Marvin

Soapy looking maple necks. The ones that are light in colour and with very little grain.

Just that really. The band needs some business cards printed up. Is there anywhere that's recommended? I'd just go to Vista Print I suppose Ta

Desk? Music desk? What is this you speak of? My basses live in their cases in the corner of the dinning room and ALL my other gear lives under the stairs. 😁

Due to my other amp dying I had to get an amp for last night's gig. I got the Bugera delivered on Thursday, so no time to try it out with the band. Set it up at the pub we played at, Sire V7 with a Fender 210 cab. All 4 of us in the band just went "that sounds good". Great clean tone with barely any adjustments. So easy to use out of the box. It's light and feels very well put together. The sockets feel firm, especially the speaker cable connection. On my Peavey the speaker socket was always a bit awkward to get the connector to twist. The control knobs feel a little less robust, but not awful. It doesn't come with a carry bag, but for an amp that costs just £230 it's really no problem. I've commandeered a laptop bag. The onboard dual band compressor sounds better than my cheap pedal. There are plenty of tonal options with the eq section. I especially like the midrange selector. The DI seems really good. FX loop connection. Headphone and aux in. Very impressed.

I've owned the v2 210 350w Combo and the v3 210 500w combo. I currently own the v3 210 cab. And have on a couple of occasions used one of the v1 combos. The v1 combos, just don't waste your time. A forgettable tone and seriously underpowered but overweight. The v2 combo. It was OK. I didn't know as much as I do now about getting a better sound out of an amp so perhaps a bit of knob twiddling might have helped. It was usable, a decent enough tone, but lacked a bit of something. It was also a bit heavy and cumbersome to move around. I didn't dislike it, but I didn't love it either. The v3 combo is leagues ahead of the previous 2 in my opinion. Tones, volume, portability, usability. It's a really great sounding combo. I sold mine, but I've got a mate who's got one and if we share a lineup and he's letting people use the v3 I'll use that. The v3 210 cab is just excellent value. Light and sounds good.

Good fun last night if not a bit odd. Our 5th gig and definitely our strongest one so far. None of us have been the ones who've sorted out the sound etc so it's been a steep learning curve. Last night we felt we'd turned a corner. Set up quickly and the mix and sound was much better than previously. It was also our strongest performance as such. It was one of those though where people told us afterwards we were great and loved the set, but didn't really get up and have a wee jig. We enjoyed it nonetheless

The Bugera Veyron M arrived yesterday (very well packaged I might add). Tested it last night and all works fine. 2 noticeable things. It's loud. Also it sounds really nice. Had it set up in the living room and my wife suddenly said "that sounds good". (Although it may have been a comment on my playing 😄). When I've had a chance to use it properly I might even do a new amp thread. Thanks again everyone

Cheers Phil. It has been a bit of a stressfull couple of days. I should have a Bugera VeyronM coming today. I might have been able to afford something a bit more if I'd got an instant refund on the Ashdown. Hopefully it'll be fine. They've got a decent reputation. When I've got a refund I might buy the DeltaBass, I'm quite taken with it. It looks pretty 😎 😁

Thank you @Phil Starr. I think the Deltabass will be ok. I've got a gig on Friday almost immediately after work, and I'm working a long day tomorrow. I'll probably send a signal from my pedal board to the desk and use my cab and the deltabass for front of house. Thank you again. A lot of companies are trying this on lately. I had it when I bought a dehumidifier that was as loud as a Lightening Jet. "You have to send a video to demonstrate the problem". No, I'll send it back. You give me my money back.

Some relief. I've picked up a Peavey Deltabass head off of our guitarist... and we have bass noises. So relieved my cab is OK as I was beginning to wonder. And, I really quite like it. It's got quite a nice tone, from just a short play. Unfortunately, it's a bit underpowered and could do with a service probably. But as a stop gap it'll do the job. Phew.

Got home from work. Set it up again. Nothing in either passive or active input, the needle doesn't move at all and no sound. Tried with the mute in and out, nothing. Tried connecting through the fx return. Nothing. Also tried bridging the fx loop, still nothing. The cab must be working because when you push the mute button in, you get a pop. Also the first dew notches of the master volume you get a crackle. I'm am very angry at this. It's faulty, the packaging was abysmal, it was described as an EVO II its not it's an EVO I, and it said it had the carry bag which it hasn't. And I have to provide evidence of the fault.

I've bought from G4M before with no problems. This is not at all impressive.

I can't see a headphone switch on the back. Now I have to send a video to prove its not working. Also a picture of how it was shipped.

Got the Ashdown. All I'm getting is a faint crackle from the cabinet. The level meter isn't registering any input signal at all. There is a bit of a pop when you depress any of the switches and the volume knob crackles. Otherwise no output at all. The packaging is atrocious. It was just put in a cardboard box with no transit packaging. Gear4Music will be getting a phone call.

Sonic Cathedral is pretty much devoted to Shoegaze. Nathaniel Cramp runs it. He's been a shoegaze fan since college. He's one of oldest mates, known him since primary school. His Dad was my GP... sewed my top lip back on when I got bitten by a dog 😁... I digress.