Merton

There's a sticky with loads of suggestions in the Repairs/Technical forum, that'd be your best first port of call

bollocks. I've only ever owned carpeted trace except for the v type combo and it was/is bombproof.

Are you referring to the head? It has one 8 ohm output so you can drive one 8 ohm cab or two 16 ohm cabs in parallel or two 4 ohm cabs in series. If it's the combo you can only use the internal speaker. Hope that helps

None of it gibson, the smc you have is just pre-gibson (tho it was a model during the gibson years too) and the two cabs are older than that

Chris has been an absolute gent, as has his partner Carrie. He let me borrow his Nemesis NA650 to try on a gig before I took the plunge to buy, and he's been patient with me whilst I eventually got the time to contact him 24-48 hours later to confirm I'd buy it. With a bit of luck he'll have the mony in his account tomorrow, but for now I'd like to saythanks Chris, it was a pleasure

Had two dealings with zephead in the last week, for a bass and a (still to ship!) flightcase. Both occasions were a pleasure and I'd have no prob dealing with Mike again - cheers!

[quote name='XPAULUSX' post='721531' date='Jan 22 2010, 07:00 PM']SERVICE? Maybe the preamp tube is buggered???[/quote] What cab are you using? What comp settings - if used incorrectly this can f**k things up right royally? Any fx? Doubt it's the tube, more likely just needs an EQ tweak but a service certainly wouldn't hurt

What an awful tragedy My sincere condolences to all family and friends. Kinda puts things in perspective.

[quote name='MythSte' post='721094' date='Jan 22 2010, 12:46 PM']Very thorough! however, i think im going to do the following; Take valves out, hoover. Should do the trick, thankyou! Just had a play through it though, and my god is 100 watts of valve loud. Im genuinly struggling to hear any volume difference between it and my old shuttle 6.0. I love me valves i do![/quote] Pics! Need pics. Oh, and I need first refusal when you move it on

[quote name='MythSte' post='718605' date='Jan 20 2010, 12:01 AM']I'll be dropping by again on friday![/quote] Damn right you will, without pics it doesn't exist

[quote name='northstreet' post='719504' date='Jan 20 2010, 08:08 PM']Will I damage my amp if I plug my bass into the "wrong" input? I presume the active input is to prevent a really hot bass overloading the preamp. My Ibanez is an active bass (in that it has a battery-powered tone control) but the output doesn't seem very high. If I plug it into the active input then I have to turn the amp's volume control up to get it as loud as if I'd plugged into the passive input. So I'm working the output stage harder. Plug into the passive input and I can turn it down - but what's best? I should mention it's a Hartke LH500 which doesn't have a separate gain control.[/quote] No. But if it sounds bad, turn down. I have an LH500 and an 18V Status bass. I plug into the passive input to get a bit of grind from the tube. It's lovely