BassTractor

Congrats, Nick! You deserved it.

Welcome, Roland. Enjoy!

Welcome to BC, Johnzy. Great vid! bert

Welcome, classrock! bert

Hey Paddy, Welcome to BC. Have been on Anglesey a _lot_ and been looking at your house from there, so I'm an expert on Ireland (obl. Sarah Palin ref.). best, bert

Hello from across two or three ponds. Welcome to BC, and I mean that in a good way. bert

Hey Snorkie, Welcome to BC. Us noobs will be hanging on your lips should you decide to place a word in a forum. That, and telling you you badly need a 15" and a 2x12" with these Edens, plus a good insurance of course. Enjoy! bert

Hi Liam, Welcome to BC. Join the chat if you have some seconds left inbetween these gigs. bert

Hi Lupo, Welcome to BC. You're likely to enjoy the ride. bert

[quote name='tonyf' timestamp='1333459131' post='1601974'] now lives up the "posh end" in solihull ) [/quote] Solihull? That's all you can offer? I lived in Royal Leamington Spa for a few weeks. ROYAL! Oh, and welcome to BC, N#! bert

Welcome to BC, Efrain! bert

Welcome, Mike! Stupidity is enthusiastically tolerated here, by necessity. Just don't lower yourself to the level of drummers, and you'll be ok. bert

[quote name='neil_d' timestamp='1333973382' post='1608899'] Any tips on gear and playing much appreciated, [/quote] Ask and thou shalt be answered. Not by me though (noob, see?) Welcome to BC! bert

Welcome! I'm sure you'll get more that the advice you're after. Fun and stuff. bert

Hello back to you, and welcome! Hope you enjoy. Yes, it's a nice place. A very nice place. Lots of English humour. At least that's what I think when they call me an idiot. bert

Welcome and enjoy! bert

[quote name='Len_derby' timestamp='1334083168' post='1610741'] More gear than my wife knows about [/quote] Hey! We don't need boasting! We need the recipe! best, bert

Hello from not-Wales :-) Welcome to BC. Please tell us a little about your noise and about the physical objects you produce it with. best, bert PS Wales = good. I've been there a lot, and love it. You're from Pontypandy, yes? ;^)

Knowing full well that YMMV + +, but just to be sure: Having given this some more thought, I think maybe you've run into a _function_ of the GB, that allows you to set the gain so that the first stage gets slightly overdriven. In case, this is a good thing, and a light is then not a warning sign but an advertisement. best, bert

Sorry, haven't read all eight pages, but from what I've seen, and trying to answer your last posting: Indeed, the amp is not "overdriven" by the Overwater. It's overdriven by that guy from South Wales. Without going into details: You are asking one or more of the amp's stages to deliver amplitudes (say volume) that it can't. Having done its very best, it clips (cuts) off the part of the amplitude it can't deliver. This clipping results in both a lower volume than wished for AND the production of a massively awful lot of new higher frequencies. Depending on construction and possible presence of protection circuitry, this might blow up the tweeter(s) in the cab. If the tweeter indeed is blown up, this will normally not be harmful to the amp, but in some (rare, as far as I'm aware) instances may reduce the impedance of the cab to far below what the amp's power stage can tolerate (typically removing the impedance altogether), and _that_ would possibly ruin the output transistors (or equivalent) of the amp. This too depends on construction and possible presence of protection circuitry. Without knowing the specifics of your gear or the specifics of that guy from South Wales: you could maybe experiment a little with the gain and master volume settings. Something as simple as that can help a lot. YMMV, and all that. best, bert

Hey Rockdad, Welcome to BC! Sadly though, rock and blues are not our cup of tea here on bc. We're only into Renaissance opera. Enjoy though! ;^) best, bert

Hey Chris, Welcome to BC from a total noob (and self-taught at that). best, bert

Hej Inti, Välkommen til bc! Ovsom bejs plejing video! bert

Propaganda: Duel, from A Secret Wish: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLhYxLE8uCA[/media] Focus: Sylvia, from Focus 3. Instrumental progpop [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ly_bCQ2dY[/media] best, bert

Todd Rundgren: All the Children Sing, from Hermit of Mink Hollow [url="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fFaQA9KactQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFaQA9KactQ[/url] Andrew Gold: Lonely Boy, from What's Wrong With This Picture? if I recall correctly [url="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iCOS2vOxuXE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCOS2vOxuXE[/url] Beach Boys: Good Vibrations, from several albums. Obvious, but still. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrKKbaClME[/media] Living Colour: Type, from Time's Up. A stretch maybe, but still this has some classic pop inside, and it's close to Good Vibrations sometimes: [url="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M2OR_GuTUDQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2OR_GuTUDQ[/url] best, bert