It was 1993 I think when I walked into a small music shop in Noordwijk and saw this old Marshall, a JTM100 from around '66, standing on a workbench being defect and
heavilly damaged. I asked about it and could actually buy as it was for only 350 Gulden, which is around 150 Euros. Excited and Without any doubt I took the real old
'plexi' with me. I repaired it, and over the following years modified it to the original mid sixties JTM45, inclusive the GZ34 tube rectifier.
Man, this is the amp I will stick to for the rest of my life!
The Marshall cab contains two Celestion 'Greenback' G12-M25's reissues, my own cab two fantastic original Celestion G12-H30's, all with Weber Beamblockers for elimination of that nasty high-mid 'beaming' right in front of the speakers and more spreading.
With my love for vintage sounding amps I've come to the following setup. The combination of the tube preamp, the 'deep' power-amp, the old 1x15"
and the punchy 2x10" sounds absolutely great with any of my basses.
The Peavey T.B. Raxx is a modified original full tube amp, I have lowered the 'roll off' frequency within the first tube stage by giving the line capacitor a much higher value. This has given the amp more richness within the bottom frequency range. Just can't believe these amps came out of the factory as they did, I consider it a design failure. Anyway, mine sounds absolutely fantastic ever since, have also created a balanced output and an extra line input for my bass synth so I can play my bass guitar and the synth simultaniously ;-)
The Peavey CS-400 power amp which is a very solid sounding amp with built in compressor which is thrown in once it reaches its bottom, giving you just that top end compression for a great 'feel'.
The combination of the SWR Golight 2x 10" and the very old RMS 15" is just perfect for having a full bodied warm sound with great definition. I'm not so fond of a tweeter in my stack when playing the bass though, so I've turned it off most of the time. Having said that, I do use my PK-5 and PC so now and then to feed some synth chords into the amp which require a full range sound. The tweeter is perfect for that, this setup brings me just that flexibility.