Lozz196

Hi Phil First off welcome to the forum. Secondly I’d get the amp checked out by Orange before looking at new amps. Having had a Terror and a Nemesis 410 myself both are extremely loud and capable of handling far more than your ears (or anyone else’s) can. Unless your eq is entirely low-end and driven those cabs should easily take all the Terror sends their way, shouldn’t cut out at all.

Nice one, I’ve done a few gigs where the sound engineer has worked with the same theory, always seemed a bit odd but if it works it works. Sounds like the Mesa was a worthy purchase.

Prompted by listening to the radio at work Sound of The Underground - Girls Aloud

Ive seen punk/Oi bands gig the Rumble 210 combos and on soundcheck they kept up with the (at that point unamplified) drums with no problems. So can’t see why the head & 210 cab wouldn’t be able to do the same.

I find that if I’m enjoying my tone whilst practicing I enjoy practicing more, maybe you’ve now entered that (costly) phase?

Since You’ve Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany And for a “serious” song: Beautiful Dangerous - Slash/Fergie

I think I’d be tempted to get the Rumble 210 combo. For rehearsals & small/medium sized venues it would be enough on its own, then add in the 115 cab for the big venues. Re the Hartke, a band I joined some years back had one of these and it went completely dead on the Tube control, and was very thin sounding when not on it.

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Good call, Get The Party Started would be a great song to put in

I read that Mick Jones of The Clash spent his student grant on a guitar, I imagine he wasn’t the only one. Or people such as The Sex Pistols who misappropriated theirs from their rightful owners.

Just watched the end of a Bowie gig, sound very well mixed but Gail Ann Dorsey severely overplayed on Ziggy Stardust imo, unless all of that was on the original recording but just couldn’t be heard. No doubting the ability but for me it just got in the way.

Of course, how did I manage to forget Ali, given SLF are one of my fave bands.

H who played for Peter & The Test Tube Babies used a Stingray, as did Steve Severin of Siouxsie & The Banshees. Can’t think of many others though.

A guitarist with a Les Paul & a Marshall 100 watt amp + 412, and with a bedroom sound will most likely swamp anything/everything. In my last band I was very lucky that although our guitarist had all of that gear he knew where the bass, volume and reverb controls on his Marshall were. I’ve not been so fortunate in the past.

If you weren’t so far away I’d ask for a job on rhythm guitar (can’t do any of that widdly lead stuff).

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Ashdown do basses as well

With your rig (as mine is similar I know how loud it will go) if it was swamped by a band I’d really consider whether I wanted to join them or not. Pubs will probably only ever put them on once, and proper music venues with FOH will have soundmen that will get very frustrated by them. If you do join I’d say adopt a Cliff Williams type role and play solid without expecting to cut through, and def get some ACS earplugs.

It looks very futuristic, 25kg for the whole set-up is great, a real investment for your back in later years, as well as your ears now.

I ordered a good few items from Electro Music back in the day, they always seemed to have a good stock of 2nd hand stuff at reasonable prices.

I wonder how the distinction was made that one identical twin was better looking than the other.

Not exactly, but I did think that when I played a Fender Road Worn Precision that it was one of the most comfortable playing basses I’d ever played and that I’d be just as happy using one of those as I was with my US Standard Precision.

15kg for a 410, that’s just madness, congrats I’m sure that will make gigging life a lot easier

Yamaha BBs are very good basses, my first “proper” bass was a BB1100s, did many a gig and recording session with that bass. This was back in the years when I couldn’t afford a backup, it never let me down.

We’ve played with enough bands like that, turn up eat as much of the provided food as possible, do their set then leave immediately carrying as much of the provided beer as they can.