MoonBassAlpha

Most Valve amps do hum a bit, sounds like you are quite lucky with your guitar amps! If it s really bad it could be a dodgy valve or a smoothing capacitor not doing its job somewhere. If it is really bad, I'd get it fixed under warranty, better than poking around in it or swapping valves and potentially invalidating said warranty.

chaps, that's 10 inches radius, [i]not[/i] degrees.

The overly bright blue LEDs on my Genz Shuttle amps. Too much!(but useful for charging your Luminlay side dots)

My wife loves the song, especially the "racehorse for Christmas" line. Ahah-hah-hah.

@Alyctes : Is that buzz, as in fret buzz, or hum, like bad grounding?

Likewise, a Passat estate seems to be the car of choice for many drummers, they really eat up the gear.

Beautiful simplicity. I've had a soft spot for this double cut shape since the punk era.

I see what you mean about the Stetsbar trem, looks a bit steam-punk.

Sounds like you scored one for a very good price then! I thought people were getting wise to what good amps these are, and keeping the prices buoyant. They are pretty well made, eminently serviceable, and you can still send them to the chap who designed them for their 30+ year service!

I think the main problem with guitar amp sounds is that too many folks apply far too much gain to their sound which takes all the dynamics out of the playing and sounds to the audience like a fizzy mess. User error, for the most part, imho.

I had the retro-tone upgrade done on mine. This makes it articulate a lot more like a valve amp and gives a richer low end. My guitarist uses it on the clean channel with a clean ac30 model(Pod) and small amount of compression. Sounds lovely with a telecaster.

Before ditching it, check that isn't a DiMarzio pickup in it. They're worth a few Bob, and sound pretty good!

Am I the only one on here who thinks it would be a real shame to cover all that nice wood up? Especially the nice neck through and cover detail on the back

No worries, do let us know how you get on though, it all adds to the wealth of knowledge that is the Basschat repair and technical section!

Could be a loose truss rod. Try muting the strings and rapping with your knuckle on the back of the neck and see if you can hear (that sounds a bit wrong!) it vibrating. If loose, try just takin up the slack a bit. Will probably take a metric hex key.

If you wire it to an external cab, you could do what I do with my little valve amp: plug the speaker out into a passive DI box and record from the xlr so you get the power stage valve distortion without needing to mic the cab, so there's no spill into the bass sound when recording in a very small room. I actually plug the speaker in to the "through" on the di box, but you could just as easily add an 8 ohm 15W resistor on a heatsink for silent recording.

I run a 15W bass valve amp into Barefaced Midget cabs with guitar and bass. Sounds fine both ways. You could get away with a much lower powered speaker and it should still sound good. The combo may not control the speaker excursion very well at lower than guitar frequencies though, but if it sounds good then it is good!

Is the tilt on that cab enough to make any discernible difference though? Couldn't see any extra kick stand either.

You might find rehearsal studios will also hire backline out.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1483382531' post='3206735'] Showmanship surely? [/quote] There's a difference?

The horse looks like it only has 3 legs, I can feel something wonky coming on!

Upsets the overhang Police!

Gregory Porter always seems M.O.R. to me. Is he not, really?

Hitting strings with drumsticks: a.k.a. showing off.

I keep coming back to view this track too! There's something mesmerising about it, maybe it's the video, but I think it's mainly the bass playing!