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[quote name='cm261' post='619639' date='Oct 7 2009, 03:03 PM']Well it comes to £6 anyway with postage but I've bought one of these myself, they're £3.99 [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3PDT-True-Bypass-Foot-switch-IN-THE-UK-Guitar-effects_W0QQitemZ350251038851QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Guitar_Accessories?hash=item518c96b883&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]here[/url][/quote] ahh thanks, i've been getting them from [url="http://www.pedalpartsplus.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=PPP&Category_Code=SWI"]http://www.pedalpartsplus.com/mm5/merchant...tegory_Code=SWI[/url] works out quite alot cheaper

[quote name='alexclaber' post='617352' date='Oct 5 2009, 01:01 PM']Lots of Eminence guitar drivers - about twenty different models. Hence no idea where to start! Alex[/quote] nice they have clips of all the current models on their site and specifications have a gander and that at them! how much cheaper can you get them for than normal and any chance you could sort out a pair of swamp thangs? ;o

[quote name='steve' post='618566' date='Oct 6 2009, 02:03 PM']3PDT footswitches are around £4 from ebay, for all other parts there's farnell online, bobsbitbox on ebay or maplins if you're near one to save postage. If you wanted to add a blender, there was a circuit posted by Al Healey not so long ago IIRC.. Al?[/quote] cheapest i've found on ebay are around 6pounds for single ones, could you post a link to these please? will save me ordering them from the states.

[quote name='Kaiu' post='616589' date='Oct 4 2009, 04:39 PM']Hi Guys, I'm looking for an effects pedal that can make a bass sound like a guitar. I recorded a bass fill on our album using an Epiphone Jack Cassidy played through a guitar amp. However live I play a Musicman Sterling through an SVT2 and 810 and so I need a pedal that will do the job. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Ed (Elliot Minor)[/quote] a tonebender or similar clone will get you there or even a big muff with some mods!

[quote name='flatwound' post='617434' date='Oct 5 2009, 02:04 PM']Excuse my ignorance please but is this peanut playing with his tool, or is this the kind of money these things go for....and if so "why" ? Its an amp for f#%^ sake [url="http://cgi.ebay.com.au/VINTAGE-1973-TUBE-OR-120-ORANGE-BASS-HEAD_W0QQitemZ180412651752QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Amplifiers?hash=item2a016e98e8&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]http://cgi.ebay.com.au/VINTAGE-1973-TUBE-O...id=p3286.c0.m14[/url][/quote] thats a proper orange amp in good nick, and its found its way to australia thus the inflated price!

[quote name='ase_one23' post='616799' date='Oct 4 2009, 08:10 PM']saw [url="http://www.bass.se/2009/metaldrive.htm"]this[/url] , heard the samples, thought of this thread.[/quote] could do with a blend on that just to retain some definition, the first four clips sound terrible haha. props on them using electric wizard riffs to demo it though!

[quote name='alexclaber' post='617233' date='Oct 5 2009, 11:35 AM']If I made guitar cabs (as opposed to guitar modelling cabs) they would use traditional high colouration speakers because so much of guitar tone is in what they do (or fail to do!), but I'd combine them with advanced lightweight enclosures so you'd get the same tone but without the weight penalty (and probably better dispersion). I've an opportunity to pick up a load of guitar drivers cheap but I think I'll have to let that pass as I've really only touched the surface of guitar speakers and don't want to end up with lots of the wrong model! Alex[/quote] what have you had the oportunity to pick up? i don't think you should completely bin the idea if you marketed it right it could work, i.e super loud, big bass response and lots of speaker break up(for doom guys)

[quote name='chris_b' post='614001' date='Oct 1 2009, 05:15 PM']Not sure this is a winner! 99% of the guitarists I play with use Fender combos.[/quote] i don't think i've seen anyone uses a combo with the type of people i gig with for a few years now! the doom / sludge / stoner side of things seems to attract way more gear elitists who like lots of volume! but as mr foxen said part of what makes the traditional guitar sound is the bad frequency response from the cabs / speakers, its also why quite a few attempts at making super clean guitar heads failed think the ampeg line of guitar heads and trace elliot. speakers in sturdy boxes are the way forward for them!

[quote name='henry norton' post='615832' date='Oct 3 2009, 04:44 PM']I'm sure someone's posted something about these amps before; [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ashton-BV300H-All-valve-300watt-Bass-head-amp_W0QQitemZ180357483623QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL?hash=item29fe24cc67&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_973wt_935"]ashton???!!![/url] It's allot of valve power for your money but I wonder what you're buying into. It wouldn't cost much less to [i]re-valve[/i] an SVT or 400+. Anyone tried one?[/quote] wow thats looks a bargain for that price! i'd love to have one of these and run it through its paces see if it does the 300watts!

[quote name='steve' post='614799' date='Oct 2 2009, 01:45 PM']I thought someone had modified the design, - CD4049's have six single input line buffers in one chip, op amps have an inverting and non-inverting input.[/quote] it's an inverting opamp. [url="http://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/view/170415/STMICROELECTRONICS/HCF4049UBEY.html"]http://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf...CF4049UBEY.html[/url]

[quote name='Al Heeley' post='614710' date='Oct 2 2009, 12:43 PM']+1 for a bass Llama clone - another great distortion/fuzz box[/quote] yeah and with all those spare opamp stages it leaves lots of oportunity for modding! such as adding a clean blend and a active tone stack!

[quote name='nash' post='614042' date='Oct 1 2009, 05:57 PM']Ashdown's reply to my question - why didn't you guys opt for an all valve preamp? [b]Dear Steve, Simple really the biggest selling valve amps in the world have a hybrid front end and we want to take some of their market. What is critical here is the HUGE size and power of the Valve back end and the tone and punch you get from this, whilst still retaining a pre amp that ALL of our Artists know very well and like, which also has great tone and flexibility. However of course we do have ongoing projects and a very simple old school tube front end is also available next year with the same back end, you will have to wait and see/ hear them both in the near future. I cannot be more exact, the BTA400s start shipping next week and then you will see and hear about the rest of the lines to come on Valve amps which Mr Green and myself have been working on for a year or so. Also please note, these are UK built 100% there is NOT a major bass amp made in the USA or UK at anywhere near the prices the BTA 400 is being sold, yes its very expensive, but when you see HOW its built and it DOES put out over 400w rms I think it may be a nice surprise. There are amps claiming to be 200w and ‘made in the uk’ however if you measure them you will see they put out 140 to 150w and other US amps put out nowhere near the power there names suggest , hence we have taken a little too long to get the power and reliability correct along with longevity of the valves and transport issues such heavy monsters give. Sadly they are VERY heavy and VERY Big. Hope this helps, watch this space over the next 3 months in the lead up to the launches due for 2010.. Best rgds Mark[/b][/quote] i want to see the schematic if there actually getting OVER 400watts out of 8 kt88s there must be some heavy duty drivers in this amp!

[quote name='matt_citizenbass' post='611098' date='Sep 28 2009, 06:25 PM']what does that mean? i guess it might not be my distortion but i've had it through every amp i've played through . I guess it could be my single jazz pickup? in terms of tone. I'm not keen on valve amps, i've had a soundcity 120B and its lovely but not exactly for me. Plus i use about 30% clean sound so i need to have that of being able to go back to crisp and delicate... if ya get me.... a DHA has always appealed to me, how far gain can they go? would anyone care to share some soundclips?[/quote] did you sell that 120 to greene king? valve amps don't have to be dirty, have it running for distortion and use your volume knob to dial in a cleaner sound, either that or don't play as hard!

[quote name='Al Heeley' post='610990' date='Sep 28 2009, 04:52 PM']I think he's referring to possible excessive heat from the soldering iron, not an electric current issue.[/quote] yeah thats what i meant when i said it was very unlikely, its quite unlikely you'll cook a transistor unless you have your soldering iron on the leg for quite a bit of time!

[quote name='matt_citizenbass' post='610508' date='Sep 28 2009, 01:16 AM']i basically want to sound like Kurt Ballou ( guitarist fom converge) but on bass. preferably not really expensive. Preferably no bass loss. i want a pedal that also feedsback nicely as apposed to squeal annoyingly which my current distortion does right now. no fuzzes. I play a lot of chords and i need the sound to be still detailed but heavy as hell. has anyone got any pedal recomendations? cheers, Matt[/quote] selmer treble and bass on full and some big 2X15s?

[quote name='cm261' post='609733' date='Sep 27 2009, 12:24 AM']Ta very much for the link mate, never heard of that method before. Regarding the transistors, I didn't use sockets so that can't be the problem, though I might have cooked the transistors I spose. Cheers for the advice, much appreciated.[/quote] very unlikely unless your using a to powerful power supply, my moto is check it and check it again you'll get better at these kind've things

[quote name='cris the man' post='609435' date='Sep 26 2009, 06:20 PM']bump well i got it , but also bought a eden wtx500! must say sounds just how i wanted, thanks for the recomendations however... I've been advised by my uncle to try and set it through 'send and return' the eden has a send and return socket, but so does the boss pedal? how should i arrange it? My guitar teacher said try edenSEND to bossRETURN , and bossSEND to edenRETURN, but no luck there many thanks[/quote] haha wow suprised you didn't blow up your amp making the mother of all feedback loops. no need to put your multi effects in the effects loop just plug your bass into the input and then put the output into your amp

[quote name='nash' post='609281' date='Sep 26 2009, 02:51 PM']Quality of component*[/quote] generally the quality of pots doesn't affect the sound so much but the taper can differ from pot to pot which can justify spending more on a decent one

[quote name='TheButler' post='608680' date='Sep 25 2009, 03:16 PM']I kinda fancy 2 gt200's but in one enclosure...not sure if that would make it a gt400 haha. I do have a lot of guitard to fight with, but I'm sure even one solitary gt200 could cope with a couple of AD-30's...[/quote] they're making a gt400 for a chap atm, so i'm sure they'll make you one if you ask! The transformers on it are a thing of beauty!

[quote name='obbm' post='607492' date='Sep 24 2009, 10:44 AM']I've dug these out from my archives and removed the component values. It shows the similarities between these pre-amps. All three have the same tone control structure (Fender) - bass and treble boost only, mid cut only. The F2B is the most basic design uses two valve stages to achieve its gain The F1X has a cathode follower first stage to provide a very high impedance input and low impedance output to the effects loop. All the gain is in the second valve stage. The tone control has an additional deep switch. Not shown is DI output stage and an adjustable crossover for bi-amping. The Trace uses the same fundamental circuit as the F1X with a few componet value changes. There is an added Mid Shift switch. There is a second valve of which the first stage is used to bring the gain back up after the tone circuit and the second stage is another cathode follower to provide a very low impedance output. The Trace V8 pre-amp is an evolution of this with a switchable dual valve overdrive stage positioned between the FX return and the tone circuit.[/quote] very nice thanks for that!

[quote name='ped' post='607110' date='Sep 23 2009, 09:14 PM']Lol ownage[/quote] aye i feel like a chuff now ;o

[quote name='drthirkenstein' post='604965' date='Sep 21 2009, 08:58 PM']oh i dunno i have a gt 200 and matching 2,400 watt matamp 810 and i'd say that it doesnt really have that much clean headroom. however i borrowed my friends svt classic the other day at practice and thought it sounded totally sh*t compared to the matamp so i must like it! the best solution would probably be to get another gt200 or a slave and have the cab re-wired into two 410s...but then again thats silly money. i'm thinking of getting one of them warwick x-tremes or something similar and using that to power the bottom 4 speakers sort of like a sub. The clean tone IS beautiful; it's just that if you're going up against guitarists running 100watters flat out into 412s it doesnt have the power. But once you get over it and embrace the dirt of cranking the gt200 you will love it. That is what its made for. no pedals, just a musicman into an overdriven gt200 and it gives an awesome sound.[/quote] i don't know with a decent power supply solid state can't touch valves for frequency response etc

[quote name='tayste_2000' post='606613' date='Sep 23 2009, 12:44 PM']There is no way on earth the 400+ is only putting out 180w As for filling it with KT88's essentially all your saying is buy a new amp.[/quote] edit; sorry didn't realise how different 400's and 400+'s were. Don't put 6550s or kt88s in your 400+ or it'll explode and yes it wont be doing 180 it'll probably be doing somewhere around 300 - 360watts!

[quote name='tayste_2000' post='606463' date='Sep 23 2009, 10:22 AM']The one closest to the power/standby switches apparently But the more I research into it, with it being a lower gain all it's doing is giving you the same 400+ sound but neutering the amp so what I get at Master vol 3 I would then get at like 6-7 so I have more usable clean tones inbetween, but I have my volume at 3+ for a reason. Hmmm no so sure about this[/quote] if you want more clean i'd recomend running 6550s(or kt88s if you actually wanna hit the 300watts) in it so it'll actually around 300watts as apposed to 180.