warwickhunt

I'll check on fuse size. Just plain odd that the previous trans lasted 3 hours at bedroom volume (not continuous) and had no visible damage (unlike the first) but tested 'dead' and this one has no visible damage... as yet untested. One daft thought is that I have no means of testing that this fuse is OK other than OK visually; one should never assume!

Yes, I need to know what burnt out the first transformer (it was 18 years old), that subsequently killed the next 2 brand new transformers. The repair guy fitted a thermal trip and a fuse, however the trans didn't overheat or trip the fuse.

Yes I contacted the manufacturer but they've changed ownership/name 3 times and the amp is 18 years old. I managed to contact the company who made the transformer and it was a custom make. I have a gut feeling that as the last replacement transformer lasted hours and had no visible damage (but was dead) and this replacement is EXACTLY the same that there is an inherent issue somewhere else.

No visible burning or smell, powers on, no fuses popped, just zero output. I'm trying one last time with a different repair guy.

It died yesterday!

Therein is the conundrum; there are several MIM Fender basses that are way in excess of German made Sandbergs (used... or new) and the Sandberg Electra range are easily as good as MIM Fenders and just as cheap used.

Fixed it for you!

Oi... not me!

Believe it or not, that font won't allow certain characters, as a result I started putting all of the poster dates like that.

It isn't even reissuing the original it is a 'Vintage II'... that's TWO!

https://www.fender.com/en-GB/american-vintage-ii.html/?dc&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=consideration_amvintii_ouat&src=pm_OUAT_amvintii

His fret lines are all wonky!

If you are taken as a given that we have spare leads, batteries, strings etc. I would say that I take spare fuses. Of the larger items; I have spare amps and cabs at home (to get me through the next gigs till things are fixed) but I take a Sansamp pedal which I have in-line and I've been running an XLR line-out to our PA (vocals, guitar [guitarist has no backline] and kick drum), which I can switch in 'IF' my rig went down. It only takes 2 minutes and 1 XLR cable to set up my back up.

Pressing in 3 of the 4 pup selector buttons gets you a different tonal setting to all 4 buttons in. Nordstrand seem to think you can't do this but you can on my bass.

The 'science' says that you will get a more predictable outcome if both cabs are exactly matching but sometimes mixed drivers can work; tbh stacking any pair of cabs means that you will get more output, dispersion and a driver will be closer to head height. I have to confess that I stack a pair of 2x10 cabs vertically (vertical 4x10) and the tweeter being closer to head height is achieved but wasted on me as I am wearing attenuated ear protection.

There is the 3 buttons in AND 4 buttons in.

There will be a little bit of difference if you move away from the cab but the greater difference would be if you stacked 2 2x10 cabs on top of each other vertically! The higher any cab is, the closer to your ears so you should benefit from any vertical alignment.

I was tempted to buy one of those about 6-7 years back and it was £500. Played nice but the noise threshold just irritated me, it'd have been unnoticeable at gig volume I'd expect. I can't see how they will have tripled in value especially when one of the big UK stores had a sell out of newer/better Mesa gear a couple of years back!

I have 3 Sandbergs; x2 34" scale 'P' basses & x1 Lionel (fretless). The heaviest P bass comes in at 8lb 2oz, the other is 7lb 10oz, neither of these are a special 'Superlight' model, they are regular Sandbergs. The Lionel is 6lb 13oz. They balance and play beautifully, hardware is a notch up from USA Fender... imho

Indeed. IIRC the Tech Soundsystems 115 used a light weight Sica driver (spelling could be wrong) which made the cab a very reasonable weight.

I get sick of trying to tell bands that 2 subs 5-6m apart is worse than just 1 sub on its own... the looks I get when I say that max effect will be gained by stacking their 2 subs!

Saw the first pic and hadn't read any comments and my over riding first impression was... wrong headstock!

So you/we could hear something different and it explains our differing preferences on the contour of the older version. Nice to know you're not as cloth eared as we feared!