Recent content by edbass

Why not? If you are a responsible adult and are capable of managing your finances, it's silly to NOT advantage of "free money" via a 0% incentive. Personal responsibility is the key. If you qualify for a zero percent incentive, you likely have already exhibited responsible fiscal behavior...

No offence intended, but that first sentence is just simply not true. ^This. I noticed an overall improvement with the 2008 American Standards, both in fit, finish and hardware, and it's not like they were bad before that. I bought a new MIA Magnificent 7 P/J in 2016, easily as nice as the...

What "bath on resale"? It's not like buying a new car. :D The MIA Fenders are traditionally the best value overall, even when bought new. Here's why; cost of ownership/return on investment. The true "cost" of an item to the end user is what it's ACV (actual cash value) is vs what you...

This has become my go to, an actual MIA Fender rather than a knock off copy. It was part of the "Magnificent Seven" limited edition releases in 2016, a passive American Standard with a Jazz neck. Just under 8lbs. I paid under $1500 brand new, saw one NIB go for $1200ish on Reverb a few months...

Specs don’t make music, rigs do. Ears hear, and the brain perceives things in a manner more akin to an audio taper pot than to a linear taper pot, and each individual’s “taper” can be unique. This is why before gear is released from a major manufacturer, after the bench testing it is beta tested...

I am not aware of, but could imagine a scenario where if asked about a slight mismatch, maybe <1 ohm, Mesa could recommend going higher for a specific situation/amplifier. As I said earlier, tube output stages are pretty resilient. Also speaker loads are reactive, ratings are "nominal", and the...

Sunns of that era all have 4, 8, and 16 ohm taps on the OT. Two of them are wired to the output jacks, which are paralleled, when both jacks have a phone plug in them both default to the lower impedance tap. How they were factory wired depended on what cabinet configuration was ordered with the...

In an attempt to put a positive spin on this thread; It's somewhat entertaining, but regretfully in the perverse/guilty way that it can be hard to look away from a horrific accident. It illustrates why arbitrarily taking technical advice verbatim from an un-vetted enthusiast forum can be a...

That transistor Concert PA Control Amp was rated at 90 watts RMS, introduced in 1969 I believe. The Coliseum PA amp Leslie West used in Mountain (and the Beach Boys actually used as a PA amp) was an, albeit conservatively rated, hand wired, all tube 120 watt amp. As a side note, I'm pretty sure...

That was a great deal indeed. The newer C225's are little different than that one however, newer ones have two handles on top rather than the single handle on the older ones. Also, another upgrade in the interest of modern bass players is that the newer C225's have the OT tapped at 2, 4, and 8...

@donahue I spent some serious A/B time with this setup; As has been mentioned, the amps are very similar. My gigging C225 is actually built on a British DR201 chassis, in fact in the very early days, all Reeves Amps were simply re-badged British Hiwatts. The first "Reeves" I gigged was a UK...

I came up with a different solution for a similar problem. I bought a vintage blue sparkle Kustom rig, plus a somewhat rare "Frankenstein" Kustom guitar amp some years ago. It reminded me of Jr High School dances a million years ago, when I saw a band who's bass player had a sunburst Jazz Bass...

No doubt about that. While speaker distortion can add desirable musical texture, often where the “farting” comes in is when you are banging the drivers on their chassis, over excursion distorting VC’s and cones, etc., something impeding the even movement of the cone/motor. The lower and louder...

As you mentioned, Hiwatts don't really do distortion like some other amps, they fight distortion right up to max output. My ears tell me the only attenuation Entwistle used at Leeds was his attack, those amps were pretty much dimed the whole gig. "My Generation" is one of the examples, those...

Interesting, as one of iconic classic recorded live bass tones was Entwistle on "Live at Leeds", and that was 100 watt Hiwatts on "11". I couldn't use that tone myself, and of course his hands play a huge part, however that Leeds bass still gets me fired up whenever I hear it. Those were...