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Jetglo 4001, a la Geddy. Got one for my 16th birthday, after some epic paper-rounding Loved it, it was the best thing ever. Naturally I sold it a few years later for a song to get something silly, so I got another a couple of years ago. Hated it.

The Genzler Magellan is about £650, goes down to 2.67 ohms (that'd be three 8 ohms cabs, or a 4 and an 8), and the channels and filters are fantastic for versatility. Uses one of the newer Class D power modules (AFAIK not the older one in the TH500), if that is something you're concerned about, rather than what it actually sounds like, but I can highly recommend it. It's a very very responsive amp, with a 'feel' to the notes. I've a longer review of it on here somewhere.

Arrived, all good. Finally. Never has so much anticipation been created over two quid...

Just for reference, I bought a set of D'Addario NXYLs from Strings Home, they arrived quickly and are excellent. Great price, too: I can recommend them.

Good for Cliff. Probably the first real opportunity to go since the wheels really started to fall off, and he's taken it. Not seen them live (not seen them for a good few years now, and I missed seeing Bon, but I've seen them plenty from 1980 onwards), but I've watched an awful lot of footage of AR fronting the band, and I have to say I think he's bloody awful.

Nothing here...bah...

Yep, the Streamliner is 900w into 4 ohm. I had mine for years, only moved it on for the new Magellan. If he wants a detailed review of the Streamliner, there's an Ed Friedland (Bass Whisperer) video on YT which covers pretty much everything. The EQ can take some getting used to, as it's interactive with itself (if that makes sense), but there's lots of tones in there, from old school valvey to clean and clear (given it's got three EQ valves). The one thing I will say is it's sensitive to cabs - there's tons of bottom end, which can get bloomy with the wrong cabs - IME it suits more bottom-attenuated cabs.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1474373805' post='3137454'] I use my Schroeder 1212L with an Aguilar TH350. At my last gig my set up wasn't going through the PA, however, the 2 guitars were (both 100w valve heads and 212 cabs) and so was some of the drum kit. The Schroeder did not get lost at all, quite the opposite, it could have been doing with backing off the volume. I was relying someone in the audience to gauge my volume, I chose a bass player, which was clearly the wrong choice . The venue was a good enough size, somewhere around the 250 capacity. It did its job well, maybe too well. Schroeders (the earlier ones) don't focus on deep bass tones, but then I've always rolled them out anyway so not a problem for me. At the festival we played before that I used a supplied Hartke LH500 and a Hartke AK410 cab. It was a very nice sound. The volume on the amp up around 2o'clock, so not a lot left. [/quote] One of the first gigs I played with the 1515L was a club, probably 200-250 people, but quite a tight stage. Played the first set, then the sound guy comes up to me to check what channel I'm in, because he's struggling to turn the bass down. I wasn't going through the PA - he'd forgotten to connect the XLR...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1474309107' post='3137022'] Mostly true, but I will vouch for the low-mid bump present in the Schroeder 1212L... yes, it sounds a little nasal when you play solo, but at a real-world gig, in a mix, that becomes very audible lushness and the cab sounds fantastic. A really great cab if you want to be heard live, regardless. Edit: Great, now I've got Schroeder 1212L GAS. [/quote] Yep, I really liked my 1515L, and it sat very well in with a band mix, and that low-mid hump maintained a bass guitar presence [i]especially[/i] against two guitars and keyboards. At higher volumes the PA does the heavy lifting, anyway... I only sold it because I was usually standing on top of it, and it's only a small(ish) cab, so most of it was going at my knees (although it sounded much better out front) - two would have been perfect. I have a very strong hankering for more Schroeder stuff, now, too...

His reworking of the bass line to Labi Siffre's It Must Be Love is just great, tho I notice in the vid he's playing....a Rick? Blimey... It is black and white, though

Like it or not, Beatles fans: Oasis are the new generation(s) singalong-a-classic band. I see it every single gig. Our singer does daytime gigs as a solo man-and-acoustic thing in old people's homes. I asked him was his setlist was for gigs like that. "Mostly the Beatles...goes down well"... The world turns...

As I mentioned earlier, it's a shame how the thread's turned into a Class D bash (again), when the OP's posts don't seem quite as clear-cut as that...he has an issue some of the time with not enough low end, and experiences boominess and wooliness when boosting said bottom end to compensate. Sometimes. Bound to be a power stage issue... Having said that, he'll probably fire up the ABM500 and the problem'll go away...

OK, you seem to have made your mind up it's the amp. Good luck with it, hope you get a result with the cabs.

Who will care for the little ones*? There's devilry afoot, I tell eeee... * Angus and Malcolm.

Aaaaaaagggghhhhh!!! My two quid!!! I'm ruined!!!

The wooly's possibly a different thing, depending on where the rest of the EQ is, but boomy would suggest the stage environment is the issue. I've had to simply forego onstage bottom end before now because of the room - do you go through the PA? While I'm thinking on, I know you said you'd stacked your cabs differently, when you're getting boomy, have you tried lifting them up off the stage?

We've played RAF Leeming several times - first time someone who'd been to a wedding we played, the rest on recommendation after that. Fantastic gigs: always fed and watered, and given accommodation overnight - which was just as well, as the last time we were still playing (kind of...it had a been a long wild night) at about half four in the morning...just in time for the Survivor's Breakfast (complete with Bucks Fizz bar) before going to bed...

If it was the amp, it'd fail to produce the lows all the time - if you're getting them some places, then there's the possibility you're getting reinforcement from the environment, but then I'd think you'd experience booming more than that, anyway. Those traveller cabs are relatively small and rear ported, which is something to bear in mind - they aren't exactly designed for big lows. I'd try one or two different cabs before blaming the amp. When you're lacking the lows, what happens when you dial in the bottom end on the TH?

[quote name='catmanhog' timestamp='1473679878' post='3132145'] Really pleased with the responses so far! I have mostly played with a Japanese jazz bass - had custom shop Fender 60's pick up's installed about 2 years ago. I am aware that the jazz has less growl than a P, i do prefer a jazz in terms of sound and feel. Play mostly with a very compact 4 piece, volume wise it never struggles but at times there is very little bottom end - again, reputation of the Jazz perhaps but given the random rooms & circumstances, the alleged reputation of the TH500 & Markbass cabs....it just seems there should be more! Don't want to go crazy with the volume and make matters worse. Bass wise, i am rolling off / blending treble and pick up's to suit the songs. [/quote] Soooo, is it 'punch' (which most people consider higher up the sound spectrum) or the bottom end you're missing? Does the bottom end fill out if you use just the neck pickup? Which model of MB 210s are they? Do you walk away from you amp while you're playing to hear how it's projecting into the room? Does it always sound the same (good or bad) in a particular room, or is it all random?

Before the pitchforks-and-torches gather too readily*, I'd also look at the 'at times' thing from the OP - were there any common factors with the lack of 'punch'? We've all been in rooms/halls/tents where we've needed to re-EQ (boost and cut) to cope with the environment, and some places are just a nightmare. If this was all about Class D (which is the way the thread's gone disappointingly quickly) then it'd be apparent more consistently? Something to consider, anyway. That said, I recently played with a TH500 (one of the few common heads I hadn't tried) and found it wasn't for me. The Walkabout definitely had more going on. But then I think the Magellan has at least as much going on as the Walkabout... * And yeah, we've all got our preferences, personally I've A-B'd an awful lot of Class D and bigger, heavier heads and there's been winners and losers. Cabs are a big factor, too.

If you've got an iPad, then a Sonic Port, Jamup Pro and headphones and you're done for about £80 (less the iPad). It's what I've used for ages, and it's great.

Yeah, but put an SVT on top and think of the kudos you'd have turning up (eventually) with a rig with its own gravity...

That's lovely - the neck is sublime. Ooooo, a Bigman, that's two of us on here with one - I've got one in my Shuker with a coil tap/parallel switch - they're a fantastic pickup. Very nice, congrats...

Pino's trombone fretless parp, and Mick Karn's chorused hoohah...love to listen to them, would never use them...