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But which Prince is best for metal?

And now this is much more like a BC thread - gone on a complete tangent! Interesting story, though.

Thanks, that's good to know. As my needs aren't complex I think I'll try a a Sonicake Levitate. There is a discount code on ebay, just £35 posted at the moment

Two more pictures: The back of the cab, with the amp connectors in the recess and the power connectors besides the battery compartment access. Amp and battery options - Top left: 90w per speaker Kenwood car amplifier Top right: 7AHr battery with fuse and one way only plug Middle right: Meanwell 12v 5A mains power supply. Bottom left: 15w per speaker ebay amplifier for home practice or 'jamming with a friend' - work in progress. Bottom right: 2.3AHr battery to power the smaller amp, giving a reduced weight rig for travelling - also a work in progress. David

Interesting! I assumed that trebly grind was all maple necked '70s P Bass, but some photos show a '60s white rosewood- necked P Bass with a DIY (?) green oversprayed burst going on?

That was covered in the thread, starting with the first reply.

Made the same mistake 😞

Who are higher than America? 😂

I've owned and like them both. You're only way to find this out will be to try both imo....there's a few different algos between the two, but both really solid choices. ✌️

How about a pair of 2x10s ? Modular sort of thing.... Quieter band stuff, single cab, bigger venues add another. Anyone have any experience with this kind of set up ?

Judging by the size of the average American, you be safer eating at Greggs. WHO data from 2022 places the USA in 13th place for high obesity rates, 42.87% of adults are classed as obese. Global Obesity Observatory has them in 10th place on 41.64%. WHO has the UK at 66th place with 28.71%, it's 55th with the GOO at 26.94%..

Sod it. Live once.

The AG is very clean, especially flat and i honestly wouldn’t say it has its own sound or noticeable flavour really, just a 4 band eq and deep/bright switches which are nothing exciting tbh. The Tone Hammer is much better IMO but again flat I’d say it’s pretty non descript - clean with a nice EQ on it but no inherent flavour. The special sauce with the Tone Hammer is the AGS which is essentially a drive channel and that’s what gives some valve amp like tones, ranging from very subtle to full on distortion. The tonehammer is very good but mainly because it’s so versatile when you tweak it you can do a pretty good approximation of any sound, but I wouldn’t particularly say it’s has its own sound at all

They used all the stickers for the Kramer Special because they didn't think anyone would buy these pre-blowout.

The FX return can be used as an external expression in. Personally I would not want to give up the FX-loop for that though. I would buy a exp-to-midi converter for an expression pedal. link to the manual: https://www.darkglass.com/anagram-manual/#Rear_View ----------------------------------- Edit: On TB someone says you can use a splitter cable and connect a exp-pedal AND an audio return. The manual says: "Return (exp): A dual function ¼” jack supporting either a stereo return or an expression pedal input." I am not sure what to think of this...

Jaco re-incarnated on Sax!

Funny that we're on an Octaver kick, since I just got a Boss OC-5. I already have a MXR BOD, but I have two boards now and I wanted something with a nice octave up. In Vintage mode it gives me a digital octave up and a OC-2 style analog octave down. I watched a few videos before buying, but I'm discovering that even just a little of the +1 fattens the tone considerably, which I like and wasn't expecting. Still learning. The other pedal I got at the same time was a Landlord FX Cheeky Pint compressor, which I'm still dialling in a bit. Super cheap but seems solid enough. At the highest volume & compression, I seem to be clipping it a little if I play hard. By comparison, my Orange Kongpressor can take 12V and runs on 18V internally ... but cost me 5x as much.

I saw the Ghost-queue in Birmingham on Sunday and they were explaining how everyone would get their phones bagged. The Hawkwind gig was pretty good, people mostly just took the odd snapshot so no sea of videoing phones.

Vio-lence and Exhorder last Friday. Both blasts from the past.

I noticed that too. A bit annoying. Boss do make a MIDI enabled expression pedal (EV-1-WL), but it's a bit spendy at £140. I still can't get on with the Darkglass tone though. That fizzy top end and seemingly disconnected low just doesn't sound good to me.