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Duff Mckagan

[quote name='Musicman20' post='507087' date='Jun 6 2009, 05:18 PM']Has anyone else noticed how everyone on talkbass seems to own Genz amps and cabs?! Well not all of them, but that company really have hit into the market. Never tried them yet...I like the idea of the shuttle but not so sure about the cabs.[/quote] the cabs are good too

[quote name='Kongo' post='500045' date='May 28 2009, 05:06 PM']Omg![/quote] i know [quote name='alexclaber' post='500053' date='May 28 2009, 05:11 PM']I wonder how they're doing that - lower rail voltage and higher current limiting for 4 ohms? GB and Mesa do something similar for 4/2 ohms on some of their heads so it's certainly possible but require a bespoke power stage. Alex[/quote]Wonder how 500 watts of terror would sound going through a Compact.................... They also hinted that a 1000 watt terror would make an appearance soon ish but he could have been talking rollox

Just found out that the Terror bass has a switch on the side to allow 500 watts output at either 4 and 8 ohms.

try a new battery. Mine worked okay off battery power although they didn't last long!

checked the battery?

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='490636' date='May 17 2009, 04:35 PM'][size=4][b]The Big One - my first pub gig with a Barefaced cabinet:[/b][/size] I've sold three Eden cabs to make way for the Big One. For a smallish pub like this one (the Salmon & Ball in Bethnal Green) I might previously have taken a D210XLT but more probably my Nemesis NSP115. There's no stage at the pub, and the set-up space for the band is really tiny. Musically it went really well. I placed the Big One right at the back, between the drummer & the keyboard player, and I stood directly in front of it. The sound was great - I could actually hear myself clearly without having to turn up so loud as to offend my lead guitarsehole. Alex's comments to me about the dispersion from the small speaker were spot-on ... you can hear yourself from anywhere on stage, and so can the rest of the band. I was playing a Lakland DD --> Aphex Xciter --> DHA VT2 --> Eden WTX-260 --> Big One. Friends in the audience told me afterwards that my sound was very bassy but still cut through the mix with ease. I suspect that much of the "bassiness" came from the Xciter. Also, I have flats on the DD and some foam rubber muting under the strings at the bridge, all of which makes me more "thuddy" anyway. (That Hofner influence isn't easy to lose!) The WTX-260 produces 260W at 4 Ohms. With an 8 Ohm cab like the Big One it claims to put out 180W. I kept both the Gain and the Volume knobs at about the 11:00 position and was easily able to hold my place with a loud drummer and a pair of guitarists playing through a big Marshall and an incredibly toppy Session. Stomp on the button on the VT2 to bring in another valve and the floor was shaking, but with absolutely no muddiness. I really can't wait until I can take this cab somewhere where I can open it up properly. The car ended up being parked 100 yards away. The keyboard player set off to carry the cab for me (no, I don't know why either) and was genuinely impressed when I showed him the whole damn thing was on wheels. He loved it. On a straight comparison, the Big One knocks both the NSP115 and the NSP210 into a cocked hat. The power, punch and clarity of the Big One means that it's simply playing in a higher league. I'd need more time and a wider range of venues before I could be so dismissive about the sound of the D210XLT, which is a [i]bloody [/i]good cab, but already I suspect that the Big One will come out ahead. Add the useability issue into the equation (weight, shape, wheels, etc.) and it's a no-brainer.[/quote]Sounds great. I'm getting a big one to go with Shuttle 3.0 which will push about 175 - 200 watts into it. Sounds like it will do just about all i need with the minimum of watts

that would be the very technical tilty thing for the cab

Did anything ever come of the wedge idea for the compact and if so, did it have read across for the Big One?