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Amp Guts Photos - Official Thread - Lets see those pics

Should we also add Bass Guts to this thread too?

  • Yes, Allow Bass guts, afterall Guts is Guts

    Votes: 223 28.7%

  • No way! Keep 'em seperate

    Votes: 553 71.3%
  • Total voters
    776
#163
You said Guts right? Here is what happened to my wt 800 (updated from a wt 500) when it flew out the back of my truck and someone drove over it. I guess it was hit a few times because when I got home I went to bring it in the house and thats when I saw it was gone. Drove over 30 miles and found it. It was in a rack. Rack in pieces. Ouch. The guts all over the place. Here is the pick for my good friend who started this thread.
 

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#164
The Golden Boy said:
The Duncans I have are the 300x2- and that's the way it's written on the amp as well as the manual on the SD site:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/support/amp_manuals/bass_300x2.pdf

The numbering scheme kind of confuses me- I've "heard of" the 4000 and the 8000, but the only ones I've seen are the 300x2. I've heard of people owning the 400x2 amps, but never seen one in person.

Looking at the Bass 400 manual- the difference is the bi-amp feature (or dual mono). For the amp that's detailed- the individual "channels" of the amp are disabled- but they're functional on my "stock" head- and I used to get a lot of use out of the dual mono feature- my 4x10 could take more power than my Triad- so I was able to do that with the seperate volume outputs. They're both still good amps- the "chicken head" is a bit fragile- I don't know all the work or repair that's gone on in there before I got it around 13 years ago... The Stock one has never had any serious issues- but they both don't have the same "immediacy" or bottom end that the SWR has. They're still more awesome than any other SS head made before 1990 that I've come across...
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After closer inspection of the manual and your pictures the 300x2 appears to be an early version of the 8000. The 8000 was a biamp model that looks exactly the same and appears to have the same features. The difference is the 8000 put out more power I believe.

The 4000 like I own was a mono block amp that was about half the power of an 8000 (the 8000 is 400X2 RMS at 8? ohms)

Thanks for showing me the pictures!
 
#165
johnk_10 said:
mine's a '71. your's, with the tube rectifiers is a bit older. and your grill cloth is original looking to me (the early cloth was ampeg-ish, but without the blue tint).
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Thanks John. I think I am going to make another front with black cloth so it matches my Henry 8x8 better (at least color).

I'll borrow the badge but keep the existing panel original.

Do you know where I can find another badge? Regards.
 
#167
RockBobby said:
Thanks John. I think I am going to make another front with black cloth so it matches my Henry 8x8 better (at least color).

I'll borrow the badge but keep the existing panel original.

Do you know where I can find another badge? Regards.
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i've seen them on ebay often. super clean ones usually sell for around $35-$70.00. rough ones go for around $25.00
 
#168
Bassist30 said:
You said Guts right? Here is what happened to my wt 800 (updated from a wt 500) when it flew out the back of my truck and someone drove over it. I guess it was hit a few times because when I got home I went to bring it in the house and thats when I saw it was gone. Drove over 30 miles and found it. It was in a rack. Rack in pieces. Ouch. The guts all over the place. Here is the pick for my good friend who started this thread.
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I'm sure that's covered under the warranty...;)

I know that had to make you sick. :crying:
 
#169
CHARLIE!!!!! That ROX.. I love that photo.. That is Truly GUTS.. Road Pizza!!
I love that!
I am so sorry when that happened to your amp.. But it was so funny afterward... I had that photo on my desktop for a while... Thank you for posting that one.. Awesome!

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Bassist30 said:
You said Guts right? Here is what happened to my wt 800 (updated from a wt 500) when it flew out the back of my truck and someone drove over it. I guess it was hit a few times because when I got home I went to bring it in the house and thats when I saw it was gone. Drove over 30 miles and found it. It was in a rack. Rack in pieces. Ouch. The guts all over the place. Here is the pick for my good friend who started this thread.
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#171
Mcrelly said:
I bought this amp for a friends daughter who is learning bass, and now guitar,keys and drums... I paired it up with a aggie gs112. IMHO it sounds AS GOOD as Eden wt550 or Thunderfunk 550. I've played them all myself at my fairly loud church gig.

I got the yorkville cheap ($125) because the input circuit board was "iffy". turns out two short wires going down to the main board. apparently when some past users would try to tighten the upper input jack which would put torque on the little circuit board (pictured upper right) finally cracking one or both wire soldering connections. a $15 fix.

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I used to have one of these that I sold to buy an SWR SM-500 :rollno: Big mistake... That Yorkville 400B rocked!

VERY underrated amp IMO!
 
#174
seanm said:
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Nothing a little duct tape won't fix........
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LOLOLOL You should have seen my face in the middle of a pretty conjected road. Couldn't believe it. Had a skb rack and that was in little pieces all over the road. That old eden never gave me a problem. I should have made sure the back of my truck was fully closed. That was a good amp. May it rest in peace.
 

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