SimonK

Anyone in Blackburn - this is a bite their hand off good deal even if it may not be working (search Trace Elliot on Gumtree):

My bass and acoustic pedal boards are pretty linear, but for my electric guitar pedalboard I use a 4-cable multi-core and a Bright Onion patch box so that I can easily switch pedals before and after the preamp.

When I wrote the above I decided to say "no-nonsense reliability" to describe boss. But I just read a review for a different boss pedal that I thought had a better description: "They seldom break, and are both ugly and elegant in all the right ways." Hopefully this pedal will keep up the tradition (although I would have preferred a choice of colours, albeit white is generally what they use for utility pedals!).

I think Boss would be crazy to do this. The strength of their brand is in their no-nonsense reliability. They will lose a fight with the likes of Line6/Yamaha or the other big digital modelling companies.

Is there a 2025 thread?

Sorry to hear about your amp - I seem to recall it was someone like Surrey Amps who are the authorised repairers in the UK?

I got rota'ed out of remembrance Sunday because I wanted to come to this!

Wow that's restrictive - I get most things online and rarely have a problem - indeed that's where all my Trace Elliot finds come from! The chap who 3D prints the ports is active on the facebook trace elliot group which was where the idea for someone with the ability to print them came from. He also does the red and green caps for the gain and volume pots which I have got from him before. The 1818 is the normal single 18" speaker (plus two tuning ports), whereas the 1818x denotes "special application" and was a Mark V and before thing - there was a discussion about them a few months back on the following (the thread itself is 15 years old but someone nercro-bumped!):

Someone asked me on the thread below about seeing some of the Trace Elliot cabs I've been collecting and fixing. I'd be happy to see how much I can squeeze in the car, although if there are thoughts of a cab comparisons I could probably bring a 1x15, 1x18, 2x10 and 4x10, and maybe also the classic 2x10 + 2x5 cab favoured by Mark King, albeit space may prevent this!

RE port liners, yes thet do break frequently so I don't have any not in use, but there is a guy on ebay who 3D prints them: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/167033823085

Yes I have a few 18" things lying around including the 1818x cab on the first page of this thread that I got for £20. These coming up every now and again, although TE cabs with 15" speakers are far more common. Annoyingly I've just seen the following listing and was in Littlehampton earlier today (although I think it is 2x15"). I'm planning to bring five or six cabs along to the SE Bass bash on the 9th November if you want a look (and would probably happily part with any of them for £50 or so as I have quite a few at the moment!).

I'd forgotten the above went for £120 as just grabbed the following today for the same price, which I think is still OK. This GP12 SMX is probably my favourite trace head especially with the dual compressor. It used to be a combo but for presumably weight reasons was separated into a head (with home-made case) and the cab. Very very crackly pots but other than that seems to work. Will give it a good clean and then probably re-mount the head into my 4x10 combo (in my thumbnail) that currently has a GP7 head in it. Then strip everything out of the cab to go into a carpeted but empty TE combo case that I stripped the parts out for fixing something else. Will post pictures of the two amps once they are (re)done.

Yes - sorry I don't have anything prior to Mk V but I thought there could be some similarities.

Trace-Elliot GP11 schematics+parts list.pdf

If you are wanting to split a signal may be worth getting something with a phase switch on it. Doesn't matter so much if half the signal is going into a computer, but if you are using two amps (or more precisely mic'ing speakers) it is essential.

It's a nice sentiment that social media makes people sound more extreme, but I made the mistake of listening to a LBC radio phone in yesterday while driving... breathtaking both the views of the presenter and the people who called in. If anyone needs an argument against democracy a radio phone in provides it.

Enjoyed that - the musical he's on is very gospel sounding but without the crap you have to put up with in a church!

The thing that ruined facebook for me was when they switched to more "intelligent" algorithms rather than just putting in sequence whatever your friends happened to be posting. Straight away this destroyed what originally made facebook a good idea, which for me was getting in touch with people I hadn't seen or heard from for ages. Now it's just bland rubbish (albeit quite bass focussed for me). Sadly most people I found interesting to be in touch with left facebook many years ago.

...and never talk to the guitarist?

There's a difference between getting on with people, agreeing with people and working with people. I work with plenty of people I both disagree with and don't get on with, but because it is at work we make it work. Conversly there are loads of people I probably agree with on many things, but at the same time don't particularly get on with so wouldn't choose to socialise. There are also a few friends that I get on very well with, but there are certain topics we just don't talk about as we know we disagree. The mistake is thinking we have to agree with someone to get along with them.

A quick google seems to show this is two channel and also not available anymore? Looking on Andertons etc. there are some single channel studio compressors, but all quite expensive and I'm not sure whether they would cope in a travelling rack (as opposed to being mounted and left alone in a studio). I think the sort of thing I am after is a Keeley Compressor pro, or maybe Empress bass compressor, but in a rack rather than a pedal.

Has anyone found a good one or two unit single channel compressor for bass? I think dbx used to do one, and back in the day everyone had a Drawmer, but now they all seem to be stereo compressors targeted more towards PA applications.

Good way to find out that everybody in the band was a closet polka fan... and then what? ...yes this has a horrible way of backfiring - yesterday I told my son's new girlfriend that we would be having mussels for dinner as a throw-away joke thinking no kid likes mussels, only to find out she is a seafood fan and was hugely disappointed that it ended up being spaghetti - got an all round bollocking from my wife and son! If you tell the band you want to play "downtuned stoner doom music" you might find yourself coming back to this thread asking how to get out of a slightly different band!

I wouldn't worry - AI is pretty much replacing session musicians now!