Downunderwonder

If memory serves, what you have there is a Series 6. If you don't need no fancy compressors I think the SMX might only impress by virtue of less weight, no less LAF. The 'EQ balance' is quite handy sometimes.

Pretty sure there's better deals out there but it's not as if they are making any more of them. Courier would indeed make it uneconomic quickly.

...ya know it's gonna be...alright.

Most people put the tuner first. Comp before / after envelope is a personal choice. Generally an octave goes before other stuff so it always gets a clean signal. On the other hand you might like glitchy octave after envelope. Once you figure those out you can try inserting drivey stuff and see what you like.

Out of the way but where I can get to them. Given I usuually have little space to work with, and even less control over it, that is challenging sometimes. More usually preamp stuff is on top of the amp/ cab but all iterations are in the playbook.

The authentic modules are made in China too Must be a very convenient lie they tell you to justify their 'competitive' pricing structure.

Sansamp Deluxe has an fx loop. I can't remember if it is pre or post the Drive. Google ain't what it used to be.

If you are habitually digging in hard you are naturally extremely compressed right off the bat. The dynamic range between digging in hard(ish) and digging in (really) hard is a fraction of what's available.

On the other hand what I suggested originally is very doable. You find a inefficient bass driver and you could easily be 6dB less sensitive than your Bigfoot, right off the bat, ie same loudness with 4x the power. The tricky bit would be handling the 300W and discerning power tube breakup from speaker breaking.

You mentioned the amp was modded for the tubes it has in it now. I am guessing that would be for the heater current. Changing back to stock tubes would mean modding again and it would near as dammit make the same output on breakup.

If it's like all the other Trace combos I have seen the speaker wires finish out of the cab at a regular 1/4" jack plug that goes into one of two amp outs on the back of the amp. That being that case I would be confident your memory of an extra wire is faulty. Further if that is the case, you can put the tip of that lead to 9v battery -ve and shaft on +ve it should make the speaker jump outwards. Probably need a helper as unlikely there's enough lead to be faffing with the battery while observing the speaker at the same time.

A more easily reversible mod would be using half the power tubes. It's not as simple as pulling out one set, I think some resistors have to be changed as well, something like that, proceeed only with highly capable tech support.... English rockers used to do it with 100w Marshall scream machines to turn them into 50w Marshall scream machines. If they did that with one 12 instead of 4 it would have been quite effective.

He was referring only to the one's that A, know what a hoovercraft is, B, have a gun, C, can shoot straight, D,have a Mom's basement to build in, E, have a reallllllllly long extension cord.

There must be a 'body' attachment to go with end pin to stop it rotating under you. Ought to be enough pin adjustment for 6'4'' or a special order long pin available.

Having to wear a one size fits all suit?

I think the Joint Chiefs had already decided they were coming down on the side of Congress if it got tooooo far.

It would be easier to get a really stout low efficiency driver and put it in a small cab. #Bought hot rodded 300w tube amp and want to know how to make it not so loud.

Adequate is enough to match the unamplified drumkit. Any more than that means there is a PA doing boof boof duty. In a pub you probably have to turn down.

The other easy check is to insert a cable between fx out and return. This bypasses the fx loop interruption that connects preamp to amp when loop is not being used. Sometimes the contact gets corrosion on it and fails to transmit the signal onward.

Junior high school bully was a big fat kid who liked to shoulder charge smaller kids on the way to classes. One day I decided I'd had enough of that and side stepped him while helping him on his way to the lockers and he hit his head knocking himself silly. So I got in trouble for scrapping instead of reporting him. Can't win. He did stop picking on me though.

I left it at basses and amps. Baby steps.

''Does this amp make my speaker look small?".

....in one ear and out t'other.