Al Krow

Welcome to the Yamaha BB mega-thread 😁

I'm just wondering where your beef is with DG's rating of the power output of their amp? It's the first time I've heard anyone rubbishing DG's own RMS rating and a bit of an odd thing to say if you don't have their amp / never tried one / don't have any evidence to the contrary? Either they are a trustworthy company or they are not.

Ah ok. Well I'm good with trusting DG, even if you're not. My amp is plenty loud enough for me. Have you actually tried one and A/B'd it against any of your other kit?

Ah ok - so you are saying the DG M900 is not 900W RMS at 4 ohms as per their manuals? Be interesting if you have any evidence to back that up - I'm certainly not aware of Dark Glass having a reputation for inflating the wattage ratings about their amps?

Indeed! They're just my current flavour-of-the-month 5ers. And one of them is entirely Si's fault!

We're now referring to the two amps immediately above Wat, ie the DG M900 is 900W RMS and the Bugera Veyron M comes in at around 800W RMS. I.e. we were not discussing the RH 750 wattage, which has been established by other folk to be somewhat lower!

Aha! No I didn't know that. I thought you were a Lakland and more recently an Elrick man.

I think folk have estimated it to be around 800W RMS at 4ohms. It claims to be 2000W peak. As we know the actual volume difference between 800W and 900W RMS is pretty small.

The bottom amp will go as loud as the one perched on top of it (which delivers 900W at 4 ohms) and will cost you £150 less than the RH 750 even at Andertons prices. In terms of value, it's pretty hard to beat.

So you're not going to mess around with any of the basic BBs but go straight in at the top? 😁

This looks superb. Well done Q & FI team.

@PatrickJ be good to get your soundscape and FX settings you were using for future reference!

I guess we are very lucky with ours then. He's first love is Death Metal and can play loud! But when he's playing in covers bands he is super professional and will do whatever the venue needs - he completely gets that the volume of the band is pretty much dictated by the need to match the acoustic drums.

I wasn't expecting to read this, this morning!! "The value of British music exports climbed to a record high £519million last year as the popularity of streaming on platforms like Spotify grew massively and made the country the second-biggest music exporter behind the United States."

Pete - I don't quite follow being too loud to play outside venues? Can't you simply dial the volume down and get your drummer to use bamboo rods etc.?

Those festivals look great - tempted to get along! (Particularly as the pub gig I mentioned above is also in Colchester!)

Definitely looks great and sounds like an upgrade all round.

Nope just home noodling for now...

Here you go...

It's obviously not that good 😁

It's touch and go right now, I agree. Fingers crossed for your next couple of gigs. I think those playing outdoors are mostly still good, though? I'm just seeing if I can persuade my missus to go up to a fellow BC'ers outdoor pub gig on 26 June. Should be fun, and he's got a great rig!

That's a real beauty! Congratulations!

Another +1 for the OC-5. Why?... TLDR: the OC-5 seems to give us both the OC-2 and the OC-3 pedals combined into one unit (and another reason for "5" = 2+3?) with improved tracking compared to both its predecessors and throws in an octave up. It's also been very competitively priced - you get a lot for your cash! What's not to like? That OC-2 sound As pretty much everyone else has already reported back on the OC-5 thread, it nails that classic "OC-2" sound with the -1 oct solo'd, which is great. Octave-up I didn't think I was going to particularly like or use the octave up, but I'm already won over. It's not a clean octave up in the way the Digitech Mosaic is, to give you an 8 string bass sound, but it definitely adds a bit "extra" when used with the -1 oct and a bit of -2 oct; both when the pedal is used by itself but also when combined with fuzz and / or filter. Easy to dial in a more 'Royal Blood' sound with a bit of clean (3.5/10), +1 oct (5/10), -1 oct (max), Poly setting at full range, pick into VTDI set for dirt. Tracking Very good at normal bass riff speeds, but will glitch if you sustain a note (which is not unusual for octavers). I actually prefer it in Poly mode over Vintage mode when I'm using both octave up and down simultaneously, as it gives me a cleaner overall sound and a touch better tracking. With other pedals Put it in front of a Red Ripper fuzz and Proton filter and it plays very nicely with them both, thickening up the sound just as you would want from an octaver. Pricing The OC-5 has been competitively priced by Boss at around £119 inc P&P. In fact, I can't think of another quality octaver that offers quite so much for such a good price.

If I tried to sing and play, I would lose my band and any hope of gigging 😁 Feel for ya! That's a bit gutting.

@Rich - any idea of the key bits of his signal chain to get that tone?