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That's a lovely offer, we'll see how things go, I might just take you up on it, you're right though I would be needing much more oomph, but the tone is probably not a million miles away from its big brother.

Like I said before, we quite often don't get to chose our pa or sound people. In those cases a decent bass rig is still the best solution imo.

Not quite, the m900 is the only thing I can find nearby to give me an idea about its core tone, IE there is one around the corner to listen to. I am prepared to go to Bass Direct to have a proper play if I have to! I know I loved the sa450, nothing else I've heard of or read reviews of seems to suggest a similar core tone with that feature set, the semi parametric EQ and separate line out level control are really useful. Given that appears to be the case I am willing to see if I can get anywhere with other offerings. My son has a Quilter, in the time I've had with it, a couple of rehearsals, I concluded it was a great amp but too bright and a little harsher than I'd like, something the eq doesn't really dial out. I'm interested in seeing if any of the current crop of lightweight heads can be made to sound like what I want to hear. On top of which if I had one thing to moan about with the sa450 it would be a slight lack of headroom. The newer 700+ watt heads should mean I can truly gig with an amp on tick over, which means longer life and less issues. Shiny is nice though 😍

Seriously mate, you can't have ever been in there, you would be lucky to find a practice amp in there, and even then it would be a sodding Peavey 🤣

The Warwick is too daft, I don't need two independent channels. Trickfish is interesting, as is Glockenklang, and the Darkglass m900 v1. GAK have an m900 so I'll have a crack at that. But it's not easily rack mounted, and I probably don't have a use for the overdrives. I didn't say money was no object quite, I said quality costs 🙂, but there is a point where the premium unicorn poop is not quite worth double the money. If I really didn't care how much it was I'd have a Glock Blue Rock, and it may be what I end up with, however if I can get close enough to it to not care for less then I'd be being a little daft wasting money I don't need to. Does anyone know if the Steamhammer is close to the Blue Rock in core tone? For a serious company Glockenklang's web presence is woeful!

Now why is that Warwick so absurd? Very cheap but the size of a house and two separate channels? Weird. So why is the trickfish so expensive if it's the same power amp? And the Glock is definitely on my list but mad expensive if there is something cheaper that will do the job. Plus I really want to have a listen to the options before buying but where to go? I am in Brighton and GAK's bass department is laughable... Any suggestions of shop s in London which stick a decent selection of amps to have a try on. Damn it, I've had no amp GAS for the 10 years I've had the sa450 and still don't now, I just need a reasonably priced great sounding amp that won't break my back, that I can try before I buy.

Q strip is an interesting idea. What I want to know is does anyone know if a lightweight amp with that same tone profile as the LM2/SA450. I know the quilter isn't even close, it's got a far more aggressive top end for a start. Great amp but not the sound I'm looking for at all really. I will be sticking it in a rack too, because I baby my gear , so that's a consideration.

I couldn't face the Peavey historical issues, they were always crap, somehow it will find a way to disappoint me, they always do, but thanks anyway. I acknowledge my snobbery, what can you do 🤩

Ha! Nah it's all down to me! We often play on stages with a naff PA monitor-wise that we have no control over. Bringing a serious bass rig is the best way I've found to deal with that....

Because our monitors don't deliver enough oomph for them. They like a LOT of bass onstage. Which is nice 😁

Yeah but the MTBF on that will be about 10 minutes 😄

Oh and I need parametric/switchable mids, and two of them, and a separate line out level control ideally.

Ok so budget is whatever it needs to be really. Obviously I don't want to spend more than I need to but quality costs... Power would be upwards 700w Amp is basically a monitor for most of the band and provides the foundation of the foh sound for most gigs. The LM2 configuration had a very lovely tone, since the LM3 the amp internals changed and they reportedly lost some of that magic slightly more old school tone. Having said that I haven't tried one and they are on the list!

So last night's gig was an excellent affair, really, except my dearly beloved and venerable Markbass SA450 finally went to the big bass bash in the sky... So I learnt some interesting things from this:- 1. I need a new amp, this isn't going to be fixable 2. IEMs rock, I didn't even realise that it had died until the trumpet player looked all startled as I was happily grooving away and the rest of the band could not hear me. 3 Barefaced FR800s are genius, I just cranked them and they delivered everything we needed out front. 4. I have no idea what amps out there currently exist that have that Markbass LM2/SA450 vibe, can anyone out there help? Ta! P.S. cracking gig all the same though 🤩

Mister Super Juice are playing in Hove at The Stoneham on Saturday (Feb 2nd). Be lovely to get som eBC support if anyone on here fancies a bit of instrumental funky soundtrack stylee stuff in a lovely pub that also serves banging food...

Ok so we haven't played the old 'home town' for a very long time. Headlining with a couple of really superb young Soul/Funk acts backing us up. Should be a cracking night of funkiness for any of you who can get out on a school night

Heh, if they're aren't they will be any minute, I saw the first run in the factory last week, very fetching green tolex (or whatever it is on them) and a great new vintage stylee logo. Bobby was working on the new website stuff. They look smarter then the pre-production version, but I bet they sound just as good. The pre-prod version easily trumped my guitarist's Fender deVille 410 for tone and dispersion. Volume-wise I couldn't say - he has never had to push that 410 to see how loud it will go - but the wee BF cab was damn loud in its own right, far more on tap than we need.

Yep, remember being loaned the very first BF cab by Alex. He has come a very very long way in a pretty short time IMO. The new guitar cabs are incredible too!

That would almost certainly be a gain staging or routing issue with the fx you have in the fx chain IME...

IN Reaper you apply FX either to playback or whilst recording in two separate places. The FX button on the track that is most obvious is the playback FX. The recording FX are got to via a right click of the record button if memory serves. You will get a serious latency hit if you go that route (hint, don't do it unless you have a super fast machine and a very very serious interface, its not worth it)

Travelling, without headphones ?!?!?!!!?? Youch!

Best way to get punters to know what the bass does is write arrangements where you drop out for a section, it doesn't matter one jot how tight the rest of the band is, how powerful it sounds without you, or how musically illiterate or not the audience is, when you come back in the lift in intensity is absolutely palpable. You are suddenly noticeable, a tiny bit of showmanship and you can make this obvious without for a second being a tosser about it. I promise this works, its a killer way to make the point that the bassist dude is the one making you boogie more than anyone else. Do not underestimate your audience, I get approached after every set, always. But then I make it my business to go mingle with the crowd, because that is super important for the whole band to do. Someone out there is a tuba afficianado who wants to speak to our trumpet player about how she switches from trumpet to tuba so readily. Someone else is having a great night having heard us from the street and come in for some fun and would love to tell us we made their evening. Another group of people see us every time we play that venue and rightfully want a bit of time with some of us to say how they are enjoying it and how much fun they are having, and we get to keep them happy. Someone would rather they were left alone completely by the sweaty fat git who just waddled off stage

Cheers dude!!! Really glad you enjoyed the production too, that's very cool

Try being in a an instrumental band chaps. All of a sudden the audience can see and hear loads more about the band, its a really weird phenomenon. Seriously in all the years I played behind a front person I think someone mentioned my playing about three times, always other bassists. In my current band we are always all getting compliments. I can't really explain why, but I rather like it

Good point, well made 😆