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I'm considering going with a seperate pre/power amp, probably an Avalon UL5 with a powersoft power amp. However my prefered option is to just buy as transparent sounding head as possible, my options here are an Epifani UL502, or an Acoustic image either a Clarus or a focus. I use an Epifani UL310 series 2 cab. The idea is to just amplify my bass, I have a very versatile pre fitted to my bass, and I think that it's very easy to completely ruin your sound (without realising it), by over enthusiastic tone knob tweaking. Anyway, has anyone any experience of the above gear. I only play jazz and funk, so I don't need masses of power.

I do a lot of teaching in schools, mainly for Warwickshire county council. I got into it through a friend who teaches guitar. I find it very rewarding, music is looked on as a 'cool' subject these days, and is taught differently to when I was at school, which wasn't all that long ago really. They organised the CR check and everything else. It is different to private teaching, you don't have the same sort of relationship develop, you do tend to be a bit more distant when in a school envoironment for obvious reasons.

[quote name='Mikey D' post='16885' date='Jun 13 2007, 02:13 PM']buckeye roscoe 6.......I need to get some money fast![/quote] Erm, that's mine, as of last Wednesday. I also have a new Sei 6 on the way in the next month or so. I need to get saving, luckily I have plenty of work at the moment.

I've been listening to a lot of his music over the last few weeks, he's a fantastic acoustic and electric player, and an excellent composer, he's got a really good live DVD/CD out that's well worth listening to, and his album 'At home' is fantastic, I especially like tracks 1, 8 and 10, but the whole album is great. Check out some of his stuff here [url="http://www.myspace.com/avishaicohenmusic"]http://www.myspace.com/avishaicohenmusic[/url] He's playing at Ronnie Scotts quite a bit later in the year, he's also at the Sligo jazz festival next month, I'm there as well so hopefully I'll get to see him live.

Nice, I like your 'my funny valentine', we were playing that last night at practice, we got halfway through the first chorus and had to stop, drowned out by a very loud metal band next door, Rich bitch need to improve their soundproofing. Do you play live with her, I live in Birmingham and love watching live jazz ?. Also I don't suppose you know any drum students looking for a few gigs do you, we have to share our current one with about 4 other bands.

Hi I'm quite fancying one of these. [url="http://www.qscaudio.com/products/amps/plx/plx.htm"]http://www.qscaudio.com/products/amps/plx/plx.htm[/url] It's what Steve Lawson uses, I've been a metre away from his in his front room, and you couldn't hear it. In the past couple of years I used heads by EBS and Aguilar, they had fans but didn't make an awful racket, my experience of power amps is somewhat different though, they were a QSC RMX850, a Crown, both of these were 'budget' models, obviously the QSC 1602 is in a different price level.

Glad to see that you've got everything kinda sorted out at last. Someone has probably already said this, (it's a bit of a long thread to read through all of the replies), but you can't beat buying from this country. The service from the Gallery, who I believe are the only UK distributor of Epifani, has always been superb, at least in my experience. I doubt that you would have had the sort of problems that you've encountered if you'd have bought from them. I just bought an Epi UL310 from them, I had to wait a few weeks for delivery, but it's a superb cab, and I got an excellent deal from them pricewise.

[quote name='dood' post='21533' date='Jun 21 2007, 07:17 PM']Ya know I was even tempted to get another... stick it inside my Epifani 6x10!!!!![/quote] Wow, an Epi 6x10, I bet that sounds good. My 3x10 is incredible.

[quote name='dood' post='21508' date='Jun 21 2007, 06:29 PM']Yup! Thats the one! I wrote a bit about the module back in BassTalk days.. but essentially, big thumbs up from me! What I really liked about the module (other than the fact that you can slot it straight into any cabinet to make it 'active' is that you don't need a preamp at all to drive it. The input is instrument level already (or you can plug a microphone - balanced XLR straight in) This means that you'd only need to use a preamp for tone shaping. Less gain means less noise/hiss etc. The unit IIRC weighs about 3 kilos too. I'd say yes, it was a very good spec! Or there's this one too.. [url="http://www.bkelec.com/Pro/Amplifiers/MXF1200D.htm"]http://www.bkelec.com/Pro/Amplifiers/MXF1200D.htm[/url] BK build OEMs for a lot of PA companies. I think there gear is pretty damn good.[/quote] Ah yes, that does look good, and a pretty reasonable price too. Thanks for that, very much appreciated.

I'm using an Epifani 3x10 cab, but was thinking of getting an Acme low B-2. Where did you get your Avalon from, the cheapest that I've seen it was £375 from Ebay. The FMR RNP is £380 from here [url="http://www.audioagencyeurope.com/fmr_audio.html"]http://www.audioagencyeurope.com/fmr_audio.html[/url] Thanks for all your advice by the way.

There's also this that I was thinking of getting, as an alternative to the Avalon. [url="http://www.fmraudio.com/RNP8380.htm"]http://www.fmraudio.com/RNP8380.htm[/url]

[quote name='alexclaber' post='21492' date='Jun 21 2007, 05:45 PM']Good choice on the preamp - my U5 did its first gig last night and it was decidedly awesome! Personally I think that if you're looking at rackmount power amps then the fan noise will be inaudible in live situations. For practising at home could you use the Eden as your power unit, running the Avalon into the FX return. One option is to get a tech to add a fan defeat switch to a normal power amp - at low volumes the fan really isn't required and any quality power amp will shut down if it gets too hot before damage occurs. Alex[/quote] Cheers I'm a big fan of Anthony Jackson sound and I've seen the U5 recommended with reference to him, even though he uses the more expensive Millenia preamps.

Dood, do you mean something like this. [url="http://www.bkelec.com/HiFi/ClassD/ClassD.htm"]http://www.bkelec.com/HiFi/ClassD/ClassD.htm[/url] Are the specs any good on this amp, I'm really lost when it comes to this sort of thing.

I just find the noise that they make really irritating. I'm currently using an Eden traveller head, I've been practising for about 6 hours so far today, and it's superb, the fan never comes on, it runs cool. I'm getting an Avalon U5 preamp, and I'm after a power amp to go with it.

Or in other words one with no fan(s). I've seen the Stewart world 1.2 recommended on talkbass, but I don't seem to be able to find a UK distributor. Are there any others available like this, I don't need loads of power, 400 watts is amples, but I do want it to be very 'hifi', and quiet.