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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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BadExample said:
Was it amp distortion or was the speaker farting out?
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It was speaker fart out. I did acquire a 125 watt 8" Eminence from one of our fellow GOF's and I'm thinking about trying that out before I send it back.

Last night after wife went to bed, I played with the amp along with some old 80's hits for a couple hours, and at lower volumes once I got used to it, it sounded pretty nice. Nice fat, round tone on all the strings. Nice sustain, but that might be from the brand new strings on the bass. I guess honestly I can't expect practice amps to be exceptional unless they were something like a GK MB200 and a Barefaced or something similar. I read that the EA Wizzy 10 is pretty good too.

Short answer-- yes, speaker fart out. Puzzling because I wasn't playing at extremely loud volumes or anything.
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
It was speaker fart out. I did acquire a 125 watt 8" Eminence from one of our fellow GOF's and I'm thinking about trying that out before I send it back.

Last night after wife went to bed, I played with the amp along with some old 80's hits for a couple hours, and at lower volumes once I got used to it, it sounded pretty nice. Nice fat, round tone on all the strings. Nice sustain, but that might be from the brand new strings on the bass. I guess honestly I can't expect practice amps to be exceptional unless they were something like a GK MB200 and a Barefaced or something similar. I read that the EA Wizzy 10 is pretty good too.
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The Wizzy 10 is pretty much the same size as one of your Eden 110s, no?
 
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Passinwind said:
The Wizzy 10 is pretty much the same size as one of your Eden 110s, no?
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Hey Charlie-- speaker size, yes, but dimensions of the cabinet make it more shallow, taller, and a touch wider. It also weighs 17 pounds compared to 25 on the EX110's. It seems like most of the praises for the EA Wizzy 10 are from DB players on the other side....
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
Hey Charlie-- speaker size, yes, but dimensions of the cabinet make it more shallow, taller, and a touch wider. It also weighs 17 pounds compared to 25 on the EX110's. It seems like most of the praises for the EA Wizzy 10 are from DB players on the other side....
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FWIW, I also liked it a lot more for my EUB than for BG in a brief trial at a GTG. I gigged one of the EA CxL 112 cabs for a few years, that made a lot more stick but of course it's a much heavier carry too.
 
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Passinwind said:
FWIW, I also liked it a lot more for my EUB than for BG in a brief trial at a GTG. I gigged one of the EA CxL 112 cabs for a few years, that made a lot more stick but of course it's a much heavier carry too.
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Thanks Charlie. I decided to play around with it for a week or so. I have 30 days to return it, and I want to see of the Ampeg grows on me. I think initially I had hallucinations of it sounding like an SVT ha ha. But going on its own merits, it does have a nice fat, round tone reminiscent of old Ampegs. I'm actually only looking for a tiny amp to sit by my recliner so I can practice now and then while wife is in the other room.
 
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Well, I was home (ahem) "sick" today from work, and wife took off for a few hours so I had a chance to commandeer the living room. I took out the amp on probation and my new used Ibanez P bass and had a jam session with YouTube. Have a pretty good sound system with the TV so I was able to crank out the tunes and crank the little amp. I'm fairly impressed with the Ampeg but as said earlier it does fart out at higher levels, due to the speaker. I had bass/mid/treble on 12:00 and the P bass volume and bass full on.

For a little guy the Ampeg did a pretty good job and at times created a nice deep bass that I am fond of in my memories of my own Ampeg Glory Days. Some notes it was a little lighter but might have been the bass. I'll have to try again with one of my more workhorse basses. BTW A side note on the bass. I bought that bass on eBay last December for $79 plus $52 shipping to Alaska. When I received it, the bass was so nasty, it was covered with some sort of scum/dirt from head to toe. The strings were black and rusted, and there weren't volume/tone controls. I left it sitting in a corner for months until wife said either fix it up or give it to Salvation Army. Well, I took it apart one night while we were watching movies, and put it back together after basically sterilizing and de-filthing it. It looked really nice put back together! I bought a blank string nut and carved it down myself--it's a 41mm. Once put back together, it felt really nice and broken in. It has a deep throaty tone itself and I like the fact that I don't have to be gentle with it because it's already a bit scraped up. But I'm pretty confident I can perform with it--it has that good of a tone. So there you go-- a story within a story!

Anyway, jury's still out on the Ampeg. While I'm considering a GK MB108 over the Ampeg, it doesn't have those deep vintage sounding notes the Ampeg has, and that's what I'm wanting while using a P-style bass. I may end up really loving this little combination for living room practice/noodling.

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I guess you could say I might have found a small at home practice system that sounds nice and thumpy similar to an old Ampeg and P bass! :)
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
Well, I was home (ahem) "sick" today from work, and wife took off for a few hours so I had a chance to commandeer the living room. I took out the amp on probation and my new used Ibanez P bass and had a jam session with YouTube. Have a pretty good sound system with the TV so I was able to crank out the tunes and crank the little amp. I'm fairly impressed with the Ampeg but as said earlier it does fart out at higher levels, due to the speaker. I had bass/mid/treble on 12:00 and the P bass volume and bass full on.

For a little guy the Ampeg did a pretty good job and at times created a nice deep bass that I am fond of in my memories of my own Ampeg Glory Days. Some notes it was a little lighter but might have been the bass. I'll have to try again with one of my more workhorse basses. BTW A side note on the bass. I bought that bass on eBay last December for $79 plus $52 shipping to Alaska. When I received it, the bass was so nasty, it was covered with some sort of scum/dirt from head to toe. The strings were black and rusted, and there weren't volume/tone controls. I left it sitting in a corner for months until wife said either fix it up or give it to Salvation Army. Well, I took it apart one night while we were watching movies, and put it back together after basically sterilizing and de-filthing it. It looked really nice put back together! I bought a blank string nut and carved it down myself--it's a 41mm. Once put back together, it felt really nice and broken in. It has a deep throaty tone itself and I like the fact that I don't have to be gentle with it because it's already a bit scraped up. But I'm pretty confident I can perform with it--it has that good of a tone. So there you go-- a story within a story!

Anyway, jury's still out on the Ampeg. While I'm considering a GK MB108 over the Ampeg, it doesn't have those deep vintage sounding notes the Ampeg has, and that's what I'm wanting while using a P-style bass. I may end up really loving this little combination for living room practice/noodling.

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I guess you could say I might have found a small at home practice system that sounds nice and thumpy similar to an old Ampeg and P bass! :)
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For $100, some limitations can be expected. People have reported that upgrading to an Eminence Alpha 8A makes a big difference.

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beans-on-toast said:
For $100, some limitations can be expected. People have reported that upgrading to an Eminence Alpha 8A makes a big difference.

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Thanks @beans-on-toast . Just so happens I acquired one brand new from a kind soul on TB a while back for another project, but I think this might be the perfect application for it if I end up keeping the amp. :D
 
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