bigjohn

Nice.

What profile is the neck?

Maybe @walshyknows? 

Cheers

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. 

PM incoming

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

On 03/10/2022 at 13:24, Clarky said:

Nice version! And gigging with sliders too 🙂

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. 

3 hours ago, fretmeister said:

I have a Super Twin but I don't have a 2 ohm capable amp. 

I'm still tempted to sell my One10 and maybe get one of these instead - just in case I get a new amp! Or for when I just want something smaller.

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. 

11 minutes ago, Clarky said:

Yep, it is indeed a Barefaced Super Twin underneath the WB-100. Hoping to spend some quality time together over the weekend!

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. 

23 hours ago, Clarky said:

The eagle has landed. Super build quality/QC and from my first play it sounds very fat and organic. 

 

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, 

On 04/05/2022 at 08:55, Steve Soar said:

SVT Preamp with grafic eq. 

3 valves, basically the front end of an SVT without the power section. 

On 04/05/2022 at 15:34, paul_5 said:

I've had both - the SVP II is a wonderful preamp, but it won't do dirt. The SVP PRO definitely WILL do filth.

 

Both have the ultra low/high and bass, mid(s) and treble controls with line and DI outs, and the switchable graphic equaliser channel, but the SVP PROs have always been a bit noisy on the preamp outputs, whereas the SVP II was lovely and quiet.

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

These are great amps. I've used one for about 15 years as my house practice amp. I've got the best tone out of it at (ahem) house volumes, even though I've had (and have) some rather nice other amps. 

If I didn't already have one etc... GLWTS. 

I've been using a WB100 for about a year now. Into a Barefaced Super 12.  It sounds pretty, pretty good...

A couple of months ago I got a Vong Filterung (HP+LP filter with a level boost) and have been using that through the effects loop. 

I have to say, this has really opened the amp up. Before now, I've always been just on the edge of distortion and having to play hard to keep up with my (loud) band. Especially with low notes. I do play a p bass with heavy flats and the tone completely rolled off, so it does take some oompf to get the pitch audible, especially playing with 2 guitarists who are playing with lots of mids in their sounds. 

Feels like the amp I always wanted now. Much more dynamically responsive. Very loud, but not aggressive when I want it to be, solid and musical when I play soft and consistent up and down the neck. 

1 hour ago, peteb said:

 

Funnily enough, I have started getting 'high end Samsung' smartphones for the last couple of contracts after years of getting cheaper ones. Although I'm not too bothered about mobile phones and always looked to save a tenner a month on a lesser known brand, I have now come to the conclusion that it is worth paying the extra to avoid the frustration of being stuck with a mobile for a couple of years that just does not do 'the basics adequately'. IME the Samsung is genuinely better and worth the extra cash. 

 

However, I haven't gone for an iPhone as that would cost even more than the Samsung and I don't think that it justifies the extra expense. 

 

Much like buying used instruments, the value is in buying 2 year old phones and getting a decent sim only deal when they come up.  I've been using an iPhone 8 plus for about 5 years. It cost me about £300 (so about £5 a month and getting less as time goes by). I've got a sim only deal that gives me free calls and texts with 4GB of data that costs me about £12 a month. The first contract I took out for this phone was less than a tenner a month with 1GB. It's a perfectly good phone. 

New phones on contracts are expensive.