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Nah. Who'd do that?What's the world coming to? Probably play a 53 year old bass as well.
And life goes on just fine.
Miles, thanks for the reminder
That's good to know. Sorry you had to find out that way. An instrument falling is always a heartstopper. Even if it's a cheap one it's just a gut reaction to hold your breath. Pete Townsend being the obvious exception. Sounds like you have a wonderful family. But it seems your wife might need to get up to speed with her priorities like your wise-for-her-years daughter! But of course, it was "just" an Epiphone, so your wife has some standing.
absolutely, the Peak vs RMS wars of the 70's were a load of hogwash that misled for years....then there's the issue of sagging supplies that clipped the signal prematurely and added harmonic content that made things sound fuller but not necessarily louder since B+ was now lower (some now add a series R to emulate this especially with ss rects)....at the end of the day, for any perception of "louder" the power would have to at least double and we know that's not the case for if it was, fuses (even slo-blo types) would be blowing more often....all very subjective...
I'm more of a FoMoCo or Mopar fan.
With clover or lollipop tuners it would look great! Never been a big fan of Y tuners on a bird.
Would love to have y’all for neighbors.Miles, thanks for the reminder
Well the Devil is in the details, Figures lie and Liars figure right?
Sounds like a fair test, one that the PF will probably fail miserably since at 1kHz they would probably look very similar but at frequencies under 100Hz you just can't replace pounds of iron. again specs...1kHz is a very forgiving place to test a bass amp but also doesn't tell you much.....flatness across the audible band at higher power levels tells you more but it can be viewed as unrealistic so....definitely worth a try if you have access to both..
I do know that when my PF350 worked, it was a decent amp for Upright bass because it seemed to have a built in HPF.
100Hz and lower is pretty much the entire range of the bass knob on my amp. I'm confused, does that mean Tube watts will be louder than SS watts when my bass is performing its main function, pumping out hard hitting bass notes?
the lower you go in freq, the harder the amp works. in this case the comparison is between a Class D amp vs a more traditional tube Class AB design. the reason an SVT head weighs almost 100 pounds is the iron in the transformers which with the filters deliver instant energy ‘on tap’ when needed. because of this the SVT can do this all day long (at the expense of weight) where Class D can only do this for a finite amount of time relying on the assumption that these power levels are only necessary in short transients...make sense? the upside on the Class D operation is a much smaller lighter FF, which is very appealing to the gigging bassist. sonically there really is no comparison. these are very involved questions since there are so many variables that differently vary in importance to different users hence there really isn’t a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer..
