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Loobs

New vintage canadian amp day. 




I recently spotted this Traynor YBA-1A (the 90w version with built in fan) on the Aluminium Axes fb group for 400 quid. These never crop up in the UK and it seemed a great price, so it was hard to say no. It's been recapped, revalved and serviced by Martin Cooper at Coopersonic in Nottingham. I don't know much about him, but apparently he's quite well rated.

I'd say it weighs more than my grandmother. 

The plan is actually to let our bassist use it for the meanwhile through a 4x10. I imagine it sounds great on bass, since that's what it was designed for. 

Winny_Pooh

Looks cool, very solid amps. I used to have a YGM-3.

Loobs

Nice! 

ThePrettyDamned

Good looking amp! I've never seen one before, but I've heard a yga-something and it was great. 

Happy nad! 

Loobs

Thanks man. Bit under the radar, especially in the UK. 

They are very similar to plexis. 

Loobs

http://kilback.net/traynortweaks2.htm

Loobs

http://s48.photobucket.com/user/Sharkey6us/media/Traynor YBA-1A/DSC00787.jpg

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ICBM

Make sure you have good EL34/6CA7s in it! They are really hard on valves otherwise.

A 6550/KT88 substitution is probably not out of the question if you want to use it for bass - you'll need to rebias, but the transformers should handle it otherwise.

Loobs

Ta. I'll bear that in mind. We'll see how it gets on with the tubes in it. The guy who sold it to me claims they are 'matched'. I haven't looked at them, but I doubt they're anything expensive. 

Any idea of which cab I'd want to use for bass with it? I imagine it wouldn't really get a 1x15 moving? 4x10? 

ICBM

Probably the other way round, but either will work. 1x15"s tend to be looser-sounding, which can make a lower-power amp sound louder even if the efficiency is only about the same. 4x10"s are usually punchier but tighter.

Loobs

Interesting. We'll see what we can find. Thanks, as always.