Rich

I shall make do with my faithful old Basschat long-sleeve T, and my Thatcher's Cider lanyard with the built-in bottle opener. Flying the flag for BC and for the Wess Vinglund.

My DHL delivery driver did precisely that with 800 quids worth of Trace Elliot amp. 'Unimpressed' is a gross understatement.

Caroline by Status Quo. Not much of a challenge, I know but I also had to sing it.

Likewise, I'm not getting email alerts either and I know other members are having the same problem.

Is it too early to start the gear roll-call for SWBB25?

Well, I don't know where you are in the country, but if you come to this year's South West Bass Bash, this one will be there and you can try it to your heart's content

I'm going to move this to GD, in common with other RIP threads, and remove the word 'missing' from the title. I hope nobody minds. A very, very sad day.

I reckon one of these badges on the left rack ear would look pretty good. Just a case of finding one...

Well I've experimented with covering up the big green words (hereafter referred to as the BGW) and surprisingly I actually preferred it with them there. It looks a bit plain and almost dull without them. I'd like to call it a bit Vader-ish but... I dunno. See what you think. I'd like the opinion of the BC massive here. For me it needs something. If I do end up keeping the BGW, that (R) after the ELLIOT will have to go anyway.

Oh mate. 💔

Well, I fired it up earlier. You probably heard it from where you are. JEEEEZUS H TAPDANCING CHRIST, THIS THING IS A MONSTER. The power is just immense. I haven't tweaked the EQ or compressor at all yet, I just wanted to make sure that a} it worked and b} the core tone was good. It's definitely a keeper. I'll do a proper Basschatter's review of it once I've used it in a band setting.

Ditto

After far too long (getting on for 20 years, in fact), I'm a Trace Elliot owner again. I've been really happy with my Genz-Benz Shuttle 9.2, and the 6.0 before it, but when I was looking back through my feedback thread I realised I'd been using the Shuttles since October 2009. Time for a change. I'd been intrigued by the new Trace TE-1200 since its release. Everything I'd read led me to believe that it had Trace DNA flowing through it, and with the old GP12SMX still being my favourite preamp ever I hoped perhaps this would get me somewhere close. My redundancy payout meant that suddenly I could afford it, so I said 'sod it' and pulled the trigger. Thomann's price was by far the cheapest anywhere online, so I gave them my money. And yesterday, the nice DHL man left it on my doorstep without ringing the doorbell 🙄 it's a bloody good job I was in. Anyway -- I was unnerved when I picked the box up, as it weighed a ton. On opening it all up, I soon found out that this was down to the supplied 4-way footswitch, which actually weighs more than the amp it's still in the box now, as I'll probably never use it. I've finally today got round to plumbing it into my rack case and damn it looks good in there. If there's one thing I really dislike aesthetically, it's those huge green words on the rack ears. They just look tacky and will have to go. I will just cover them up with insul tape until I've decided it's a keeper, at which point I'll either t-cut them off or spray them black. Tomorrow, it's time to fire it up and see how much of my garage I can destroy. 😈

The wonderful late Mo Foster did something similar, following the publication of his semi-memoir "Seventeen Watts?" (published in the US as "Play Like Elvis!"), which incidentally is a great read and I encourage everyone to grab a copy if you see it for sale. Mo was a lovely chap, and his talks were more in the form of raconteur & anecdotist than stand-up. I had a lovely chat with him following his Hungerford show and he couldn't have been more friendly. One of the absolute diamond geezers of our instrument, and much missed.

Correct.

Please stick to the topic subject. If you want to write about a completely different instrument, start a thread of your own.

Well, that's disappointing. I was hoping the 60B+ would be a more effective live tool than the 60B, not a more fiddly one. So it looks like I'll be sticking with my 60B in its dedicated FX loop. What a massive let-down.

How much of your day job do you do for free?