LukeFRC 1,840 Posted January 1, 2020 (edited) So about 9 years ago I sold my first ever bass amp - I replaced it with a Tecamp Puma, hellborg pre and ashdown poweramp thunderfunk 750b GK rb1001 roland d-bass 210 combo Mesa walkabout combo (for the last 4 years) and then finally after years of looking trackers down someone who would sell me another one of the amp I had originally ... and it’s immense - it’s like coming home Edited January 1, 2020 by LukeFRC 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LukeFRC 1,840 Posted January 1, 2020 Oh it’s sideways it’s a Hughes and Kettner QT600 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beedster 3,127 Posted January 1, 2020 Life's a journey mate! My current gear line up is looking increasingly as it did in 2008, despite many, many, changes in the interim 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gjones 786 Posted January 1, 2020 I'll not be going back to my Carlsbro Cobra 90, oh no 😨 1 4 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scrumpymike 671 Posted January 1, 2020 18 minutes ago, gjones said: I'll not be going back to my Carlsbro Cobra 90, oh no 😨 ... or me to my Linear AC30! It lived in a metal cage and administered mild electric shocks to the unwary. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LukeFRC 1,840 Posted January 1, 2020 54 minutes ago, gjones said: I'll not be going back to my Carlsbro Cobra 90, oh no 😨 I kinda lucked out with the amp the first time - this is pre me finding basschat but somehow I rang Mike Walsh when he had a shop and I think he must have sold it to me below trade price! (Thanks @Cosmicrain) 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
danbowskill 217 Posted January 1, 2020 I always fancied trying a Hughes and Kettner QT600 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mudpup 631 Posted January 1, 2020 The local shop had one of those in there last year and i had a 10min bash on it - i really liked it! Nice to try something a bit unusual and it sounded great. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LukeFRC 1,840 Posted January 1, 2020 2 minutes ago, Mudpup said: The local shop had one of those in there last year and i had a 10min bash on it - i really liked it! Nice to try something a bit unusual and it sounded great. ! which shop was that? and for how much? they can't have had it online where google's bots could find it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bigwan 626 Posted January 1, 2020 H&K is quality stuff. I bought a Bassbase 600 cheap a few years back. Haven't used it very much as yet, but when I have I've been seriously impressed by it. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Merton 1,486 Posted January 1, 2020 Very nice Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richard R 1,242 Posted January 1, 2020 At the Midlands Bass Bash? Assuming we finalise the date.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mudpup 631 Posted January 1, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, LukeFRC said: ! which shop was that? and for how much? they can't have had it online where google's bots could find it It was in GigGear in Harlow. At least a year ago though, maybe even 18 months. It was an amp and matching 15" cab that they had pxed in and I think it was up for just under £600 the lot. I asked how much for the amp but they didn't want to sell it without the cab and I didn't want a cab so the convo ended there. Edited January 1, 2020 by Mudpup Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LukeFRC 1,840 Posted January 1, 2020 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Mudpup said: It was in GigGear in Harlow. At least a year ago though, maybe even 18 months. It was an amp and matching 15" cab that they had pxed in and I think it was up for just under £600 the lot. I asked how much for the amp but they didn't want to sell it without the cab and I didn't want a cab so the convo ended there. ahhh it was longer than a year ago... I knew about that one! A friend of someone on Finnbass bought it.... The story here is - about 5-6 years back I tracked down a fella who had one of these, I think it was a random speculative email as I don't actually remember how I found the guy... anyway, likewise he had a 1x15 that I didn't need and that wouldn't fit in our flat that he wanted to sell with it. So that didn't happen.... After staring at @attackbass's helix rig for a silly amount of time, and having forgotten everything about him other than he went to a heavy metal church linked to the CoE, he ran (and the church) helped run the local foodback I hunted on google and sent a speculative email to the person I thought it might be... turns out he did have it, and did want to sell it.... we even managed to get it delivered via his mum and dad and my mum-in-law and visits around Christmas! So really random tracking down of a random person... me guessing that I could trust a vicar who spends his working life helping the poor, friendly in-laws and an awesome amp. It basically can do super clean. It can do fat and clean-valve, it's got a powerful eq system, and the "tube growl" which is a really natural compressor of some kind... it's just really really musical and fun to play. I'm coming from a Walkabout which is one of the all time classic bass amp designs, and it's utterly different in a really nice way, less harmonically rich unless I crank up the gain and the tube growl, more 3d and with massive headroom and clarity of note. If you keep the filters off, and the eq fairly flat you can hear massive differences between pickup positions on my Lakland 55-94.... on the Walkabout they tended to sound all variations of the same sound (if that makes sense). Edited January 1, 2020 by LukeFRC 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sandypjb 64 Posted January 2, 2020 On 01/01/2020 at 17:52, gjones said: I'll not be going back to my Carlsbro Cobra 90, oh no 😨 I had one of those - heavy and rather woolly-sounding but fond memories all the same 😏 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silverfoxnik 880 Posted January 15, 2020 On 01/01/2020 at 17:24, LukeFRC said: So about 9 years ago I sold my first ever bass amp - I replaced it with a Tecamp Puma, hellborg pre and ashdown poweramp thunderfunk 750b GK rb1001 roland d-bass 210 combo Mesa walkabout combo (for the last 4 years) and then finally after years of looking trackers down someone who would sell me another one of the amp I had originally ... and it’s immense - it’s like coming home That's awesome @LukeFRC! 😊 H&K gear is great.. Like you, I had an H&K head for years - a Bassbase 600 - which I sold a couple of years ago.. Missed it so much I bought another one last summer. Another true Basschat story of: 'boy finds amp, boy loses amp, boy finally finds amp again' And they live happily ever after... 😁 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chienmortbb 554 Posted January 18, 2020 On 01/01/2020 at 18:12, scrumpymike said: ... or me to my Linear AC30! It lived in a metal cage and administered mild electric shocks to the unwary. Ah the Linear 30. Without it there would have been no British rock n Roll.. The guitarist in one of my early bands played a cheap Strat t copy into a Linear 30 then into a cabinet made from an old wardrobe. He had a tone that Gary Moore would have killed for. It really is all in the fingers. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
