Merton

Thoroughly enjoyed that! Another vote for both Doug Wimbish and Cass Lewis - I feel people who have a decent history behind them will have some wonderful stories

But what does “decent” mean? 🤓 To person A, decent means a flat response amp which faithfully recreates the bass and any effects/preamp tones. Hence a preamp is maybe part of that signal chain. To person B, decent means an amp with character to help define “their tone”. There will be person C, D, E etc with slightly different tonal goals too. I used to be person B. Now I’m closer to person A (maybe I can be person C?!) - my Trace TE-1200 is a stupendous amp which sounds amazing on its own but also takes whether I throw at it. I want a clean but ballsy tone? Amp only. Some grit through to a hairy mess? add a preamp in front of it.

Probably the cab. Put them with a decent cab (Berg, Barefaced, et al) and they are epic

@Quilly I’d be inclined to save the money and use your Two10 in portrait orientation

Noisy good fun. Pub rock covers but a generally more modern take on it, none of the usual suspects until the last few songs. A lot of stuff people wouldn’t necessarily know beforehand. One lovely little faux pas turned out quite well… We forgot to switch the main PA on for the second set, so the vocals were only coming out of the monitors. Happily they were so f-ing loud it actually worked fine, and balanced better because we weren’t overloading the PA with the guitars and drums as well. Actually sounded better apparently 🤣🤣

Pub gig, wheeled out the big guns.

I suspect standard is whichever parts they’re able to get per production batch!

Just bought two Hercules wall hangers from Phil; an absolute pleasure to deal with. Super quick comms and delivery 👌🏻

stop it 😂 🙈🙉

Always a great show! Next for me is Those Damn Crows in Feb with a group of friends. And then again in March, a week later, with MiniMert 😀

This looks very cool indeed. Thankfully we’ll out of my price range and I’m very happy with my Trace head but… nice!

Replaced by the Digbeth range which, by all accounts, is very good indeed

So I’m likely out then! Boo

I’m in, with the caveat that I’m already in discussions to buy an expression pedal but with one thing and another the purchase has been pushed into this year. Is that allowed? The only thing which may push me off the wagon this year is if the 100W Stoneham comes to fruition. Other than that I genuinely do not want or need anything for once….

Mine is noisy but I only notice it at home; in a gig setting there’s plenty of other stuff noisier. In comparison the fan on the TE-1200 is whisper-quiet

Slightly above your budget but a bloody good cab by all accounts: