grandad

Recently chose a BG250-208 for my home practice amp. Find the spectracomp fattens up the sound nicely at about 10 oclockish. Think I'll also use it with the jazz quintet I play with.

I use the BG250-208 for home practice. It is very 'convenient', size, shape, weight, built in tuner. I have the 'spectracomp' loaded & at about 10'oclock I find the sound thickens out really well for a 2 x 8". I think It may well be just the ticket for the 5 piece jazz band I play with.

Q. What is the point of 200W amps? Maybe headroom.

[quote name='grandad' timestamp='1450683161' post='2934746'] Recently settled on a TC BG250 208 as my home practice amp. Out of curiosity I plugged my 115 into the LS ext and was surprised at the increase in volume. It was probably loud enough to do a medium size gig. [/quote] But went back to my Roland CB30 because I liked the tone better.

I have a TCE 250-208 and a Zoom B3 FS on BC you might like to consider.

I've been gigging with a Max160 into an Ampeg B115E for several years. The Max450 was to heavy and to powerful for my needs so I stuck with the 160. It's never missed a beat.

[quote name='dincz' timestamp='1452767709' post='2953185'] If you weren't around when Gregorian chant was big, your opinion on anything that came later is totally invalid. [/quote]

Thank you Mykesbass, I've got a lot to learn.

Back in the early sixties my mate was a member of the 'World Record Club'. For a monthly subscription you would recieve an LP of choice from a limited number on offer. These albums were not generally available from retailers so they introduced us to artists that we had never heard before - classical, jazz and popular music much of which came from America. It was quite hard to get to listen to a variety of music other than that dished out by the 'Home Service' and 'Light Programme', (the only 2 BBC radio stations at the time), or Radio Luxembourg if you could recieve it. I think it rewarding to know how music has evolved and can only add to the enjoyment of playing. Knowing the history of music, as any tutored member would know, must surely be an essential part of learning as part of one's musical journey whatever form that may take. I have no formal music education and only picked up a bass guitar in my early fifties, I'm 67 now, so I'm a late-comer, a self-taught learner and so envy those with a formal music education or even those basschatters whose parents forced piano lessons upon them as a young child. After gigging for several years doing 60's/70's pop I now help run an amateur music club at a local comminity centre. It is a great success so far with 70 odd members, all ages. Knowing/playing mostly 60's/70's pop, yesterday I found myself practicing with a jazz band with a gig in 2 weeks time. Many of the numbers I knew in my head from 1960-something listening to those LP's in my mates sitting room, [i]Blue Monk, Petite Fleur, Les Feuilles Mortes [/i]etc. And how different it is playing Jazz to Pop. I'm afraid I felt like a passenger for most of the session so I've a lot of homework to do. Can anyone tell me why they seem to play mostly in the key of [b]B[/b][b]b?[/b] Anyway to address the OP, musical likes/dislikes change through life. I reckon I'm mostly ignorant of the music from the eighties onward but that's because I haven't listened to everything up to then yet. My advice is keep an open mind and listen to everything and anything, you don't have to like it. The fashion wheel of popular music will keep turning regardless. And you never know what might happen and something tucked away at the back of your mind might just become the thing you need. Last thing, I love the Beatles [b]Mr Blue[/b]. How much do you think "The Billy Cotton Band Show" influenced them?

Use a Peavey Max160 SS head into Ampeg B115E and have done for several years.

Lightweight -> Roland D-Bass 115. Should have kept it.

[url="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb14/articles/loudness-war.htm"]http://www.soundonso...oudness-war.htm[/url] Quite a long article and detailed.

Welcome to the school of flats. They aren't better than rounds, just different. The feel of flats just does it for me along with that warmth. Hope you enjoy them.

I shall be putting a number of PA items up for sale later this week, Yamaha and Electrovoice, when I get time to take some photos. You are however a long way from the Midlands and postage is expensive. Well within your budget, you might like to look at a new Yamaha Stagepas 600i. I bought one earlier this year and am very pleased. A very easy carry and setup. Together with a pair of stands + covers the lot would be about £750.

The Little Guitar Shop in the jewellery quarter. Read the parking signs!

[attachment=208324:100_0239.JPG] I have used one into a PJB PB300. Great sound and a very portable rig. No hiss.