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Yep - I had several other basses at the time, and the weight was not a factor in any meaningful way. In fact every time I've let a heavier bass go, I've never compromised tone or sustain to do it. In the case of the boat anchor 70s Jazz, quite the reverse. As somebody stated above, there are good and bad basses which are heavier and lighter; I have simply chosen the lighter ones which are at least as good as the heavier ones, if not better.

Ahhhh, but how did you know they were 50w and 800w? 😁

For a given value of 'good', certainly... 😀

I take it everyone who's using big heavy old rigs for the whumf and heft is using hearing protection? You know, the attenuators that drop 20db or so off the volume? Or is going deaf worth the whumf? 😉

I have an East pre in all four of my gigging basses...no coincidence, that 😀

This. I had a 70s Jazz which weighed a sniff short of 12lbs and sounded dead and brown, all my basses are very very good, and there isn’t one heavier than 9lb. My Dingwall’s the lightest at 7lb 8oz, and is the most resonant of the lot. There’s waaayyyy too many factors like materials and build quality (and that’s before the pups and eq) to call weight as a major factor. i know standing around for a couple of hours with several pounds more than I want round my neck is a huge factor, tho...

I'm convinced with such an 'unvoiced' cab, umph is simply a matter of dialling it in via the amp's EQ...

Went to see Cadillac Three live last year, and tho they comprise a guitar/vocals, drummer and lap-steel player, I'd presumed they'd have a dep bassist for live work. Nope - the lap steel did the bass stuff - it was going into two or three Orange stacks, and sounded fantastic...

I'm enjoying the mix of an old-school amp like the Walkabout and the Super Twin...it certainly sounds like an old-school rig. It's just louder. And much, much lighter... 🙂

I'm looking forward to going down my next blues jam night to check passports, and I'll be requiring written proof that the singer's dog has actually died, his woman did indeed done him wrong, etc. 😁 I used to go to the Bier Keller in Manchester when standing on tables and hurling steinfuls of lager around the place was a big night out, and the house band there (definitely Oompah) covered Like A Virgin...it was a life-changing experience... 😁

Yep, I'd agree - I love mine, and it is very transparent, but some people might not like that. If the OP likes the Super Compact, tho, he'll be all good 😀

I use a Walkabout with my Supertwin, and it gets every db out of it: I play (sometimes) with two 412/Marshall head guitars in a loud rock band, no PA support, and it's verry loud. I've also used it with an 800w Magellan and at no point have I ever thought it wasn't going to cope. I have no GAS for anything else, and I've had a lot of other cabs.

No time for this...blocked. Seeya.

But THAT reggae came from Manchester. You're verrry fast to label people, aren't you?

Au contraire, my judgemental and proscriptive friend...and you can pack it in with the 'Euros', too...

A Walkabout through a Super Twin goes very, very loud...just sayin... 😀

Exactly - if it's in the contract, everyone knows waaaayyyy upfront, so it's done professionally, and no-one has to tug a forelock to get fed 🙂

Au contraire mon ami: even the most, erm, challenged gait can be morphed into a swagger. Ian Brown, for instance, spent an awful lot of the 90s looking like he could possibly be carrying a week's shopping internally... 🙂

There is a perception, judging by the numbers of Class D sales not general, but some people find them lacking in what has come to be termed around here as 'heft'. There, I said it... 😕🙂

Straight face, confident walk. Worked for Howard Marks. Mostly.

Oooooh look: it's a universal 110/240v power supply, which means one bought in the States would work over here...just sayin... 😁

Well done...I could hear the restraint from here... 😁 I'm sure Class D has a way to go, it's certainly improved over the various generations/iterations I've owned so far, and it'll get better. It's all a matter of degrees, and hinges on people's sensitivity/priorities. See 'Tonewood' or 'Are £3k basses six times better than £500 basses?', or 'Killing rock n roll', etc, for similar boxes of subjective frogs... In general terms, though, I'm finding more and more that the old traditional amp-behind-you-providing-possibly-heft to the back of your legs isn't needed like it used to be, and in fact is detrimental to sound (on and off-stage), even in small pubs. I've still got a small rig (WA/212), but I use it less and less. A pair of in-ears, two tops and a sub* is sooo much more useful if you're gigging as much as I am. And if you're as old as I am... 😕 * We're even considering getting better tops and dropping the sub...

Somebody mentioned Peaveys the other day, and I spent waaaayyyyy too long looking at MkVI heads in a misty-eyed haze... 😕🙂

The newer Class D power modules (the D800, Magellan, etc) are very good, and a different animal from the older ones.

The Walkabout preamp is the best thing about it (it's just enough - I thought the M-Pulse pre was too much), and I don't have any Class D baggage, so this looks very very promising - I like the HPF, too. I'd love to hear/try one, but it's gonna cost as much as a small car, so I can't see that happening for a good while... 😕