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More Fly Craziness....

#41
tombowlus said:
FYI, that is a 1/4"/Speakon hybrid connector (as is the one on the M-line Wizzy, and some other EA cabs, in case anyone has one). You can use either a 1/4" or Speakon-equipped speaker cable. :)
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Thanks Tom...noticed that AFTER I had already built the Speakon cables. :)

Only took 5 minutes and I prefer Speakon connectors anyway, as I'm sure you do as well.
 
#42
bassmonkeee said:
I'm seriously considering picking one of these up as a backup for my iAMP. Both the cabs I use are 4ohm (EA and Yamaha), so I could get the full 500w without any problem. Hmmmm......



Okay, so for those who have played both--should I grab the Superfly for $300, or the Yamaha BBT-500 for $350?
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I'm the opposite of Tom...I returned the Yamaha and will probably keep the Superfly. The Yamaha sounds better...it has amazingly good modeled tones. And it's awesome if you're a knob tweaker. But I kept getting that annoying hiss out of my cabs with it, so I sold it.

I'm going to keep the Superfly and run it with my Yamaha Magicstomp EB...best of both worlds (since the Magicstomp has all the preamp models of the BBT500H).
 
#44
Here's an email I received from Martin Burrows at Ashdown. Does this make sense? Seems contadictory.:hmm:

Hi Michael
To reach the full power, yes you need to have either 2 x 4 ohm cabs ( one each side ) or 2 x 8 ohm cabs per side = 4 ohms total per side. If you run 2 x 8 ohm cabs one side you will get 250 watts, if you run 1 x 8 ohm per side you will get slightly more, around 300 watts per side.
Regards
Martin
 
#48
superflybass said:
quad you got yours yesterday?? right ?
what do you think ?
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Well, I got home late and had to help my kids with a bunch of school work (science fair) and I only had about 10 min with it. Initial impressions (not really fair to say much right now):

1 - It's smaller than I thought it was going to be (a good thing).

2 - It feels heavy for it's size (15ish lbs packed into a little package). I know losing the outter cover drops 5ish lbs.

3 - Sounded "OK", but I was hoping it was going to be a little warmer. Again, on this one, I REALLY need more time with it to say anything further. I went thru about a dozen pre-sets. I'll spend more time with her over the next day or two. I'll prob take her to rehersal tomorrow eve.

4 - I was expecting more volume. Granted I omly used one cab last night - a Yamaha BBT110 (1x10). I find this cab not to be very effcient and given the fact I was only running one of the two amps in the head, it kind of adds up, but I have heard a louder 250 watts from other heads on this same cab. I only pushed the master to 2 or 3 o'clock (and gain about 2 or 3 o'clock as well). Mybe the head REALLY opens up past 3 o'clock? I can also try my Epifani cabs on the head which are more efficient.

5 - I found the head very versatile from the presets I tried. It's also cool having a compressor onboard, but what little I played with it, I found the Yamaha BBT500H compressor more impressive (I find that compressor more impressive than most built in compressors).

6 - I did notice some hiss. Reminds me of the Yamaha there (hisses also). Wonder if this is an overall issue on some of these first gen digital head by some manufactures??
 
#54
So I got mine today and played it with the Pbass and the Berg ministack, so I wasn't exactly maximizing my watts. However, I don't think power is necessarily the problem here.

There is a little hiss going, but its minimized when I start playing. For me, the main problem is that I just don't see the point. It would be one thing if it had some built in effects or something, but I really don't understand/have the need to drastically change my EQ on the fly(no pun intended). I don't see an advantage of having this with a digital interface.

I am in general not a big knob tweaker, so perhaps I should have realized this was not for me beforehand. To me it sounds like any other average solid state amp, and it behaves the same too. Only difference is I am looking at lights instead of sliders. Even if it had a more normal power output, it wouldn't make much difference for me.

I guess for the 20 bucks its going to cost me to ship it back in a few days it was worth it as i have always wanted to play around with one.
 

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