madshadows

Terrible news, such a fantastic drummer, the heartbeat of the Rolling Stones  

John

Sorry to hear about this, hope things improve for you  

John 😎 

Looks fantastic, great work  

John 😎 

That's lovely  

John 😎 

Very sad news, I have a couple of ZZ Top cd's, excellent band and Dusty was the ideal player for the band, RIP Dusty Hill  😥

John

3 hours ago, Ricky Rioli said:

Firstly, it's arrived

Secondly, it works

Thirdly, the user interface is generally as pleasant as it seemed from demos

Fourthly, I managed to make one patch that I'm pretty happy with, immediately

Edit: and a while later, I've made three more patches that, while in need of fine tuning, are already making me happy.

Although this larger Ampero has 4 foot buttons, only one of them is for turning an effect (or two) on/off – the other three buttons are just for going between a set of three patches. Hmm.

Excellent that you are liking it, have fun  

John 😎 

That's a damn shame, you going to go for something else ?

John 😎 

Another vote for SIRE

John 😎 

14 hours ago, Ricky Rioli said:

I noticed that I could either spend a few more days umming and ahhing before buying it, or I could just buy it straight away. 

I'll have it start of next week 😊 

Hope you like it, if not you can return it I guess !!  😛 

John 😎 

On 07/07/2021 at 15:22, Ricky Rioli said:

Thank you this is all very encouraging, I feel very encouraged!

One thing I was wondering - I know there are a tonnes of presets - to make your own settings, do you have to delete / edit the presets, or is there a section of blank patches? I have an aversion to presets, I like a blank piece of paper.

There are 99 factory presets and 99 user presets, to start with the user presets are the same as the factory ones but you can change the user presets to how you prefer them to sound by changing effects, amps etc.

 If you to want to set a preset back to the original setting you can overwrite it by going to the factory preset and save it again, so for example go to  factory preset F01-1 and save it and it will replace user preset P01-1, hope that makes sense !!  😛 

John 😎 

I'd say there are less bass related stuff than guitar in the unit but there are enough bass related effects, amps & cabs to create new patches which I have done replacing some of the guitar user patches I won't be using so I have more choice. But a lot of the guitar patches are good for bass as well, the software editor is very useful as well, the touch screen is excellent and easy to use. A lot of these sort of units seem to be aimed at guitar players more than bassists IMHO but I love the Ampero One  

John  😎 

52 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

That's the one, thank you!

The Headrush Gigboard is very similar, but £200+ more. 

Right, time to do lots of reading

I've got one of these and love it, great for quite practice with headphones and sounds excellent when played through a Headrush FRFR108 speaker as well, let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to help  

John  😎 

That is stunning, beautiful and unusual  

John 😎 

A fun watch  

John 😎 

Good luck  

John 😎 

12 hours ago, Strawbs664 said:

Oi! That's a bit unnecessary! 🤣

Bloody typing skills are rubbish !!  😛 

John 😎 

Congrats, lovely looking bass, well done to your wide  

John 😎 

I have the Fender Rumble LT25 and it's fantastic, lots of great presets and the ability to create your own, sounds excellent  

John 😎 

I listen to a fair bit of heavy music but the heaviest is probably TYPE O NEGATIVE  

John 😎 

Blackberry Smoke

Ian Hunter/Mott The Hoople

Amanda Shires

Jason Isbell

Hands Off Gretel/Lauren Tate/Delilah Bon

Avatarium

Thunder

The Eagles

Richie Kotzen

The Winery Dogs

Ricky Warwick

Taylor Swift

The Bros. Landreth/Joey Landreth/Ariel Posen

Miley Cyrus

There is probably more but these come to mind !  

John 😎 

Luther Grosvenor was renamed Ariel Bender when he joined Mott The Hoople !!  😛 

John 😎 

They've nailed it, a real toe tapper !!  😛 

Johh 😎 

 I like quite a lot of different musical genre's, in the last week I've listened to Maren Morris, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Bob Seger, Gun 'N' Roses, Miley Cyrus, Remy Zero, Starsailor and Jo Harman, I've noticed I've started listening to a lot more female artists in the last couple of years, the only stuff I don't listen to is Classical & Jazz  

John 😎 

Got to be Overend Watts with the added bonus of silver painted cross on chest hair !!  

John 😎 

There have been so many great guitar players but Mick Ronson has a special place in my heart for his work with Ian Hunter and Bowie, he always played for the song, much loved and missed  

John 😎