Mr. Foxen

This is because of the rickenwaffen policy, you can ask that much because of the exclusivity they have generated.

SVT EQ is a fair bit more complex than the eq on most valve amps, it has two separate ones cascaded for a start, bass/treble and a midrange that works from a tapped inductor for switchable frequencies.

Stuff with functioning tone controls have quite a lot of scope for tones. There's much more control on a Matamp GT200 than the bass Terror. Additionally, the GT200 is a custom, so you can have the EQ voicing put where you want it.

It isn't down to brand, its down to design, lots of amps use same design in parts, but within a brand they tend away from doing the same amp lots of times (with some exceptions) because there isn't much point. Its kind of common to follow a theme, but there are usually models that totally break it. I have an Orange combo that is a Fender Twin clone, everyone keeps asking if it has a combination of the Orange and Fender tones, because it is coloured Orange. Fairly sure a lot of them will 'hear' it too. Being able to spot tone stack styles is probably the first place to go, the Fender style 3 band valve preamp is very common, Hartke LH series, Oranges with 3 band preamps, Marshalls to an extent, and the Trace V-types all use this.

Definitely better to start with learning good technique from the beginning. Musical comes with some time, and is limited by poor technique.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1364317613' post='2024801'] Yes... but you still have to have the technical ability to be able to play the "musical" stuff that you hear in your learned head [/quote] I have no idea how that is a 'but'.

Techinical stuff on the instrument you play is useful for learning. If musicality is the thing you are learning, you can learn it from any instrument.

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1364314156' post='2024708'] Sorry Billy, I don't equate national pride with nazism. Why do you? For instance, when we made ships here, we knew we were better at it than anyone anywhere and said so. Didn't make us Nazis. What suspect motives? All I meant was personally,I'll go for quality and price, and if that means Japanese basses, Chinese mixers and American mics, so be it. I have no national allegiance to the UK,just wanted to see if the "Made in the UK" really meant anything anymore other than some kind of kitsch value. I appreciate the taxes and wages thing, but its really just a drop in the ocean compared to PRC imports isn't it? [/quote] It was the writing off all of the other good reasons that did it.

British wages pay British income tax, unlike overseas ones, that's a pretty big chunk of tax. Having spent considerable amount of time poking about in various amps, the general standard of UK made ones is far ahead of anywhere else. Forgotten also ran manufacturers made products with far higher quality than the US big hitters, and people making nostalgic tributes tend to follow the same standard, can still be seen in modern 'boutique' stuff.

Short auction: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/70s-STYLE-BASS-GUITAR-/321096325899?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4ac2d51b0b

Don't assume tonal properties from speaker diameter.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230952993774 Its totally not a marshall anything aside from badge, its a Simms Watts head. Guy won't ship, but if someone can pick it up and pack it, for compensation, I can send a courier.

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1364171144' post='2022859'] Are we just talking about currently produced stuff? The old Hiwatts must have been top of the tree for reliability and sound quality. [/quote] The old bit isn't ideal for reliability, although I have a 200PA on all its original parts that is totally happy. A good service should bring it up to as new.

Can put stuff on Ebay for whatever price you like. Sometimes people buy it.

Six thin strings? Might be on the wrong forum.

[quote name='Kevin Dean' timestamp='1364150096' post='2022550'] Thanks guys , so the only one deffinately made in the UK is Orange ? crumbs that's sad [/quote] Orange is one one probably not made in the UK, its Chinese made bits put into a garish box in the UK. Matamp is the actually made in the UK one.

Matamp head. Barefaced cab. If you can go vintage, you can get a lot of peak era stuff too, which gives lots of options.

Stuff is spread out in the class d/SMPS amps for a reason mind, they can interact funny, which is why even though both technologies have been about for ages, they weren't mixed in an amp for a fair while, they tended to couple badly, moving the parts close together might give lots of funny noise issues.

Lots of people are using modelling preamps for bass. Sansamps are pretty much an industry standard. Even I use two on my board, and I have real amps.

What has brought you to concluding Fractal Audio Axe-Fx rather than any number of other amp sim preamps and DI? The whole movement to make guitars sound as little like guitars as possible has really opened up the potential for modelling amps.

I reckon exploded cap.

[quote name='VTypeV4' timestamp='1363995956' post='2020876'] Thanks for the S/C info Mr F. Nice Burmans by the way, what are they a modded bassman type design? [/quote] Pretty much their own thing. The 3 knob channel has a Fender type tone stack with a fixed mid, the gain channel has an active mid which is a separate circuit to the bass and treble controls, the 3 stage gain control gives massive scope for colours of gain, and its without noise even with silly distortion. Much more a no expense spared sort of design and build rather than the cheapest end of good enough like Fender.

There is also this sort of thing, I got one of these to run my desktop speakers: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390166545300"]http://cgi.ebay.co.u...em=390166545300[/url] Its 75w/side, but prob can get bigger for more money.

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1363984066' post='2020658'] There's a 100w rms amp kit at Maplins: [url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/200w-power-amplifier-46467"]http://www.maplin.co...amplifier-46467[/url] It requires a few extra bits, like a heat sink, transformer and an enclosure, but it still works out quite cheap. [/quote] I like their answers to question: [quote] [b] What are the supply requirements?[/b] Maplin says: 230Vac mains Via step down transformer (35 volt) [/quote] So it needs 35v, but that 35v needs to be stepped down from 230, apparently.

Small left to right? There are bunches of rack sized ones. Really, ones with a preamp built in will be cheaper due to economies of scale, bypassing that isn't generally massive issue.