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Same for me, the teenage/early 20s me says what a great idea, the 50 plus actual me acknowledges defeat.

Prog about Suedes album Coming Up on Sky Arts now, absolutely loved that album so really looking forward to this one.

I found that too, in established bands if there was ever an A-hole amongst them it was inevitably someone new to the band & fame rather than someone used to it.

Pretty much the same for me, not super low but low enough to be aware that technique wise it would be better higher.

Just a heads up, sold something for £400 on eBay Item listed under £1 selling fees Via the new way of paying I received £348.50 into my account Cash on Collection only from now on methinks

Yep BT12, the BT8 is for pre 2012 Fenders, in fact I think that’s how they’ve got their serial numbers, BT8 is for 2008 until 2012, BT12 from then on.

I wouldn’t say it’s hi-tech super squashy, more like it evens things out and makes things a bit thicker.

Well today I took them two packets of biscuits. I’m not sure if there’s any specific charges if sending the amp there but any work I’ve ever had done (I always take the amps there myself) has been settled with bikkies.

Just back from Ashdown, they plugged in my amp and gave it a thorough test, all working exactly as it should be. Thanks @Ashdown Engineering, yet another reason to buy your excellent products.

You’d get away with it, be careful and don’t push too much low-end and you should be ok, use your ears to determine if the cab is struggling - though in all honesty having a 600 watt head myself I can’t envisage being in a situation where I’d ever be pushing it to full power.

Yes that will be fine. Your amp is 600 watts at 4ohms so connecting an 8ohm cab to it approximately halves the amount of power delivered to it, so 300 watts, which your 410 will handle. If you connect up another cab, as long as it’s another 8ohm cab effectively each cab will then receive 300 watts, so make sure this cab is also capable of handling 300 watts or more (the theory says the best second cab should be the same as the first one).

From the bands I’ve been in I’m not sure they’d know any basses other than the ones I was playing.

Unless you’re likely to get a soundcheck I’d go for the condom. The desk will have the sound set for their mics and although any experienced sound person should be able to sort quickly, your first song is the one where you want to grab the crowd, having them need to sort levels and eq on that is risky.

For years I tried and couldn’t get along with compression, but then I was playing with gain/drive and digging in as hard as possible all the time, maybe I already had the compression I needed with the drive, and dynamics weren’t a factor. Now however I’m playing with a lighter touch, lighter pick, no drive, and have minimal compression. I’ve just chosen the “even everything out” setting from the manual, it doesn’t seem to do anything until I switch it off, which I suppose is a sign it’s working as it should. Holds me back a bit, which is what I wanted, nothing special, no instant miracles, just smooth things out a tad.

You know I hadn’t realised that I was using the Shape feature, I just used the same settings as last rehearsal which was the first time using this amp with my current band, and which was 5 months ago. For some reason “in” is off, “out” is on. Would explain why you think out is a bit rich, it scoops mids and adds lows/highs. Thinking about it that’s probably why I’ve upped my mids a fair bit.

I don’t know, to me it’s like deciding to be a classic rock/metal band doing stuff like AC/DC, Anvil, Maiden etc, dressing and performing the part and then sticking Rio or Karma Chameleon in the set to keep a band member happy. Once they get their way on one song it will snowball, within a year the original idea will seem as long ago as the 80s themselves.

Likewise

I think you’re right, have a theme and stick to it, offer something a bit different to the regular mix & match of the same songs in a different order.

I’ve had similar experiences, “we can’t make refund until you close the dispute”. Oh yes you can, one chance to make that very refund or watch your message fly it’s way to your CEOs inbox. Heres your refund.

I found it less of a drive function and more of a sound thickener and harmonics adder. Yes there is some drive/gain there but it’s subtle, unlike that on the RM amps which quickly becomes apparent in anything after about 9 o’clock on the control.

We did that for some friends of ours who were over from the US, aside from sticks & picks we provided everything for them. We did get main support slot though.

Fave - Gibson/Marshall such as AC/DC, Guns N Roses Least fave - that tinny weak distorted single coil-ish sound that many American bands used, such as Talking Heads, The Strokes

Give it to your guitarist telling him it will make him sound better......,

Probably the only Spice Girls song that I like.