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Gigged my Bugera again last night. Sounded great, looked great and was way too loud/powerful for what was a pretty big room.

More than happy with it.

Thanks for sharing this. Interesting stuff.

I would hesitate to take a hole cutter to it without absolute reassurance from those here who know all about such things. 

If it doesn't suit your purpose maybe sell it on and put the money to something else. Once you take tools to it the second hand value must surely fall 

On 25/10/2018 at 17:43, emilibass said:

Has anyone actually tried the 1001T?

Yes. It was excellent.

3 hours ago, Dood said:

Interestingly, TC Electronic K-Cabs, Laney SL cabs and now these Orange models are all using LaVoce speakers. I liked the sound of both the Laney and the TC, so I expect I will like these when I review them next month. Not bad for the money at all!

So it sounds like a choice of which livery one prefers. 

Gigged the Bugera last night. Very pleased.

Played a wedding in Hensol Castle. M4 absolute nightmare with Friday madness traffic, journey took over an hour longer than it ought to have. Coming home on an empty motorway in the wee small hours a joy by comparison. And then the Severn bridge was closed. Aaargh.

Gig went well though. New amp performed beautifully but my POG died ☹️

Oh and mine was an Amazon return, boxed, as new about £170. They have a new one for 208 free delivery right now.

As far as Behringer parts being difficult to access, I've had to write off a far more expensive Markbass amp as parts are impossible to buy. I bought second hand, barely used it and any resale value has vanished once repair costs and postage to and from the only official engineer allowed to touch it are factored in. 

My Behringer 450 watt head is still going strong 15 odd years after I bought it and I have just sold my Behringer 4 X 10 due to weight issues. I would have sold my 1 X 15 too but instead I put the speaker in a Trace Cab which had a busted driver. Not the first time my ever reliable Behringer saved the day where more illustrious names have failed.

Like everyone else here I can only speak from my personal experience. I refuse to base opinion on unlikely tales about unreliable speakers falling out of the cab at the first rehearsal, because they have the ring of urban myth. I have no hesitation gigging with Behringer gear whatever badge it wears or reputation it has acquired. The wattage numbers don't bother me at all. I know if it's loud enough by playing through it. I know if I like the sound through a similar process. I know it's reliable by the fact that my amp tech has never had the case open.

Given mine a good run over the last couple of days. Sounds and looks great. Gigging it on Friday.

If this wasn't the other side of the country...

Can't comment on the specific models you mention but I got rid of my small practice amp in favour of a TC Electronic 2 X 8 250 watt combo. 

It's light, not very big but most importantly sounds like a bass amp rather than a toy.

The 250 watts probably sounds like overkill but remember that is peak power and only achievable with an extension cab.

On its own it's closer to half that and the actual wattage rather than the peak half that again, but still a respectable 50 - 60 watts.  Once you add a piano and couple of guitars you'll be glad of the extra ooomph. 

It has a headphone output for quiet rehearsal and an aux input for playalongability. 

They're fairly reasonably priced when sold second hand.

Well this is a bundle of thunder and rumble.

59 minutes ago, ambient said:

That's where a 5 or 6 string comes in useful. I'd have played the Db on the 14th fret on the B string.

I have used 5ers for this but I wouldn't want to use one all night so I'd need to bring a 5er and a spare for just one song. I'm just too lazy to carry 4 basses!

On 16/10/2018 at 09:54, NJE said:

I genuinely think I am missing the point of this pedal. If you need to play something a semitone lower, just play it a semitone lower or if your using open strings, tune to Eb and then adjust for the other songs.

Failing that, tune one bass down and keep one standard? I wouldn’t want to rely on a pedal to tune down for me.

I use a pedal to detune for one song in a set. The set flows quickly from song to song. My second bass is for emergencies only and therefore in standard tune as the main bass.

So when the singer asked us to drop this song by a semitone I looked at playing it in a different place but it's impossible. The bass features parts which use the open D alternating with notes on the G string fretted up around 17 and 15. Playing a D flat would require my hands simultaneously at both ends of the fretboard, wasn't going to happen.

So to keep the set flowing and the folks dancing and to be able to play the song properly the pedal was an obvious choice. 

I have a few projects either on the boil, simmering or going cold. Spreading myself as widely as possible to get as much work as I can. 

One of the projects has great musicianship, an excellent set, good marketing angles but has managed just one gig in the year it's been going. Slothful isn't the word.

On the other hand I met some folk at an open mic night and we keep getting paid and asked back at a variety of venues. And we've never rehearsed. We jam out songs for a couple of hours and invite local musicians to join in as and when they feel like it. When it works it's really cool, at the very worst it's relaxed, and maybe a little loose!

Weird how all the hours of rehearsal with a band which ticks all the boxes gets nowhere and a ramshackle throw together with zero work is awesome and earning a few quid. These jams/gigs have all been on a Thursday evening or Sunday lunchtime too, thus not interfering with the holy Friday and Saturday nights.

Funny old world innit?

Just outside Shepton, advertises himself as guitar tech but has serviced and repaired amps for me. Highly recommended.

http://www.theguitarklinic.co.uk

Amplifier manufacturers will sometimes specify the output power at a higher level of THD in order to allow them to advertise a higher output power. A clipped sinusoidal output waveform with 10% THD has an average output power 28% higher than an undistorted sine wave output from the same amplifier.

P_O(RMS)(THD = 10%) = 1.28 • P_O(RMS)(THD = 1%)

Source: https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1274915&page_number=2

You're right about the grain. I was voting for the gold but I have a thing about gold basses! Charcoal frost sounds intriguing..

For that money? You'd struggle to get much better. Of course you might score something second hand for similar £££ but new? I doubt it.

You'll attract a lot of negative feedback because anything connected with Behringer always does but I've used their stuff for years and years. Solid, reliable, unpretentious and affordable.

As far as the wattage goes my 2000w Bugera might otherwise be described as an 880w or a 1000w depending how you like to measure these things so this is likely between 400 and 500 watts - in other words plenty. 

If you buy it please let us know how it sounds.

That is so cool. Seriously classy.

I bought a Veyron from Amazon, very well priced, looks like a keeper. I replaced a broken Trace speaker with a Bugera 15" which sounds awesome.

21 hours ago, rushbo said:

Those cardboard covers are ace. I saw some on T*lkb*ss a year or two and they looked like they do the job. The only drawback is that you cant fold them down and at a pub gig with limited space, it could be a bit of an issue. 

Yep. Definitely a carry back to the car job. 

23 minutes ago, Mudpup said:

We had a blinding weekend.......

Friday night - a new venue to us in Hounslow. Rock venue with an established crowd and no worries re hazers/smoke alarms so we could use all the lights and lasers to best effect and make a good show of it in front of a healthy amount of punters. We've been on a good run of form for a few months now, playing well and switching the set around to freshen things up a bit and we played really well on the night. And we trotted out some nichey widdley stuff that we cant normally do in regular pubs. They have some very good bands in there so they know their music (and typically stand around at the edges watching rather than jumping around until we got a few ladees dancing at the front and dragging the old man up too ☺️) We went down a storm, loads of people bothering to come up after with compliments, musos checking the gear out and having a chat etc.....a great night. It was a cheapo tryout night but the owner just asked what the usual rate was and coughed up voluntarily so that was a bonus. Rebooks secured for next year and i think we're going to enjoy this one.

Saturday night - a regular gig in a Hertford pub. The people that run it are lovely and they have a resident crowd that just start dancing from the first note. We've got to know quite a few of them over the last 2 years and its become like playing to all your mates. Again we played well and the sound was great - big and ballsy but not too loud for them. And again loads of nice comments afterwards - one bloke even insisted on helping cart the gear out afterwards (we've got a ton of stuff so thats a massive bonus). Oh and theres a brill kebab shop 50 yards away thats open late.....

You my friend are living the dream! Sounds like a perfect weekend.

They do sound old fashioned I suppose, but one person's out of date is another person's classic vintage. All in the ear of the listener. I confess a nostalgia for the early 80s when I was thin, and when the charts might feature the odd decent band now and then. My first proper amp was TE so my views are clouded.

Damn those cabs are heavy though.