Merton

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!

Good point @Dan Dare - I use my Glock (a Blue Rock, a forerunner of the Steamhammer) with Barefaced Two10 cabs, so more of a coloured tone than the PJBs.

The Glock can, you just work the EQ and drive controls and it will do pretty much anything you want. It’s an immense amp, really well thought out. I can’t comment on the Thunderfunk but knowing its lineage I’m sure it has some wonderful versatility

Agree. Sometimes I want clean and uncoloured, sometimes I want the amp to impart something extra. In this aspect the Glock can do everything whereas the Trace may be a little more limited … hence no decisions yet

I’ve used loads of amps through the years - Ashdown, Eden, Hartke, GK, Trace, Glock… class A/B, D, valve… All have their own tonal tints and hues, the Glock being the most transparent/flat with everything at noon. I’ve found recently that the way I EQ that to my liking creates a tone very very similar to the Trace TE-1200 set “flat”. As @BigRedX says, find the one with the base sound that you like and use that. For me at the moment that seems to be the Trace, but I’m not making a rash decision yet because I’ve spent the last 15 years doing that 😅

Thinking “what am I doing all the way up this end of the fretboard?”….

The FOR SALE list - please copy and add to it as you see fit: 1. Merton - ACG Mule, chambered short scale fretless, £1600 2. Merton - Warwick Rockboard ISO power supply with lots of different leads, £70 3. Merton, Barefaced One10 with official cover, £300 4. 5.

Hopefully you have enough time to still recover but totally understand - hope you get better soon

Absolutely. I’ll have my ACG Mule (in the classifieds here already), possibly some other bits too. Do we want to start a list of bits?

Magic smoke all the way. You only need one cable from the amp to the cab, the cab will present its 4 ohm load and the amp will be happy.

Monster Truck and Those Damn Crows in Islington next week 😊

Oh yes. The Uproar. Thanks for the reminder!

Indeed - I’ll have at least two amps with me 🤓

Did a live video shoot for my new function band, in a barn on a farm. It’s a wedding venue, so not quite as rustic as one may think 😅 Was pretty good; we had a stand-in drummer though because our normal tub thumper was in the hospital with his wife who was giving birth to baby no 2 - we couldn’t really ask him to put us first 😅 First time I’ve used in ears (to avoid too much noise onstage for the audio recording) and I have to say I enjoyed it quite a lot. Still an old school Luddite who likes a rig making noise behind me but the IEMs worked a treat. Not sure I’ll be shelling out big money for any just yet, wait for the gigs to pile up a bit more first…

Cheers @stewblack Nothing to be envious of, you have a mighty collection of cool stuff 😎 I have a second Two10 which is awaiting the matching grille and then I’m contemplating a ridiculous set up of one clean rig (Glockenklang Blue Rock plus one Two10) and one effected (what you see above). Number of gigs I’d need this? Probably zero. Number of gigs I’d use it on anyway? More than that 🤣

First outing for the TE-1200:

This also works! I’m no longer on the GR path, having acquired stupidly powerful Glockenklang and Trace Elliot amps in the last 12 months or so 😬