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Found it: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/trace-elliot-design.1521151/page-8#post-26263258 Both the TE and the MiniMega use Peavey proprietary design, based on the IPR series; not ICE. Fred also confirms the TE is in no way a rebadged MiniMega, it is its own design outright (incl power amp and power supply)

The power section isn’t ICE, it’s based on a Peavey IPR power amp I think? Happy to be told I’m wrong but I’m sure that’s what Fred @ Peavey said on Talkbass

Think I might have sussed the compressor. Huzzah!

It gives us an excuse to play if nothing else 😎 And I can only imagine how this works with a Big Twin given its affinity with the Super Twin!

@JGSpector that’s similar to where I run the gain - good to know ref the comp settings!

Great review! Thoroughly agree about the gig bag, the rubber handle protector on mine has already started falling apart so that’s annoying. I run mine through one or two Barefaced Two10s, and recently like you @JGSpector bought a Super Twin. Took a bit of dialling in as I was used to the Barefaced Tens but now I’m there… my word. Levelling a city block indeed! You mentioned an input level LED but I’m not sure it does have one? My ex-demo one certainly doesn’t… Doesn’t really bother me though, it seems to have oodles of input headroom so it’s not an issue. I’ve found the amp to be a perfect platform for effects - it seems to make everything just sound great, whatever goes in (maybe except my playing haha). I need to play around with the compressor more as I’ve not quite dialled that in yet - will try your suggestions. I’ve found the comp is affected greatly by the input gain (understandably) so just need to get a better handle on the interaction. One for Saturday afternoon 😃

I’ve had a mixed bag of experiences with them but most recent was a secondhand Barefaced Super Twin. Bought on a whim on night last December when I was home alone and unsupervised, arrived less than 48 hours later well packed and with a nice hand written note on the box. (Dubious idea that - advertising the contents! But a nice touch)

That white Scarab…. One day I will have enough money to persuade you to part with it 😄

I’m in!

I was visiting my sister earlier this year and went there with my son, with the express intention of trying a couple of basses and buying him some drum hardware. As has already been mentioned, the “in stock” basses were in the warehouse, not the store, so it screwed that part of the plan. We then went to the screens to order the drum hardware (it feels like Argos in that respect!) and they couldn’t find the very item I had loaded on my phone clearly stating in stock. It couldn’t even find the page for it. Daft. Thankfully they have people who are good at pretending you’re not there unless you make a point of interrupting them after waiting 5 minutes for acknowledgement of existence and we ended up getting what we had gone there to get. So…. Mixed bag as a shop. Probably more set up to be an online resource?

Does the Eden sound good? If so maybe you can find two 8 ohm versions of that cab, assuming Eden made them of course…?

What is it about the can that makes it not right? Can prob point you at other options with that info

Got a great pic of MiniMert with that at the London Bass Guitar show in 2018 😎 In terms of backups I always take a spare bass and a spare amp these days. Sometimes the second bass gets an airing but depends on my mood and songs in the set etc 🤓

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 🤣🤣