Chris1127

22 hours ago, stewblack said:

If you say it works that's good enough for me. Let me know nearer the time and we'll sort it 

ok great leave it with me and will see what i can sort, will try to do a rough recording of it plugged in and working too in the mean time

16 hours ago, binky_bass said:

I had one of these for a short period of time - they're really very good amps, absolutely dirt cheap for the money. All the headroom in the world, good tones, good easy to use EQ. £225 is super cheap for what this can do.

Cheers, its a whole lot of amp for the money, in terms of what it can do and physically too. Its a shame for it just to be sat there not used too. I know Bugera and Behringer can get a slating but I've had several (the veyron is my main amp now) and I really rate them.

55 minutes ago, stewblack said:

I use the RM often, it's very tidy, and with an extension cab it does all I could wish. But I love gear 😀

Glastonbury is very close to me, let me know if that's a possibility.

Glad its getting put to good use, it was a shame to sell it but it just didn't work with the upright.

re the nuke, I know my sister is down on the 16th July, i could see if she would be able to take it back up with her if she had room in her car boot, you'd have to collect it and take it away to try out etc and either drop it back if not for you or send on payment if you like it?

No worries, how far is Glastonbury from you? I could probably get it to there but it would be at my sister's place so you'd need to take it away to try it out etc, could get a bit complicated. How are you getting on with the Rootmaster?

Just outside Ipplepen near Newton Abbot 

Sold!

Monster of an amp for sale here! Debates about Bugera watts aside, this is a big old heavy powerful lump of a head, and really versatile! I bought it on a whim but its sat unused - partly through inactivity practice/gig wise but also because i have stuck to using my Veyron head with my upright bass as I have enough heavy things to carry. It's flight cased and so is in really good condition, but given the weight and size I'd rather it was collected from South Devon near Newton Abbot. There are two bridgeable channels, compression, eq's, ultra high/low buttons and allsorts that I have never played with. details can be found here - https://www.bugera-amps.com/product.html?modelCode=P0371. 

I'd prefer cold hard cash but might trade for something six string related, I'm hoping to fund one of the new revstars or a gretsch 5220 with the money so try me. I only have one 210 cab to try it through but you're welcome to bring another cab if you want to.

Massive thumbs up to Ray Against The Machine who I've been hassling to sell me his Dean Taxi bass for a couple of years now! Ray was really patient waiting until i could collect, and the bass is fantastic and sold at a really good price. Top bloke, and a great chat about music, bands and the like when i picked it up, thanks Ray!

I've got an elbee 210 I've had a few months now - it shifts some serious air for such a tiny cab. I was a bit concerned playing upright with slap that it might lose some of the top end definition but no worries at all so far! I've not gigged it yet but it has handled fairly loud practices with no worries. being driven by a Veyron t. I have a 115 I was planning to pair it up with for bigger gigs and to run the amp at 4ohm but am actually quite tempted to get a second elbee 210 as a mate is selling one at the moment

Awesome looking rig Stew, glad you are happy with the amp too!

bargain price on the cab! I've got the matching 112 500w combo that I was planning to sell at some point if anyone wants to make a matching stack

hats off to you! Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Doesn't mean you shouldn't either! I'd fit a ball hitch so I could tow it behind the car to gigs but that might be a step too far

the ah500 had a bigger brother back in the day too, the ah1000 which I think was designed to go with the BFC cab. I bought a BFC back when Trace were selling off a load of gear in the early 2000s, it was a 15, 2x10 and 2 hf horns in one cab, wired up to be run biamped. I rewired it to mono to use with a V-type 600h hybrid head, it was a monster setup. The v-type wasn't a great design though - mine fried all the FETs first time I switched it on. there was a massive heatsink on the pcb which had no support underneath - the courier dropped it on delivery and the weight of the heatsink cracked the pcb. I repaired the board and replaced all the fets and all was good, but wasn't a great design. Some earlier comments referenced really good reliability - I think anyone who was repairing electronic gear around the time who was familiar with the Bipolar Bear output stage may have differing views

On ‎22‎/‎12‎/‎2019 at 09:53, King Tut said:

So I've learned from this thread that most lighty up amps are lit by LEDs and not valves and that preamp valves don't usually glow. Thanks fellas. Anyone else out there rocking a Veyron T at the moment?

yep, I will admit that it went back to Thomann (and back to Bugera) for a new main power board, as it was cutting out occasionally at high input levels but they fixed under warranty without quibble and it has been faultless since. I use mine on an upright bass with a K&K rockabilly pickup and preamp setup, previously through a Hartke 410 hydrive but now mainly through an elbee 210. it moves some serious air!

https://www.andertons.co.uk/brands/ashdown/ashdown-rootmaster-rm-112t-evo-300w-1x12-bass-cab 

yeah that's the one! I think they do make a matching 112, i was trying to find the spec on the white line speakers and found it under the cab spec. Great little amp and well looked after but not for me unfortunately. A bugera nuke head has come up locally so may be up for sale again if you are still interested? I did a deal on it at 220.

If anyone was curious, I took a chance on a used rootmaster 500 evo 112 combo, great sound and very versatile, but unfortunately just doesn't have the headroom that my Bugera Veyron head has with an upright. Without using an ext cab (and so probably running at more like 300w at 8ohms) it kept up with a couple of cranked 15w valve combos and a loud drummer but was wound up pretty loud. Nice light portable combo though, but I will be sticking with the Veyron and the DB Elbee 210

Interested to hear anyone's experiences with a Rootmaster 500 Evo 112 combo - considering one to use with double bass (k&k preamp and wing/neck pickup) and playing with a reasonably loud drummer and couple of guitarists with small-ish valve amps but keen on cranking them up(!). I've got a 115 purple chili or a 210 db elbee I can pair them up with for gigs etc but interested to hear if anyone has one, and how they have found it for volume in the mix and reliability, especially upright players (pizz and slap). Cheers!

that all sounds pretty awesome! I have to admit i haven't yet had the chance to plug it in and crank it up, it's sat on top of the purple chili 15 i bought on here the week before waiting for me to get a chance to try it. I'll probably try it with a bugera svt clone first off just so i can have a play with the graphic and see how it sounds!

Glad i went in to get it now, a friend bought one off reverb after I'd been in to Project Music to get that one - the 1210 looked interesting too but it didn't have the feet to stack horizontally that the 210 has. It will be interesting to see how the angled driver works that way up. And yeah that handle will have to go for something a bit more substantial i think - not sure why it is mounted diagonally. 

keen to hear how the elbee sounds - currently considering one of these against saving up a whole bunch more for a purple chili 210. only thing that puts me off is I would want to use it horizontally if stacked, and not sure how that would work with the angled baffle (I play upright bass so feedback can be an issue).

edit - couldn't risk missing the last one in the shop so picked one up at lunch time today! DB replied to say it would work fine horizontally stacked on a 15. It is TINY!!! How can it be a 600w 2x10!?!?

Thanks Tobie for a great deal on a Purple Chili 115 cab - really helpful with postage in packaging up a cab really well and labelling it and dropping off at a post office depot for collection. Looking forward to plugging it in and trying it out now!

I think its just a guitar thing when he jumpers it, fattens up the sound. there is a way of cascading the channels to act like extra gain stages too but thats another thing altogether. 
Think circuit wise the silver face and the series before are pretty much the same circuits, brilliant amps!

great thanks!

if you are looking for a tnb 50 sv I've got one I need to sell - the channels are voiced differently but you can use them at the same time. There's a way of jumpering them too, a friend does this with his earlier cloth face tnb 50. mine's an SV-R but the reverb doesn't work - otherwise works fine and sounds great! If you're anywhere near Devon welcome to have a try and see if it works for what you want to do

any chance you can let me have the dimensions on this please so I can get a courier quote? In Devon so bit far to collect, kicking myself for missing one of these that came up in Somerset earlier this year

digging up a really old thread here but are you still considering selling the cabbie? I have a dean psychobilly Picasso 6 stringer, would really like a cabbie bass to go with, for stuff I can't currently play on my upright bass. I'm on the same coast as you, just further down in Devon so could sort something re collecting I am sure