Build your DREAM AMPEG style TUBE BASS AMP (for half the price)! KLD BFLEX 25 DIY portaflex kit

[@Terribleguitarist89]

Typically on a bass amp the "active" "passive" inputs just means the former has a pad to prevent clipping in the front end of the amp... sort of like the high and low inputs on guitar amps.

[@GunsandGuitars]

Yup, but that’s not the case with this amp. It’s more like a rhythm and lead input

[@dmoore0079]

very easy to do by installing a switch with two different resistor values for setting input gain.

[@morenoteslesstalk]

Superb video, I can see a summer project for myself there. Bass tube amps are indeed underrepresented. I did a video on my rare Italian amp that's turning 50 this year, and it has been my reliable companion for 4 years. The rich, warm tones it produces are unmatched, and it performs beautifully with any instrument. Transistor amps are great too, but they'll never really be my soft spot. Your video really brings out the importance of these amps. Great job and keep it up!

[@michaelb.42112]

SO good to see you back, Dan. Tired of seeing $3,000 basses with the "Wow, what a steal !" under it. I love the VU meters and the tarp to paint on is a great idea, too ! The truck bed liner paint is PERFECT. I'd try a 410 instead of a 115. I thought you said 250w, not 25w. For a tube bass amp, that's about the bare minimum.

[@alphanumeric1529]

Yeah, my 25 year old 500 watt Carvin head and full stack was like a megabomb back in the day, but nowadays, 500 watts is like preschool level power! At least for bass head power. This head SOUNDS amazing. And truthfully, these days, aren't we recording more than playing out? If I turn up my Carvin, I get angry calls from the USGS... I'd like to be able to record with this head, I'd turn it right up to the break up point, and let my playing technique take it over into break up on peaks, all without triggering local seismographs (and the neighborhood's dogs).

[@bucketofham8470]

@@alphanumeric1529 i had an old crate b150 that was 150 watts by itself (already loud for anything I would use it for) but my dumbass self bought a matching extension cab that boost it to 300 watts coming out of 2 1x15's. Loudest amp i have ever owned. I gave it to a friend who cranks it in his bedroom with the cab. I think he's gonna go deaf lol

[@louisaccardi2268]

As teen in the 1960s many lead guitarists in bands used the Ampeg portaplext with an added Altec Lansing twelve inch speaker in it. I myself used a Fender bassman amp from the early 1960s that had 2 twelve inch speakers and two channels. I played lead guitar though it like many others. It was a great amp and so was the Ampeg portaplex bass amp. I was also great for bass, of course.

[@MrDucehands]

Dan. You're a man after my own heart. I love a cheap , quality toys. I've wanted a tube amp for the longest. I just purchase a bass to mod and this may be my next project once the bass is complete.

[@Stev0BabaGhanoush]

Seems like a fantastic studio amp, for bass or for guitar. That grind you got out of it was pretty stellar sounding!

[@muhammadhisyam6072]

Hey, do you think you can build a battery powered solid state amp(head or combo)? I would love to see what you can do with it! I love these type of DIY Amp videos🤘

[@GunsandGuitars]

You can build small cigar box type amps that run on battery power. But anything this big, I’m not sure you’d want to carry a car battery around with you 😅

[@MrFedoss]

DIY guys usually take class D amp boards (like TPA3110 or any other, it depends) and put a preamp before it (it may be board or pedal). Amp may look like an Electro-Harmonix 22 Caliber (pedal) or head/combo, as you wish to make it for your use.

[@snap-off5383]

The first thing all amps do is convert the AC to DC. Pretty much any amp could be run from battery, only variable would be duration. Some amps use 40 volts dc and for sure +15 and -15 for the opamps so you'd need a higher voltage battery than a car battery.

[@ciddax754]

That is a beautiful stack and those speakers are complementing their sound beautifully.

[@diopappa]

Hi @Dan, another great build you made! Sounds awesome. But there are some misconceptions (if I can tell you, ofc I don't want to teach you bdw): 1) passive/active inputs: I don't know if in this kit they are swapped but generally passive input is the normal one, whilst active one is attenuated by 3 or more db. This is because active pickups are hotter so if you plug in as is it would make the amp distort faster. 2) 6v6/6l6: they are output tubes. They comes from the same type of tubes, so very similar sounding, the main difference is the output power: 6v6 are able to drive more power, so ampeg model I guess it was rated maybe 60 to 120W? The same thing you would see in Fender guitar amps, or similar, in which output power is set using multiple tubes or swapping from 6l6 to 6v6. 3) I would have used a decoupler, like an op amp, to decouple your voltmeters, because this way I think you are introducing a load effect either in input or in output. In input it can distort a bit your signal because of the linear nature of the spring load meter, whilst in output it would change at least the impedence of DI out which is a bad thing because you want it fixed and perfect since you tipically use it to record. 4) maybe your first speaker is rated to a high power. It's important not only to match impedence but also use a power that would not exceed power limit ofc but that is on the same range, otherwise you would not have enough current to run correctly your speaker and I guess that's the case. You can make a similar trick of what you made, making less impedence making two in parallel but using the same output port. For example have the speaker parallel to 4 ohm and still using 8 ohm out. This way you are sorta doubling the current you gave to your speaker, just don't do further because you can ruin it. I drive a 4x12 rated 400w with a 8w amp using this trick. Anyway, great job Dan, I appreciate your videos!

[@MrDaveKC]

As always, very interesting Dan. I've definitely got to check out the amp kits. The Utah bass kit is certainly interesting. I love that you can make many different things out of it.

[@Nilej17]

As a college student this changes the game

[@jeffyoung8726]

Holy crap Dan! Even better sound, I think? But I kinda knew you would(very)quickly make the second cabinet? Glad to see that you did. A WORLD of difference, in my opinion!

[@jomamma1750]

Nice little acoustic/coffee shop rig! Would like to see a 300 watt version (he he he!)

[@bevinmodrak4997]

Awesome! May build one of these. I'll bet with a little research you can figure out how to add a bigger transformer and add the extra 2 tubes to make it a 50w. Thanks for this!

[@lawrenceholmes55]

I absolutely love that amp head it looks like it goes right along with the bass cab it's really a nice little set up like you bought it out the store

[@chrisjames_official]

The active and passive is for active and passive basses. That's why it's thinner sounding. My Stingray 5 runs on a 9v (active) and P bass is passive and the tone is totally different. Try getting an active bass through that input, I'm really interesting to hear what you think of the change in tone but I wouldn't put an active bass through the passive input as you'll overload the circuit and it will sound all gainy and crappy (plus you will probably damage your unit). Good luck brotha! Enjoying the content 👍

[@jeanlawson9133]

Outside the box... no punn intended 😎..... That is a sick looking set up..... those Vu meter would look awesome 😎 with lighting... colored lights....

[@Furtheronmusic]

Certainly looks and sounds a keeper. Regards on stage use with the di out you can easily feed that to foh if using a big enough pa whilst you are keeping on stage Vol manageable

[@joesharpe7685]

As a note on the passive/active inputs. They can actually be very useful. In my band the bassist has a passive and an active bass. On his amp head it's just a switch and not two separate inputs. But it's really handy when he switches because you can balance the levels between an active and passive bass super easy, without messing up the sound and annoying the sound guy haha

[@GunsandGuitars]

I guess I didn’t explain this well. I understand what active and passive inputs are. These inputs are really just like rhythm/lead inputs. The active input should be lower to compensate for active pickups. But that’s not the case. The active input here boosts the signal, overdrives easier, and cuts bass. It really is just a lead channel.

[@joesharpe7685]

@@GunsandGuitars ohh got you, yeah I had an old FAL bass amp with a bright and normal, had a low cut on that channel and Guitars actually sounded great through it. Yeah I take your point on not using it, amp sounded great the way it was!

[@peadookie]

As someone with a father-in-law missing fingers from a similar circumstance, @1:58 gives me the chills

[@CyberChrist]

Lessons learned ;)

[@_mysilentblue2227]

Sounds great that's for sure. Nice that they all stack up.

[@randr10]

I'm not a bass player, but I love the tone you get from the amp recording you play at the end there. Reminds me a lot of the sound the bass player from Cake has. Not sure what he plays on, but always loved that sound. The way it bumps it's almost like a horn, which is really cool. My main instrument is guitar, but I picked up a drum set in my late teens and added that skill to my repertoire. The only thing I need to complete a band and do full recordings at home is the bass. I have an old Squire P-bass I'm going to try to learn on. I also have an old silver face Bassman Ten I inherited from my father that I used to play my guitar through with an MXR Equalizer and Boss OS/2 overdrive distortion pedal. I loved that thing for power chords because it sounded like the they were bouncing. Not a great setup for playing solos though. Too flat and not enough gain. We'll see how it sounds with a bass through it.

[@christianscott6963]

That's the perfect stack for those coffee shop metal shows

[@allenmitchell09]

You could put a uv meter on your amp so it doesn’t get sunburned ☀️

[@guitfidle]

Oooo, I really like the sound of this monster!! I got one of their kits after your last KLD build video.... and haven't gotten around to building it yet 🤣🙄💩💩 I do have a vintage Silvertone bass amp model 1483 that's 23 watts, and I totally agree. Not quite big enough for live settings. This inspired a bit of a hybrid build- I am making a bass amp with a Portaflex front end but with a 60 watt power section from a pair of 6550s. I already have the power amp section I'm pulling from an old Bogen PA amp, complete with a chunky output transformer. Theoretically it should sound about as close to a real Portaflex as your KLD here. (although interestingly the classic Ampeg SVT uses 6550s, so...)

[@TriodesPs111]

"id love a 50 watt version of this" well two 6L6s usually make 40 to 50 watts of output the fact that your only getting 25 watts from them is sad cuz that means the circuit is designed to run them really cold or really inefficiently to get 25 watts out of tubes that can make 40 or 50. if it were me id just change the power amp circuit to get around 45 watts out of them and change the output transformer to handle the higher power if needed. but i know you dont know as much about amp modding. tho you prolly could try to learn to mod it by getting the schematic and post it to a amp forum site and ask some builders how you can get more watts out of it

[@GunsandGuitars]

I was thinking that two 6l6’s should be more powerful. This is very interesting to me. I’ll see if KLD will send me a schematic, then maybe I can mod it for more power!

[@phatbassanchor]

@@GunsandGuitars You should be getting 50 watts just by running at 4 ohms. But, the more powerful tubes rated at 50 watts should get you up to 100 watts at four ohms. THAT is a gig worthy set up, even with a heavy handed rock drummer! Hahaha ;D

[@pdiddley7597]

Btw, correction: they took 7027 and 7059 output tubes, but would work in a pinch .

[@arlo0011]

As a retired amp technician who worked in a music store in the 80's and 90's and worked on all brands of tube amps, I would have thought you already have nearly 50 watts by using a pair of 6L6's.

[@hoborec]

Would have loved to hear more of the overdrive 🤩

[@CARL557511]

I've e been experimenting with 6jh5 beam triodes. Built a mono block amp and it's still working, need to make a video of it for here.

[@larry6686st]

Should be able to play with that thing live. Use the DI output to plug straight to the PA and have the sound guy put you through the monitors to be able to hear your bass better

[@Emily_M81]

Oh damn, this is cool. And despite the current tube issues I have a guitar head with 5-6 JJ 12AX7s and 4 6L6s in the closet >_> They were installed a long time ago and never used.

[@nicothebassdude]

Good call on no tweeter in the bass cabs. This is the way.

[@electron7373]

It would be cool to have the VU meters luminated with colored LEDs. A little tricky to do but would look great.

[@jimcatanzaro7808]

Leds sometimes causes high-frequency noises they kinda sound like aliens

[@electron7373]

@@jimcatanzaro7808 Never heard that one? Do you mean when they are being controlled by a microcontroller - PWM signals to control brightness?

[@michaelbolduc7194]

Ok..... I'm inspired..... Now I gotta start building amp kits...I wanna look into modding a kit though to make it my own....I wonder what trouble I could get into?????

[@beat_avenger]

This tuner isn’t very accurate but it looks really cool and that ads a lot of value. More like buy your dream cabinet but that grille game out tight. The whole stack looks great, this is a very cool build. Gonna peep your cab build next.

[@GeoffBosco]

"Do you see it now?" I saw it as soon as the top went up on that box. 🤣

[@andymetz709]

How did you mount the amp in your enclosure? just by the front screws? I have one of these and am building an enclosure. The mounting holes on the chassis are threaded for a machine screw - but your video didn't show how its mounted in the box. can you explain what you did? My Thoughts/notes about the amp: it sounds great, but the tone stack sucks. After putting a MXR 10 band EQ pedal in front of it, it can really be dialed in to good sounding tone. I have had the best recordings from it with a 16ohm speaker. My next steps with it are to add in a master volume (to drive the preamp tube a bit more) and hopefully clean up the tone stack to something usable. For the price, this amp kicks ass, however, after new tubes and material for an enclosure, it was closer to 400$ total cost. I might have opted for the ampeg Micro-CL stack, at just 100$ more (than my total cost) - although solid state, it sounds really good for recording. I might get one anyway. This amp is awesome in its own right, and is completely repairable/ customizable by a knowledgeable technician. That's something you can't get from a solid state, IC based amp.

[@ColeRambaldi]

UV meter is absolutely needed too. For outdoor filming.

[@morris9225]

Hi Dan, the Amp sounds great, but as you said, it's good for recording for sure. 20 valve watts are a lot for guitars, but not for bass obviously, but in a live if you have the right service, you can afford on it. Good stuff, and you as always great and smart. Final, hope to see the Dan Rick bass 🤭😜

[@timmysvensson4902]

Pretty cool! I tried part a Traynor YBA3a cusrom special awhile ago. But could not find suitable transformer. Really love the net on front btw, might do that on current build

[@rhamphorhynchusmetal2038]

Nice. But I've always wondered... which is the difference between a tube bass amp and a guitar tube amp? Transformers? Condensers? EQ section? Creaaak creaaak

[@goodgoat3096]

If you could use a speaker that is 3 db more efficient, that would be the same as doubling the power of the amp. If I remember correctly, the Fender Super Reverb amp used 6L6's and put out 40 watts into 4 10" speakers, an 8 ohm load?

[@zacheryhunter590]

Super Reverb is 2 ohms!

[@1thess523]

That amp sounds sweet!

[@freesk8]

Dan, you do really cool projects! Thanks! :)

[@Dewydidit]

Use it as a 2 stage amp by adding a transistor power amp to power lower cab at about 400 watts.

[@1TEDSong]

Looks and sounds great. Keep up the great work.

[@felixnospam37]

Yooo what about that danelectro-style bass you played at the end?

[@rafaelallenblock]

You know what kills a solid state amp? A direct short across the output. You know what saves your vacuum tube output transformer without a speaker plugged in? A direct short across the output. Having multiple output jacks precludes that ability to simply use a shorting output jack. It should have a selector switch and a proper output jack.

[@MrGwg11]

One of a kind.... Great work! now wright some walking lines and get that kitty purrin'

[@Falasi4]

I like it a lot but I fall into the category now of not needing amps. Just going through pedal (Sonicake boom) straight to pa and using in-ear monitors. Similar for guitar/mandolin. Amps (for me anyway) have just become a heavy extra piece of possible failure points that I can't even hear with in-ears.

[@willfowler8540]

2 videos in more or less a week. I built jazzmaster, I want you to see it haha, might send you a message through patreon so you can see, I used your wiring diagram so thank you so much!

[@GunsandGuitars]

Glad to hear it worked out! Please send me a pic I want to see it!

[@donavonpetersen]

Are there good instructions of setting the bias included?

[@joshuajayolorozo8455]

Just change or swap the output transformer to a bigger or higher output transformer to achieve more power output, and add more output tubes in pair

[@russellzauner]

With them VU meters I dub it the Ashpeg (the Amdown sounds dumb).

[@GunsandGuitars]

Love it!

[@electron7373]

It looks awesome.

[@benvin10365]

Sweet Rig!!!

[@jonsnothere84]

Is there a SVT kit somewhere? been looking for one forever!!

[@EXSENTRIX]

Killer rig man! 🤘🏼💀

[@rodanone4895]

+1 on the Ashdown comment. awesome all around imo as well. and you always know by the look.

[@74dartman13]

Nice work, as always!👍😎🎸🎶

[@randyhaney5767]

Nice Amp. indeed, Cool stuff. Thanks Dan.

[@_snaggs6248]

love this build. Nice work

[@troythompson1621]

I would like to see a flip top single 10 amp and cab

[@HomeGuitarMods]

Would love to try some KT88 power tubes in this.

[@andymetz709]

I just bought this amp in January, and had my friend who is a tube amp tech look at the schematic (schematic is available on the website under the kits section) and it says it can handle KT88s, but my tech said the circuit doesn't provide the plate voltage needed for those.

[@renebustos87]

Amazing video! Fantastic stack you have there! And is that a Ricky i spied? 🤔

[@kimfaucher007]

Great video! I have been looking for DIY bass amps for a while. Not many companies offer them because of the danger of getting deadly electric shocks if you screw up with the capacitor and resistance wiring… Still, I was wandering if it would be possible to add a pod for the mids and/or if you can customize the pods that are already installed in this kit…

[@GunsandGuitars]

I do wish this kit offered a pod for the mids. That’s one thing I meant to mention that the portaflex has that this doesn’t.

[@adamdavenport6421]

I have a question about monotone bass guitar amp kits

[@williampringle2307]

Is the active input for a bass with active electronics with a higher output?

[@elmanitasdeplomo]

Seems cool to have a valve amp for so little money. But what’s holding me back is that it doesn’t have both volume and gain knobs.

[@iggynub]

8:30, well yeah mate - You wanna crossover the woofer lower and let it not handle those higher frequencies, and let a nice horn based tweeter tackle the higher frequencies. Lets the woofer articulate the lower frequencies better.

[@bearwilliams9226]

Love these videos!!!

[@jasonfifi]

if you got another head and used an ABY to split, i bet you'd get more total headroom. even easier would be just using the DI output into a powered PA speaker or some other clean power.

[@phatbassanchor]

50 watts? I'd need a 300 watt SVT clone! Hahaha ;D But, those are heavy bricks! At present, I have an ultra-light Acoustic brand short stack with twin 1x12" neodymium magnet speakers and a 300 watt digital head with a tube preamp. Love it! The cabs weigh in at about 25 pounds each and the head is like 5 pounds! Great tone at any volume from bedroom to concert hall! Fits in any car, even a mini-Cooper or a Prius!... not that I'd be caught dead in a Prius... Hahaha ;D That's why I mentioned the big SVT. My little digital amp is just as powerful as that 80 pound SVT Classic! Gotta love technology :) Enjoy the new toy, brother. Considering that you are running this stack at 4 ohms, you should be getting 50 watts already. But, a 50 watt model in the same configuration would give you 100 watts. So, I do get your point. Personally, I have a Fender Jazz and a 5 string active Jackson. The fiver is to keep up with keyboard players and the 300 watt head is to keep up with the drummers! Hahaha ;D Never been a fan of keyboard players that step all over my bass lines or drummers who do not understand the concept of dynamic contrast. Drummers need three things... groove, meter and dynamics. And, I'm officially rambling again! Adventure ever on brother, Phat :)

[@GunsandGuitars]

When KLD asked me what bass amp they should model for this kit, I told the the SVT 300w or the Mesa/Boogie 400+ haha! They laughed at me, and came up with this portaflex clone instead lol

[@phatbassanchor]

@@GunsandGuitars Both are amazing gig worthy amps. TBH, the amp in the Ampeg Rocket Bass combo would work well for this rig at 200 watts. But, the only way to get one is from the 1X15 combo AFAIK. Gotta watch the ohmage when amp shopping. Some give the wattage at 8 ohms, some at 4 ohms and others at 2 ohms. Ampeg generally gives wattage ratings at 4 ohms for some of the smaller amps, like your portaflex... those are listed at 8 ohms... I think. That makes your amp 50 watts in your 4 ohm set up. Take my old solid state Rickenbacker head that I had all through school... rated at 120 watts and it drove the two Electro-Voice speakers rather well at 8 ohms. But, she was a stereo amp that was actually intended to run at 4 ohms in stereo! Now, I never ran any stereo effects. But, I did drop the big 2X15 EV cab for two old Acoustic brand 4X10 cabs and that Ric head really cranked! In fact, those 4X10 cabs were the beginning of the phatbassanchor tone as it still sounds today. Phat tone from my bass that anchors the band. That is the origin of the screen name I've had since myspace and email first appeared on this cool new thing called the internet! Hahaha ;D But, the actual tone was born the day I first tried running two 4X10 cabs at 4 ohms. I'm sure you noticed the rich bottom that you got when connecting the second 1X10 cab to your mini-stack. It's the same with my current rig with the two 1X12's. The tone immediately grows fatter with the second cab. Four ohms is where the magic happens, IMHO. So, I really dig your mini-stack

[@alphanumeric1529]

Hey Dan, the bass man, how'd you run this at 4ohms, into two 8 ohms cabs? Like, physically how'd you do it? God Bless you in all things you do today!

[@georgerobartes5989]

Hi , I'm not sure how I got here but to answer your question , the speakers are run in parallel which halves the resistance, but not the impedance seen by the output transformer. If yout amp has a pair of common connected output jacks at 8 Ohm , just go straight from your jack outs to the 2 speakers and they will be in parallel at 4 Ohm . Parallel halves the resistance. If your building cabinets I recommend a plate that uses pairs of jacks and pairs of speakon connectors. That way you can go from a single 8 ohm out to one cabinet and then piggyback the other . I would add an active sub to this set up and run it from a Direct Out from the preamp . Most home entertainment subs like the old Logitech or Celestions run a 10 " at 175 W . You won't hear it much but you will feel it and it does not matter where you place it . I use a Logitech sub that has a 10" TangBand which are great for the job . The problem with tube bass amps is they should run more metal and copper in the output transformer than a guitar and I use old 30W transformers to rewind for 5W combos . A guitar OT cannot generate the lows that hit the gut and you have to wind them yourself to get down to that 20Hz frequency. It's cheaper to run a sub as a satellite in the band ( like behind the drummer !) to shift the air and shake out those lows , otherwise its my 4 x 10 Celestion ported cabinet I built . The preamp in my bassamp design runs 2 x 2C51s or the cheaper Russian 6n3p-e tubes which are really hi fi tubes but less prone to distort so you can push the amp harder and still have plenty of headroom before break up . Historically none of the classic bass amps e.g. Fender Bassman were bass amps for these reasons and were always used with guitars , which is why most bassamps are solid state thanks to the tube like sound of FETs and no need for a huge output transformer. If you want to build a great sounding bass amp take a look at the late Albert Kreuzer s FET Bassamp . It's pretty easy to build easy on the pocket and has a great following on the Internet with mods . Mine runs a couple of VU meters from a simple circuit , has an inbuilt tuner and EQ, and it works with any slave power amp or direct into PA mixer . My standby 100W head is a 70s HH Bassamp which is stunning to look at and listen to and noise free , but becoming collectable now . I cant think of any 70s band that didn't include a piece of HH equipment.

[@chrisn.4136]

You killed me when you sprayed that nice wood with rubber! Each to his own! nice job otherwise.

[@markdancer3501]

Nice little build Dan. Did you need to make any changes to the cab dimensions for the Goldwood driver, or is it just a drop in substitute for the Emi?

[@GunsandGuitars]

I didn’t make any changes, I build the cab to the exact same specs!

[@markdancer3501]

@@GunsandGuitars Thanks Dan.

[@PneumaticFrog]

Where do I get the kit though ?

[@iliasliakos6692]

looks great!!

[@leebodean1493]

I've looking around for an svt kit, I've always wanted one, but at this point, I'll never be able to afford one. Anyone know of a diy kit version?

[@alanlevin167]

3 comments: A speaker+enclosure that only goes down to 45 hz may have problems with the notes below G# on the bottom string--will almost certainly have trouble with the low B string of a 5 string bass. This can be fixed by choosing the right speaker and enclosure-paying attention to the Theile-Small stuff and tuning the cabinet. This won't be important if you don't have that 5th string. A 25 watt bass amp will not make it out beyond rehersal--unless you may have a temendously effecient speaker (I've got a JBL K-140 for heavy lifting, and still use a 150 watt amp). The new Ampeg Portaflex head uses 6L6s--as do all of the vintage heads from the B-12, B-15 etc. You can't get more than 22 clean watts out of 2 6V6s in push-pull.

[@GunsandGuitars]

All the sound demos I did with this thing were in BEAD tuning, so it hits the low B just fine. But I agree with everything else you said. Don’t get too hung up on the translation of frequency to pitch. There’s so much timbre on an instrument like electric bass that you’ll hear all notes just fine. Similar to how bumping 60hz will also add more balls to an open D string, even though that’s a way lower frequency than the actual pitch.

[@saulgoodeguitars]

I dig this rig 🤟🏼

[@pdiddley7597]

I mean 6L6's work in a pinch, but 7027 and 7059s were what they used

[@leebodean1493]

Is there a svt style diy amp kit available anywhere that you know of?

[@planetlimbo5981]

Cool ass bass too.

[@mechart87]

How do you use two speakers with this amp?

[@cristianomaker]

Beatiful!

[@colbullsigh6823]

Hey, Brother! Did you forget about the other part of your name? Are you ever gonna do any more GUNS?

[@ryanrogers8923]

Awesome! What size speakers did you use in those cabs? I missed that

[@castleanthrax1833]

I think they're 10 inchs.

[@ryanrogers8923]

Thx!

[@1thess523]

Hey Dan do you think painting a head with that bed liner and then painting it would work, do you think it would keep the second color of paint on it? I want to retolex my jcm900 head but it seems kind of a hassle after seeing this video I was wondering if that bed liner with a coat of paint on top of it would work better

[@GunsandGuitars]

I think it would work just fine as long as you give it it’s full cure time before painting over it

[@1thess523]

@@GunsandGuitars 👍

[@reasonablyprepared]

New subscriber here. Love the content! Found your vid on a lpvo optics review ( I love guns and guitars as well) and then your channel rockinandrollin and lovin that too! If you guys ever roll through Waco TX, hit us up! I will take you pig hunting and then we can mess around on some guitars!

[@GunsandGuitars]

That sounds awesome! We were in Waco when the pandemic hit. We will definitely pass through again

[@reasonablyprepared]

@@GunsandGuitars maybe a collab:-)

[@reasonablyprepared]

@@GunsandGuitars Feel free to email me and lemme know when you guys will be rollin through the great state of Texas! Names Joshua by the way:-)

[@tarkett8529]

General rule of thumb for me on bass is go with at least double the wattage of your guitar players amp, shouldn’t be a problem being heard in a mix then, unless your drummer beats the drums like they owe them money.

[@snap-off5383]

The cymbals set the volume everyone else must come UP to.

[@raybassman7536]

Did you try 6550's for the output tubes yet? that would sound more like an SVT tone.

[@saveriolipari7143]

Didn' t sound so good as a "industry" bass head . In the Life ...at this moment of humanity turnaround it' s allright 4 you i understand. I givd my Like.

[@Dirge4july]

So I see there based in China.. how long did it take to get yours?

[@GunsandGuitars]

Less than a week I think, it was shipped DHL. But that was a few months ago, the holidays will slow shipping down a bit I’m sure

[@EasyHeat]

I bet a regular guitar would sound pretty rad through this.

[@phatbassanchor]

That is the same thinking as the original Fender Bassman tube amps. That model is more frequently used by guitarists than bassists! Hahaha ;D Pretty sure you are spot on with your comment. Adventure on friend, Phat

[@PauloRepair]

Schematics, please.

[@rw9495]

Going in I thought this would be an actual kit you wire up yourself, bit disappointed it's not that. I know how to build a box, I don't know how to wire an amp.

[@jettalfaro]

Hello... Hope u can Here in philppines

[@ryanrogers8923]

Ooo, the Kld link is broken for me

[@GunsandGuitars]

Fixed!

[@MetalMan1245]

Yes.

[@95FORFREEDOM]

Does it come with the tubes?

[@GunsandGuitars]

No you get to choose your tubes