeper.mp3[/url] As for the others people, All clips recorded with my Valenti J4 tuned DGCF into M13 into Radial ProDI into M-Audio Firewire 410 into Audacity, nothing other than M13 here. Fuzz and Wah Ok so this goes Clean - Wah - Fuzz - Fuzz Wah, these are my preferred settings that I use live. [url="http://www.grygrx.net/bass/tayste/Fuzz%20&%20Wah.mp3"]http://www.grygrx.net/bass/tayste/Fuzz%20&%20Wah.mp3[/url] Synth 1 These are a mix of 4 fx used in different conversations first is Octave Down Fuzz, then Octave Down Fuzz and Voice Box (I use this as my Subdecay Noisebox clone), then Octave Down Fuzz and one of the Tron filters (My 442 clone), then Facial Fuzz and same Tron filter, then Facial Fuzz and Voice Box. So to me this gives you an idea of traditional fx combinations. [url="http://www.grygrx.net/bass/tayste/Synths%201.mp3"]http://www.grygrx.net/bass/tayste/Synths%201.mp3[/url] Synth 2 These are particular synth ones, I can't remember them all but will happily upload a sysex file of it, but near the end I turn on a few combinations of the fx used previously and to me it's just stunning and that's the real plus to this unit, is if you require 3 synths to get your synth sound you can [url="http://www.grygrx.net/bass/tayste/Synths%202.mp3"]http://www.grygrx.net/bass/tayste/Synths%202.mp3[/url] Let me know what you think Cheers

Visual volume ones have a boost in them, so you can go above unity gain.

[quote name='Finbar' post='621988' date='Oct 9 2009, 08:21 PM']Pretty univerally £329.99. Except dv247 who have it for £326.71. Dunno if any of those are postage free. Tonefactor works out about £280 with their $20 shipping I think? But you'll wait longer to get it. They're usually pretty good with customs, but you never know. I got it to about 250-260 with shipping unless the rate has dropped since yesterday. It would be about a 10 day wait but I snagged the last one so they need to restock. I think the £100 quid saving is worth it.[/quote]

[quote name='Monz' post='621687' date='Oct 9 2009, 02:51 PM']Here you go [attachment=34188:DSC00024.JPG] GT200[/quote] Pah soooo messy, what are they playing at