Rich

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?

Sat would be my preference too, I think.

Sorted. 🎅🏻

In a hole! With an OWL!

Best: Novation MiniNova synth. Loads of fun. Love it. Worst: TC Spectracomp. I'm sure it's very clever, but it's impossible to tweak settings on the fly. Very definitely not the compressor for me.

She's sprOut of My Life - Michael Jackson

Nice memento , do you still have it? I remember a mate coming back from an early Maiden gig, clutching a very splintered stick with the phrase CLIVE BURR HIT 'EM HARD printed on it.

Why Not - Hilary Duff

Well I think we can all see the glaring error in that wiring. Tsk.