Misowaki

Is this still about?

Is the other an anodised gold aluminium lovely?  If so, I'll take that off your hands...

Sorry they sold yesterday, haven't updated yet.

Cut for and worn by my '74 P bass. Used on one recording but my little fingers don't get on brilliantly with the heavy gauge.

£22 posted if paying PayPal f&f

Can chuck in a set of non descript roundwounds if it sweetened the deal (think they're D'addario)

hey man, this still kicking about?

4 hours ago, Johnny Wishbone said:

Yes, still available.

I'll pm you

Hey man, these still going?

Just noticed the knobs too, got a couple of them kicking around already.  It's a sign!

On 17/03/2019 at 01:28, AndyTravis said:

This is my late night viewing 

I've started sanding down my 425X with a view to staining it and hopefully end up with this colour...

I should mention, these are used...

Well, I got my SVT 7 yesterday...

Killer. It's the sound I've always wanted. Love that I can turn the horn off and have that warm, punchy sound I've always wanted but never quite had. I mean, I always dug the sound the Portaflex rig put out but it was never like this.

Can't imagine needing a 2nd any time soon. I practically have to bolt everything down in my music room if I have it above 10 o'clock. Also handles sub octaves on the E (with my Octabvre!) like nothing I've ever played through.

I imagine I'd poo myself with anything more.

37 minutes ago, 51m0n said:

It's testament to that weak derrière Ampeg actually 😉

Here's hoping that's not the case with the SVT 7 😬

1 hour ago, 51m0n said:

You are right your amp isn't powerful enough.

 Superb cabs, but they will really really show up any weak link in your signal chain!

Yup, and that they have.  Picking up my SVT 7 on Sunday, hoping its 600w is going to make it purr like it should instead of clipping like it does.
The PF500 and 115LF together are great, a lovely little combo.  Was not expecting things to turn out this way.  Was driving me mad at first, thought 'surely it's not the head...'. 

I guess it's testament to the clarity and no nonsense handling of the Barefaced cabs, really.

Also: just plugged in my BH250 to see how it plays... wow! With the PF500, I was getting loads of hiss when using the horn, now it's silent and booming! Not tried with the pedals yet but it's the head, just as Alex suggested.

29 minutes ago, itu said:

I was thinking that your current amp is just fine, but if you want more of that lowest end, there is nearly no limit... Your choice is probably something like a 900 W class D amp. Flats and very low end means really big power levels. It is not very much louder, just different.

Right, thanks for confirming, that's what I was getting at, just less eloquently =D

I'm going for an SVT 7 Pro I just scored for £350 with a flight case. Twice the wattage of what I've got right now, let's see how we go!

 Okay, you're right.

One10 with a BH250, used for mostly clean playing with flats. Alt. Pop soul kinda stuff, whatever that means. Easily handles what I use it for. Would even use at a gig through PA as it's a decent monitor.

BB2 is for bigger gigs with effects. Same band with one subby synth moment. Another band that's more ambient electronic r&b kinda thing. 5 string plays well with BB2 and PF500, does the job but it doesnt like the Octabvre or my Manta Filter. I now believe it's the amp that is clipping over the cab. Hence, I need a bigger head 😃

28 minutes ago, chris_b said:

You've gone from "woolly" to a razor sharp clarity, from a narrow, shallow sound to a wide, broad sound . . . .  I'm not surprised that a BB2 sounds different to your Ampeg 115 to the point that you're unsure what you're hearing. You've gone from one end of the sonic scale to the other. It's not unusual when you upgrade one link in the signal chain that you highlight weaknesses in the other links, but in this case IMO you've just got to learn how to use what you've got. Get familiar with the step change in sound quality.

I run my amps at 8 ohms all the time, that's 250 watts into my Super Compact and I have no problem filling the room. Alex suggests 150 watts as the lower end of the BB2 power requirements. I'd suggest your amp is fine and you're just on a steep learning curve. Maybe you need some help. Do you know anyone who can listen to your sound, or play while you listen?

I appreciate what you're saying, thing is I'm more talking about the power it needs to handle sub octaves. After looking into all this, it appears to me that in order for the driver to work efficiently with the added low end, the amp needs to have an appropriate amount of juice to keep it going.

For regular playing, yes, the amp is fine. To properly handle the extra lows I'm feeding it, I  need more power.

2 hours ago, Al Krow said:

Cheers for that. But I still can't get my head around ANY amp sounding louder through a BF 110 than the BB2 just based on speaker cone size and greater driver displacement in the BB2.

But I didn't say it was louder, I said it was a monster...

Ah, time... a concept my mind is familiar with but my impulsiveness is not.  If the smaller rig sells before the head is replaced then I'll have to grab whatever I can afford!  Plus from the looks of things, the Fusion is the one for me.

3 hours ago, gjones said:

 

GK amps are very powerful and ridiculously cheap, secondhand.

 

 

My first real rig was a 2nd hand GK 400RB with matching 4x10 and I did love it but I somehow managed to kill it.  It was pretty knackered when I bought the whole thing tbf, only cost me £300 all in.  I would be up for trying GK again actually.  Thing is I don't see many of them around ridiculously cheap =D

2 hours ago, LukeFRC said:

There's 101 different amps around 700w, and to be fair 500w would do you well so you *could* add them to your list. 

The main question @Misowaki I think is what kinda bass tone are you going for? And what kinda gigs are you using it for?

I mainly play with flats, I like it full and thumpy with a bit of a punch.  Don't play much in the way of slap or scooped sounds.  I do like pedals though so needs to be something that can give me plenty of thump but also handle things like filters, chorus and sub octaves.  Think somewhere along the lines of Pino/Tim Lefebvre/Juan Alderete I guess.  But probably 75% Pino/Jamerson kinda tones.

12 hours ago, Al Krow said:

Hmmm...if what you’re getting is common to BB2 owners, it will definitely make me think twice about upgrading my SC to a BB2.

I don't know if it's common to BB2 owners, not heard of anyone else with this problem the. Alex did tell me when I first enquired that the PF500 wasn't quite gutsy enough to drive it so I was definitely forewarned.  Don't let it put you off, just don't be like me; make sure you have a head that's will drive it properly. 

The BB2 is plenty loud with my PF head if I'm playing straight up, just don't think it's powerful enough to accommodate the Octabvre and that without clipping. It's the head that's at fault, not the cab.

8 hours ago, funkle said:

If you need big low end, then you want a lot of power. The BB2 will put out pretty much whatever you put into it. I tried a Tecamp Puma 900 (now Eich) and a GB Streamliner 900 with it.

Yeah, that's what I'm looking at really, need something that will feed it around 600w I thing. Looking at an Ampeg SVT 7 Pro atm... 600w @ 8 ohms with a valve a 12AX7 in the pre-amp...

Quilter looks good too but only 400w @ 8 Ohms.  Would love an Aguilar but to get something that delivers 600w takes me way over budget.  Probs gonna have to sell the Ampeg PF rig to fund this either way.

I've heard lots about these recently, will do more digging.  Thanks!

So my new Baby arrived and it's a beaut!  Problem is, I'm not getting what I need out of it.
Alex at Barefaced is super responsive and always answers any questions but I guess he's not in the position of giving anything remotely resembling a definitive (because some tool could obvs come back and say 'but you said!' after they've been a tool).  He said from the off I may need a more powerful amp or a Twin for my needs but I would prefer to keep the baby, so...

I currently have an Ampeg PF500.  When I had both my PF210 and PF115LF, it sounded huge using the rig to its full potential but I couldn't be bothered to cart both around and ended up selling the 210 and was left with the solitary 115.  A recent session left me wanting.  Playing a 5er with some big subs wasn't yielding the results I wanted so I finally bit the bullet and went for the BB2.  My One10 with a TC BH250 sounds monster so figured this setup would deliver brown sounds aplenty.  For whatever reason, it's not.  So at 8 Ohms I'm getting 300w.  The recommended continuous according to the BF site is 600w.  Probably that, right...?

And to the point: recommended heads to go with?  I'd like to keep it portable as possible but also not stupid expensive.  That said, I'm liking the look of the new hybrid Fender Bassman heads which apparently deliver 500w @ 8 Ohms.  Rumble head only gives 400w.

I hear great things about Aguilar and Darkglass but I've still got the Baby to pay off on finance so need something that won't murder my fiscals.  Not to mention my gf stepped on my macbook yesterday and cracked the screen... huzzah!

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.

Andrew