Show Your Bass Amp Head

kojakcurtis · Post by **kojakcurtis** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 4:04 am

And for bigger show's, I add my Traynor Custom Special, with matching 2x15 cab.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:11 am

Is that the 200 watt tube head Chris?

kojakcurtis · Post by **kojakcurtis** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 6:43 am

The Traynor is the YBA-3, rated at about 130 watts. My Ampeg sounds like it packs more power though. They're supposed to be equal.The YBA-3A Super Custom Special is rated at 200 watts. Traynor's version of the SVT at the time.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 6:54 am

Ampeg underates their amps, always has, the B-15's that were rated at 30 watts were closer to 50, SVT's that are rated at 300 are closer to 350 etc.

kojakcurtis · Post by **kojakcurtis** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 6:57 am

Totally, because the V-4B drives my 8x10 cabinet way more, at the same volume, than the Traynor. Therefore that's why it is my baby.

jps · Post by **jps** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:23 pm

My very first bass amp was a YBA-3! Wish I still had it.

bear · Post by **bear** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:01 pm

First "New" bass amp, previous ones were used, was a Garnet B190.
Hammond Tremelo and Garnet Stinger (fuzz) were the built in effects.
Ditto on the wish I still had it.
Garnet became Traynor and they are still in demand by collectors these days.

kojakcurtis · Post by **kojakcurtis** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 7:12 am

Traynor's are great amps. I picked up that YBA-3 at GC last year for $75 bucks!!! All it needed was a good cleaning and some TLC.

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 8:43 am

GC?

Rock out like Motorhead!

kojakcurtis · Post by **kojakcurtis** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:55 am

Yeah, they opened one in Northwest Indiana by my house, so I had to stop in and take a look around. Glad I did though.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:32 pm

You bought an amp at GC for 75 bucks? What did you do switch the tags? Rock like The Beatles!

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 10:21 pm

'every once ina while you can get a deal.

MESA Bass Busters at the NJ GC for $295!

Bought an Ampeg Portapotty 10" cab for $99 NIB at the San Fran GC!

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:19 am

I bought a late 70's SVT cab in perfect playing condition from ebay (cosmetic? well...) for $200.00, that's 25 bucks a speaker.

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:43 am

How much was shipping on that beast?

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:01 am

That's why I got it so cheap, it was in the wilds of Conn. and I was the only one that bid on it. I threw a 200 minimum bid on it never expecting to win, ten days later it was mine, I drove about an hour to pick it up. The guy had the matching head and it was like new, the best sounding SVT head I've ever heard, couldn't afford it though. Believe it or not but someone wrote "the beast" in magic marker on the back nameplate of one of my cabs, haha!