Jump to content
Why become a member? ×

Merton

⭐Supporting Member⭐
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    6,997

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    5

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Merton

  1. Merton
    GR Bass have just announced a 21.5kg 8x10 🤯 https://www.grbass.com/portfolio/at-810/ Seems the Italian brands are trying to outdo each other 😜
  2. Merton
    Two gigs this weekend. Gig 1 - Lingfield Park for a school for epileptic kids. I was depping in the band and always enjoy their gigs because the singer messes around with the songs and structures so it keeps us on our toes 🤓 Gig 2 - tiny function room in a pub for a mate’s wife’s 60th. Completely makeshift band who’d never actually played together as a 5 piece before that evening. Drummer didn’t seem to have done a huge amount of homework (“What’s that song?”) but we had a giggle and on the whole scraped through without anything horrendous happening. Nice to be back to a level of normality with these things. A quiet august will be followed by a pretty busy September I think so that’s nice.
  3. Merton
    This has the impedance switch so you could make this one 12 ohm. 12 and 4 make a slightly weird 3 ohm load if my maths is correct after a few beers… Can your amp do 2.67 ohms?
  4. Merton
    Get Newtone to custom wind a set for you. They’re ace. https://newtonestrings.com
  5. Merton

    Show us your rig!

    Merton replied to ped's topic in Gear Gallery

    Last night at Lingfield Racecourse. Same tonight in a tiny pub? Hmm.
  6. Merton
    Mike from Zoot has his own moulding tools for carbon necks - he set it up about 2 years ago. But he is very much a small volume builder, not wanting to detract from his quality by subbing out any of the work. Plus he has a helluva waiting list at the moment. So whilst definitely an option (I'd love a Zoot carbon-necked bass when I can!) it's not on the same scale of manufacturing as Status were... As for the Status news itself, it's sad but perhaps not a massive surprise. I used own 4 Status basses back in the day, before I discovered shorter scales...:
  7. Merton
    Mind you, a black cloth grille without the piping might be a close enough approximation from a distance?
  8. Merton
    Can’t change between steel and cloth sadly, as they are mounted differently apparently
  9. Merton
    Yep. Seems a sensible design feature but I know a lot of people complain it’s too loud 😅
  10. Merton
    Can’t afford it after being a bit rash and buying a lovely ACG a couple of weeks ago. Nor can I really justify it… It’s a steal for whoever gets it PM me deets of the Kent trip, will see if I can come along and support you guys!
  11. Merton
    Oh man. I’d love a second one.
  12. Merton
    Delicious!
  13. Merton
    Haha, I had a very similar thought. My original request to Martin was a simple small footprint 100W valve head with 3 band EQ. That was it. Was content to let the finer aspects be left to the man designing and building. I do like some of the ideas floating around here and very much appreciate Martin’s input and ideas here. I’m confident we’ll end up with a pretty fine little amp but there will be a fair few people saying either “I wanted this” or “I wouldn’t have done that”. We can’t please everyone.
  14. Merton
    On the basis of them being potentially unreliable and difficult to get hold of, I’d say not..
  15. Merton
    Used mine with my Barefaced One10 last night for a rehearsal. “Bloody marvellous” springs to mind.
  16. Merton
    All that being said, if we’re trying to keep the footprint small, having so many speaker outs doesn’t quite sit on the same brief for me 😅
  17. Merton
    Valve amps don’t do min load like solid state amps, they prefer lower rather than higher impedances. I’d avoid the word “min” basically. 🤓 For me the 4 ohm tap would have two parallel jack/speakons, with a box saying “1x4 ohm or 2x 8 ohm” and the 8 ohm likewise but “1x 8 ohm or 2x 16 ohm” 🙂
  18. Merton
    I can’t see there being an issue with providing two, but it needs to be idiot proof ideally. And that’s where the idea may fall down for the general population
  19. Merton
    Thanks Martin! Bang on for me 😎 Personally I don’t use s/r or pre-amp outs but I may be in the minority 🙂
  20. Merton
    Yep, this ☝🏻 Also consider two 8 ohm cabs actually present a 4 ohm load (when conventionally wired in parallel) so you need to use the 4 ohm tap from the output transformer, not two 8 ohm taps…
  21. Merton
    Cool. Fender tonestack is out then. Can totally understand why
  22. Merton
    Not in my original idea no but I think this has some way to run before we nail a firm spec for all of it!
  23. Merton
    Hadn’t specified that far yet but I am partial to that particular set up
  24. Merton
    Definitely dials - my original suggestion to Martin was a simple 3 band BMT EQ
  25. Merton
    I agree @stewblack - I happily gigged a 100W Ashdown valve head many times, hence that’s where I’ve aimed my desires on this one. For me it hits the right balance between power, size, ability to drive the power amp etc.
×
×
  • Create New...