chris_b

I have a Thunderfunk and while there are 17 knobs and buttons on the front of mine I only use Gain, Timbre , Volume and have the Tube button pressed in. The rest are at 12 o'clock. From posts on Talkbass this seems to be a fairly standard approach to using the amp. I have just bought a BB800 and am still a/b'ing it with my TH500, AG700 and T'funk. Jury's out at the moment.

Take it back and get an opinion from the guy who set i up in the first place.

I have no idea what any of you are talking about.

As she said, you've got to be good enough, at the right place, right time and you have to be what they want. The best guitarist in the world won't have been given three chances if he was a 6' 4" bloke, with glasses and a beer gut! Funnily enough Nita was given 3 chances. I wonder why? As she also said, getting the gig is one thing, keeping it is another. Some "stars" keep their bands for decades, some change them all the time. The moment you think you are safe in the rock side-man world, you're in trouble. Complacency will kill your career every time.

The last 410 I owned was an Epifani in 2006. It was light, for a 410, but still a very unwieldy lump. These days, I'd always get 2 210's rather than a 410.

You got me there. I've just put it under the spotlight and there is a fan inside the casing. I guess now I've got to give my Scouts Observation badge back!!!! Apologies to all.

I do not run my gear to critical levels, so I don't see any of these issues myself. If I need more than an amp can comfortably give I get the larger model. Same with cabs. I'd be surprised if any TH500 heat issues were caused by an overcrowded box, because there's enough room in there to play a game of football. I've owned 2 TH500's and I can guarantee they only had one fan.

If your cabs are the EBS Classic 112 they run a max 250 watts a cab. I would guess you won't be running at full whack so you shouldn't have a problem. You can hear cabs start to sound bad and breakup if you are running them too hard. Start with the volume on about 9 o'clock. If that sounds OK turn it up a little more, then a little more until you either get to the volume you want or it sounds bad. I'm sitting here running an 800 watt amp into a Barefaced One 10. The power of the amp doesn't matter, it's how far you turn up the volume that decides the cabs you use.

If there is only one output on the amp you can daisy chain the cabs together. . . . . . . assuming your cabs have 2 sockets on each cab. If not you can probably get a cable made up that will do the job.

As the FB clip shows TB has a great sound to start with. I've heard Trevor Barry, Ian King, and Phil Mulford live on small local gigs and in the pit on a show, using their Overwater basses. All with no post processing and they are exceptional. Yes there is work done on the sound of those clips after the performance, but if you start off with something which sounds that good then post processing doesn't "make" the sound, it just enhances the already great sound already there.

Trevor Barry has one of the best sounding basses I've heard. The secret weapon TB and many of the West End players (like Ian King, also a member here) have is Overwater basses. Their sound is just world class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_2HRxpRCD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZDM9QLPaYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=habje7Yl0Ug

IMO the best amp I've used in a long time is my Aguilar AG700. There was one in the classifieds a couple of weeks ago.

I know someone using a Little Mark 800 through a single SC. He goes pretty loud and sounds good too.

. . . . . . . . or you could just tilt the cab back?

Good networking skills are better than auditions.

You don't want to buy a BB2. And you don't want to get a new one with 20% knocked off the price. You don't. Really.

Bass started off with no amps at all for a good few hundred years, briefly moved to small amps for a few years and then big amps emerged for the lucky few who could afford roadies. That time passed and we are now back to small amps and the future looks like we're heading to no amps again. We've gone full circle and when the apocalypse happens and electricity gives out double basses will be king again. The guys who held on to their 810 cabs will be laughing, at least they'll have somewhere to live.

For the size of hole you are dealing with, matchsticks are big enough to force the screw to bite into the now reduced hole size. You really don't need to use glue either.

Shame. Sounding good. Very tight.

Nah. Just happy you got a result.

I had AE112's for about 6 years and then a CN 212 for a couple more. If I ever move away from my Barefaced cabs Bergantino is where I'd be. I don't know there is a huge difference between the AE, CN and HDN cabs. Maybe the HDN's are the culmination of the tweeks that have been made to the previous models. I'd always go for several 112's, because they are flexible and give you modular set ups. I also have a bad back which is why I had to sell my CN212. I'm always looking for the lightest carry. Also check out Barefaced. My Super Compact and Super Midget make a world class sound and they are two of the lightest, loudest 112's I've heard. I briefly owned a D800 and used it with 2 Super Compacts. They made a great sound together, but I decided I preferred my Aguilar amps. I'm sure the Subway cabs would be an excellent choice. BF have a 20% off sale on their cabs until Monday.

If you look at through the side slots on my Aguilar TH500 and AG700, you can see. . . . . . . virtually nothing! The ratio of stuff to space is about 50/50. Does anyone have any D class reliability issues these days? Not me. Anyone seen a pro touring PA system fail? Those FOH systems have been D class for many, many years. The PA companies who put together those systems wouldn't use anything unless it had the highest reliability imaginable. My valve amps were pretty good but the main ones, Marshall 100 watt and Mesa 400+, did fail on stage a couple of times over the years. I took my SS with a valve pre SVT3 to the repair shop for an MOT. The guy running the place said he'd never had one in for repair, but there were more than a dozen hire SVT's which had problems he needed to fix before they could go out again. SS amps hit a peak of reliability and it only got better with D class. Electrical components will never have 100% reliability in anything but the failure rate these days is miniscule, but that's what backups are for. Who has used their backup amp because of a problem with their main amp? Again, I haven't. Is anyone old enough to remember the TV repair man coming to your house to fix those big wooden cased TV's? Or taking your broken radio to the repair shop? We are are at a time of the highest reliability in anything electrical. So, to get back to the original comments. . . . . I don't see D class amps "regularly overheating". That's a generalisation that I don't believe.

I haven't made a 110 work on a gig yet, but I've used a 112 quite often.

Why?

Did this tech actually find a problem in this amp when he looked at it? I have never had an SS or D class amp overheat and some of them have been run pretty hard.