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New Traynor YBA 100!!
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I suppose Traynor does not expect the average customer to do it themselves but they have prepared for the option to easily make a batch for European distribution as well. Judging by your work environment in those pics you are not the average customer, thoughThanks for being the pioneer and glad to hear it was that easy and works as intended!
I just assumed that was an average Finnish basement/workshop. Maybe I better hold off on my moving plans.
Oh, right, maybe it is
I've lived in the "big city" so long I forget people do have basements and garages... Just remember to specify "lots of room" and "good internet connection" when you call the estate agent.
Yup. That was exactly my point.
Looks like I'll be sticking with Traynor's solid state offerings, or up the tube horsepower to 300 watts...again.
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Are you saying it sounds like the YBA200?...L&M gave me one of those with only a 210 at an outdoors street gig....All I heard was overdriven distortion! lack of headroom power...and not enough speakers
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Are you saying it sounds like the YBA200?...L&M gave me one of those with only a 210 at an outdoors street gig....All I heard was distortion!!!
Not quite, tone stack is from the YBA300 and the power section is just a 4 tube version of the 12 in the 300. FYI If you were getting bad sound quality from a YBA200, it wasn't set up properly (I have owned one for years and never had an issue, none).
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Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
All three amps have a passive tone stack, correct? Just that the 100 and 300 are the same and the 200 is different?
Nope. I'm saying the YBA100 sounds like an under powered tube amp. Simple as that.
I liked the YBA200 just fine except it broke up a little too early for my taste. Nice tone though.
The YBA300 was the perfect match...at the time. May look at buying one again as circumstances dictate.
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Thanks Tuomo, for getting back on this. Glad it was that easy for you, enjoy the amp!
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While I agree, I want to point out that SPL is also dependent on a speaker’s efficiency and not only amp wattage. There are speaker cabs that will sound much louder with 100 watts than some other speaker cabs. With an optimal multi-speaker 4 ohm load and efficient speakers, 100 watts can do a fairly decent SPL.
In general, I would recommend a 100 watt tube amp for studio and lite to medium PA support gigs and for lite non-PA support gigs such as blues, jazz, and folk clubs, but it will be vastly dependent on the speaker combination and efficiency.
In my own gig history, there have been plenty of places that I would have been very happy with a well-built 100 watt tube amp. Other gigs I wanted 1200 watt rigs, not that I necessarily needed that much wattage, but I do usually play in loud bands. Also, IMO any of those gigs would have been covered easily with a 300 watt tube amp.
A 100 w. tube amp could drive a slave amp and additional cabs by the send of fx loop.
I will have one - but it wont be my only amplifier.
There are times when the cranked 100 tube watts will sound PERFECT.
There are times when the cranked 100 tube watts will sound AWFUL. IN those times, I will use another amp.
There are times when the cranked 100 tube watts will sound PERFECT.
There are times when the cranked 100 tube watts will sound AWFUL. IN those times, I will use another amp.
Yes. My 20 watts Ampeg PF-20T is sufficient for some of my gigs. When I need to make it louder, I have the possibility to send its output to my other (class D) amp.
So Ive been saying I would get out and try with more cab...
I dont have an 810 but my baddest (loudest) cab is my good old reliable 301. Im reminded back in the day (cue dream sequence) when I had a 100watt V4B and the matching folded horn cab. The band shared a house and we learned to be sure anything breakable needed to be secure because things would slide off shelves upstairs.....that thing was massive.
(back to reality)
So I hauled out old the old gal (with the head to A/B) and it just slayed (I like saying that, makes me feel young). The drummer was over so over the moon he talked his wife into letting me leave the beast at his house between practices. He told me to take my 210/400 watt Markbass rig home as part of the deal.
Honestly, the 370 was louder (of course) but the YBA sounded much better (and I had to turn it down!). Everyone prefered the tube tone.
This is a loud band and I usually wear IEMs but I lasted the whole practice because it was so warm and rich (I paid for it later and wont be doing that again).
No its not a club size room, yes the 301 is "low-fi"...still sounds amazing (no pedals either). It is plenty loud.
Last comment, we had to straighten all the pictures on the wall on our way out.
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I dont have an 810 but my baddest (loudest) cab is my good old reliable 301. Im reminded back in the day (cue dream sequence) when I had a 100watt V4B and the matching folded horn cab. The band shared a house and we learned to be sure anything breakable needed to be secure because things would slide off shelves upstairs.....that thing was massive.
(back to reality)
So I hauled out old the old gal (with the head to A/B) and it just slayed (I like saying that, makes me feel young). The drummer was over so over the moon he talked his wife into letting me leave the beast at his house between practices. He told me to take my 210/400 watt Markbass rig home as part of the deal.
Honestly, the 370 was louder (of course) but the YBA sounded much better (and I had to turn it down!). Everyone prefered the tube tone.
This is a loud band and I usually wear IEMs but I lasted the whole practice because it was so warm and rich (I paid for it later and wont be doing that again).
No its not a club size room, yes the 301 is "low-fi"...still sounds amazing (no pedals either). It is plenty loud.
Last comment, we had to straighten all the pictures on the wall on our way out.
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This thread has gone in a slightly different direction, but I gotta say that the YBA100 through the 1x15"/2x10" combination is the sound that I've been seeking for 30 years. Bravo Traynor, bravo.
