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Re: TRAYNORetcALERT- The "Look What's on Ebay" Thread
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:01 pm
by Owen
RIP to the days when you could always find one for $350-500 all day long.
Re: TRAYNORetcALERT- The "Look What's on Ebay" Thread
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:28 pm
by Garth
update on that scam synth, I'm not the only one getting that FB ad
Here's the original lift:
https://boingboing.net/2021/05/15/842862.html
Dastards. Even at the non-discounted price it looked pretty rad.
Re: TRAYNORetcALERT- The "Look What's on Ebay" Thread
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:41 pm
by twelvepoint
Owen wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:01 pm
RIP to the days when you could always find one for $350-500 all day long.
Having owned 2 V4s and 2 VT-22s, those good old days had a lot of ones in need of a retube and cap job, so add another couple hundred for service.
Really unique sounding amps when they run well, and I think the reverb ones have a better verb than Fenders. They sure fucked up with that “distortion” knob though.
Re: TRAYNORetcALERT- The "Look What's on Ebay" Thread
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:52 pm
by Owen
twelvepoint wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:41 pm
Owen wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:01 pm
RIP to the days when you could always find one for $350-500 all day long.
Having owned 2 V4s and 2 VT-22s, those good old days had a lot of ones in need of a retube and cap job, so add another couple hundred for service.
Really unique sounding amps when they run well, and I think the reverb ones have a better verb than Fenders. They sure fucked up with that “distortion” knob though.
I had two regular V4s with the metal knobs, no master and think I got lucky. The main one survived three shitty tours and a bass player dropping it on the concrete during load out. Never gave me a single problem. The other one did need the tube/cap job, but $525 total was still pretty great for an amp I loved the sound of. Still bummed I sold em off.
Re: TRAYNORetcALERT- The "Look What's on Ebay" Thread
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:07 pm
by Garth
The VT-22s somehow do seem to go for less than V4s from the last few checks I've done. As hard as it is to ship a V4, a VT-22 would be...insane.
If I were to sell one of mine, I'd probably rehouse it first and sell the speakers separately unless I got lucky and sold it locally.
Re: TRAYNORetcALERT- The "Look What's on Ebay" Thread
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 8:53 am
by penningtron
I would totally sell my VT-22 for $350 to anyone willing to pick it up in Milwaukee. It's the 1970-ish? one tmidyett had for sale on here a couple years back.
It mostly works as intended I think (except for the fucked up sounding reverb), but a friend here also has one that's in the shop every other month. Makes me not want to go down that road, and I don't really need loud vintage tube-y magic anyway.
Re: TRAYNORetcALERT- The "Look What's on Ebay" Thread
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:53 am
by tommy
penningtron wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 8:53 am
It mostly works as intended I think (except for the fucked up sounding reverb),
I'm only asking this because I didn't know it when I first got my first V4, but have you unlocked the reverb? There's a lock mechanism for travel and if its locked it sounds fucked up. Otherwise these have a pretty great reverb. Check that if you never have!
I owned 2x V4 and 1x V4B. None of them recapped. I practiced twice a week 4 hours at a time and gigged pretty regularly with one of them for about 5 years. I never had any issue with any of them. 2 out of 3 even had original tubes. Sometimes you get lucky.
Re: TRAYNORetcALERT- The "Look What's on Ebay" Thread
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:09 pm
by tommy
Re: TRAYNORetcALERT- The "Look What's on Ebay" Thread
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:54 pm
by penningtron
That is some HOF trollin' for sure.
My dealings with those guys in 2008/9 was always good, but clearly.. their reputation slipped thru the years (I couldn't keep up with the offshoot brands either)..
Re: TRAYNORetcALERT- The "Look What's on Ebay" Thread
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:15 pm
by biscuitdough
tommy wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:53 am
penningtron wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 8:53 am
It mostly works as intended I think (except for the fucked up sounding reverb),
I'm only asking this because I didn't know it when I first got my first V4, but have you unlocked the reverb? There's a lock mechanism for travel and if its locked it sounds fucked up. Otherwise these have a pretty great reverb. Check that if you never have!
I owned 2x V4 and 1x V4B. None of them recapped. I practiced twice a week 4 hours at a time and gigged pretty regularly with one of them for about 5 years. I never had any issue with any of them. 2 out of 3 even had original tubes. Sometimes you get lucky.
I was told about the famed "reverb brake" years ago and never found evidence of anyone else having heard of it. Turns out everyone says "reverb lock" except the amp repairman who told me about it, who I swear said brake.
Anyway, I don't miss my V4-B. Backbreakingly heavy.