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Gigged it today. Very pleased.

Line 6 and Boss make very capable budget ones now. Can't go wrong with either to be honest.

I like the yellow - and I saw in the presentation there were some made with a blue cab - still with the yellow speakers. I really liked the look!

Anyone found any prices yet?

The cabs seem to be very deep, and although 15.75kg for a 410 is amazing I'd still want some tilt back wheels on it! It's not quite as light as the GR AT410 (but a bit lighter than the AT410+).

Could be - especially if they were shifting the cab builds back to Italy. Can't be an easy thing to arrange. Personally I don't care where anything is built - it's not enough of an issue anymore. The days of "Far Eastern crap" are long gone.

Italy.

I actually sat through it. Very poor. Would have been less embarrassing for Marco to come out and scream “lightweight cabs you sh1tnozzles” and then do 10 lines of coke. I’ll still try the new cabs, but in spite of the presentation, not because of it.

I’d love too. when I had a hand injury and it wasn’t clear if I’d be able to keep playing bass I started to research trombone lessons. Still want to try.

They are all filled with helium.

Yeah - I'm sure they'll be great, but what a dull presentation! And although Richard Bona can really play, 99% of bassists just don't care about that stuff.

They've finally got to the point. New lightweight cabs - made in Italy.

Live stream It's very slow going...

Whatever it is, it is called the MB58R Live stream on this afternoon apparently.

I think it’s new lighter cabs. MB were very light but now GR and BF are far lighter. So I think they are aiming at that.

Nah - me too. It's why I don't own an ABM even though I love the tone from them. It's also why I'm actually considering the Evo5 at it's stupid price if the fans are actually really quiet / silent at low volumes. My RM800 is as near as silent as any fan amp I've ever had - that gets used in the house and at gigs. My Mark Bass is a bit louder, but no louder than a PC but I tend to use that at gigs rather than at home because if I'm just sitting and playing then I really don't want any fan noise at all. In almost all cases there could be better temp control systems, or better venting in the amp so if an amp needs fans then they can run far slower for the same cooling. It really is poor design at this point, and it's a real shame.

Don't buy the Mesa Prodigy type stuff then. I had a 4:88 and it had the noisiest fan of any amp I've ever used. (Even more than the ABM). It was actually embarrassing that a valve amp had been built that way. For an extra few pennies a silent fan could have been used. Such a shame. Was a great sounding amp, but it had to go.

Anything Duck Dunn would have done.

What will you get your tone from if it's just a passive di?

Yes. I could hear a little bit from it, but most of what I heard was the PA / monitors It wasn't my rig. It was set up at the venue and it was easier to use that rather than use mine. I had a moan in another thread about wishing they had told me about it before I had carried all my kit down a bunch of country lanes!

Body shape is very different. Old one is like a Fender Jazz. New one is much smaller. the MDK models are just TT models with a slightly different neck and more of a 1970s pickup position.

That's a Cali 2 The used is an original shape. I'd buy the new shape personally. Lot more comfortable to me.

The amp didn't do the work. The PA did.

I used a little Laney combo on Sunday. On stage volume was fine, and the PA did the rest. It was loud enough to be heard across a big village sports field that was about the size of 3 or 4 football pitches. I just added a compressor and an Octave. I'm not up on Laney amps. It wasn't one of the new Digbeth ones. I think it was a 1x12 with the controls on top with a bit of a semi parametric and some other stuff going on. It could have been anywhere from 100W to 250W for all I know. Didn't matter. All it was doing was the tone creation. The PA did the hard work.

I think it's the right way round. If a foot has a top and bottom in the flat plane then the toes are at the top. So moving "upwards" to the toes has more treble. Seems right to me.