PaulWarning

Music Man Stingray a Zoom B3 (much prefer the Zoom B1on) Trace Elliot combo's (love the heads, I have two, but the combo's are just too heavy and cumbersome, somebody offered me one on free loan at the weekend, I turned him down)

yep, there's a lot of rubbish out there, after a couple of bad gigs most folk give up and stop going, the promoters have to share responsibility for this, they can't be bothered to do their homework and are just interested in how many mates a band can bring in, I've also found that a lot of smallish venues have a bloody awful sound (or soundmen) as well

How much if you don't mind me asking, just paid £70 for 4 mofset transistors

I've pondered this question myself, the main way bands 'made it' in the old days was to get a record deal with all the professional promotion that entailed, there is so little money in record sales these days that record companies are very loathed to sign bands up

maybe the language was a bit harsh, but deep down isn't that why people buy vintage things, to impress other people, it makes them feel good, there again it could be just me that just doesn't get it

they're not, but they're worth more because people will pay more then try and convince themselves it must sound better because of the cost, People like to own rare things, makes them feel superior

never had a good voice, but it still sounds the same which is more than can be said about Macca

can't help you there I'm afraid, mines a passive, maybe someone else will know or email Sandberg

I did it to my Jazz, plenty of info online about it and the push pull volume pots a easy to come by, you'll need a soldering iron though, just google it

all bands that make it need a lot of luck, but to stay there needs talent as well

I just don't get these honours, what's the point? nice for the unknowns (like the little old lady that's done school crossings for 50 years) but the rich and famous, isn't being lucky enough to be rich and famous enough?

A well worn discussion, if you could get a P sound from a Jazz they wouldn't bother making P's but the nearest I've got is to fit a push pull switch to make the pickups in series

I may be off the mark here but if your 300 watt Trace isn't loud enough there's something wrong, I've just having the output transistors replaced in mine after suddenly losing volume, according to the repair guy they do leak with age and are ok on low volumes but lose umph when turned up

limited experience of class D amps, our Yamaha powered mixer is and I had a Fender Rumble 500 V3, both run very cool, indeed, I thought this was one of the advantages of class D's, looks like I was wrong

true, or even Lambretta's, forgot about how many hours I spent cleaning the spark plug in the mistaken belief it would make it run better

who changes just one spark plug? (apart from on a lawn mower)

just add my bit, I practice through my laptop, just plug my bass into the mic socket (with a reducing jack) and plug the headphones ( any headphones) into the output jack and away I go no problems with volume or overloading (which I suspect is the 'fuzz' that's being talked about)

we do a couple of Ska songs in the set, Monkey Man and Rat Race, I just turn the treble down on my P bass, cuts through nicely

if you paid on a credit card (which I always do, cashback) it doesn't matter if it takes a few days

I don't mind paying a fair price for a good job and if that's what's needed so be it, I want this amp to last me, just thought £70 was a bit high just for transistors, which seems to be the case, I'll ask him if he's replaced anything else when I pick it up

well I was thinking £70 sounded high, would he be replacing anything else while he was at it?, I should add he was recommended by our Guitarist who's used him for years, always been weil happy with his work

I asked this question on another thread but didn't really get an answer, wrong forum, My Trace Elliot SMX AH250 recently suffered volume issues at a gig, took it in for repair and was told, not surprisingly, that the output transistors needed replacing (Mosfets?), anyway I've been quoted £135 to repair it, £70 for the parts, does this sound reasonable?

he says the parts will cost £70

the output transistors (mosfets) have just packed up on my SMX GP12 AH250, been quoted £135 does that sound reasonable?

they're not always appropriate, if you need to choke off the note for instance or two open strings together but where they are they are a Godsend, there are songs I couldn't play nearly as well without using them