Bassybert

That looks beautiful!

That's textbook J Mascis, can't even have an acoustic track without some ripping fuzz in the middle of it! I love his playing, so languid and loose 😎

Sciatica?

No worries, that sounds like a great combination you've got there. With a 4 ohm load instead of 8 ohm it's going to sound a 'bit' louder so in effect you'll have more clean headroom to play with, but with the 2 top quality pieces of kit you have, I doubt you'd be able to hear any differences in clean headroom as you'd be deaf by that point!

If your head is capable of outputting 900w into a 4 ohm load (Which the barefaced cab is) then yes you will be getting the 900w pumping into it - Don't think it's going to sound almost twice as loud though ☺️ Is the head rated at 900w peak into 4 ohm?

Company renowned for making top gear gets bought by company renowned for f@#%in’ things up = was only a matter of time before this happened!

Came across as disappointed with Andertons to me when I read the post, was going to say not much they can do about it, it’s Mesa’s fault 😂 Sorry to hear about it being delayed, waiting for gear from the US is hard enough when it’s in stock!

Could you not have donated them to local musicians/rehearsal rooms?

@Kinder was selling a Trace Elliot head when I bought his cab off him, think it’s in the for sale section. Top guy to deal with and a great price for a classic head

I don't want to keep kicking slap down as people are obviously free to like what they want but I've never liked it at all, and the more examples being listed on this thread to justify it are just reinforcing my dislike 😂 Maybe I'll go so far I actually start liking it. But then again... 😉

Have listened to the David Crosby, Billy Corgan and Tim Burgess ones - all 3 were really good Only 20-odd left to go 😂

That is one quality tune. Peter Tosh was incredible. Bless up.

With all that mid and treble, you should start playing guitar instead 😉 You must have quite a cutting punky sound with those settings?

The gain on my ABM 500 EVO II is normally around 3pm with my P Bass, seems to need a lot of input gain to get that meter moving! I do like adding a touch of the valve drive, really seems to fatten things up but get's a bit farty if it's too high.

Watching this thread with much interest as this is something I’ve thought about doing for a long time! Have toyed with the idea of making a rack preamp version of this circuit but the power section is so key to the sound making a preamp would be like having fish without chips, Cannon without Ball and Dempsey without Makepeace.

After reading through this thread quickly it's safe to say I have absolutely no idea at all what's going on, but I feel like I'm suffering some sort of really bad LSD flashback. On the flipside though, I've found the bit starting from 18:35 in the original video the perfect example to use when someone asks why I really hate slap bass, so every cloud and all that. Think some soothing Family Man basslines are much needed at this point...

I refuse to believe Neil in the early 70s would have been anything but amazing! What tour was this?

Bought Andy's Trace 1015H cab, had great communication with him, he was willing to meet to cut down my journey time and he was bang on time. Great price for a beast of a cab and a fab guy to deal with 😁

Wash your mouth out with soap!

I thought the same thing. Pretty sure he used the same pedal on songs like Mullethead and some of the stuff from the Aglio E Olio ep as well.