Merton

Pics or it didn’t happen 😃

The name of the band - thankfully I don’t have to live up to that name or there’d be no-one in the pub 🤣 The white bass is an ACG TKO Classic - quite the beast of an instrument. 30.5” scale, limba body with figured ash top, ash neck with rock lite “ebony” fingerboard. ACG pickups styled on a J and a P, passive volume tone 4 way selector switch (J, both parallel, both series, P). It’s a rock machine!

Loud (possibly too loud…) Lots of drunk people Fun. Depping for @Graham again 🤓 First gig with my (new to me) Super Twin, it did not disappoint. I still need more time to tweak the EQs in my HX preamps to suit the difference between this and my Two10 cabs but it sounded pretty good (from where I was standing…) Had one punter come take a closer look at my board and rig but he disappeared so no idea what he actually thought 😆 Home for a rest before the madness of Christmas… EDIT TO ADD: I didn’t play great the whole night. Some of the songs seems to get stuck under my fingers for some reason. It was the first time I’d played Treasure (Bruno Mars) and was looking forward to it but played it like a turnip 🤦🏼‍♂️

Ooooft, that is sexy 😍

Definitely put the 15 on top. The 4x10 can handle more power so having the 15 closer to your ears means you can hear when it’s starting to struggle

Nice cab! Heavy but sound lush

But also… the volume control does not necessarily correspond in any way to the output power, coz of the various ways manufacturers build things and make all the volume in the first 1/3 of dial movement (for example…)

My thoughts exactly. RM800 and then either Pro Neo or RM cabs. That said there’s a Genz Benz Streamliner in the classifieds for a frankly ridiculously low price of £220 which is well worth a look.

So yes. Depends on budget and what cabs you can get…

Agreed. The irony with my previous post is that I’ve just bought a Super Twin so I can use my Trace TE1200 with a single cab on loud gigs, because I’m lazy and don’t want to carry two cabs, an amp, basses and a pedalboard 🤣🤣

Blimey! Certainly is! Sally is the sometime-singer, it’s a bit of a rotating door with singers and drummers. Her brother Pete sometimes plays with this band too 😀

If you need volume more drivers is better than going for a single 4 ohm cab “to get the maximum from the head”. So as @Dan Dare says, several smaller, lighter weight boxes. A small 500-800W head, two small, lightweight cabs. You can then take one or both cabs as the mood/situation dictates.

Just played at two of the annual Great Ormond Street Christmas parties. Met Lewis Hamilton’s W14 and, far more excitingly, Emma Bunton. The actual playing bit? Can’t remember. I met Emma Bunton 🥰

Having only bought one thing throughout the year (and then having sold it after using it for the one gig I needed it) I felt I was sort of still an honorary members of the gear abstinence challenge. No longer. This preowned Super Twin arrived today from Bass Direct. Oops. Time will tell if it’s a wise purchase or not…

Ask @Quilly - he has a Two10 and had an Elf 1x10 until recently…

Stop saying this please, you’re not helping my GAS 😂

I concur!

You’re right.Class D is the power amp design; traditional solid state and valve heads tend to use class AB power amp topology. Class D is more often than not linked with an SMPS (switch mode power supply) as opposed to the traditional power supply found in valve and class AB heads, and that’s actually where most of the weight saving comes from 🤓

Ok I’ll bite - yes 🤓

Sorry @AndyTravis, that was mean 😘

Happy February present to someone else…? 😜

I’ve not bought anything except a Backbeat v1. I sold it a couple of months later as decided I didn’t need it. So it was my best and worst 😄

@stevie’s LFSys cabs are exceptional. The Monaco especially so, though I appreciate that isn’t what was mentioned here. Would love to try one on a gig! Note they are very different in concept to the Barefaced x10 range