Trace Elliot AH300-12, gain at 10 and still not high enough.

[big rob]

Can I adjust the gain inside the amp, I am plugging in active basses with high outputs but i have to crank the gain up to 10 just to get in the ok but only when playing really hard.
Can anyone help!

Big Rob

[LukeFRC]

1- try with other bass, try your bass in other amp
2- try with other lead
3- what level is the master volume? at?
4- try depressing any active/passive switch, run it for passive
5- does it sound good not in the okay light? leave it.

[neilb]

Buggered lead I reckon.

[MarkG3]

Pretty much what's been said but try,

Different bass
Different leads - including speaker leads
Press the active/passive button to see if that helps
Different cab or amp incase its the cab

Have you changed the battery in your bass if its active?

[mep]

Jesus, on 10 and not loud enough. You must have a serious problem. I rarely turn my AH200 above 1 1/2 and even then I'm quite often told I'm too loud!

[big rob]

Will try a new lead. It sounds fine but the valve is not being driven enough. So sounds not very dirty even full up.

[big rob]

Mep, I'm talking about the gain, I'm not mad!!! I would break the foundation of my house on 10 volume.

[thepurpleblob]

What sort of bass are we talking about. My Musicman basses (even the 18V Bongo) have very low outputs. A passive Precision will blow them into the dust. In fact - rather counter intuitively - I have found that passive basses fairly consistently have higher outputs than actives.