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Peavey Tour 700, excellent, 500W at 8 ohms, all useful features present and naff octaver. Just bought one, v little use, £200. Reasonable weight. Firebass 700, good as well but heavy.

Amps and cabs move on, they get better and better - I regret selling Hiwatts (100, 200) in early 80s, but other than that my ampage is way better than ever. Guitars / basses are a personal thing. How good is the bass? is it a dream to play? does it have any special value? then go and compare with what is available. My G&L SB1 is a great bass, but the Chinese rockbasses are every bit as good and are crazy cheap s/h. I will keep the G&L for sentimental reasons (22+ year with me) and rarity - unlikely to get another one.

It is the age old caveat emptor, try before you buy, and try in anger at gig volumes. Then again 4 x KT88 or 6 x EL34 has never disappointed me over the years. YMMV.

The public liability issues seem quite amazing in the new world order we live in. So much so I wonder should I have liability insurance for a trip to the pub with my other half. Would be a terrible shame if she left her handbag by a chair and someone then tripped over it - claim coming on I guess

Have never tried German or Korean models. My two are Chinese made, the quality is staggeringly good, every bit as good as my USA basses (or any I have owned). They were also incredible bargains s/h. I would not hesitate to own another Chinese built one.

Not in Cardiff, but Mid Wales, welcome to visit and try. On my 2nd cab now, can fully endorse.

I can fully recommend Peavey, Tour 700 is such an underrated amp. The sub octave thing is irrelevant in my opinion but rest of amp excellent. You also get 500W into 8 ohms, a bonus. I like them so much I have bought second one from this forum. There is one FS at the moment £225. Leaves you a good amount to purchase used Barefaced Cab if you get lucky or build own fEARful cab.

Fearful 15/15/66 combined with Crown XTi 6000 or QSC of similar power. Adequate clean headroom. Pre amp to taste.

As above seek help/advice. Small, tricky to tune, and I could never manage intonation let alone good sound (dead cats). I admire those who can, immensely,

Until you get band with big PA you need plenty of Watts and sensitive speakers. As mentioned before Peavey kit good value, I sold 300W bass combo for £130, fair tone, heavy though. In my current band, vocal pa only, guitars 20W combos, 700W peavey tour and barefaced Dubster is adequate. Peavey Tours on here for good money, then save for good cab or build own. Spend once, not many times. Have fun.

There is a Webber Mywatt 200 FS somewhere on here in last week or so. Unless it has gone, what more could a bass player need (apart from mass reduction).

Keep us posted what happens on this one, hope it all works out ok.

I have a double bass, will this book tell me how to play lolx, since I have no technique whatsoever. Mighte help me know 'about the double bass'. Best regards.

Heritage guitars are very nice, my 575 is a wonderous thing to play, unlike my playing lol.

[quote name='LiamPodmore' timestamp='1344780561' post='1769016'] Depending on the fan size, seeing as most of them use PC fans anyway, would it not be easier for companies to use silent/low noise fans in the first place? Liam [/quote] Agree, when I had peavey firebass 700 I replaced fans with low noise computer types. Was pretty cheap £12 or so. So that's £6 per fan, Which means they cost UK firm £3 each, which means £1.50 to make at a guess. So £6 on a £4 ~ 500 amp. They could of course use thermistor or some such temperature fan speed control. Cost of a thermistor - pence. Why the need for fans? Physics I am afraid. Only so much thermal energy removed by passive cooling in rack / micro head format. Forced convection much more efficient.

Starting point must be say yes, then get someone to look at it who knows. If you are electrically minded will be straightforward, replace electrolytic capacitors, then check resistors are in spec. Possible new valves, check bias and good to go. If not DIY, get quote, if too much move it on. I would quite like a bassman 100 as a fixer.

[quote name='Rumple' timestamp='1344684212' post='1767931'] I'm no expert (far from it) but maybe try getting the frets dressed? along with a set up from a good luthier that could solve the problem. [/quote] Agree with above, all sorts of things may be happening. My G&L never (and I guess still does not) liked strings that reduce to core going over bridge. 6/64 is pretty low action (by my standards), some basses just 'die' in tone with low action, some guitars the same. Choice of strings also relevant. So take to good luthier, my guess would be nothing fundamentally wrong, just needs sorting for low action.