bigjohn

My interest is somewhat piqued.

Also need to consider what frequencies are actually being produced and how audible they are. High pass filters do wonders for making sure power gets used in an efficient way. BTW, my WB100 replaced a valve-pre (Ampeg SVP) and a 460W Mosfet power amp. I play in a loud band. Two heavy guitarists. Tone is different with the WB100, but I don't struggle to keep up any more than I did with my old amp. In fact quite the opposite. Grit, grind and clank would be all too easy. I play a P with the tone sometimes rolled completely off and use flats. I like a good, thick, warm and meaty low end, with a little bit of sizzle on the top, which is a particularly power hungry tone. I sometimes use a high pass filter to get that little more juice out of it sometimes too, but not all of the time. If I put more mids into that and drove it, nobody would be hearing a drummer. It would be earsplittingly painful. One caveat is that when I changed amp, I also changed cab from a Gen II Barefaced Compact to a Gen III Barefaced Super Twin, so there would be a db increase there.

You can watch us play the whole of the Harvest album on the 1st of Feb. Apparently it's a big thing. https://www.facebook.com/events/3333762510198250/?ref=newsfeed

Fat and happy... Sometimes.

I’ve gigged my wb100 probably 20 times or so, maybe more. I’ve never had anyone say the DI is hot. that said, I run the gain at 4 max and the master volume up full.

Here's us playing the whole Harvest album @ The Musician, Leicester Was about 35c

I find it interesting when people talk about FOH and monitoring with loud amps and cabs. I like all the amplification I can get.

Yep. Me too. I've been hankering for something like this for a while. I have a gen 2 compact as well, which I leave at home at the moment. This would be an ideal replacement. My super twin lives at the studio and I gig with that. So it's either/or. Would be nice to have the option of either/or/both. But yeah, it would have to be a 4Ohm extension otherwise nothing doing. And my amp is 4 or 8 Ohm, which I don't have any intention of replacing at the mo. Edit - And £900. lol.

Really is a great combination. Deep and full, articulate and tight. So easy to sit nicely with it live and have great tone. Usually one or the other, but not with this. Best rig I've ever had by a country mile.

Is that a Super Twin? If so, it'll be like my rig. Sweet I'd be really interested to hear the difference between the middle and the contour control like wot mine has. Enjoy!

I see they've announced a new amp. "Bass Dec C". " 2 channel pre-amp with a 50W class D power amp. Looks very interesting for home/studio use.

Does anyone have any idea how much a late 70s early 80s Jaydee Flying V bass would be worth? I know it's a finger in the air question, but someone asked me, so I thought I'd ask on here

I quite enjoyed playing next a pool

Glad I bought mine before we actually left the EU. Is there talk of a 300W version or did I dream it?

Yeah Plant and Krauss were good. Jesus and Mary Chain best I've seen tonight. Little Simz bass player is great, but I just can't get on with them.

Yeah, it is a good un. Very clean. One thing I will say about them though, same for all these Ampeg 1u pres. The power transformers are a bit dodgy. The way they're mounted means any shocks or drops can cause a short in them which can end up with the things outputting mains into anything it's plugged into. Both of mine had the same problem, the SVT-IIP killed an expensive power amp. I've had the one in my SVP Pro rewound and mounted differently to avoid it. It's just a bad design. So beware of any pops and crackles you hear when you're not adjusting EQ. That's a tell tale.

Yeah, Yep, I've had an SVT-IIP and I have an SVP Pro. The difference is as paul_5 says. Though my SVP Pro is relatively quiet if the EQ is used diligently. I believe the SVT-IIP is the preamp from the SVT-II. Essentially, they split into a pre/valve power amp combination and the SVP Pro is the pre-amp from the SVT-III. This is why the SVT-IIP is so clean and simple, it's designed to be pushed into 300W valve power amp to make an SVT II. The SVP is has more tone shaping and dirt as it's designed to go into the solid state section of the SVT-III with no power amp clipping or distortion. There are a couple of other variants too. There's an SVPCL preamp (I'm not sure if this has 3 valves) and there's a Billy Sheehan one that's twin channel, SVT-BSP.

I play in loud bands. I started out using a valve amp (a lovely 100W Hiwatt with matching 4x10) ended up going through a few solid state amps over the years. Mostly Ampegs, and latterly some pre/power amp set ups. I've fried nearly every single one. Even a quality UK made 600W power amp died a death. Power transistors all fail and catch fire eventually with me. The only survivor is my C-Audio ST600. That's a proper tank but it's heavy. That's also 600W. I used most of these with a very early Barefaced Big One and before that a couple of Acme Low B2s. About 15 years ago I did spend a year or so with a Marshall JCM800 Bass Series. That survived and did well but I went back to solid state for the weight. I set fire to my very expensive class D amp very quickly, though that was diagnosed as a faulty pre amp that killed it. I now use a Handbox WB100 into a Barefaced Big Twin Gen 3. It's loud. MUCH louder than my 600W amps were. I also use high and low pass filters to really squeeze out the frequencies I want. TLDR - Valve amps sound MUCH louder and when looked after, don't die on stage as often