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We've already heard it isn't. For better or worse.

Similar appearance? Other than the comp, it's pretty much identical in concept, format and layout to the Streamliner, even down to the 220/600/2.5 mid frequencies. Pfffft. It's definitely a cheap version of the Streamliner, which is a great amp, and if it's half as good at a third of the (original) price, then it'll be worth it.

Nobody has ever, ever complemented me on my tone. Or playing. It must be my face. Or my lack of talent. It's probably my face. Hopefully. They have, however, complemented me on the quality of the band(s), and that's what counts to me. 😀

Having listened to John Deacon's isolated bass tone in another thread, this can also work in the opposite direction, too...

Playing bass in a band makes me happy, bottom line. If I don't like how I sound, I'm not happy, and that leaks into how I play. When I use backline, the amp and cab are a practical compromise between how I want to sound and what is practical for me to gig with (I'm never gonna own another 810 or 70lb all-valve head, for example) and yeah, I've bought lots of gear to get to this point, but then again I've sold anything which didn't work. Basses are a completely different thing to me: they're things of beauty in the eye of the beholder, and I'll pay whatever I can afford for something I consider beautiful in look and feel. Like Shukers. Everyone else can, in the words of Bungedit Din: Fakir. Off. 😀

This. I have three, and I've owned three more. Given the choice of literally any bass, I'd take its equivalent budget to Jon instead.

I enjoyed that - I've used BF cabs for years now - a couple of Compacts, then a Compact & Midget pair, then a Super 12, then a Big Baby II (the only one I didn't really get on with), now a Super Twin and a 'spare' Compact. The Super Twin's going nowhere. 😁

I had two failures with the left-hand IEM of an ACS single-driver pair (entry-level, but my tinnitus isn't great, and I'm working to budgets), and it also turned out they'd cast them to the wrong impressions. That's the bad...the good is they remoulded them very quickly to a pair of Emotions, and so far I'm a happy camper.

A shameless serial snurgler... Actually, I think he might have that on his calling card...

The tangy aroma of forty years of Depsweat? I think I'll pass...

My point exactly. Apart from the smell, possibly, but hey, as long as you're not doing it in the street and frightening the horses... Any instrument can be anything from a decorative item, to a sentimental one, to a status symbol, to a simple tool*, to something to be sniffed in private...as I say, you pays yer money... * Shush at the back...

There's a fundamental difference between owning an instrument and playing one; the emphasis can be weighted heavily either way...YOB basses are an ideal example.

Not to me it doesn't, and it's my money I'm spending.

I forgot my in-ears for the gig on Friday, and to make things worse it was a big pub so louder than usual. To make it worse I was having to listen to the PA top next to me to be able to hear anything I was doing. Horrible. Saturday was a blessed relief. Once you get in-ears right, especially if you have any level of tinnitus (and let's face it, as stated above, an awful lot of us do), then not having them makes you wonder how you got on without them. I also have ACS attenuators, and yes, it sounds different (but nowhere near as bad as generic earplugs) and yes, you lose some of that immediacy of sound, but it's still better than permanently ringing ears...the best advice I've read was to put them in early - like while you're setting up - so that you get used to the reduction in sound levels before you start playing. That way, it doesn't sound like the music's being neutered.

I've had mine for years now, and it's withstood the ravages of GAS-based changes, and it's the only non-Shuker gigging bass I have. Which is saying a lot, trust me... Having said that, it's got the P-Tone pickup in it, and a John East U-Retro, too, so it's kinda an ABZ4+ Oh, and it weighs a sniff over 7.5lbs, and is probably the most resonant bass I have.

The Streamliner (to which this amp bears a suspiciously close resemblance, at least externally) had a very warm tone, which I'm putting down to the valve(s) in the preamp. IMHO, YMMV, etc, etc, Unfortunately, I have no experience of the Bugera...

That Peak Power thing is a bit like Daewoo saying their Matiz will do 122mph, because that's the terminal velocity in air of an object falling off a 1500ft cliff...

Three-gig grueller this end, not helped by the middle gig being a little further away than where we expecting. BL has previous as long as an orangutan's arm on this front*, this time it was a complete inability to interpret postcodes: "It's in Leeds, it's only 40 miles away" (we're coming from North Manchester) "What's the postcode?" "It's LE15" "That's a Leicester postcode. Leeds is LS." "Oh." "That's pushing 150 miles." "Oh." You can imagine the rest of the conversation... Anyway, as luck would have it, it was a small verrrry posh wedding reception with no influx of evening guests, so they'd all be on their hind legs since mid-morning. Consequentially they all drooped badly by ten, and we packed up in an empty room not long afterwards and were on the road for eleven... * See "The New Forest...it's near Stoke, isn't it?" from a previous rant/post somewhere...

Does he look like a Drumkit Butler while he's doing it? 🙂

And knowing when to ask for less cowbell. And the ability to tell the difference. Oh, and erm, thingy...timing. Damn. PS With all due respect (and heartfelt sympathy) to any lurking oboe players, 'as hip as the oboe' has now gone straight into my Top Drawer. Chapeau. 🙂

Huge indeed. We had a dep drummer a couple of years ago, American fella living over here, had married an English girl, couple of kids, etc. I was frankly astonished by his tales of the sheer scale of Country over there; he'd made a good living for several years touring the US Midwest with various acts on a pretty much permanent basis in two and three semi (HGV for us, to avoid unnecessary fnarr-ing on a Sunday morning) rig-sized pantechnicons, playing to 15,000+ people per gig. Artists I'd heard very little about, or assumed they were kinda niche. Depending on your sources, Garth Brooks (admittedly The Biggest Hat In Country) has sold more albums than the Rolling Stones and Abba put together, and outsold Elvis. He's certainly comfortably Top 5/10 All Time. Who? 😀 And yep, Country has plenty of ladies, a lot of them playing acoustics. Possibly Fender acoustics...

Two 8x10s, 2x15s and three amps? If I was gigging those places and didn't have to lift any of it (tbh, I wouldn't even want to lift the Wals 😁) I'd do exactly the same. Maybe with another 8x10 to replace the 2x15s... 😀 I once had a walk round Tour Supplies with my pal who works there, and it was a great fantasy strolling up and down the aisles of 810s, 412s, 215s, and allll the good heads (DB751s, SVTs, etc, etc) thinking "I'd have one of those, one of those and one..no, two of those..." 😀 And then I'd use my in-ears...now that's killing rock'n roll without killing rock'n roll...

None of the musicians in the theoretical bands I was describing were covers bands...in fact they were all laughably snotty about playing covers...

I know a few musicians who'd rather have a theoretical band with a social media profile and pictures of themselves that they can talk about to impress* people than actually get out there and gig. I wouldn't waste my time with them. * for a given value of 'impress', obv...

Yes. You will not be surprised to learn I no longer own the 12-string. 😕🙂