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As has been said there isn't anything like an old school Trace stack. However I have used my Trace, Ampeg and Ashdown rigs through Barefaced cabs for a couple of years now. I would say nothing beats a Trace, biamped into a TE 15 and a TE 2x10 but I can't lift them anymore and the Barefaced is good enough. My conclusion: a good solid Trace amp on top of a BF Compact or ideally two Compacts will give you all your heart might desire. I am also happy with the Elf but early days yet, and will be trying an Ashdown EVO amp into two 12s soon. I'll report back as and when.

So my downsizing continues apace. Bought an Ashdown 12" RM cab from @phil-m and paired with the little Elf I have recently acquired, it's just lovely. The sound is a match made in heaven and I very much look forward to hearing them in a bigger setting. And with the Zoom B1Four this is a great multi functional lightweight mini rig.

Couldn't let me in next week lottery numbers could you? 😉

My first choice bass if I were auditioning or recording. The P basses from the Bass Centre are very good, the Profile is superb.

Congrats @mcnach I love mine. I call it my make an average bass sound awesome pedal. I've even used it as a preamp at one gig just to see what it sounded like. It didn't disappoint.

Even looks don't tell the whole story in a photo. I have bought plenty that continued to look great when pictured but not so good in front of me, and vice versa. in any case the looks aren't really worthy of that much debate when they're based on such familiar designs. We all know what a P or J looks like. The devil will be in the detail and the balance and the neck and the sound.

Also one traditional double bass and one electric upright.

Ha ha, good point. I'm projecting my issues onto you. Sorry.

Amazing the many and various solutions we devise to finally close that revolving door. Congratulations, enjoy the tranquility while it lasts. Let's be honest though, you'll see something you fancy then fall for, then can't live without. The nagging voice telling you all this was supposed to be over will only be quiet when you remember the solution: begin the immediate search for the bass which will make this new love a pair. Storage space? You'll fill the room with basses and sleep outside before you stop. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This has been fascinating! Thanks for sharing your cunning solutions. However I can't help thinking that @MrDaveTheBasscame up with simplest, cheapest solution in the very first reply.

Yep I remember that from my lessons! But thank you nonetheless I really appreciate the help I get from people like yourself.

BL wants us to do some recording while we're locked down, which is a great way to use the time. He sent out a demo/click track and this is what I've come up with. Left a bit of the guide track in so it's not just an endless noodle. I have played the song live but totally jammed it following the chart on my tablet, so it's been good to acrtually think about it!

@Ashdown Engineering HELP!!!!!!

Misleading title alert. Just in case one of our resident pedants starts chewing on his logarithm tables, I know what I'm about to talk about is two thirds, but you see I preferred the title as is. A bit snappier I'd say. Anytwittwoo, I was thinking of that old saying, with which I am sure we're all familiar, 'a bi-amper is just a tri-amper who doesn't really mean it ' This thread is also my 'best thing delivered during the lockdown' thread but you can have too much of a good thing where titles are concerned. Hands down the bestest thing I've sprung for since being holed up is my Super-X-Pro crossover by Behringer. It has opened a Pandora's box of sonic possibilities and is, in short, enormous fun. Having played with the two way crossover for a few weeks I decided that it's time I looked at the possibility of a three way. Fnaar. I pressed my little monitor into service and oh my golly gosh! Sounds like nothing I've ever heard before. At first I thought the experiment was a bust. Muting the low and mid outputs produced something akin to the old plastic radio which I used to listen to Luxembourg as a boy. But this is actually where the magic is. mix with the mids and the little speaker is actuallyadding purely the fresh, sparkling edge to the sound. Being able to control that without affecting any other frequencies is a joy. Similarly the bass. On its own just a huge wamping blooob of a sound. But compress the bejasus out of it, fold in a but of mid from the two 8" speakers and ay curumba! I spend hours just muting the outputs, singly and in pairs, and chuckling. With just a hint of manic about it. I'm probably just doing something everyone else has been doing forever with Helix and earphones. But I don't care. It's amazing. It's fun. Honestly it must be great to find what you're happy with and just stick with it. But I can't be what I'm not. I'm a restless soul, the joy for me is as much in the journey as it is in the destination. ps Oh and did I mention how simple it is to set up? Everything stays connected, just one mains lead two speaker leads and the input on the little top cab. OK I keep a couple of pedal snakes coiled in the back of the rack box in case I decide to use effects for a gig. But again, they're right there. No rummaging for them in a box or bag. The psu for the effects already plugged in and attached to the amp end of the snake. Different effects for different parts of my sound. Oh what fun it is to be alive. pps The Super-X-Pro has an adjustable limiter AND a HPF. ppps 😁

I'm glad you pointed it out though before I went rummaging for spares among Dad's old and extensive collection of plugs wires cables and various electrical ephemera

Must say I didn't dislike the Kid (or his coconuts), but to my ears this is way better than I ever realised. It's me gaining a deeper love of music nothing more.

Check the comment just above yours for actual experience. But I'm happily predicting that I will gig with this. How can I say that? While I have only played it a few times at home I have also played various gigged rigs at home. I know what I am comparing it with. There is a simple test I use. If it triggers my CPAP machine into life when played below half volume it will be fine in a gig.

I mean, I presume so. I only meant they looked like 5 pin din, I'm a total newb where anything midi is concerned. I'll find out if and when the post arrives

I have ordered a couple of 5 pin din leads (or at least they look like the old 5 pds we used to use) as that's the only cable I could see looked like it would join the midi interface to the pedal. Which I assume is what happens. @prowla you were quite correct the unit came with nothing at all, luckily enough the type of USB cable looks to be the standard USB type A to USB type B, of which I have many. The reason I asked was to order the correct stuff before the pedal and interface arrived. But never mind I'll just wait for the postman. Some interesting squeaks and honks coming out of the machine though. Hopefully I will be able to suss it all out once I'm joined up and can use the software.

You're bang on about the Club. I just finished recording Tina Weymouth's part from the live version of Take Me To The River. Club, flats, foam mute, pick. Put it through an Ampeg sim and it is thump heaven.

But the ancient rune I explained all that.

I heartily endorse this.