BassmanPaul

Forgive my denseness it's early yet! IRs ?

There is a Mesa pre-amp designed for recording purposes that would better suit what you are looking to do.

Simplest would be to pull all the output tubes and just let the pre-amp function. Thing is that you'll be carrying a full amplifier about just to use it as a simple DI

As the transformer has a 12V winding you could find that the heaters are wired to pins 4 and 5, heaters in series for 12.6V, with nothing on pin 9. that being the case the combined draw would be 450mA so the transformer current rating of 800mA should be fine.

Did a quick search and found one for sale in the States in, of all places, Walmart! LOL

That should be fine for what you need. I told you they were cheap!

Which one did you purchase?

You can pick up a multimeter very cheaply that would be adequate for such simple tests. it could be that the fuse has blown which is why the tube section doesn't work.

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

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.

I agree. Do you at least have the proper schematic?

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!

And just did again! In the last ten days we have had fifty seven meters of snow!!!

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.

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.

Newbie! LOL I'm 77.

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.

@kevham How Long did it take before you learned which way around to hold the bass?? ;D

if the cabinet is from before the G4M purchase it will be a pretty superior product. Try it and see what you think.

Drummers are weird! It's why they play drums!!!

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!

Merthyr Tydfil eh? Nice town. In the early Seventies I helped commission your telephone exchange!! LOL

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!

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.

Peavey do design some pretty nice stuff.