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New Traynor YBA 100!!
- Thread starter qwench
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You're so close, you should have gone to the factory to pick it up. You could have had a lower number...Cool! I have 405
Bit of a hike for me for the sake of dubious bragging rightsYou're so close, you should have gone to the factory to pick it up. You could have had a lower number...
I wonder if yours is the first one though?
Odds are that it isn'tBit of a hike for me for the sake of dubious bragging rights
Everyone knows that 1st run amps sound best
The 360/361 must really be feeling out of place, there!
Great perspective with the other heads and cabs
Quite the impressive collection of thunder sir.
So....Just plugged it into my fridge. I'm half deaf from being a tanker in the army, but the volume struck me as a little light so I pulled the old JCM800 trick and dimed everything (I did have to dial back the gain and treble a quarter turn), but that was a fun setting. The tone of the YBA100 has everything I love about the YBA 300, and nothing that I don't like about the YBA200. A great amp. If I had to compare it to anything, it would be the Ampeg V4B (The new ones) but I like this one a little better. What are your favourite settings so far?
Beautiful holy grail collection!!
No! It belongs in the collection with the other two older ones.
May the YBA100 earn it's place too!
I was thinking about it being solidstate vs. all that glass surrounding it.
I understood you! I was telling everyone how I saw it.
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Interesting questions; I'll answer as best I can.
To start with my SVT is '72/73 Magnavox vintage and the cabinet is a flip tops flatback cab with their Neo speakers (which are as close to the vintage square back SVT 10" speakers as I've heard - and I have heard the originals, albeit with 40 years of age and use on them).
Through the same cab the YBA100 is a more polite sounding amp with everything at noon. I like the deep switch as it seems to tighten up the sound and gives a great clean tone, without the deep switch engaged you get a much rounder tone. If you dime everything like I did (less treble and gain backed of a 1/4 turn) you get a great tone that is just starting to break up. When you increase the gain the break up in the YBA 100 seem to be lower in the mids, and not exactly my favourite, but for a good clean tube tone the YBA100 is great. The SVT comes at the cabinet with more authority because of the power under the hood and kicks a bit harder- the break up on the SVT is also more pleasing to my ears as it breaks up at higher frequencies. They're both great amps, and even comparing the YBA100 to a vintage SVT is a compliment, but they're different animals. For a reasonable volume rehearsal that needs a clean tube tone, the YBA100 would be great - if you band plays at reasonably adult volumes.
To sum it up in one sentence, the YBA100 is a great sounding, moderate volume clean tube head that tonally is in the family of the YBA 300. (Note I've never taken the YBA300 to breakup but I love the clean tone on the YBA300, perhaps even more than my SVT, perhaps..).
Anyhow, after playing it in the shop for 10 minutes, it followed me home and joined my collection if that says anything.
EDIT: If you're looking for an overdriven 100(ish) watt tone or love a dirty bass tone you owe it to yourself to check out a YBA3 or a Mono Block if you can find them. I almost always play with a clean tone, but those two amps are super fun to play with a nasty amount of overdrive.
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Thanks for the work you guys do. I remember having the back of my head sown shut by some of your colleagues in 1 Fd Amb in the field in Wainwright one time - the Sqn medic couldn't get the wound clean enough on the back deck so she sent me to the Fd Amb. Heaters and warm food, so all round a pleasant visit. Our Regimental Doc was in the hospital and asked if one of the Med A's could put an extra stitch in my head for practice - I agreed to that...we all have to learn our trade somehow. Good times.
