Killerfridge

That is one beefy pickup!

Who's the builder, out of curiosity?

Holy moly that Ritter is stunning. I don't think I'd ever play it, just mount it on the wall and look at it all day!

The SBP-1 is one of my favourite preamps in it's simplicity. Boost only, turn up the bass and treble, start slapping

I think that's spot on. The thing they aren't great at doing is the sparkly modern sound; they sound like a loud old tube amp and if that's your thing it's great. Re: knobs - yes, they're awful but fairly easy to replace

Yes, the RH line came out in 2010, before the Behringer acquisition, and the BQ was 2019(?), well after. Whether or not that has anything to do with the perceived quality I don't know, but the 2010s are generally considered their "best" era. Everyone was using the RH series to some degree (Rocco Prestia, Mark King, Janek Gwizdala etc.), but then at some point they just stopped supporting the gear and a lot of the artists lost faith. In terms of voicing, the RH is definitely a more "vintage" sounding amp, not super pingy, but warm and full. It works really well in a band context.

I use the RH750 as my regular (essentially the same but with more power) and it's really top notch. The RH series comes from a different era of TC, when they cared and made good quality bass gear; I wouldn't put it in the same league as the BQ series

It's not necessarily laziness, but a sad reality of modern journalism. Some Journos are expected to churn out multiple articles a day if they want to make a meaningful wage, and it's just become a race to the bottom. That's why you see so many "advertorials"; Journos can just take "articles" prewritten by PR agencies that are just glorified adverts for Thomas Cook ("Scientists prove January is the most depressing time of the year [so you should book a holiday with TC]") or Virgin Money or whoever, and just send it to the publishers with their name on it.

That's what I'm imagining: you've got an amp/cab setup that you like, now you can just capture it and send it to FOH/in ears

Like, I get it, it just clearly isn't for me as an owner of it's big brother. I can see someone who just wants to utilise the huge capture library (and it is huge) as a preamp/overdrive/amp sim. But if I was in the market, I would get a Line 6 Helix Stomp no?

It's back, and it looks so so much better now that it's been finished: