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[quote name='Wolverinebass' timestamp='1507540565' post='3386078'] That's Danny Trejo. [/quote] Yep I was completely wrong on so many levels, I need to slap myself!

Disagree about bass not being noticed if you foul up in the depths of a song, I thing it’s more noticeable than a guitarist chugging slightly out of time, a wrong string in a chord. We have to keep the groove and the time Either instrument doing a solo and doing it wrong will get noticed

As above with excursion Also dispersion is a key and how it behaves on axis, off axis etc. It’s a minefield (sort of) Simply put to my simple head. Get an amp that has enough power to drive your sound in the places you play. Get a cab you like the weight sound and look of that can handle it (or vice Verda, match the amp to the cab!) Pair em together and bob’s your Uncle. If you play big venues, you’ll need to DI to a PA as well maybe mic’d or from an amp/box/pedal

It’s not just speaker area, it is also speaker cone movement. If the 40% increased surface area has less excursion than the 12” conenthen it will not move as much air, won’t be as loud and the dispersion curve/zone may well not be as good. Also it’s the efficiency of the drivers and how much of the watts they actually burn up before translating it into a sound wave Just saw you mentioned drivers being the same. Remember speaker enclosure size as well, it gets too much for my tiny mind

Worthwhile checkin out Sandberg’s I love the necks and you may well too

I had an LH1000 no issues, cheap as chips bought for about £140 in a flight case, bloody heavy and noisy but fine, I quite like the EQ shape, and it lead me to get a Hartke VXL pedal which is the best thing ever. Had a Darkglass M900, good but not for me. Now got a Form Factor Audio Bi1000. Nice clean power, it’s not bee tested properly in anger yet, but by all accounts it handles everything with ease. As most people have said here, each to his or her own. Lozz is very well respected and is big on Ashdown and sounds great, I would probably not use the same set up (and sound worse than him) but mine works for me

[quote name='moonbass' timestamp='1505852888' post='3374828'] I think a lot of pub gigs would be more successful if drummers paid more attention to volume balance. I generally find kick and toms are too quiet and snare and cymbals drown everything out. I've noticed the band Vulfpeck always damp their snares even at large gigs with cloth, presumably in keeping with their low volume ethos. Does anyone make low volume cymbals? [/quote] Low volume cymbals are the ones with holes in it that look like my grandfathers old pants

Just to reinforce what people has said. I have an Alexis SR16, I bought itnsexondnhand for peanuts, it’s fine for very very simple stuff on the fly, but that’s about it. I’ve got logic and EZDrummer. Logic is brilliant, EZDrummer is amazing and as and when you have more money you can add different drum packs, rhythms etc. To widen your sound. Once you have created a drum patch it drags and drops across to populate a track on Logic no problem. As long as you then have your USB audio interface you can then record whatever instrument you want alongside it. It’s really and intuitive and easy, especially if you are used to Macs and GarageBand The other thing is that if you want to expand further and you have a friendly drummer with an electronic kit, you can take a midi out of it into the audio interface and create your own drum kit in EZDrummer, so you could have Bonham floor Tom, Ludwig snare, Gretsch mid Tom, Tama bass drum etc. Then you can live play your beats around your track you have laid down with a basic beat.

Fully agree with Bolo He has serious chops across the spectrum

Oh crikey, I am such a bell end, thanks for that. I was thinking of the film Machete at the time. Silly me

If I must guys I would like to share my 3 babies MarloweDK VS4 passive TT4 with Haüssel pick ups They are all phenomenal

Well I can finally post here. Sandberg TT4 with Haüssel pick ups and reverse matching headstock. Battered look is marmite I know, but I love it

I did mean Les Claypool not Lee! Interludes like in Carwash I think are a good use of slap, but I am not a massive fan of the ‘virtuoso’ slap especially for demo of amps. We can’t forget Bernard Edwards either and his chucking technique, this can be reproduced with a pick, but he was phenomenal. Another example is Danny Trujillo when he was in suicidal tendencies, awesome use of slap, he is wasted in Metallica, he has too much groove, and I like Metallica!

Just get another, I think they have released edition 3

Do what I do and get a DI box you’ll never use...... ;-)

I had a lot of fun putting the octave after an MXR, fuzz, distortion, Source Audio Manta and hot hand. Any combination of the above would be on before the octave, you can get some whacky sounds, especially dub step type wobbles, does not have to be a hot hand, can be an expression pedal. Pop your drive pedal before the envelope and then octave after that, see what happens. I did tell you this before though............to hell with perceived pedal order just go for it!

Thank you Cameron, I have been telling him for ages to do that! Al, if you put it under a distortion pedal you can get increased hum, that plus London tube noise would be poo. Get your drill out!

Agree with all points especially in contacting Alex via email not on here. Don’t discount a Supertwin, I love mine

I say get all of them and the. You can have a 310 or a 410! But if you don’t want that, if you think you play gigs where a 110 is enough but sometimes you need a 210, then get separates, otherwise get the 210

I love a big pedal, that GlouGlou plain kills it!

I agree with Musicman20, they are definitely missing a big big trick with their stuff, the clean amp is rather good, and a good EQ, but we never hear it. I really liked the clean EQ, but too many nobbles for me to tinker, and i wasn't using the distortion which to my ears still does not quite sit together with the clean sound, there is a slight separation rather than a pure parallel. Anyway, they rally need to advertise the clean more, or it may have made more sense to bring out just a clean version of the amp with no distortion circuit, then you don't need the pedal they don't provide with the amp.........

Oh i dunno either way, but recently i got an amp with a Gator carry case thrown in (think it is about the same quality but less expensive if buying alone) and 2 power cables, Canare guitar lead, couple of T shirts for no more than the actual amp price...........

get a second SC or a BB2 and combine!