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The fasting showman started following Home recording or banging my head against a wall. , Gallien Krueger 700rb ii new power amp module , Ernie Ball Check strap £10 posted in UK and 5 others
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Gallien Krueger 700rb ii with new power amp board purchased from Polar Audio last month. I bought a 2nd power amp board for my main amp so this is now surplus. OK, I made a big noise about buying a dead 700rb ii for £50 and then buying a new power amp for £50 ( equals £100, I know)...I'm offering this at 175 purely as it's about half what a 700rb would go for normally. I tend to sell pretty cheaply, to stop gear gathering dust but below £175 then I may as well keep it. Obviously the heart transplant was done by myself as a DIY fix. The amp works well and actually sounds better ( new board maybe?) than my old faithful. So if you want a 700rb ii at a good price, hopefully I'm being pretty transparent. I am just raising funds as I'm not gigging much. Just to add, at the asking price I'm happy to meet up and handover the amp within say a 50 mile radius. From Lichfield, Strensham services for example. Not a fan of couriers from previous experience. Cheers Martin
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What are you listening to right now?
The fasting showman replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
Andrew Bodnar sounds great on this, good choice. I always wondered if this song was influenced by 'Sound and Vision' -
I just got another 700rb power amp module for £30 and a preamp for £15. Repairers can't seem to be bothered with fixing them so it's a good backup. I've used my old 700rb for 10 years so they work for me, small enough and more than loud enough so if I can keep it working myself, all good. Thanks for the heads up
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As I mentioned a few posts ago, I bought a kaput 700rbii off ebay for around £50 a few years ago. I did a DIY fault check working front to back and established that the preamp and DI worked fine. Upon connecting a cheap speaker to the output I heard a loud thud through the speaker; I assume it's gone DC at the output. Our local amp tech had a quick look and issued an I won't charge anything but cease and desist...he said the transformer is fine, keep it for spares. He felt that digging through the pcb wouldn't be cost effective compared to buying a second hand working amp. A different repair company quoted me £150 to fix the amp presumably gone DC. Obviously I was chuffed to drop on a new power amp module from Polar last week for £49. I now have 2 working 700rb amps. So the dead module is free to anyone, would be good for a tech-y 700rb owner to cannibalise or fix.
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...the Keen Ocean transformer Polar have got listed on ebay is for 400rb mk3 and mk4, also backline 600 models. The amp repairer I use used one in my old 400rb mk2 to convert a US model to UK voltage. It worked fine but it involved drilling a hole for the toroidal transformer. Just a heads up if anyone wants to keep it as a spare. If you can find a backline 600 they're also useful for the same reasons....decent amps in their own right.
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There's some very useful items from Polar currently on ebay for keeping old GKs working. I had a 700rbii that was a potential spare parts donor; working preamp and transformer, owes me £50ish. It had gathered dust for 2 years. I just dropped on a power amp module from Polar for £50, took out the old one and replaced it. The repaired 700rb sounds better than my old faithful. Worth looking on eBay for Polar's GK spares if you've got a clapped out GK. Or if you want backup items; techs don't seem to want to repair the power amps, I was quoted £150 at best.
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Need song recommendations for a start-up band
The fasting showman replied to Happy Jack's topic in General Discussion
Rebel Rebel by Bowie Private World - New York Dolls Iggy's 'Fall in love with me' could work as a 2 chord vamp at the end of another song. Television-'Ain't that Nothin'?' I'm stretching the brief a bit far perhaps. Let me know if you need a dep -
Roland Cube 60w bass combo. On hold - *SOLD*
The fasting showman replied to leschirons's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
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Jaco/Joni Mitchell. Shadows and Light.
The fasting showman replied to bubinga5's topic in General Discussion
As said elsewhere, absolutely stellar band; Don Alias lays down such a solid pocket for Jaco -
Home recording or banging my head against a wall.
The fasting showman replied to Dom in Dorset's topic in General Discussion
I've read this topic with interest, my patience isn't the best. I bought a basic Scarlett over lockdown and ran it with Audacity; I was emailing out bass parts I'd recorded that other band members would move into other DAWs and hopefully align my part OK. I never really got the latency as good as I'd have liked. I never figured out dragging notes around either, so I had to record and re record until it was good enough. The Scarlett has gathered dust since the lifting of lockdown restrictions. I need to get it used again.