Recent content by shrinklizard

I love this old thread. It seems many many bassists here think that D type amplification is as good or better than A, A/B and they seem to take it personal if someone disagrees. I completely disagree. Side by side my cheap TC 500 mosfet and my expensive MB 500 pale driving the same cabinet when...

That is funny when the wife compliments bass tone. Mine did the same which is so out of character with "the whole house is shaking" as she starts randomly turning off any with a light on it.

In reply to this old thread none of us knew back then the MB pots were not cleanable where as this old school tank runs clean 45 years later and owning both, beyond convenience I prefer to hump around a better sound. You're point is made but I'm a collector and MB stays in the trunk as a...

I wish I didn't literally cut the head off the cab when I was young and super stupid,...but was smart enough to hold onto the head. Love it. Just bought it's big brother 420. As a cab combo with the empty stacking cab it was a ball buster at 71 lbs. to haul and really didn't sound that good...

Here ya go...I found an image. All I have left is the head literally cut out of the combo. Young and stupid I was. It's really rare now.

Re-read my post! It's not a just a head I'm talking about. It was a combo that was apparently early and unique. It weighed a ton. Design: Many original A.M.P. combos featured a clever two-part "telescoping" enclosure where the speaker cabinet could be locked into the amp case to function as a...

I was investigating my old bass AMP. It used to be connected to a 1-15 Black Widow cab that would sit on a second empty cab where it was ported between the two. Cool amp but weighed a ton. Years later as it's been sitting around for 30 plus years I discovered an odd addition. I don't think is...

All in all the price of GAS is killing me, but I'm having a panic (in a good way). Reversing all that I've said in the past concerning the Acoustic 260 micro stack I returned two cabs to their original state concerning the speakers. It seems you can't beat the original plan and engineers know...

I ended up putting an Eminence B102 whizzer (discontinued but available) and tuning the cab to 50 Hz. It brought up mids/highs and is super clean. Combined with the 1-10 sealed Acoustic project below it has been amazing and is easy to carry. Combined with my first Precision I certainly wish I...

The best way to get familiar with the programable is to set up a couple presets as listed in the manual. The results are always surprising and helped me to get a feel for how it actually works. I prudently 'blend' my unaffected signal in and perform final signal tweaks through the amp. Sounds...

Interesting options. My MB combo head is awesome but I wanted to use it with other options. Meanwhile the TC Thrust is a perfect set in while I do other stuff with the MB 500 watts. It drops right in, has fan alignment with the MB screen and gives me the 500 watts the bottoms are used to. By...

Part 2- I would have liked to have found another 260mk bottom but it seems I was lucky to have found the one. Next up...Acoustic B15. Once again I didn't expect much and the youtube bassists(?) that promoted it are full of donkey dung. If this was intended for recording it would have had...

OM OMG this string is soooo long ago. I picked up a 260 110 cab with full intension to throw a BP102 400 watt 8 ohm legend in it as being 100 watts I was sure both head and driver were going to sound great at low volumes and nothing more. Sure enough, the speaker is weak. As said having...

Crunchy control pots. They are not cleanable. They are sealed. Check them out for sure! My volume and treble sweep off to the right are super finicky and I avoid moving them which sucks. They don't clear just by moving them back and forth like traditional pots. Trust me on this one. But I will...

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