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I still use my amp/cab on stage for that same reason (among others) , its just that I dont hear it (much) as I'm using my own IEM feed.

You can also do that providing your own IEM feed via a small mixer with inputs for your own di/line and house mix and/or an ambient mike. It may sound like a faff but I keep it all packed away pre-wired.

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I use IEMs on stage, the stack is there for 1) aesthetics/vanity 2) the rest of the band to hear 3) the audience to hear if they are right in front of the stage. Even wearing the IEMs I do like feeling the rumble of it though so I guess thats 4). I take an IEM feed from my own amp and get FOH to give me an everything-except-bass feed and I then balance the two myself. If playing without FOH or at rehearsal I use a reference mic to give me some ambient. Could never go back to trying hear myself at high volume through ear plugs, IEMs are such massive improvement.

Previously a big fan but the Cory Wong collaborations do nothing for me, distinctly average guitar playing, dumbed down chord progressions (compared to previous stuff). Seems to be just fairly bland funk now.

Dual connectors on the amp or speaker are pretty much universally parallel connections though.

I'm happy to play absolutely any song except ... Dirging (Rocking) in the Free World, and anything by Oasis.

For practice I put my bass and guitar through my computer into either headphones or a pair of fairly hefty floor standers. Theres a really nifty prog called Cantible https://www.cantabilesoftware.com/ which is basically just a pure VST host without all the usually DAW guff so with one click I can get a VST effects and modelling chain loaded and running. You do need a decent low latency audio interface to do this though, I use a zoom UAC-2. VST effects wise for bass I normally just run the free sansamp clone https://masters-of-music.com/tse-bod-v3-0-released-free-sansamp-bass-plugin/.

I think your hearing the effects as less prominent through the amp/speaker because your losing some highs compared to with headphones. Also I don't know if the paradriver has that baked in speaker sim like a lot of tech21 stuff so that might be losing more highs still.

Both look decent amps, I would get cranking the low end up and see what happens.

It might, but for any pub/club gig band situation I can imagine you are likely well inside the performance envelope of your current cabs is what I'm saying - you could almost certainly just EQ the difference so long you have ample headroom in the amp. Be interesting to know what amp you have actually.

BTW I assumed you already had 2 ashdown cabs. If you only have one and the choice is between another ashdown and going to BF then thats a more nuanced choice. The general rule of thumb still applies though - if you like the basic sound of the cab you already have and just want more volume then just a second one ...

It seems I always seem to end up asking people the same question - what problem are you trying to solve ? (other than satisfying your desire to buy a shiny new toy that is).

In my view if you have got 2 half decent 2x10 cabs (you've got grands worth of cabs there after all) and you cant get the volume and / or depth you want then the problem is probably not the speakers, and I say that as a BF user and fan.

No speaker is going to fix the awful acoustics of your average wooden floored village hall. That said I wouldnt want to discourage what looks like a significant upgrade to an ST which certainly isn't going to hurt. A more radical solution would be to consider taking the DI out of your amp into IEMs (might need a mixed to buffer it) which will solve the problem of you hearing yourself at least, in a noisy hall youl also probably get enough bleed through of the rest of the band.

Look at it this way - worse you are at it the more beneficial it will be. What material are you studying ?. Back in the day I did part one of David Burges relative pitch course which was hard work but very beneficial. If I was doing something now I would probably go for Rick Beato's ear training course https://beatoeartraining.com/ I also highly recommend studying some so-called "functional" (or sometimes "contextual") ear training which focusses on relating everything you hear to a tonal centre. To explain the difference: classic ear training teaches to hear the sequence C - A - G as a 6th up followed by a 2nd down whereas functional training teaches you to hear it as a tonic then 6th followed by a 5th (relative to the the assumed tonic C). Bruce Arnold has lots of good material in this vein https://muse-eek.com/category/ear-training/ EDIT: I wrote this assuming you are taking about actual ear training and not transcription (learning or analysing a song by listening to it) which is a completely different thing.

Ah fair enough, so it looks like your not doing parallel clean+low / OD+highs as I assumed but more like bi-amping your basic tone. I'm currently investigating various means of doing clean low / OD highs "live" at the moment (without using 2 amps ...) as its what I use for recording, been looking at the likes of the BF machinist and Darkglass microtubes 7. Probably a discussion for the effects forum though.

This probably, the single centre position pickup gives a natural mid emphasis which trades off some bite on lower notes.

Yes but with two light cabs vs one heavier one you can carry them one at a time, or maybe just use one for rehearsals or smaller gigs. Plus 2 vertically stacked smaller cabs will generally give better dispersion characteristics and auditability at ear level that a single cab on the floor. Not convinced by this. Modern amps generally have a massive surplus of power so 8 vs 4 ohm is somewhat moot.

A bass amp is generally a fairly straight forward beast and doesn't really do anything magic with the sound, with the EQ set flat your amp will sound pretty much the same as a bass amp setup similarly especially through headphones. The EQ / tone controls on your guitar amp wont work very well for bass though as they are aimed a different set of frequencies. I think its probably worth getting a rumble and selling your amp, as they both go for similar money you would probably not be out of pocket if you bought second hand, just don't expect a miraculous change in sound, mainly just a more useful set of tone controls.

This is exactly what the Barefaced Machinist pedal does isn't it ? (not the cab part obviously)

What is it that you perceive as the deficiency or limitation with your current setup ?

What I'm trying to develop/refine is the ability to instantly play any arbitrary sequence of notes that I hear, as opposed to learning and retaining actual melodic ideas (if that makes sense).

This nicely demonstrates what I've said elsewhere - that movement that you can see, you cant hear so its just wasted energy an wear and tear on your speakers.

Not so much a thing nowadays but guitarists tuning by harmonics used to grind my gears, thing is youre just on to a looser trying to educate someone on the spot about intricacies of natural harmonics vs the even tempered scale.