warwickhunt

Just out of interest which amp is it?

[quote name='karlfer' post='1360461' date='Sep 2 2011, 09:45 PM']It finished with no bids. Am I missing something?[/quote] It's potentially a 'bitsa' bass in a nasty colour... I'd not chance £700 just as you didn't.

Anything much over 9lb but there is an allowance for quality of balance (though a 10lb bass is 'too' heavy regardless of balance or strap material/width).

[quote name='Blademan_98' post='1357852' date='Aug 31 2011, 06:45 PM']I just showed this to my misses. I only have 2 on the wall but she approves of the look so I will be putting the other three up tomorrow! Cheers for posting![/quote] Result! Spend some time to work out your spacings and your home and dry with swmbo.

[quote name='Count Bassie' post='1357725' date='Aug 31 2011, 04:53 PM']Maybe I can clear up what I meant also- I didn't think I was looking at reflections anymore, after you explained it to me.[/quote] I know exactly what you man about looking chrome!

[quote name='cd_david' post='1357605' date='Aug 31 2011, 02:58 PM']I love the Warwick next to the corvette? [u]Have you been selling some John[/u]?[/quote] The one next to the Corvette (Infinette) is a 5th Anniversary Streamer (made in 84 to celebrate the anniversary in 87 ) and by all accounts owned when new by JPJ but I've only a handwritten letter by the distributor back in the 80's to verify that, so still looking for images or other validation. As for selling... ever so slightly Dave! A bit scary when I've just looked through pics on my hard drive (so just the last 3 years) but it amounts to... Zon (x2), PRS, Fender (x3), Musicman (x2), NS WAV, Yamaha, Spector (x2), Bolin, Squier & Warwick... x14

Do basses 'above' the settee count?

+1 for the Auralex Gramma Pad.

[quote name='Legion' post='1356272' date='Aug 30 2011, 01:49 PM']The deal all went really smoothly apart from the fact that he couldn't meet me until 9pm on the day of my arrival, which felt like 4am in the morning UK time (and at the tail end of a very long day). After a couple of beers and some conversation with other NYC passers-by I was pretty much brain dead by the time John rolled up with the bass.[/quote] I won't keep you waiting that long when you sell me the Sado! Nice bass, first I've seen in that colour and the clips have me interested in the strings as well.

A Warwick FNA bass just sold on ebay for £500. Take the 10% + 4% fees and you are looking at £430 for the seller... does that seem like a good deal? I'm not saying you'll get a lot more than £500 on BC BUT at least you won't have the fees.

[quote name='gafbass02' post='1355932' date='Aug 30 2011, 08:32 AM']So, to sum up, we basically had the following dilemma when designing the RH450: On one hand we had a power module that would be able to supply 450 watts and measure correctly, but with all the downsides of potential hardclipping (as explained in the APM doc), lower average power and density and on the more subjective side; a less bass pleasing and musical sound and response.[/quote] Surely that is the same for ANY amp manufacturer! Supplying the quoted power without clipping is just a given... surely. [quote name='gafbass02' post='1355932' date='Aug 30 2011, 08:32 AM']On the other hand we had our APM technology achieving great sound and bass performance (at least that’s what our [b]subjective tests[/b] said), higher average energy than most comparable (and even a few higher rated amps) with a resulting higher perceived loudness, or ‘power’ if you will, than that of the clean 450 watt transistor performance. Yet, the clear downside, was that APM in a strict bench test would come out with the very odd 236watts result. So, we debated quite extensively what would be the most relevant rating for the amp; the bench test measure, or the real world performance measure (that corresponds to the actual power module inside). We chose the measure that we felt made more sense to the bass player and not to the engineer and went with the performance measure that also corresponds to the actual power of the module underneath the APM technology.[/quote] So despite knowing that at the output (after the APM technology) the amp delivered 236w TC made the deliberate choice to call it 450w because they felt it better suited their needs! Off the top of my head I can think of several manufacturers (Marshall, H&K, Peavey) who have all had some kind of technology that boosted the power of an amp (DPM, Dynaclip etc) yet I don't recall a single one of those that elected to take their 'inflated' rating as the true one; they quoted RMS AND mentioned what the peak/boosted rating might be! [quote name='gafbass02' post='1355932' date='Aug 30 2011, 08:32 AM']RH450: Raw power module: 450 watts rms, with APM: 236 watts rms, Spec rating: 450 watts RH750: Raw power module: 741 watts rms, with APM: 236 watts rms, Spec rating: 750 watts Blacksmith: Raw power module: 1512 watts rms, with APM: 924 watts rms, Spec rating: 1600 watts[/quote] So the RH750 is also rated at 236w... feel sorry for those who elected to sell their RH450 to 'upgrade' to more power!