Recent content by spankdaplank

Comes with a rupture truss, back brace and three months of chiropractor treatments I bought one on a whim years ago and I can testify it sounded like dog crap. What were they thinking?

I forgot to add my biggest question, as a Peavey VB-3 owner, why haven't any other manufacturers used the SMPS power section in their tube bass amps. The most repeated complaint about tube amps is the weight. A 300 watt SVT head is about 90 lbs. My VB-3 is also 300 watts but weighs only 37 lbs...

Here's my 2 cents worth of some odd things. So, based on different amps over the years, for eq I really found the semi parametric eq on the Carvin BX500 to be very useful. The eq layout is shelving bass and treble and two bands of semi parametric, low mid 50 to 500 hz. and a high mid 200...

I'm an old guy. 40 years ago (!!) I built this diy parametric which I still have. John Roberts Parametric EQ Audio Project | PDF I was gigging regularly and used it with the different small rigs I had then. One was a Dual Showman 100 watt head and the other was a Sunn 2000s both with the 1x15...

For some brands the number of watts will be whatever the marketing department thinks they can get away with and will boost their sales.

For what its worth, about 15 years ago I built a 1000 watt B-15. That's a B15 clone front end incuding the phase inverter using 6sl7 tubes feeding an ICEpower 1000asp. It weighs about 13 lbs. in a 2 space aluminum rack case. The power is off the charts. I still have it and really want to do a...

The OP said it was for use in a medium sized club with a PA. A couple of questions. Does the PA include FOH support? What kind of music? Heavy hitting drummer ? Loud guitar? I'm an OG and back in the day I found myself in smaller situations when I moved to San Francisco. I got a Mesa Diesel 15...

Where does the preamp section get its power from? You may need a small DC dual power supply or you may get lucky if the ICE power has an auxiliary power output in the right configuration depending on the model. I tried to do this once with a Carvin BX500 but ran into problems as the preamp...

I was very busy in the seventies with a pretty successful band in the northeast. Played through an SVT and V4B folded horn bottom. The thing is back in those days FOH support was still rare and I played some pretty big rooms and occaisionally outdoors without FOH. Yeah, we were a loud offensive...

I used one with an SVT head and a fretless Ripper bass throughout the 70's. I was on the road all over the northeast USA. Also carried a B-3 organ and Leslie ,Fender Rhodes piano, some big Acoustic guitar rig, and the list goes on. Back when men were men. FOH support was rare back then and it...

In my case it was the situation that determined what amp. For bedroom volume and the sweetest clean tone, hands down the Ampeg SB-12. Pretty useless for any live work. In the 70's my main setup for over 7 years of four to seven nights a week gigging and this mostly without FOH support. From...

What you said is 100% accurate. Just to be clear this generator was sold to me in the middle of a disaster and was manufactured as a 50hz unit even though the grid is 60hz here. In my real world experience dealing with this POS Chinese generator, and with me under a lot of pressure to make it...

Things I learned about generators the hard way: Living here in the Philippines with blackouts and weather, I have a diesel generator of qustionable quaulity. Two years ago we were hit with a 168mph typhoon resulting in a two and a half MONTH blackout.. As a result I had to quickly school myself...

Here is some tips and things you might find useful on diy in uncharted or newbie pursuits: 1.) Finances. Even when done on the cheap it will probably cost more than anticipated. 2.) Resilience. The chances are pretty good that your project will not meet your expectation or even totally...

It actually was 1972 (maybe) and I came into a small piece of real cash even though I was a "starving musician". I immediately went to Manny's Music on 47th St. in Manhattan to see what I could get. It just so happened he (Manny himself) had on consignment the bass amp that was used by John Ward...