LukeFRC

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Your amp is I think converting the signal to a digital one and back again, doing all sorts of clever power management and compression and simulating a certain sound - the RH450 is a pretty awesome bit of kit ... but very different from an all analogue setup - where the more stuff you put in the signal path the more possible distortion, phase issues and anomalies you will get from them. If you look at the guts of a lot of valve amps they will look quite simple in terms of number of parts. There is a difference I think in terms of the sound. Live, by the time it's gone through a pa the RH450 will work well and it's feature set will help... but I doubt you would ever mic one up in the recording studio...

Two for me: Trace Elliot/Status T-bass - my first bass had been a Status Shark so the T bass was the top of the range GAS machine I had wanted for years. Finally got myself to the Gallery in Camden as they had two secondhand ones in stock - both of which sounded dull and lifeless of all the basses I could have tried out in that shop... Fender American vintage reissue series '74ri jazz bass and that era- I had tried a fair few of the previous vintage reissue series basses and they had been seriously nice instruments - I wish I had had the money to buy at least 3 of them. The old '75ri Jazz is a bass I wish I had owned but never have... so when Fender updated the series and brought out the newer 74ri jazz I went to try one.... cheap wood covered in thick cheap finish with a dull sound and just cheap feel and finish and a worse sound plugged in... so tried another one the same. A-B comparing to a Squier and the Squier was a better instrument!

Drop Alan a line and see what's possible in your budget...

If I have used up all the foam tips on my UE900s would you recommend spinfits over comply foam tips?

I can't find output VP as an effect to add - am I missing something?

@Pete B, @Daz39 we all must live within 10 miles or so of each other (I'm in Farsley)

I know some folk who had a big old 5 bed tenement on Castle Street - they let it out to students for 11 months and festival for one month - they made twice as much in one month as the other 11

Edinburgh is an amazing place to live... but only IME if you're a student, or have a decent paying income. If you're in the lower pay grades it's not that amazing as you'll have a good quality of life, but kinda no be saving very much. Plus if it's music opportunities surely it would be Glasgow you would move too? Way more open city to blow-ins too - Edinburgh can be a bit cliquey sometimes. On the plus side if you do similar to lozkerr and buy somewhere on the royal mile, factor going on holiday every august.... the rent from letting your flat out will pay for the month holiday, plus the whole year of mortgage payments! Halifax - super cheap and easy distance from Leeds, Manchester and at a push Sheffield Hebdon Bridge if you've a bit more money and want people to *know* you're a musician...

Exciting - it's odd that Yamaha buy a good brand and my natural reaction is "cool" if fender had bought them (not that they could afford) wewould all be like "oh no"

So you've got a top end amp already - if you like the Eden sound look at Thunderfunk as it's a similar amp but done really well. But it's not an upgrade, it's just a different sound. Cab wise I personally would just buy barefaced but use your ears and decide what you like!

Nice - and supposed to be a pretty amazing combo

Really the only options to reshell are a company in Singapore or convincing you?!

whereas the Tecamp M210 i had was just bad engineering IMO

Cab design seems to be either a super complex science, or a black art... and I'm not sure some of the "tonal" differences are anything linked to price or quality of design. There are exceptions to this of course, Alex C and Bill F seem to know what they are doing, I've backward engineered a cab once and it was clear they didn't know what they were doing...

forgive my ignorance but what would that let you do? the way I'm thinking it would work would let the B3n become a really powerful tool...

Almost definitely - Eminence arn't the cheapest over here compared with EU made speakers. I think if I were cab shopping I would just build my own, or head over the FRFR thread and go by the recommendations there to pick up a PA cab

There's now a B15 on the B3n

What's your current amp?

I *think* it sounds like it's modelling 3 different settings on a 12 band EQ - I don't think there's any additional compression changes going on modelling that part of the head but could be wrong. the preshape settings suck as much as they do on the real thing too

On the trace amp - no idea, it is a bit odd - I'll have a listen ant try and work it out

I would be impressed if that kinda detail carried through to a sim on a £130 pedal - but it wouldn't surprise me if it did I think the ebs, acoustic and markbass amps are all added after release - easy to install. Markbass through a 2x8 is a bit of an odd rig to model and I'm not quite sure what circumstances anyone would go "ooh you know what rig sound I want - a markbass through a tiny cab" but hey ho. The only thing it is missing for me is a B15

Zoom have, it sounds like I remember EBS stuff sounding when I tried it in a shop once!