King Tut

How are you getting on with this? Do you mind if I ask what the weight is like?

Loving the orange V3. Also glad to see they've changed the V3 to a 9.5" radius fingerboard. It's looking like the V9 has been discontinued - hopefully that'll make mine become collectible 🤩🤩

Love the cloud finish on that body!

They’re versatile amps and yes, easy to fix for an amp tech. I’ve had a few Trace heads and they’ve all been much louder than their wattage would suggest. I’ve heard good things about those slotted cabs too and it looks in lovely condition!

No i remember now - I think it was a blues festival in Devon or Cornwall, we were playing as 'Del Bromham's Blues Devils'.

And your 'Big Rig' is?!!

I’m sure we (stray) we’re on the same bill as you somewhere not so long ago. You were the main act. Can’t for the life of me think where!

Or - yes, it may be a duff string. It happens.

So is this the first generation ABM? An EVOi so to speak?

Yes - Stu is now living in Spain. We played with MT's Wishone Ash last year and I met Martin - Nice Guy!

We had a really enjoyable gig at The Cavern in Raynes Park last night playing as ‘Del Bromham and Friends. It was a more intimate venue than we normally play, and it made a change to only have the keys, vocals and kick drum going through the PA - but it was really nice - hearing the guitar and bass as the musicians have voiced them! We only played a handful of numbers by Stray, concentrating on Del’s solo stuff. We played a few we’d never played before including ‘Around The World in 80 Days’ (Del reckons even Stray had never done this one live), ‘Morning Dew’ and ‘I Am’ from the new album. We also played ‘Can’t Find My Way Home’ which I’d never played before and ‘White Feather’ which we’d only played once at The Stables PC (pre covid!). WE had a great crowd and to top it all there was a fab chippy next door! Big thank you to our drummist for the long derrière drive there and back, Noel, the Guvnor for his welcome and enthusiasm, and everyone who turned up for keeping music live!

I’ve got a Veyron that is my main squeeze. I’ve also had a LH500. Both the Veyron and the Hartke are as loud as you’ll ever need, never mind the 1000! Theres no pre post switch on the hartke for DI so you have to use a jack from the tuner (I think) socket for post eq DI. The Hartke’s tone stack isn’t very intuitive but it does sound really good. It’s very clean so forget about valve drive. The Bugera is incredibly loud. Well equipped and more intuitive to use. Also has an onboard compressor which sounds good if used sparingly. it sounds like the Hartke you’ve bought is faulty sadly. I’ve read about similar issues with these in the past. Hope this helps. For me, they’re both good amps but I’d go for the Bugera.

I’ve used a G30 for years and not had a problem with active basses.

Ed Zeppelin Oldplay

We played Silja Rocks last night, my first gig on a cruise ship going between Helsinki and Stockholm. We were first on in the starlight Bar opening for Michael Schenker. I was travelling light using my Ibanez shorty and a Zoom B1 four using the house rig. I’d been picked up at 0120 to get a flight from Heathrow at 0730. Travel all went without a hitch. When we arrived we were disappointed that what was provided didn’t match what had been promised, main worry being no backup instruments. I risked it and Del managed to blag a Les Paul from another band. I ended up going through an EBS Fafner 600 and a Markbass 4x10. I had a lovely tone but I had to seriously crank the volume to get loud enough which again leads me to blather on about how loud my Bugera 1001T is. Our drummer was struggling as he had a seriously crap kit to play on which was a shame. On the plus side, stage and FOH staff were all fab and we had a great stage sound and apparently FOH was epic too. We had an absolute blast and went down a storm. We made a point of watching a part of Schenker’s set. He had a great band behind him and they were on fire. Finished with a raft of UFO numbers and I was in my element. Currently sharing a bus back to the airport with his band (minus Michael) and they’re all great guys. Still pinching meself about how this is all going in my retirement, honestly! Caviar for breakfast and as many Maoams as I could eat - heaven!

I use a patch in our band that uses the ‘defret’ pedal in the Zoom B3n. It’s a kind of fret less synthy sound. I reckon I could get it more fret less if I worked on it. Same sounds more or less on the B1 four

You live and learn! I often use a speakon to jack cable to hook up to a cab, am i in danger of imminent electrocution? If that’s the case, I’m surprised there’s not a warning in the manual - after al they’re not shy of warning us not to eat the product, immerse it in water or use it on the bank of an active volcano!!

I thought bridge mode was something that you got in stereo amps where you use both amps for one cab? This isn’t a stereo amp.