The plan is....
1, get the SVT-4 serviced/repaired
2, either be happy with it's new lease of life and reliability or get shot and get a pre and power amp combo, or the tech 21 lm300
[quote name='chris_b' post='963060' date='Sep 21 2010, 10:20 AM']I'd like to know what you do to Ampeg amps! My SVT3PRO never missed a beat in 10 years. What about a Mesa Boogie through your 810?[/quote]
So would I. I have thought about Mesa. Do you have any experience of them?
Looking through this section a lot of people are asking the same question. Does anyone know anyone in Cardiff/south Wales who will work on Ampeg apart from Jon Turner?
It probably wasn't actually too bad. I played it at a Marshall on tour gig and had only the sound check to get to know it and I just couldn't get it to perform. I didn't like the 4x12 cab either. Given more time I might have got to like it.
It could just be me I suppose. My major beef is with how expensive they are to fix when they do go wrong and that no one wants to work on them when they do. It might be a modern Ampeg thing although my 4 pro is 10 years old. I know the new Korean ones aren't getting too much love. My classic was US too, that had to have all new ceramic valve holders because the heat melted the plastic ones it came with.
Forgot to mention I use a sans amp bddi. Markbass stuff interests me. The problem is there's no where to test/play this stuff in my area. That I know of anyways.