LukeFRC

But Its kinda irrelevant - it’s like a 100w valve amp keeping up with a 300w solid state amp... well that’s because the valves are introducing compression... and the 300w solid state amp having more heft than thr 800w class D ... because the class D has a burst power of 800w and way less long term... ... which in some applications is fine and in all types of amp a good enough amp exists. personally I think TC got a lot of the tech and ideas behind the RH range right - even if in reality it wasn’t quite the finished article. They should have been more up front about their amp ratings and were daft not to have been. The real interesting test would be to hear if the blacksmith is still cack or if that solved the problems (ie the RH450 was just underpowered and tying to make up for that)

Or it’s unbelievably good... but with a flaw that makes it cack ...

It’s a combo... by the time you sell the barefaced you can afford it! plus it will stop me looking at it

I would get this from @Chimike - I know I keep looking at it with GAS (and guessing for recording portability is secondary

Not according to the table posted above. however as @wateroftyne alludes too it’s a slightly fictitious discussion - mainly as most all the class D amps will have some kind of burst power .... and not only is it hard to compare, but who’s to say that TCs implementation isn’t more intelligent than any other makers...

Do you have a top five that you wish you could have kept?

To get a cheap basic head out at a lower price point? The bass head range is a bit of a mess from a marketing POV - like what is the difference between the BH and RH lines supposed to be? They don’t explain that at all

Good idea - I never quite got why they didn’t make the screw bit 2mm longer and give you a lock nut

Yeah but you don’t post the blow by blow f ups!

He does that. It’s mildly annoying as you end up planning your own projects- but in my case without the skills

With the tecamp 210 I had it was middy as it wasn’t designed properly so at any sort of volume the bottom end disappeared...

Out of interest which channel strips?

Me neither, and I think when I looked at the helix after folk in this thread were raving about it - it modelled amps I was meh about, and not £1k meh enough edit: just looked again, they have added more now so slightly less valid

I had always presumed that is how they did it, bending irons I only found out about today

GK through one of the older Schroeder cabs ... ? Trace Elliot maybe too. Stick a bright sounding bass through it too, Warwick or Spector with EMGs? I dunno, it’s the exact opposite of what I like - my streamer with active pups into a trace could conceivably combo cut through with so much mids it sounded like a machine gun when I played punk style with fingers. You may like this?

Being a bassist and only medling in acoustic I find this really interesting - I used to have a 80's Takamine dreadnaught and never fell in love with it, killer strumming, not so good finger picking... I later picked up a OM sized acoustic (actually think it's a custom luthier copy of a 30's Martin, no idea, sound stunning wasted on me really) and it's like chalk and cheese - sounds beautiful and lets me do the finger picking type stuff - but like you say not so good at strumming.

4 at mo ‘91 Warwick streamer with ACG preamp - main bass for years ‘83 -G&L L1000 - bought as it was on my like-to-own list, was supposed to be an itch to scratch but became my new number 1 ‘85 warwick thumb - bought for me by my wife, amazing but we’re not really getting on (the bass, still like the wife) ‘17 DIY stingray shaped build, double pickup, own designed switching etc- sounds better than it should, fun to play- sounds amazing through my Zoom B3n for some strange reason ive probably got at least one more bass than I need, and luckily don’t really have much left on the GAS list at all. Fender Roscoe beck or maybe a Valenti/Sadowsky/fodera super jazz are about the only things left- so that’s quite nice - and even then I don’t think I would bother shell out... ... hang on contented chat like that will get me banned on here won’t it?

Kudos In a separate thread you should document them somehow - they are a brand who were mostly considered rubbish when I started playing - a brief ownership of a T40 changed that opinion but the different models down the years and the relative merits is a bit hard to work out. Mind you if you did do that then if might increase the interest and make it harder to add more to the collection!

It would be ok providing your iPhone doesn’t effect any instrument pickups

What is it? Kinda like the Allen and Heath ME1 I use on an iPad Pro ?

EBS_freak or IEM_ freak?

Ah - you saw this before I realised this was the FRFR thread!

Ignore me

I recently picked up a B3n and did consider saving for a Helix ... the one big advantage I could see other than price was the Helix is a top of the range guitar effects pedal with bass functionality added... where as the B3n models some quite esoteric bass equipment- you get the feeling that someone at Zoom plays bass