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I have a JB-2 and its definitely my fave bass. They sound great, play beautifully, are very light weight and look great! What more would you want? :-)

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1342351807' post='1733527'] Well on the ME20, there is a delay/chorus setting. The chorus is generic and you can only change the parameters of the delay however. Not sure if it's the same on the ME50? Use the wah to create a similar effect maybe? Truckstop [/quote] Yup same as this for the ME-50b. There's a combined chorus+Delay but the chorus settings are fixed.

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I have the same setup minus the 115. However I do sometimes add a 115 at our rehershal room. I always avoid the bi-amp mode and run it in mono (this disables the bi-amp so no need to mess with the crossover ) so as both the cabs are getting the same signal. Although i can still balance it with the balance knob to get an even volume from both cabs. Personally I don't see the point in sending highs to one cab and lows to another if both cabs are full range. This method would work better if you were sending the highs to specifically designed cab for highs only. I pretty much keep my preamp settings at 1 o'clock for the valve pre and 11 o'clock for the SS pre. I find this gives a nice mix As for the rest of the settings I usually keep it all flat, sometimes boosting slightly at around the 250hz on the graphic. Occasionally I turn the low contour up a bit if it's sounding a bit too thin. As Lozz says above, start with it all flat and tweak it as needed. One thing I always find is that when I'm using the amp at low volumes in the house, I am constantly tweaking it to get a nice sound. However, when at higher volume playing with the band I just turn it up to the required volume and leave it all flat and it sounds great. Hope this helps David

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1340193269' post='1700705'] Change the valve in the pre if you want some dirt (breakup) I put a NOS Mullard in mine and it sounds awesome [/quote] That's exactly what I did. I've tried some No name made in China jobbie, a Groove Tube Mullard clone and three original Mullards which I hijacked from my ancient old WEM Dominator. Although the old Mullards sound great the amp will still not distort even with the pre up full. Not really a problem though as I just use a pedal to get a dirtier tone with great results.

I'm currently using a HA7000 (basically two 3500's in one) and an XL410. I got the XL410 on advice from this very forum (lozz in particular,thanks). I absolutely love this setup. Whilst I'm not great at describing its various sounds, I do agree with the various descriptions above. One thing I would add to the above comments is that no matter how hard you push the valve pre (even up full) it will not break up/distort. At the minute, and this changes a lot, I'm really liking the valve pre at one o'clock and the SS pre at eleven. Hope this helps

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Hi As Ghost Bass said above try replacing the valve in the preamp. I had a noise problem with my Hartke HA7000 when I (out of curiosity) changed the valve to a Groove Tube valve. After about a week or so I started getting a pulsing helicopter chuffing noise after it had been on for about half an hour. I borrowed one of the legendary Mullard valves out of my old Wem Dominator amp, stuck it in the Hartke and hey presto noise gone! BTW I could hear absolutely no difference (tonewise) in any of the valves I used. Hope you get it sorted.

It ain't over till its over - Lenny Kravitz. Great little tune.

Ordered the Hartke 410XL. Should be here for Friday in time for rehersal. Fingers crossed. :-)

Cheers Lozz. Decision made. It's got to be the XL. Then I'm going to try to be good for a while, be happy with what I've got and not give in to anymore gas. (yea right) Thanks again for the advice.

New dilemma...... Was literally just about to order the Hartke 410xl when I got an offer for a Hartke 410transporter for £100. Does anyone have any thoughts on the TP range? I know it's not as good as the XL range, but is the XL worth the extra £150? I think it might be but I thought I'd ask here before I finally press the button and buy it. Cheers

Thanks for the replies folks, sounds like a close call, both cabs getting favourable comments... I'm still not 100% decided.....but....after checking the specs it looks like the Peavey might be just a little to fat to fit in the boot of my car. Also from the pics of the Peavey it looks like its been fairly ...erm... "well used". A 100 mile round trip to pick up the Peavey, adding another £20 of fuel money onto the price.

Hi All I was just about to order the Hartke 410xl online for £249 ( free shipping ) when I happened to see a Peavey 410tx on local Gumtree for £100. So basically what I'm asking is what are people's opinions on this choice? I realise this is subject to personal taste, however I would value Basschatters opinions anyway. I'm tempted to go for the cheaper option of the Peavey if it was on a par with the Hartke. Also I will be running this with a Hartke HA7000. Many Thanks David

[quote name='Phil-osopher10' timestamp='1327573464' post='1513447'] That's great! Thanks very much! [/quote] No probs

Dennis Currie - Portadown 02838335666. Dennis did some work for me a couple of years ago. His work was perfect and a reasonable price too. Ernie McMillen 07974675323. I think Ernie lives near Belfast (but not sure). He has done some work for a couple of friends and they highly recommend his work. Peter Griffin (don't have a number for him). He lives in Ballinderry (20 mins from Belfast). I've not seen any of his work, but if the comments on one of the local forums is anything to go by, he's a first rate luthier. Hope this helps David

LOL . That link is actually my old Roadster, 1979 RS800. They do have a great tone, however, they are a heavy beast and the neck dive was quite bad.

[quote name='Faithless' post='1374537' date='Sep 15 2011, 03:29 PM']Oh crap, weight is another serious issue for me - are all those Roadster's heavy? How much approximately then? I'll compare that to my ACG's weight, as its not featherlight too (singlecut, though..) easy Laimis[/quote] Mine was a bit of a heavy beast. Not sure of the actual weight, but my Jazz is 9 1/2 pounds and it was a lot heavier than that. At a guess I'd say 10-11 pounds.

I sold my RS-800 about a year ago for £140. It was pretty "roadworn" but still played and sounded great. Just a word of warning about these, the reason I moved it on was because of the neck dive making it uncormfortable to play standing up. YMMV

I bought a G & L Tribute JB-2 from Paul. The bass arrived in first class (showroom) condition and the packaging was so good I think it could have survived a direct nuclear strike! He even went the extra effort and got it shipped to N. Ireland for me. Pauls communications were brilliant and I would definitley buy from him again. An absolute gent. Many Thanks Paul

I've decided to let this go now. I'm just not sure its what I really want. I just got a bit tempted by the price. Thanks for all the helpful replies.

Here the pics and serial number. Any more thoughts? The serial number puts it to 1995/96 which after a bit of research seems about right. From what I can tell its a Mexican reissue of 1983 Jazz Bass which apparently came with the all in one pickguard.

Thanks for the info and quick replies guys. Its a bit of a drive (about 60 miles each way). I have emailed him and asked him for pictures. When and if I get any I will post them here for opinions..... I'm a bit suspicious as the asking price is only £200 when seems pretty cheap to me.

Hi All. I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I'm seriously thinking about buying a Mexican Jazz. However the advert states that it has a scratchplate that houses all the electrics and controls all in one. I'm assuming this means it doesn't have the chrome control plate. I've never seen one like this before so I'm hoping someone here can let me know if this sounds a bit suss or if they did in fact produce a model like this? Many Thanks David