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I use an Artec Big Dots tuner. Very easy to read on stage and gets low B with no problem. But I've never heard of anyone else using these, and don't recall every seeing them mentioned on these forums. Are there any other users out there?

Excellent transaction! Sold Dude some hardware. Cheers mate

Bore da! You need to move to a bigger town Enjoy the site!

Could you perhaps post a link to the Facebook group or a picture? Did they say whether it has a maple or rosewood board?

Really pisses me off when stuff like this happens. I can't imagine the sort of person that would stoop as low as to steal someones pride and joy instrument. Scares me as well... I dont know what I'd do if my bass ever got stolen

Welcome mate! Hope you enjoy it here

[quote name='BassBunny' post='1306130' date='Jul 16 2011, 08:02 PM']Simple answer is try it. I had a go on one of these up at a recent Moffat Bass Bash and was astonished at how loud it can go. If you are only using it for on-stage monitoring, I would think you are going to be OK. If you do go for an additional cab, I would suggest you get the matching cab. As to if you will like a 10" speaker over a 12 or 15, that is personal choice and you will only find out in a gigging situation.[/quote] I'll try it at rehearsal tomorrow night. We practice at gig volume so I'll know then whether it will be loud enough or not. I'd rather not DI it as I like my amp to be standalone, but I will if I have to. It was very loud when I tried it at the store this morning, and I played through it when I got home as well, and it was a floor shaker (I live on the top floor)

[quote name='Lozz196' post='1306116' date='Jul 16 2011, 07:44 PM']Doing the math (as the Americans say): Surface area of a 10 inch speaker is 241, a 12 is 356, so a 10 is 67% of that of a 12. I`m sure the technical people amongst us will have more information, about different cones/cabinets etc, I`m just going on speaker cone surface area.[/quote] Yikes. Ok, bottom line... is this not going to be big enough for small gigs without an extension cab, even if I DI it into the PA (as well as using the inbuilt speaker)?

[quote name='DirkThrust' post='1306091' date='Jul 16 2011, 07:14 PM']Anyway, don't get him started on Ashdown. They're all crap y'know[/quote] Thanks for your advice, much appreciated. However, if you have a problem with Thombassmonkey, please leave it out of my thread. I don't like vicious bitching. Cheers.

Thanks for your advice dude. I'm curious though. I used to use (about 18 months ago) an Ashdown 180W combo with one 12" speaker and it was loud enough for my gigs with no trouble. I kinda figured that although the speaker size is only 2" in diameter less than the Ashdown, the extra 70W in the Promethean would balance out the volume. I'm not very good with physics and stuff so although it makes sense to me, it could well be utter horse poo!

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' post='1305729' date='Jul 16 2011, 01:08 PM']What have you gone for, if you don't mind me asking? [/quote] I went up to my local store this morning to try out a Markbass Traveler 102P combo that they have but, besides being a little too heavy for me, they want £1200 for it. I don't have that kind of cash. So I tried the Promethean P5110 combo, and fell in love with it before I found out the price! It was lucky they only wanted £500 for that one, so I brought it home. It's 250W as is (8 ohms) which will definitely be sufficient for rehearsals and most likely our usual small gigs, but 500W with an additional 8 ohm cab (which is £250 from GAK). I haven't decided whether to buy the additional cab or not yet, as my old rig was 180W. I may give it a little boost through the P.A. as it has an XLR jack. Best of all, it has a headphone socket, an MP3 in jack, and a mute button, and, it has a little stand jobby on it that enables me to tilt it backwards! Awesome. It was a really nice beefy sound, and way louder than I expected.

[quote name='DirkThrust' post='1305660' date='Jul 16 2011, 12:13 PM']If you want lightweight and quality it's going to cost. You can't avoid that and buying the GK because it's cheap will inevitably lead to having to upgrade in the future. You seem to be ignoring all the good advice in this thread except for the one poster you should be ignoring, Thombassmonkey, who will recommend GK at every opportunity because he is a GK endorsee.[/quote] *eyebrow* How do you know what advice I've taken and what I haven't? I've been seriously considering the GK stuff, because I use it at the moment and like it. Not because Thom is a GK endorsee. Although I don't see why that means I should ignore him! But, as a matter of fact, I've cancelled the order that I placed with GK as I've tried a few more amps out and found one that I like more.