Downunderwonder

According to the Trace Elliot manual a single compressor can't cover bass guitar. Hence the dual band High/Low compression on the SMX. Otherwise they are 'one knob' compressors ie fixed ratios, but they work as advertised.

That's not cricket.

Depends on your definition of vintage. A lot of today's musicians weren't even born when Trace Elliot hit the news. Vintage enough for you?

I see the @stewblack WTB for P&C is now ''sorted''. Do tell!

No such item as 'Government Charges'! It's either a fee or a tax or duty. I would be kicking up over that until I found out exactly what the 24.99 was and who got it.

Yeah, the boom is in the room. The HPF will help. The other thing to do is tilt the cab back so you get a face full of tone.

There's no properly accepted definition of preamp any more. There are a lot of 9V pedals that people call preamps that are light in the boost department. Some will have conniptions if you put them in an fx loop when they are designed for instrument level going in the front of an amp. The boost you get might be enough that you need the Active pad on your amp front.

I am a wannabe drummer hiding in a bassist. I got put off the drums having a total fail of a 5 minute lesson from a kid who is now one of the premier percussionists in the country. This was before I was introduced to bass. Still the dark side calls to me.

http://www.crowtheraudio.net/buy-online/ get yer Hotcake and P&C here.

Paul Crowther would be happy to build you one.

I don't know what the Prunes & Custard recipe is but a very listenable discombobulation is the result.

In the top right corner of every quote there's a faint arrow that takes you to the original post.

Follow the arrows back from where you quoted me. They slip in export after all the return phaff. Exporting and returning is the same revenue process.

Read the link.

Taller rig is easier to hear. Turn down. Save everyone's ears. You should be wearing earplugs anyway!

And if selling your used gear to export you can claim back your VAT, widens your market for expensive stuff.

That's heavily scooped in the mids. Runs counter to getting a full rich sound in the midst of a band mix. You won't be unhappy with a 2nd SM. To get proper happy you're going to have to EQ with your ears, with the band. If the GK you're looking at has the usual GK scoop baked in you might like it with the knobs at noon. Actual neutral would be 10, 2, 1, 10 o'clock, bass to treble.

How light? How loud? I am not familiar with Hellborg. In the UK light loud is pretty well owned by Barefaced.

...As much wood as a woodchuck could, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Hopefully you now defer to the higher authority.

No solder! This is 2021 and things have much improved from 1981. If you put solder on the wire ends it will 'flow' under pressure from the screws and give you a lousy connection. No solder!!!!

Could be putting pedals in front or maybe just rehearsing at lower volume. With the input down a bit there's a bit more control to the output knob as it comes on strong from '1'.

A roaring more.

If you get it out of the sleeve and take the lid off you should see the amp details on the power amp board. It will be either a 250 or a 150. If it's all that loud it's probably the 250 making around 160w at 8 ohm. For metal you'll want a pedal in front of it that doesn't neuter the low end as you dig in and make it grindy. On mine it's pretty well out of MOAR at 4 on the output when the input gain is just hitting the red on occasion, per the manual.

Only safe once you test the resistance of the combo driver to confirm it's 8 ohm.