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BassmanPaul

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  1. What are the tubes that the mp uses? What size fuse did he install? I must admit I'd love to get my hands on your amp! My curiosity is surging!! LOL
  2. Looking again at the photo you posted, if all else fails I think you could fit a non toroid transformer possibly one from Hammond. That said you have to discover if the tube section has a problem or if the transformer it self design is faulty.
  3. I can't remember if you contacted the manufacturer if not that's who I'd be screaming at!! If you did I'd still be screaming at them!
  4. And just did again! In the last ten days we have had fifty seven meters of snow!!!
  5. I bought a Carvin LB76WP as a reward for living through my third stroke. The bass has six strings, a Piezo bridge and a Walnut body. I had EMG pickups installed. The result was a glorious bass that looked and played like a dream. The problem was that it was just too darned heavy to wear comfortably for set after set. Just recently I found out that my Nephew in Liverpool. is playing bass. On a visit to us here in Toronto I gave him the bass. He was blown away by it. With this in mind I caution our friendly neighbourhood @stereoplayer to consider how heavy the finished bass might be. While I'm at it I'd like to direct a comment to @Hellzero that my favourite bass is a Carvin LB76F. This is a lined fretless six string again fitted with EMGs and made of Koa. It's a dream to play. You can see it here on the first show I ever played it.: My white fretted six string can be see during the clip.
  6. Allows the controls on the front of the chassis to be at the top of the cabinet's front panel for easy access. Think of a Fender tube amp compared to say a Marshall.
  7. The way I look at it is that the smaller the size the easier it is for someone to steal. My main power amp is capable of 2KW and with it's pre-amp in a 4 space SKB case I can pick it up with two fingers. That's small enough and light enough for me.
  8. @kevham How Long did it take before you learned which way around to hold the bass?? ;D
  9. if the cabinet is from before the G4M purchase it will be a pretty superior product. Try it and see what you think.
  10. Drummers are weird! It's why they play drums!!!
  11. I could only gig mine when it was connected to a Marshal 4x12 speaker cabinet. I did have to rewire the cabinet for 4Ω to suit the output impedance of the amp. The pre-amp that you linked to was interesting. I'd never have thought to leave the tubes in such a precarious position. That said I do have a soft spot for the old octal based tubes!
  12. Merthyr Tydfil eh? Nice town. In the early Seventies I helped commission your telephone exchange!! LOL
  13. Yes I saw them both when I first took a gander. The seller described the Bassman as the best bass amp in the world. Ho ho ho!
  14. A lot of us back In the Sixties played through Marshall amplifiers. I had a JTM45, I think that's right - it was a long time ago, that had a pair of KT66s as outputs. As an experiment I tried a pair of 6L6WGB in the amp and preferred them so I left them in. I still have that pair of KT66 tubes in my tube caddy.
  15. Peavey do design some pretty nice stuff.
  16. I never took to Yorkvliles solid state offerings. That said to each his/her own.
  17. Were you perchance standing too close to your amplifier? Magnetic pickups can handily react to the AC fields from an amplifiers' power supply.
  18. Sadly this is so true but we can still try to educate. I feel that the pairing first came up when the marketing department of some company or other tried to show multiple cabinets in one photo shoot.
  19. Is there an update? Did you get the problem sorted?
  20. I attended an open jam on Queen St, Downtown Toronto. I was very pleasantly surprised at how well the supplied bass amp handled the Low B of my six string. It had no trouble pumping it out. When I asked what the amp was I was told it was a Fender Rumble350 combo with 2x10s. I don't think you can go wrong with a Rumble.
  21. 10s are quite capable of giving you a full, rich sound. My Acme B2 cabinets are amazing.
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