Incoming NAD - bit of an old 'un

[Bridgehouse]

An acquaintance of mine said he had "an old bass amp" I might like for a small charitable donation.. OK, I thought.. sure.. he lives quite a way away and it'll be a few weeks before I can go collect... turns out though, it's one of these: (images aren't the actual items!!) 

And also comes with one of these:

 

Quite looking forward to it...

[Bigwan]

Add the 2x15 and that was my teenage dream rig! 

I believe they're still favoured by that chap from Muse... 

[Bridgehouse]

13 minutes ago, Bigwan said:

Add the 2x15 and that was my teenage dream rig! 

I believe they're still favoured by that chap from Muse... 

Yes I believe so.. I have my eye on trying to acquire a 2x10 to go with it tho...

[Lozz196]

You`re not going to be disappointed @Bridgehouse (well your back might be with the cab) they are fine amps, bags of power, really effective eq options, I had one for a while and it was awesome.

[Bridgehouse]

34 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

You`re not going to be disappointed @Bridgehouse (well your back might be with the cab) they are fine amps, bags of power, really effective eq options, I had one for a while and it was awesome.

I’m not sure it will be a gigging regular  as I know they can be somewhat weighty!!

[eude]

11 hours ago, Bigwan said:

I believe they're still favoured by that chap from Muse... 

Yup, look here >> http://www.musewiki.org/Bass
That particular amp features pretty heavily throughout Muse's recording and touring.
They're beastly, in a good way, as far as I recall.

[Bridgehouse]

So I finally got to pick this up. 

Its heavy. Like small planet heavy.

It’s also utterly obscenely loud and has the most glorious thick and creamy sound I’ve ever heard. 

[Bridgehouse]

Needs the logo sticking back on the front and a service, but otherwise it’s good to go.

See? I’m not killing rock and roll...

[Skybone]

Borrowed one of these from a friend for some recording many, many moons ago. Great sounding amps & cabs.

[Bridgehouse]

I need to get it down a studio for a blast...

[Count Bassy]

Brilliant amps. I have the 7400 (Yours looks like the 7200). Brilliant sound, lots of flexibilty, and massive peak power. If yours is the 7200 its 200W continuous, and 2000W peak. It's a class H amplifier, so when it needs the extra power it switches to a higher voltage power supply. I suspect you'll find it deafening (We're talking Marshall Watts here, which I think is similar to a Trace Elliot Watt).

Gary Twigg often plays through one of these as well.

Edited December 23, 2018 by Count Bassy

[Bridgehouse]

9 minutes ago, Count Bassy said:

Brilliant amps. I have the 7400 (Yours looks like the 7200). Brilliant sound, lots of flexibilty, and massive peak power. If yours is the 7200 its 200W continuous, and 2000W peak. It's a class H amplifier, so when it needs the extra power it switches to a higher voltage power supply. I suspect you'll find it deafening (We're talking Marshall Watts here, which I think is similar to a Trace Elliot Watt).

Gary Twigg often plays through one of these as well.

Yep it’s a 7200. I suspect the 7400 would be, um, overkill (lol)

I’ve been offered a 7210 cab which I may just add to it...

[Bridgehouse]

Daylight shot:

[No. 8 Wire]

A 7400 on eBay at the moment:

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F123549944143

 

[Bridgehouse]

5 minutes ago, No. 8 Wire said:

A 7400 on eBay at the moment:

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F123549944143

 

£1300 ??

Crikey. I daren’t tell you how much I paid....

[No. 8 Wire]

3 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

£1300 ??

Crikey. I daren’t tell you how much I paid....

I've no idea whether that's too much or not enough! (Not my ad just to be clear)

[Oopsdabassist]

Wel Jel bro!....that looks awesome, and I have no doubt it sounds the same1

[Frank Blank]

It just has very serious look that says “I am capable of knocking down buildings”.

[Bridgehouse]

1 hour ago, No. 8 Wire said:

I've no idea whether that's too much or not enough! (Not my ad just to be clear)

Well, let’s just say that I paid significantly under 1/10th of that for mine.. ok, it needs a service,  but it cost more in diesel than it do to pay for it....

[Bridgehouse]

1 hour ago, Oopsdabassist said:

Wel Jel bro!....that looks awesome, and I have no doubt it sounds the same1

It needs an outing... but if low volume is anything to go by (low volume.. lol..)

[Count Bassy]

That one at 1300 has been appearing on Ebay for ages, with the price gradually being reduced. To my mind £1300 is ridiculous, I would have thought more like £500 - 750.

£130 is still a brilliant bargain for a brilliant bit of kit.

 

[Bridgehouse]

Gave it a proper clean up today and fixed the scratchy pots. 

Wow. Just gets better this does.

[Frank Blank]

How come I’m still envious of this despite having ‘gone all FRFR’? Is that GAS?

[Bridgehouse]

13 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

How come I’m still envious of this despite having ‘gone all FRFR’? Is that GAS?

Dunno whether it’s gas or not.. don’t get me wrong, I’ll be mostly gigging frfr - but I can see this stack getting a few outings when I really want to give it some..