6stringbassist

I really fancy an Avalon U5, so if anyone fancies a trade for this.

Here are a couple of photos of it.

Still available, and I've lowered the price. I'd also consider trades for any other preamp.

I used this a couple of times before I got the proper case for my Modulus, it's in as new condition. £60 including shipping, or you're welcome to collect it.

As new, £50 plus postage or you're welcome to collect.

All the ones bought so far were posted yesterday, I've been in Germany all week, and my Dad was too busy to do it until yesterday. I've added a few more, so if anyone's interested please PM me.

They're £700 new from the American guitar centre. Basscentral are currently selling them for $920, plus shipping and import tax etc. [url="http://www.basscentral.com/alembicbass/preamps.shtml"]http://www.basscentral.com/alembicbass/preamps.shtml[/url] I'm open to reasonable offers.

Still available.

[quote name='Mike' post='120154' date='Jan 14 2008, 03:43 PM']Ok, is the Hal G one still available? Forward motion? Postage inclusive?[/quote] Yeah, that's still available, if you PM me I'll let you have my email address for payment. All include postage.

More books now added.

[quote name='Mike' post='119844' date='Jan 13 2008, 10:51 PM'][i]The jazz bass book by John Goldsby - £10.00[/i] please. Postage inclusive?[/quote] Hi Sorry, already gone.

I have literally hundreds of books, to be honest I have far too many. The guitar books are excellent for solo bass, or bass soloing. Here are a few that are available for sale. Level 42 bass transcriptions vol 1 - £15 Level 42 bass transcriptions vol 3 - £15 Jaco Pastorius - bass signature licks - £10 The Gary Willis collection - £10 The best of Victor Wooten - £10 The Stanlley Clarke collection - £12 Concepts for bass soloing by Marc Johnson - £20 Bunny Brunels power bass - £7.50 Dean Peers Bass Harmonics - £12 Jazz standards for solo guitar by Robert Yeltin - £8 Solo Jazz guitar by Bill Hart - £8.00 Jazz guitar standards by Mel Bay - £10.00 Coltrane plays standards by Hal Leonard - £8.00 Tapping techniques for bass guitar by Stephen Richter - £8.00 Slap technique for bass by Stephen Richter - £8.00 All are in as new condition, I'm very careful about keeping things, all have the accompanying CD's (where applicable), and all are priced including delivery, I checked the prices against those on Amazon, so I think they're fair.

Here are some better quality photos. These are the specs for the item, copied from the Alembic website. The F-1X gives you a unity-gain impedance matching amplifier to feed guitar-level effects units. The effects return goes thru the tube gain stage and then to the tone controls. The signal from the tone controls is amplified and sent to the full-range output jack on the rear panel. This same signal is also fed to the crossover network. A transformer-isolated output feeds a 3-pin Cannon jack. Circuit detail Two input jacks provide the same functionality as found on the F-2B preamplifier. The input is buffered by a cathode follower tube circuit, which is a unity-gain impedance matching amplifier to feed the guitar level effects loop. This gives minimum loading on the output signal from the guitar while driving the effects loop gear with the same signal voltage level as the guitar but at a lower impedance, to isolate cable and other loading effects from the guitar pickups. The other half of the 12AX7 tube provides the preamp's gain. This gain comes before the volume control and the 300 volt supply assures that even large transients are handled without overload or distortion. The tone controls are the interacting Fender circuit. The bright switch shunts high frequencies around the volume control. The deep switch changes a capacitor value in the bass control to change the frequency response (and a second section on the deep switch changes the gain of the following amplifier to compensate for the resulting change in signal level). A solid state circuit restores the signal level after the volume control and provides impedance matching to drive the full range output jack on the rear panel. Additionally, it drives the crossover network. The active crossover network provides 12 dB/Oct slopes to divide the output for bi-amping. The crossover points occurr at 6 dB down so that the acoustic signals from the loudspeakers add seamlessly. A front panel control trims the high-frequency signal component to match the level of the low frequency output. A transformer-isolated balanced output to an XLR type connector provides auxiliary Recording or PA feed. A switch selects the source to be the effects return (Pre) or the full range output (Post). The transformer is large enough to handle the low-frequencies without distortion to give good clear lows and a resistive pad isolates the transformer from loading effects of long cables to give clear highs. The heater of the 12AX7 tube is supplied by a regulated direct current supply to assure low hum. The AC Line (Mains) connection is an IEC (computer-type) detachable cord. The supply voltage can be changed by moving jumpers inside the unit to operate from 100, 120, 220, and 240 volts for operation anywhere in the world. The F-1X is housed in a sturdy, road worthy, steel enclosure.

This is an excellent preamp that I'm not really using. It has been well looked after since I bought it, and really is in excellent condition. It's currently fitted with a Mullard 12AX7 valve, and sounds fantastic, very funky old school. £300 plus postage with the UK, personal collection is very welcome. I apologize for the photo, I'll take it out of its rack later and get some better shots.