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i should sort out my valve bass and get a picture of that up!

i'd recomend going for JJ's if your going for new ones or mullards / brimar if your going NOS

you could add a hum balance pot to the heater supply which helps also due to the active tone stack it picks up alot more noise than your average amp so you could also swap the tone stack out for something a bit different, also the resivour caps might need changing if their still original

its normally hum that they have problems with, buzzing sounds like it could do with a bit of a servicing

[quote name='obbm' post='529813' date='Jul 1 2009, 05:53 PM']Sometimes you might still find those old value ceramic disc capacitors however the closest modern equivalents are 0.047uF and 0.033uF. The difference in values will have a minimal effect. You can get 0.047 and 0.033 Sprague Orange Drop caps from Watford Valves.[/quote] +1 on the sprague they sound beautiful

rms should be clean power

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='525999' date='Jun 27 2009, 03:24 PM']Dude, not Doom. Probably bottom endier sound with the down tuning, but you need lots of cabs to really take it, suspect most running 400w of valves doesn't have the cabs for it.[/quote] yeah blates good for doom, more cabs is a better solution though in my opinion ;o

[quote name='Musicman20' post='524269' date='Jun 25 2009, 11:23 PM']Wow! Sunn... Tonight, I played with the Orange AD200b for the first time where the guitarists were nearly full whack (so thats two Marshall 60W heads into two 4x12 cabs). This amp kills....I first was only using the 1x15 as I couldnt be arsed to take the whole stack. It blew me away...SOOO much bass push. Then I borrowed the other bands Ampeg 4x10E to go with it. INSANE volumes...and that was on about 2.5 out of 10 on the volume and gain half way up....and no PA. So...200W of Orange Watts is INCREDIBLY loud. Im very impressed. For the first time ever I could feel and hear the bass properly.[/quote] i don't understand why people need 400watt valve heads

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='524000' date='Jun 25 2009, 06:47 PM']You're a guitar combo. I think running an extension cab instead of its own speakers is best plan. Means you can rag it and not worry about the extension cabs drowning out the breaking speaker sounds.[/quote] +1

[quote name='JonnyM' post='522394' date='Jun 24 2009, 10:27 AM']So, have had a reply from Barge: "Adding the vari-Z circuit is not an in-the-field modification. Just adding the impedance circuit is a fairly complicated procedure., modifying the stock feedback option to manipulate impedance is even more complicated - traces would need to be cut from the board, a significant amount of off-board wiring would need to be added to use the stock pot to control the vari-Z circuit, plus adding the additional components needed to make vari-Z possible, etc. Having us mod your current unit is possible, but not necessarily cost-effective - modding a unit after the fact usually ends up being more labor than building a new custom unit from scratch. Our recommendation would be to either add a GLZ to your current signal path (which would have the added benefits of being footswitchable, as well as having gain and level controls, options that wouldn't be feasible when modding your stock unit); or to replace your VFB with a VB-jr and GLZ or a custom built DVB with the vari-Z option." But having chatted with another forum member - which I should have done in the 1st place, DOH! - I now know that the Hyperpak & Pickle Pie don't really mind what impedance they are given, so that solves that then![/quote] there reply is a bit bad i'm sure its not that difficult unless they've got some really elaborate active feedback loop going on!

thats one sexy amp

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='519796' date='Jun 21 2009, 10:25 AM']I started the thread below ( [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=51706"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=51706[/url] ) so I'm probably one of the people you're referring to. Unless you're really keen on grammar, in which case I'm probably one of the people to whom you are referring. I'm not an experienced gigger, I'm still relatively new to the whole thing despite my age, and pedals & effects can be a real distraction in so many ways. For me, each and every device/unit/contraption has to be able to justify being there. I've bought all the usual suspects, including simple one-function pedals (overdrive, chorus, reverb, tremelo, etc.) and more complex stuff (synth, multi-FX), and what I realised last week was that virtually every time I used a pedal in a song it was simply to justify having that pedal! Here's our second set for our next gig - it's a friends & family gig so there need to be lots of crowd-pleasers. [i][color="#0000FF"]A Horse With No Name My Babe Get A Haircut The Letter Another Man One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer Looking For My Baby She Caught The Katy Two More Bottles Of Wine Don't Waste My Time Natural Born Bugie Honky Tonk Women Brown Sugar[/color][/i] Encores (if requested ) [i][color="#0000FF"]I Love To Boogie Tush Long Train Runnin'[/color][/i] That set covers - roughly - 1960-80 and offers blues, rock, soul & funk. I suppose we could stick in [i][color="#0000FF"]I Shot The Sheriff[/color][/i] to bring in some reggae, but it's hard to see what other styles we could cover at a pub gig. I'll be playing the whole lot using a 1975 Fender Precision strung with flats, and with no pedals at all. My rig has a compressor (DBX166A) which I'll be using and an Aphex Aural Xciter which I won't be using (too boomy with this set-up). I have other basses which are far more flexible tonally than the P, and I have more pedals than you can shake a stick at. I've spent the last week or two trying to work out where they actually ADD anything to my playing, and the answer turns out to be ... they don't! OK, that's just my opinion, but try this: Look at my set list again and make some recommendations ... "You could use some chorus on XXX" or "ZZZ would sound great with heavy distortion". I'll be happy to try out your suggestions. Just bear in mind that I've already tried most of 'em. When I form a prog-rock power trio, come and see my pedal board [b][i]then[/i][/b]. Like SkankDelvar said, it'll be like the bridge of an aircraft carrier. [/quote] no fuzz for zz top? ;o

ashdown is very sludge ;< neither are any of the influences

[quote name='JonnyM' post='518518' date='Jun 19 2009, 04:05 PM']Not until now! But wouldn't I need 2: one for the Hyperpak and one for the Pickle Pie? Sorry, am not sure how impedance works in a pedalboard, but if the impedance box was before the HyperPak in the loop, but the Hyperpak was off, would the Pickle Pie "see" a high impedance, or does going through a pedal knock the impedance back to low again? [/quote] the pickle pie would see the same impedence if the hyperpak was off

[quote name='JonnyM' post='518461' date='Jun 19 2009, 03:14 PM']Thanks for all the replies! Yes, Higgie's custom Barge would indeed work, but it's too big for my board (see pic) and I think kinda overcomplicated for my needs - unless I can be convinced otherwise - what the heck would I do with all those knobs n stuff in my set-up As for the dirt sounds, I did some recording recently and plugged straight into the Hyperpak - sounded really great and figured it must be to do with the impedance of the signal it was getting. (I usually run my bass in passive mode, so the signal goes from bass to MultiComp into the VFB2 and the Hyperpak & Pickle Pie. I'm guessing that the signal from bass to MultiComp is high impedance, but by the time it gets to the Hyperpak it's low impedance?) I'm pretty handy with a soldering iron, but wouldn't know where to start here, unless it's nice & straightforward [/quote] ever consider making a little impedence box?

[quote name='davidmpires' post='516559' date='Jun 17 2009, 04:18 PM']I don't mean to sound like a jerk on my 2nd post but you may want to read this before you think about buying one. [url="http://bassthatricbuilt.web.officelive.com/default.aspx"]Bad experience with Ric[/url][/quote] that website made me lol.

berg 6X10, matamp 8X10 etc etc theres a world of alternatives that will be the same price or cheaper, it just depends what you want out of your cab ;p

[quote name='JonnyM' post='517418' date='Jun 18 2009, 02:33 PM']My sig. shows my current set-up: I've been wondering whether it'd be worthwhile, desirable - or even possible - to have the VFB2 modded so the feedback control (which I don't use) is a variable impedance buffer instead? (I'm guessing that the impedance of the signal running into the distortion & fuzz isn't optimal at the moment, ie is too low). Thoughts?[/quote] that should be fairly easy to do yourself if you're handy with a soldering iron

when was it last revalved?

[quote name='bobbass4k' post='515343' date='Jun 16 2009, 02:59 PM']They're quite sought after, grygrx of bassfuzz.com seems to be loving d*a*m gear at the moment, and they seem to be the flavour of the month on talkbass, so you could probably get quite a bit for it[/quote] they are really well made pedals, don't know if there THAT well made that they're worth 860 pounds though ;p to the o/p any chance of some gut shots of the board etc? pretty pleasssssse

there supposed to be the sh*t of bass overdrives ;< is there any chance i could borrow it to backtrace it?

[quote name='riff raff' post='514920' date='Jun 16 2009, 12:59 AM']well, im sticking with the svt head.but the cabs just aren't cutting it.pretty open minded.weight and size is not a major issue.[/quote] phone up matamp ;>

check your wiring again, also if you have a volt meter check the pot - it's not very likely to be that though