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New Reeves Cabs Pics (Prototype)

#61
Reeves needs to at least offer larger pro backline custom cab builds.
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I respectfully disagree based on these thoughts:
* If the amps are that good, they will sell without any speaker cabinets; plenty of cabs on the market that would sound great with a superior tube head
* If the cab is that good, the touring pro will just have to stack however many the need up, and use more heads for any impedance issues
* While the price point is certainly at the pro level, I wonder if the company focus is really about getting on big touring stages, but rather about making the best amp they can and hope all that can afford, will buy
* Don't see any marketing or ads out from them (could just be me) so assume that target audience is bass queers like us who search out the info and that demand top shelf quality
* I can't imagine that any road managers or amp techs are excited about a product that has no dealer network or factory repair support in place; obviously a large tour carries spares but still wants to know that the broken stuff will be fixed quickly and without problems while on the road
* Frustrated that I can't try one out although don't have $2,500 available without selling some gear
 
#62
Jim C said:
I respectfully disagree based on these thoughts:
* If the amps are that good, they will sell without any speaker cabinets; plenty of cabs on the market that would sound great with a superior tube head
* If the cab is that good, the touring pro will just have to stack however many the need up, and use more heads for any impedance issues
* While the price point is certainly at the pro level, I wonder if the company focus is really about getting on big touring stages, but rather about making the best amp they can and hope all that can afford, will buy
* Don't see any marketing or ads out from them (could just be me) so assume that target audience is bass queers like us who search out the info and that demand top shelf quality
* I can't imagine that any road managers or amp techs are excited about a product that has no dealer network or factory repair support in place; obviously a large tour carries spares but still wants to know that the broken stuff will be fixed quickly and without problems while on the road
* Frustrated that I can't try one out although don't have $2,500 available without selling some gear
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Great points! The touring thing really isn't so much of an issue, one of the benefits of the turret board construction is that most pro touring amp techs can repair anything short of catastrophic physical damage on the road fairly quickly, and factory techs are just a phone call away.
Also, for enough money you can pretty much overnight anything to anywhere!
Up to a few years ago, Reeves only distributed through a dealer network, you can contact them for more info about that...
As far as big custom backline cabs, well, check the attached photo. The cabs being discussed in this thread are for mass production, so portability is a major factor.
 

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#63
Now that's what I'm talking about! :hyper:

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Of course the whole point of buying amps of this quality is so you
really don't have to worry about reliability while you're standing up there
in front of a few thousand people.
 
#64
Good points; with PtP wiring repairs would be reasonable for techs that haven't been trained on Reeves gear; also would think other that the only proprietary part would be the output transformer.

The more I think about it, I doubt that any major tours have the time to do anything other than ship an amp out via Fed Ex and go to the back ups. The most obvious point (that I missed) is that anything that is over built and well executed probably will only need a handful of tubes to stay healthy night after night.

Wonder if it's worth their time, money, and energy to develop a higher wattage amp for the big boys after the smaller stuff is finished? Suppose that will depend on sales of the above mentioned gear.
 
#65
You have to remember that this is essentially a tweaked UK Hiwatt circuit
built here in Ohio!

Any good tech worth their salt knows what they are looking at when
they look at the chassis.

The one thing that failed me twice on my '73 SVT was some stupid component on the
PC Board. Sure it was fixable, but the timing sure sucked.

So, I've pretty much had it with proprietary PCB adventures.

I knew about this amp a year ago, but just finally saved enough to buy one.

It sure was worth the wait.
 
#66
Jim C said:
Wonder if it's worth their time, money, and energy to develop a higher wattage amp for the big boys after the smaller stuff is finished? Suppose that will depend on sales of the above mentioned gear.
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Well, the C225 does have holes for another pair of KT88's in the chassis...*















*This is not to suggest that the poster has any knowledge of an impending C450, and has no financial stake, financial interest or holdings in Reeves Amplification LLC.
The poster has not been compensated for this announcement.
 
#69
edbass said:
Well, the C225 does have holes for another pair of KT88's in the chassis...*

I asked Bill about the extra holes in the chassis and he confirmed that
they chose this configuration because it can be upgraded to a 6 tuber.

So it's not that they can't build a Custom 450, it's just that there
hasn't been any demand for one as of yet.

The 225 has way plenty power for the majority of users and the
weight at 61 pounds fulfills the market demand for something lighter
that does not sacrifice tone.
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#70
edbass said:
Well, the C225 does have holes for another pair of KT88's in the chassis...*


*This is not to suggest that the poster has any knowledge of an impending C450, and has no financial stake, financial interest or holdings in Reeves Amplification LLC.
The poster has not been compensated for this announcement.
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Yup there was Roost from southend in Essex UK, (they had a whole eight employees mostly disgruntled ex sound city) had a Hiwatt cloneish head
with a chassis cut out for six octal sockets back in the mid seventies it was normally populated with el 34's and and the band Saxon ran higher voltage partridge transformers with six kt88's in the same case and it caught fire so the went back to marshall majors.
The 100 watt four el 34 was a very very good amp though:
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Mine:
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Sexy Eh!:
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#73
Can't stop it but I'm gonna try.
Can't stop it but I'm gonna try.
Can't stop - lovin you baby.
Can't stop it but I'm, gonna try.


It's been a long time baby.......................
 
#75
Bassmec said:
Yup there was Roost from southend in Essex UK, (they had a whole eight employees mostly disgruntled ex sound city) had a Hiwatt cloneish head
with a chassis cut out for six octal sockets back in the mid seventies it was normally populated with el 34's and and the band Saxon ran higher voltage partridge transformers with six kt88's in the same case and it caught fire so the went back to marshall majors.
The 100 watt four el 34 was a very very good amp though:
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The Sound City/Hiwatt/Reeves/Roost family resemblance is pretty obvious, isn’t it?
As I’m sure you’re aware, Dave Reeves also built amps for Sound City in the late 60’s before he started Hiwatt.
That Roost is very cool; I assume that it has that familiar chimey/clean tonal vibe and a ton of power like its cousins do?
 
#76
edbass said:
The Sound City/Hiwatt/Reeves/Roost family resemblance is pretty obvious, isn’t it?
As I’m sure you’re aware, Dave Reeves also built amps for Sound City in the late 60’s before he started Hiwatt.
That Roost is very cool; I assume that it has that familiar chimey/clean tonal vibe and a ton of power like its cousins do?
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Yup its a very adaptable old beast they are like the Sound City/Early Hiwatt Six Tube Amps but mine has only four sockets filled but I understand there is plenty of current available from the old partridge mains transformers heater winding and the partridge output transformer is quite suitable for four KT 88 impedance so quite a lot of people have run this tube type in them with great results.
JUST Don't Try Six!:eek:
Not the same voltage driving the plates to get absolute full power from the KT 88 tubes like the dr201 but they still bias up well and sound loud and delicious.
I run mine on Mullard EL 34 as I love those too and I have a Simms Watts AP 200 Super running huge partridge transformers with the four GEC KT 88's.
Its got the same sort of Normal Brilliant dual channel pre with a handy link switch and master volume but no mid controls sounds real good without anyway most people have eq up the kazoo on their basses today.:bassist:
 

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