Quilly

Thanks , I replaced the pickup a couple of years ago as I felt the stock one sounded a bit flat. Although it sounded great it didn't sit perfectly well with the preamp and It was very noisy at low volumes. When I measured the resistance of the pickup it was twice that of the stock Sandberg one ! . I wasn't really using the active circuitry at all and I found myself preferring the sound of my Fender Precision bass (but the Sandberg is a nicer bass to play). It was bugging me for a while until I eventually snapped and pulled out the old soldering iron ! Couldn't be happier now. I do have an active Sandberg Basic and I think the electronics and PUP work really well on that bass.

To be honest I think the old fashioned pots and capacitor weighed more than the onboard preamp !

I suppose I could but I kinda like the bare bones look...its like when Malcolm young had the one Pup in his Gretsch and let the others blank. ... I know weird.

So I did some surgery on my 2010 California VS, removed all the active electronics, replaced it with decent pots a new scratch plate , copper shielding, new caps and Lollar overwounds (total active to passive conversion basically) Different beast altogether now, it did leave a bit of a hole in the back where the battery used to be but as the cavity is nicely varnished inside I’m not too bothered. Can’t put this bass down, loads of character.

I've already changed the Pickup in my California VS for a Lollar overwound and it added so much more character to the sound, in the process of replacing the preamp for a decent passive harness with decent pots and caps.

Thanks for that , just bought one !

I’d like to put together a 100w plexi style bass amp with 4x EL34s I can’t imagine that’s too complicated? It’s the cost of the actual cabinets I find a bit ludicrous. Almost the same cost of all the innards ….for a wooden box essentially

I know this is an old thread , but I just built a tweed 5e3 amp and Im jurs itching to put together a bass amp, I just can’t see that many bass kits out there apart from modulous. How did your amp turn out ?

Just finished a tweed guitar amp build (5E3) and am eager to get cracking on a 50/100w bass amp (Marshall plexi 1986 type). I’m finding the actual cabinets are as expensive as the innards ! Anyone know where I could get plans for the short/compact Marshall amp box? Maybe I could take to a cabinet builder or carpenter.

To me this classifies as a "consumable" or "accessory" and not "gear" as such, now if it was diamond encrusted or made from something exotic like snakeskin you might be pushing your luck! ...but I don't make the rules..

Jan is a bad time to try and sell anything, I was trying to sell a pristine P bass and no bites at all....which I'm slightly relieved by as its a cracker of a bass.

Once you try a Sandberg you're in trouble.

That's funny 😂

I have the Two10 and its as loud as I've ever needed. I toyed with the idea of getting a four10, but honestly there was no point, the Two10 delivers in spades. Great Cabs

Yeah, Ideal for small acoustic gigs and rehearsal, I was looking for something small that I could use with this amp and the elf amp I had. I sold the Elf 110 I had as it was just too small for the LB30 and not really suited to that amp. Got the Epifini last week on Reverb and its ideal, lovely warm tone from it, very efficient cab so it gets relatively loud.

Really happy with this little 110 Epifnai / little bastard combo 😁

I've had a class D Ampeg PF350 and a TC electronics 250W class D amp and the elf 200W kicks both their bottoms so..yeah underrated loudage !

I might be totally wrong but I think the old 200W trace heads were Class A/B and had stonking clumps of iron transformers driving the speaker so they might have more "heft" (there's that word ) than the class D 200W elf.

I had an AH500-7 head once and it was an absolute beast of an amp, Even the 300W 1*15 combo I had was loud enough for all my needs. very heavy amps tho, the old trace stuff.

Yep I used that combo myself and it worked really well.

I think the "BIG" Trace 1200W goes down to 2ohms.

Yep the only thing is to avoid running through impedances < 4ohm, SS amps dont like that.

I reckon through an efficient 4 x 10 cab at 4ohms it should be loud enough. 200W is nothing to be sneezed at .

It doesn't bother me too much but It was that scenario where the 4 rubber feet would not sit on the cab at once 🙈