E sharp

Trying this new mic pre out with my power amp, as a possible new rig, as a change to my trusty Eden head. Really nice it sounds. 
 

Tried with all basses, and the Dingwall, which is my main bass, and favourite, sounds great. 
 

Bogart, which is my least favourite to play, sounds great through it too. 
 

Modulus, which is all singing and dancing with every possible combination of actives and coil taps, sounds far too polished for my taste. Though I’ve hardly played it since I bought it. 

Trying it out now, really nice. 
 

Bass and treble switches don’t do much, but the core tone is lovely 

That looks really nice 

The tone controls are quite limited; but it’s really a high end DI, and basic pre. I’ll see how it goes. Can always add a simple EQ pedal on the board

This came today. Won’t be able to try it out properly until tomorrow, when I’ll have an empty house for 3 hours - which never happens. 
 

Idea is for it to run straight into a Crest CA9, then into two Berg HD212’s. 
 

I’ll see how that pans out

After selling my Aguilar DB751, I’ve gone back to my Eden head. Wanting a bit more ‘heft’, I use it into a Crest CA9. 
 

Sometimes I use the headphone out into the amp, or if I fancy bypassing the tone controls, I use the effects loop into the amp- so the Eden is then just a basic pre amp, with no tone controls. This works really well, and got me thinking. 
 

So my final big buy after the cull of most of my gear is the Sonic Farm 2DI4 DI/pre. Just waiting now for delivery. 
 

So I’m now firmly going down this road. There’s a few on here doing this I think, and quite a few threads over on Talkbass about DI’s and Mic pres straight into amps. 

I’m similar- Modulus 5 and Dingwall Super P5. 
 

I don’t need this, and by rights should spend on something else, but lately really drawn to P5’s

17 hours ago, LukeFRC said:

I still keep looking at this!

I do too. I’ve got one big buy left after shedding all my stuff to have a nice active 5 and a nice passive 5 (P type). 
 

So don’t need another P5, but this looks lovely. 

Long sold . 

I genuinely thought I'd marked this as sold - got lost with a cull of gear being sold all at once . 

On 27/03/2022 at 10:29, Bunion said:

Mesa boogie all tube eight 88 goes down to 2ohms and also has a power switch on the front to cut out certain valves so you can drop the power from approx 475w to 250w to 100w when you drop the power to half to keep the punch you plug an 8 ohm cab into the 4ohm output and so on.

Also at 49lbs it’s a lot lighter than my SVT pros.

The power switch is ideal for different venue sizes and home playing.  
 

The issue is finding one available. 

I thought you were maybe thinking of selling your one, as you’ve now got the Noble. I think you’d alluded to something like that a while ago. 
 

I suspect it’s too hard to let go- not that I blame you

Probably a bit unfair, as I didn’t hate it as such, but the Handbox WB100 - their all value 120 watt jobbie. 
 

Did loads of research, and was in contact with the owner a fair bit too. 
 

Now playing Northern Soul, so I thought that it would be ideal, but it wasn’t. 
 

My little Eden WT400 blew it away. People talk about ‘valve watts’, but I couldn’t get enough volume out of it at all. My Eden head, was also considerably warmer sounding too- which was a major surprise. I realise that I had far more tone shaping on the Eden, but I wasn’t bothered about that, and I found it easy to get a nice tone, but it had no oompf at all. 
 

Guy I sold it to really likes it, so it may just be me maybe expecting it to be something it was never going to be.

If I didn’t already have an Eden 410, and two Berg 212’s, I’d have this, as I’m in Norfolk. 
 

This should fly out I reckon 

I agree, that Z3 is stunning. 
 

Prices of the Canadian Dingwalls have unfortunately gone through the wall in the last year. 
 

Awesome bass

That looks an awful lot of bass for the money. These appear to get loads of love over on Talkbass 

There’s a 410 for sale on here

Oh my. One of these was my first gigging combo, from around 16, to 20. 
 

This is like a look down memory lane

I miss my DB751. GLWTS

3 hours ago, stevie said:

That's a shame. His reviews are outstanding.

Scubaduba on TB is the one who’s sort of taken over I think. His reviews are equally as good 

He’s stopped reviewing now I believe 

How important is this venue to you- gig wise?

When you say ‘their issues’, that’s exactly that- it’s their issues. 
 

What is the back story here? You mention a ‘client’ ?

I’ve been involved in bending over backwards to accommodate a gig, and I’ve also had enough times of telling them to get stuffed- not worth it. Most on here will have done both. 
 

I suppose we’d need more information on the back story to give a proper opinion really. 

Only the Burninator left now . Here's a little clip from the previous owner I think - the guy who commissioned Max to build it . 

40 minutes ago, cetera said:

Fender P

Fender J

Spector NS2

Steinberger XL

Musicman Stingray

Rickenbacker 4001

Gibson Thunderbird

Wal Custom

Pedulla fretless

 

That’s pretty much the list that I’d of come up with. 
 

With the possible addition of an Aria SB1000

Didn’t Ampeg make one that was a beastly weight?

Thanks for that. 
 

I did give a thought about Marshall, but wasn’t really sure or not. 
 

I’ll drop them an E Mail

Thanks

I’ve dropped of my Eden Navigator pre amp for repair to one of the amp techs recommended in the thread for Amp Techs in East Anglia, and I’m not sure he knows what to do. 
 

Had to chase up after a week, and no communication after a week (now two weeks), and he said he’s trying to source a schematic for it. 
 

I don’t suppose anyone on here has a schematic, or a PDF of one etc. 
 

Thanks