Re: I jsut picked up one of these...

On Oct 28, 7:03 pm, Tim <tschna...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For dirt cheap!

http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1752

65 bucks!   Yeah. $65.00 USD.

Off Ebay, and from a music store.   They threw it up on auction. It
was really dusty, and some nimrod decided to burn a candle on the top
and dripped wax all down the front. and the auction was "Pick up only"

They started the bid at 50.00 and I thought. though they said it all
worked. the cabinet would be worth that much. So I bid $150.00 on
it.

Huh?

I got it for $57.00 only one other bidder on it with a 6 day auction.

OK, so It's in Chicago, and a friend of mine lived about 12 mi. from
the place and I asked him if he could go get it and hold it for me
until I came up to the bass jam.

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=570604

He said he would. and because it came from a store, he had to pay Cook
County sales tax on it, so it came out to about $65.00

But actually I DID give more for it than the $65. for my buddy's time
and effort at retrieving it. I gave him a bill for it, which he
promptly refused but that's too bad. he has kids to feed also.

Yeah, I had to drive almost 300 mi to get it, but to retrieve the head
was icing on the cake. It was well worth attending.

Loads of beautiful wood and steel.  I don't think there's a picture of
my Modulus in there though.

There's a pic of the cab in page 4 or 5 I think and my pal brought his
little Ashdown head and i was really impressed how it pumped that
cabinet!

It's amazing the power they make into small packaged now days.I mean
the thing wasn't much bigger than a cigar box!  They sure beat
carrying around huge heads that weigh like a truck battery.

I'll probably be perusing an Ashdown or Markbass head in the near
future.

ain't it fun when a great deal hits you?

I mean, even a blind pig finds an acorn occasionally.

Well, I took it and hooked it up to an SWR 4004 tonight and actually I
was bit dissapointed in the tone. It's "OK" but not as great as I had
expected it to be, then i got to thinking.

So I drug out a Peavey 1x15 BW cab and hooked it into "Speaker # 2"

http://www.rainbowmusicshop.com/instock/images/pv115_1.jpg

Now it's sounding a lot better, but still a bit weak in the pants.

the 8x10 is rated for 800w and the 1x15 is 300w 4 ohm. So next I'll
try the Ampeg 1000w head and see if I can' blow something up.
actually, I won't be hitting it with volcano volume so it shouldn't be
obnoxious.

Oh yeah. i was testing it with a '83 BC RICH Mockingbird NJ with
passive DiMarzios. I might try the Modulus with active Barts, and do a
comparison. I've noticed that different bass's sound better on
different rigs so I still think that the 8x10 and the 1x15 will work
well, but need to do some head and bass swapping so I'll know what
combination works the best.

decisions, decisions....
.

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