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[quote name='tonyf' timestamp='1326498068' post='1498232'] Dunno. It's solving a "problem" that doesn't really exist IMHO. [/quote] I think its directed at owners who don't wish to rout their instrument for a battery cavity. I struggle to believe the market is that big though.

Oh..you krazee guyzzzzz!!

[url="http://www.emgpickups.com/products/index/378/265/101"]http://www.emgpickup...dex/378/265/101[/url] [url="http://www.emgpickups.com/content/productimages/EMG-Batt-Box-2.jpg"]http://www.emgpickup...-Batt-Box-2.jpg[/url] Can't help but feel they've missed the boat a little. Developing a way of hooking a 9v AC/DC power supply up would be a bigger achievement in some ways. Maybe this unit can be modded for that...?

Does anyone have any suggestions for a Super Champ clone?

Amazed that desktop guitar doesn't have more interesting grafitti eg. JR 4 ... 4 EVA with a big heart scratched around it...

No, honestly if your amp is working for you then stick with what works. Don't go changing just to keep on top of trends. I'll say again. Nothing wrong with the low end of Genz Shuttles. Especially for small venues.

Always - venue acoustics vary hugely.

Thanks Badass - Its been added to the list...

+1 on the Blues Jr, had a guitarist dep in my band with one and it sounded superb. 1970's silverface Fender amps like the Champ and Vibrochamp are well worth considering also. Have heard good things about the Peavey Classic but never tried one. Trace tube amps are a real bargain as has been suggested and I think some of them offer dual power settings. Would it be worth taking a look at Hayden amps? (Ashdown's guitar equivalent) If someone out there could make a reasonably priced Fender Super Champ, I'd be on it like a shot.

I thought you meant moderators, and was all poised to offer...

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The Room bass is a nice shape.

I'm just the bass player, what would I know?

I'll look for groupiechat - probably going to be the most popular...or maybe hats...? [quote name='charic' timestamp='1326096767' post='1492077'] Also pedantic mode, will synth chat also cover non-synthesised keyboard instruments? Piano etc, also sampled keyboards etc [/quote] Yes Mr Pedant. Only one forum for keyboards though. Keyboardchat and pianochat didn't have quite the same...informality. Vocalchat and Singingchat don't quite make sense...well, to me at least.

As of today, we've secured guitarchat.co.uk, synthchat.co.uk and drumchat.co.uk. What that means apart from collecting The Set? Not sure. Lets see what happens in the "Other Instruments" forum...

Fair enough. I just disagree with comments on the lack of low end, particularly in a "bedroom playing" setting. There's plenty of low end oomph available at performance volumes and any lack could be down to a whole host of other things not just the amp.

I don't get what the excitement is all about. The original 6.0 is a fantastic head and I'm a little disappointed by all the hype over the modifications. More lows aren't necessarily a good thing on a hollow stage either. The reason I chose the Shuttle over the Markbass LM1 is precisely because it had more focussed lows. The eq on the amp is used for compensating onstage acoustics, not for compensating any deficiencies in how the instrument sounds. So if I need more low end I'll turn it up on the bass. I felt the bass Ken Jung was using didn't show the amp at its best either. Did you hear how his bass lacked so much in the lower mids when he went down onto the B string at 1:27? Just listen to the comparative volume of each note as he plays it and you'll hear a big ol' scoop. There's a bit of techno-babble in some of the opinions on the talkbass threads as well, eg. using "accuracy" when "confidence" might fit better. Gear is mostly about how much playing confidence it inspires at the end of the day. The one change I'd make to the head is switchable inputs so two basses can be plugged in (say a fretted and fretless). However if the 6.2 means the original 6.0 is going to become cheaper on the used markets I'm not complaining as I've wanted another for quite some time.

Did you get the right forum?

I've looked over the years and the only one that appears decent is Guitars101. Too many appear to self-implode after a few years.

There's got to be a Basschat Bully Award for some of these posts. "Ooooh, look wot yer coulda won..."

I was born in Fareham and grew up in the village of Warsash so know bits of Pawtsmaahf fairly well. Welcome aboard

Registering alts is something we'd like to discourage. However one of the features of the new forum software is the ability to combine posts from two accounts into one. So if you want to keep the stratosphere account, we could transfer the posts from your other account to the one which is sending you notifications. After thats done we could even rename the stratosphere account back to EdwardCunliffe.

Can't add mine. Both are having work done to them...well one is. The strat body is still with Mr Shuker after three years, ready to go but just needs to be shipped. I miss it, has a really nice neck. I'm having a Klein style semi hollow body made to replace the one on my Shuker-berger.

Its a basic three band parametric eq with cut and boost of 15dB, although I've had Klaus make a few tweaks to the Q and bandwidths for each control. The mid and low bands crossed over at the sweetspot in the mids on my bass before I had him move that crossover lower. Like I said above, its great for dialling in those mid and low frequencies that make a good bass sound better. I'd be happy with a hi-pass filter on it for the treble too. The only draw back is that it requires a 9 pin jack socket which can be a pig to retrofit on instruments that don't use a jack plate.