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Stone Roses - Wembley - their last gig. Sound was awful & Ian Brown can’t sing. seen James brown a couple of times in the 90s - obviously just cashing in at that point. Rubbish

Been looking forward to this. To me, Zappa is as talented as anyone musically, but he is also a fascinating character. The interview footage I’ve seen so far is great

Yep - its an updated mk500

Just to confuse your choice further, there are new heads available for this year. The 12 band 600 looks interesting https://ashdownmusic.com/collections/new-for-namm-21

I went with the Abm evo iv over the RM, the drive on the RM is completely different to the Abm - it’s more like full on distortion. if I was going with the RM series I’d probably go 800w for the headroom.

I quite liked the vox amplug, but it did break (my fault). Recently bought the donner basement as a replacement. Nowhere near as good, but does the job for £15

Good to hear you found a way round it, as I bulk bought 4 packs

Just thought I’d revive this thread and add my experience. They feel quite rough, and are really zingy & clanky sounding. I’m sure they would mellow after more playing. I did notice that there was a horrible buzz on the A string, so after adjusting my action and even my truss rod ever so slightly, I found I couldn’t 100% get rid of it. Turns out it was the string buzzing, as I swapped them onto a different bass and got exactly the same thing. I think it must be something to do with the windings at the ends of the string. so if you use these strings and get a horrible buzz, before mucking about with your bass, know that it might be the string that has the problem.

Dave made a speaker cable for me. Excellent quality & arrived quickly too. Thanks.

That’s great. Thanks

Slightly noob question here. Is there any difference between daisy chaining my 2 barefaced cabs vs plugging them both in direct to amp. thanks

Would a rootmaster head be better? Nice and small but powerful enough to gig with if that ever becomes an option. pair it with a decent 10” speaker and that’s a great home setup. Add another 10” cab and again you’re ready to gig. Used RM heads are fairly common to see in market place

I’ve just gone through this myself and ended up with Ashdown ABM head and Barefaced cab. Well happy with my rig. Of all the class D heads I tried, I thought the Aguilar th was the best, but the ashdown rm was good, as was markbass lm3. if weight is not an issue, obviously I’d recommend ashdown Abm evo iv, the other head that caught my attention was the Handbox R400. Unless you could try one you’d be going off YouTube and bc reviews, as I’m not sure anyone stocks in uk. There is an extensive thread on here. Good luck

I wonder if there will be tweeter versions of the rest of 10” cabs

Not strictly bass (but neither is Rick Beato who has been mentioned) is Warren Huarts produce like a pro. Loads of cool content & he’s got some really cool bass tracking videos with Billy Sheehan and others. He’s now doing a video series ‘songs that changed music’ which is essentially the same as Beatos wmtsg

I can see you've got the valve drive cranked too. Nice!

Great rig! I do like the diagonal array of the 210’s making the rig fairly high.

I guess it’s being demo’d here?

Anyone know if Barefaced ever do Black Friday sales? Or any sales ever?

I’m no fan of Madonna, in fact I can’t stand most of her stuff. That said, I do have a bit of a soft spot for this track

Badly set up basses in an instrument shop.

This chap has some decent pipes on him even better though, is the song. feel like we could all use some mid 90s positivity.

Yeah, I love that one too. also this Zappa did a video using similar animation which was way more out there, I wonder if that’s where Peter Gabriel got his inspiration

Hi Bill, thanks for all your input, it’s been really useful. I am trying (but struggling) to understand this. Are you saying there’s no point in having an amp that can push more than 200w to a 2x10 cab, because each driver can’t handle more than 100w each? if that’s the case, why are these cabs rated as much higher wattage (barefaced 2x10 is rated at 500w or up to 800w if clean). I know it will be louder with 2x 210s, but ultimately I’m trying to understand if it’s worth me spending another £600 on a cab, if the difference in volume will be marginal. I would also like to point out that I’m really happy with the 210 & on its own is in most circumstances plenty loud enough. It’s certainly the loudest 210 I’ve ever used.

I’m considering a hard shell cabin suitcase for my ABM head and a few cables. Then attaching my pedal bag to the handle. it’ll be well protected, only downside is I think I’d prefer to carry it on my back. That way I might be able to unload my gear in a single trip. perhaps a good quality backpack would be better.