Can I put a different head on my bass cab

[Michedelic]

What is a death cap?

What this guy is wearing…

 

[Stewie]

Peavey Bass 400, like most of the Peavey monsters can handle a 2 ohm load. They were awfully loud when you stacked a pair of 215s on their sides with that head on top.
BOOM!

 

[dbsfgyd1]

What this guy is wearing…
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i guess that qualifies…

 

[devnulljp]

Why the obsession with the "death cap"?

Look, man, that amp is how old? AND ITS STILL CHUGGING...

Do you like it? Those old PV amps are 99% of the time THE definition of reliable. Take it for a check up, maybe (MAYBE!) have the doctor change out the cap. Pick up a similarly powered newer amp as a backup since you're headed out on the road.

Unless there's a problem with the amp, roll with it. That thing might outlive amps that haven't even been made yet.

Because the day the death cap decides to give up the ghost, the chassis of the amp, and OP's bass, get connected directly to the mains and that's never good. I've had shocks off old amps and survived, but its still unpleasant.

 

[mojomike001]

Oh, the sacrilege! What's next? Mixing bass brands and amps? When will it end???

 

[Analogeezer]

Just get another Peavey.
Takes a lick'n and keeps on tick'n.

I toured with a Mark VIII and the guitarist knocked it off the top of an 8x10... mid-song.
Never missed a beat... If I hadn't seen it happen, I never would have noticed.

I still have that head. Still works.

Actually my Acoustic 220 head fell off the top of my two single 15" cabinet stack at practice, on to concrete....TWICE. A good five foot drop!

After the second time I started putting a towel under it to damp the vibration (the cabs where just painted plywood DIY cabs) so that didn't happen again.

Both times I never noticed until I saw the amp sitting on the concrete floor LOL.

This was back in 1982 or so, the head I purchased new in 1978.

Save one minor repair (a ceramic cap across the power switch came loose around 2002 so I soldered it back on) it's still going strong 43 years later.

Hell the amp still worked fine when I fixed it, just the power switch was not working.

I maintain that while underpowered for the modern era, limited in sound sculpting ability and heavy, the gear from the olden days was far more reliable than the stuff out today.

I never remember a single bass player ever having an amp go down prior to say the year 2000, I realize people come to a forum to post problems but it seems a day does not go by without someone's new three pound wonder amp going **** up.

They used to joke about Peavey is the worst thing was the reliability, the amps just never died so you didn't have a reason to replace them with something that sounded better

Analogeezer