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So it appears the tweeter in a friends Markbass practise amp has developed a fault. Disconnecting it seems to eliminate a horrible fuzz sound. The make is a Le Son 2.5" x 2.5 " High Efficiency Dome Tweeter from the black speaker model of the MiniMark 802 250w at 4 Ohms. I cant seem to find a straight replacement. If anyone could recommend a suitable alternative that would be great thankyou.

Ive only just learnt about the bassist known as Freebo. I heard a live studio recording where he was playing with Bonnie Raitt. One of the blissful, smooth and clean bass tones I have ever heard. I would love to know more about what equipment he used. I understand from some of the google pictures he played a fretless P+J fender. I cant really distinguish what amps he used. I fear the sound I heard on the recording was him playing straight into the desk... but hopefully im wrong!

Yes promising talk for the ABM600, I shall seek one out to try. Im just not a fan of amps with "extras" such as on-board compression and octave etc. I like an amp to just be an amp. Hence why the Retroglide was so appealing.

Hmmmm I shall have to keep an eye out for one thanks. ABM600 or AH600? I cant see Ashdown on your sig.

So curiosity got the better of me, I ended up buying the Retroglide 800 to see what it was like after virtually no detailed reviews anywhere on the internet. I mostly use a late 80s Trace Ellliot AH200 head paired with a Barefaced Big Twin II for all my gigs. Lovely sound that I can tailor to most venues with the 12 band eq and the MOSFET poweramp provides lovely not too harsh break up after 12 o'clock on the volume control where also the tone starts to get compressed, lack of headroom for the bass frequencies etc but still the perceived volume gets really really loud and still sounds kinda lovely to my ears. Now I was hoping the Retroglide would provide me with more headroom and cleaner output. Well the amp is very clean, nice tone, flexible EQ, but even at max volume it is quieter than the Trace Elliot AH200 at 12 o'clock... Not much extra headroom can be acquired by dialling out the 30hz - 60hz sliders either. So off (back to the shop) with this head! Abit of a disappointment really. I really really want to get into Ashdown but they let me down at every opportunity. Im sure they do lovely valve heads that I will look into for recording needs one day. All this marketing ploy about 800w! is all toilet. I know in order to be twice as loud as 200w it would need to be 10 times the watts or so, but quieter? Other things to note. Yes the fan on the Retroglide is really that annoying if you wanted to play at lower volumes.

Ha thanks yeah that pretty much sums it up JTUK, of course its going to ultimately be one of those "for the love of it" endeavours I guess. Small time band with a bit of backing. Still going to be a great deal of experience for me. I have no idea what it would be like juggling a whole load of gigs along side a day job! Ive gigged 3 nights of the weekend before plenty of times in function bands, but they're gigging all sides of the country on week days yet still somehow hold down their day jobs?!

Ive been asked by one of the members to try out for my favourite local band. They already have label, management, 2 albums, tours booked etc none of which I have ever achieved in band. Feeling a bit overwhelmed. No idea how to approach the legal side of things if I make the grade. What details should I look out for. Any suggestions/advice/jokes welcome!

I traded my Darkglass B7K for Harry's Mobius. The Mobius got stuck with an incompetent driver from Yodel which delayed the delivery, other than that all was flawless. Harry was straight on the case with Yodel and never let up. The pedal was packaged professionally, all comms were prompt and everything was exactly as described. Never worry about a thing when dealing with this guy! Many thanks!

I bought Geoffs Trace Series 6 AH200. Great guy to deal with, no worries at all. Amp arrived swiftly and soundly, very well packaged. Very happy here! Many Thanks

I traded in a pedal for Rory's Carbon Copy. Everything went super smooth and the chap even sent his pedal special delivery so I received it the day after! Fantastic stuff

I bought Pete's Frantabit. Well packaged and arrived very shortly after paying for it. Great dude to deal with!

A bit puzzled as to why this pre-amp went for so much??? Is this certain Gibson era model sought after? (Im presuming its Gibson era from the features) [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trace-Elliot-GP-12-X-Pre-Amp-/162199219641?hash=item25c3d3adb9%3Ag%3AsOcAAOSwFe5X1ZRK&nma=true&si=VnqLiPYqXLq7AAaCaFbbcoXrIIA%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=p2047675.l2557[/url] Im after an older Trace head so I left this but watched it out of curiosity.

Bought Chriz' Subterranea from him. Packaged very well and arrived in no time. All as described many thanks!