ivansc

About to `bay my early seventies Mk4 50 plus, also a B, & I am hoping it will get £400-500 as most of the recent sales have.
£450 is frankly a realistic price.

The valve thing is a bit of a red herring, as you have to weigh up the age of Mullards in an amp like this vs. newer, albeit possibly inferior, modern valves.

A clapped out Mullard will sound worse than a new noname.

I built a clone of a 57 Fender 5E3 deluxe amp recently & up against an original from 57, mine sounded 99% as good, even with new JJs in it.
Unfortunately it also has all the inherent design faults of the original!

and the price range, if i may be so bold?

Hm.... bit enormous, but I DO have a chainsaw and I DO need a cheap as possible cab.

whereabouts is it/are you?

Hi - Ivan from Wistow near Peterboro.

I quit playing bass professionally many years ago when I got trigger finger in right hand one and two.

Started playing one of those skinny stringed little things for a living but never lost my love for bass.

Now after retiring off the circuit I am playing bass again and my hands arent falling apart yet!

I made the mistake of selling my old bass rig to a pupil years ago and then made another mistake recently buying a poxy little laney combo amp.

160 watts and not man enough to do a bar gig with a proper drummer....

So I was attracted here by the tales of DIY cabinets, since this is how I started out in 1961/2.

There just werent any bass amps and cabs around in the UK in those days.

My first rig was a Philips mono valve hifi amp and a 22" jukebox speaker in an open backed 1/2" plywood box.

And that is about it.

I`m currently picking up a lot of dep jobs and doing the first fledgeling gigs with Catfish Jones, a nasty 3 piece r n b trio...