Merton

On me way - see you all in about 45 mins 🤘🏻

I’m just a bit too keen to have an extra half an hour in bed asleep 🤣

Basses and amps packed 👍🏻 Remembered to pack my Barefaced Machinist too 😎 I’m sure there’ll still be something I forget😄

Who said I *could* run 😄

A good shout indeed. I certainly would. Carry it to my car and drive off 😂 (Or I’d be nice, @NancyJohnson is bigger than me)

Their specs have had some dubious numbers over the years! Will be interesting to hear it, @eude had its successor for a while and that was pretty good indeed.

One of the ones @eude has is a 5er 🤓 I’ll also have my (not for sale, sorry) Conway Instruments Taranis short scale fretless 5er if you wish to fondle that 😊

I’ll have my 4 string fretless Mule with magnetic pickup too - so three ACG Mules in all. All three are available too - @eude’s 2 from Alan himself and mine from, er, me 😆

Status do stainless half rounds, I really like them. Despite their custom bass shop being closed I believe the strings are still available.

For Sale on the day: 1. Merton - ACG Mule, chambered short scale fretless, £1500 ovno (price drop for the bash) 2. Merton - Warwick Rockboard ISO power supply with lots of different leads, £70 3. Merton, Barefaced One10 (black steel grille) with official cover, £300 4. Nancy Johnson - Ibanez Roadster project thing. Haggle. 5. Nancy Johnson - Spector Euro LT. £££ I'll bring it ..would need same day PayPal. 6. Eude - Zoom B3n. Boxed as new, only used for about 30 mins, £100. Cash or PayPal on the day. 7. Andyjr1515 - 'Kert's' Camphor Single Cut, awarded No Treble's Bass of the Week. Open to offers around £1500 8. Cetera - Genz Benz Neox 112 Cab. 1x12 full range 300W 8ohm cab with variable control tweeter. Speakon & 1/4 " jack sockets. Built in kickback handle underneath. £125 cash or Paypal on the day. Bargain! (edited price on item 1 and details on item 3)

Welcome back sir! I was wondering where you’d gone. Hope all is well

Great post @Phil Starr - clear and succinct 👍🏻

I did an A/B with my Glockenklang Blue Rock at last night’s band practice. They’re obviously amps with different design goals but they have very similar formats and power outputs so I thought it would be fun. The Glock is clearly much more transparent and “flat” with everything at noon, the Trace has a baked in EQ curve which is very musical and pleasing to my ears. Once I’d tweaked EQs (mainly on the Glock) there wasn’t a huge amount of difference at all. The Glock had a crisper top end but that was about it. In a rock band setting I think the Trace wins out. It was a fun experiment

I’ll be bringing the new Trace Elliot TE-1200 head as well as whatever else I said previously - if anyone has an old Trace 7- or 12-band head we could A/B them for a bit of wonderful bass geekery 🤓

Of course you can (I’ve invited the son of an old school friend, for example, who’s not on Basschat!)

Loving it so far A few comments here:

Finally got the chance to use the TE-1200 on a loud pub gig last night; no bass in the PA so onstage rig was doing it all. Cabs were a pair of Barefaced Two10s. To say the rig delivered would be an understatement. Whatever I fed it from my HX Effects - clean, slightly driven, all out fuzz, octaves, choruses - the rig was always there, full blooded and present. I was very happy with the way it handled everything, it absolutely nailed the tone I have in my head without any additional EQ after whatever the HX was doing (which was sometimes absolutely nothing!). Wonderful

Crappy pic but the first proper (as in loud, no PA support!) outing for my TE-1200. It delivered, and then some. Cracking amp, hopefully it wasn’t a one-off haha

Ah man I’m so sorry to hear that - hope you’re doing ok. I just turned up and was loud like normal 😆 Was a great proper debut for the TE-1200 head and I borrowed a friend’s bass to give it an airing, worked beautifully. Take it easy dude x

All the best for a speedy recovery and no nasty lingering effects!

Did the place fall down shortly after the pictures were taken? 😆

Would be ace to see it with the EQ on but all set at 12 o’clock 🤓 Would love to get my Glock tested in this way too!

Out of interest is that RM500 graph set with the EQ "in" or "out"? If it's "Out", what does it look like with the button "in" but all controls at 12 o'clock?

Me included

Mark Gooday at Ashdown admits that their preshape button is "the wrong way round" so the amps sound great at low volume in the shop!