If you do need cash, I suggest selling an organ on ebay. However, if your avatar is you, maybe sell yourself on the street corner. Either way $$$.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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I don't need the cash. I need this thing gone out of my warehouse. My wife picked it up at Goodwill for 18 bucks and I wish she left it there LOL she is the Avatar the fender is a vintage 66 jazz. She supports my bass playing and for that gets all my cash or a lot of it.
This guy had agreed to 200 came out to my place looked at the back of it and we both realized it wouldn't push his 4ohm 810. Above 200 Watts. I just don't need another amp. Will probably take it to Music Go Round and wash my hands of it
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I had to go out and do the nightly watering, so now the text. Reverse chronology by design.
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The moss layer is packed on to help retain moisture. I actually like the look better without the moss. I might peel that off in a few weeks, remove some of the soil built up around the roots and try to get that smaller. You might not see it in the pics, but the tree is alive and well, with small buds all over. Harvested from my driveway and de-foulaged about a week ago. View attachment 3116749
Before the moss treatment. I think it looks better and more natural. View attachment 3116750
The one with the split root is bigger and looks stronger. A solid prospect for a Bonsai next year. So I chickened out and use the smaller. I'm glad I did, because it was tough getting the roots in the hole with the smaller one.
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Just like the X-files, one of these must be sacrificed. View attachment 3116758
The drilling. I felt like a micro-coal miner. Wanted to put a firecracker in the hole. Resisted. View attachment 3116759
I used a pipe screen over the drain hole to keep the dirt in, and probably will use a syringe to feed and water it, so maybe this is drug related and not a GoodExample
Consider changing your handle to bonsaï-san!
We rehearsed tonight and I found out something kind of eye opening. My GK MB200 sounds punchier and SVT-like with my SVT210AV than the Eden EX110's I have. It also sounds punchier than the Ampeg PF-350 I also recently bought. A GK MB200 sounding more like a mini SVT than a PF-350??? HUH! 
It seems to me that the SVT210av is a very sensitive speaker and it really punches out the volume with less power. How they did that I don't know. But the cab really does sound punchier (at least the way I like it) than my very much respected Eden EX110's. The Eden's are very deep sounding but the Ampeg 210 really does sound more like an Ampeg 810 cab at low volume. I think two of them would work pretty good for moderate sane gigs.
It seems to me that the SVT210av is a very sensitive speaker and it really punches out the volume with less power. How they did that I don't know. But the cab really does sound punchier (at least the way I like it) than my very much respected Eden EX110's. The Eden's are very deep sounding but the Ampeg 210 really does sound more like an Ampeg 810 cab at low volume. I think two of them would work pretty good for moderate sane gigs.
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We rehearsed tonight and I found out something kind of eye opening. My GK MB200 sounds punchier and SVT-like with my SVT210AV than the Eden EX110's I have. It also sounds punchier than the Ampeg PF-350 I also recently bought. A GK MB200 sounding more like a mini SVT than a PF-350??? HUH!
It seems to me that the SVT210av is a very sensitive speaker and it really punches out the volume with less power. How they did that I don't know. But the cab really does sound punchier (at least the way I like it) than my very much respected Eden EX110's. The Eden's are very deep sounding but the Ampeg 210 really does sound more like an Ampeg 810 cab at low volume. I think two of them would work pretty good for moderate sane gigs.
2 of the SVT210AV cabs sound very good stacked vertically.
Ya, you have to cut and paste with them kind of letters. Fingurin out keyboard strokes can hurt your brain.
We rehearsed tonight and I found out something kind of eye opening. My GK MB200 sounds punchier and SVT-like with my SVT210AV than the Eden EX110's I have. It also sounds punchier than the Ampeg PF-350 I also recently bought. A GK MB200 sounding more like a mini SVT than a PF-350??? HUH!
It seems to me that the SVT210av is a very sensitive speaker and it really punches out the volume with less power. How they did that I don't know. But the cab really does sound punchier (at least the way I like it) than my very much respected Eden EX110's. The Eden's are very deep sounding but the Ampeg 210 really does sound more like an Ampeg 810 cab at low volume. I think two of them would work pretty good for moderate sane gigs.
Elevating the speakers makes a big difference in monitoring. The 210 has that advantage. The EX110 might sound a lot better when raised closer to ear level. Try it on a table and see.
I have/use the EX112 that provides mondo tones when slightly lifted off the floor. Preamp is very important if you’re after an SVT-ish sound...you’ll need an SVT pre. My lil Ampeg Classic pre in a pedal gets frighteningly close.
Remember no matter the sound, no little rig will give the bowel-loosening low end massive presence that a slightly driven SVT/810 setup will...but at our age that’s likely a good thing
Remember no matter the sound, no little rig will give the bowel-loosening low end massive presence that a slightly driven SVT/810 setup will...but at our age that’s likely a good thing
Agreed. I'm kinda protective of my bowels nowadays.
The band I'm working with doesn't play loud at all. The clubs that still have live music in Sitka are smaller than in the past years, so even a double stacked SVT210av will work. As I mentioned earlier, I can get a close enough tone from my MB200 for what I consider "kinda" SVT. Close enough for me. The guys like my tone through GK or Ampeg. I have both now and I'm feeling that's a little piggish. Thinking about donating the Edens to some church needing speakers.....
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The low end depth comes from a
But unless you're several feet in front you won't hear it. Sort of like a
guitarist with a Twin Reverb sitting on the floor pointed between his legs.
He perceives low volume and turns up; giving the audience in front of him
painful tinnitus. In either case, the remedy is a stack. Or for the guitarist,
a tilted amp stand. Low end filling the room comes from the bottom enclosure.
SPL you can feel and hear comes from the top enclosure. Even if they're the
new more efficient 212's etc., stack 'em and let FOH sort the rest.
Another reason the SVT810 was so popular.
The low end 40Hz depth comes from your enclosure sitting flat on the stage floor.
But unless you're several feet in front you won't hear it. Sort of like a
guitarist with a Twin Reverb sitting on the floor pointed between his legs.
He perceives low volume and turns up; giving the audience in front of him
painful tinnitus. In either case, the remedy is a stack. Or for the guitarist,
a tilted amp stand. Low end filling the room comes from the bottom enclosure.
SPL you can feel and hear comes from the top enclosure. Even if they're the
new more efficient 212's etc., stack 'em and let FOH sort the rest.
Another reason the SVT810 was so popular.
Yeah-'til ya hadda move the thing.
Hey, it had wheels. But then I've always had Ford vans. Never owned an 810 though.Yeah-'til ya hadda move the thing.
Mostly 410 stacks w casters. "If it don't have wheels, it stays home". A rule that developed from running a sound company.
Yeah, but the stage it hadda go on was 3 1/2 ' above floor level. BTW, nothing but vans since '69.
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Right. Been there. hopefully enough musicians complain and they put in a ramp.
But yeah- it's a leverage thing. You roll your cab up to the stage, lean it into the lip
and lift it up onto the stage. If it has casters, roll it to where you want it, flip it on it's side and stack. Same thing for loading it into the back of the van. Bass Player's Burden. To get the same SPL as guitarists, we historically had to deal with heavy Class A heads and huge cabs. In college I had a '77 Blue Line SVT which tested my back even back then. Ran it into a V folded Cerwin Vega.
Still- better that than being a drummer. No thanks. Two trips and I'm done. Drummers.
God help 'em. "Hardware bites" literally. But I'm preaching. This is GOF.
And I'm a sound man, so double GOF.
Edit: "Gof!- Gof!". I made a funny!. not.
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Oh, yeah, I'm hip to the leverage thing. Also, this was in 80-82 in a hotel lounge in Miami Beach. The access to the stage was a 4 step stairs thingy by the wall at the edge of the dance floor. And, yes, I had help(grudgingly)getting it up there. No access from behind, only the front. I was running a blue line SVT through it. Total weight, right at 200#, head/cab. I was 35ish, now I'm not! AFA musicians complaining, the hotel went condo-no musicians to complain.
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