alexa3020

several hours for me too

I've gone from several pedals (octaves, chorus, big muffs) to just an Empress bass comp and tuner. I love the empress compressor, it adds a little bit of harmonic distortion. Its subtle, but it makes the bass sit better in a mix. I do think a tiny bit of drive is essential

Question. How are people measuring whether an amp is coloured or not? Are you using your ears and comparing against a DI signal, or are you looking at response plots?

Quite the claim. I think you should tell us what band you are in. I'd be keen to see the best sounding band ever

In terms of Aesthetics, Id say tc bh 800 would look pretty nice. I had one for a short while and it was pretty decent. Which was a surprise because I had a similar tc bq head and that was garbage. Theres one in the classifieds at the moment too. I think for uncoloured the Aguilar AG might be better than the TH. Eich, Quilter, Genzler all have good reputations.

I loved the HA5500 - such a good amp and bulletproof

I purchased a Markbass cab from Steve. Good comms, easy to deal with. looking forward to putting the cab through its paces. Thanks Alex

Happy with vvt loom. Easy to fit and sounds great. Thanks

I might be a bit out of order here, but I wish they would get someone that could play on their videos. I know he's not trying to show off his chops and thats not the point, but I find his playing pretty hard to watch.

I have the Genz Benz NX 2x12 and they blow the BF210/410 (Ive owned these) away imo - they are in a different league. That said, I would presume they NX range are more similar to the BF12 range (which ive never used) - so maybe not a fair comparison. I picked mine up for £350 2nd hand which is so much cheaper than equivalent BF. I think it would work in any band situation

The mightier amp app is compatible with the nux and has a wider selection of amps

All of the amp plugs Ive used Nux, Vox, Donner have a line in for your phone. The Donner was cheap & pretty poor The vox was decent The Nux is levels above them, bluetooth means you have less wires to deal with, and the choice of amps, effects etc is super useful

Another recommendation for the Nux mighty plug

I recently had my amp die on me at a gig, Luckily there was another amp, that I plugged into my cab (with a different cable), and all was fine. The amp that died was an Ashdown ABM 600. I sent it to Ashdown, and Dave Green at Ashdown said the power amp had blown & that it was something external that caused tit to blow - I.E the Cable or the Cab. I did a resistance test with a multimeter for the cable and as far as I can see everything is ok. I'm not sure how I test the cab, but given that the other amp I plugged in that night was fine, I'm inclined to think the cab is ok. My ABM was plugged in with a speakon when it died, and the other amp was with a 1/4 inch - might be important. Anyway, the ABM is fixed, but I'm worried about plugging in to my cab in case it blows again. Is there any way to test the cab to know its electrically sound?

I'd personally go second hand. Id consider all the main players really Ashdown, ampeg, markbass. I like the trace elf at the same price point new, but I dont know if that would have enough power for you

No, the BQ had a dial for a compressor. I think it was called Thrust? My feeling was that the compressed sound was something to do with stuff happening in the background. It actually put me off class d heads. But actually its the amp that was the problem.

I had the BQ500 for a short while. I really didnt like it. At higher volumes the notes sounded really compressed and unnatural. The RH450 was quite a highly regarded amp. I never used one but Id go for that over the bq.

Snap - well almost So, I've just tested the cables, and nothing measurable across the wired terminals. I'm not sure how to test the speaker, I plugged the speakon cable in to the back of the cab, then measured across the terminals of the speakon cable and got a reading. I tested some 1/4 jack cables and different cabs & I always get a reading across the terminals when a cable is plugged in - so i guess thats normal. Pretty worried about gigging it now. Will give the head a run at volume with a different cab I think.

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