Daz39

Yep - echo that: unique voice, great swagger. STP were an awesome band in the 90s, staple of my Uni days.

I have the AH250 and it's so good and loud. The Dual band compressor and 12 band eq is great as previously mentioned. Effects loop with level and high pass switch is a good feature too. Yeah - heavy... well protected in there!

Hihi - new member here. I live in West Yorkshire and have been a Bass player for err (counts slowly), well since last Millennium when I was at Uni. Actually - fess up; I was a guitarist first, having got one on my 18th Birthday. I thought I was David Gilmour for a while, but then a friend span Hold Your Fire for me and I decided I actually wanted to be Geddy Lee. I had several Yamaha RBX Basses before my current squeeze: a fairly wallet-friendly Peavey Millennium. Amp wise - I have the same head and cab I bought in 1998: a Trace Elliot GP12 SMX with 280w and a 1510 Cab. Loud enough for my bedroom (too loud, says the Wife!). I have gone through a few effects pedals, but really dig the Source Audio gear - endlessly twiddleable. Bass influences? Or rather Bass lines I try to play: Rush, Maiden, Dream Theater (ok, I don't play many of those, I don't have enough fingers....), the RATM/Audioslave/Soundgarden triumvirate, Megadeth (Dave Jr has a lot to answer for) and lots of other 90s stuff (showing my age). I also noodle a lot on the guitar to things like Floyd, Camel and Counting Crows. I was very briefly in a band at Uni. It went nowhere and I remain lamentably ungigged.