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Yep, but if O/P's guitarist is using 150w, none of the figures above matter? I think the problem is that plenty of combos will go loud - i.e., could go even louder - but in my experience most will not sound great doing so. Even the best bass combo ever made - Mesa Walkabout 12 - can struggle when things get messy. OK, it can compete in most situations, but it may not compete in the optimal way (and as far as I'm concerned I don't want my amp to compete I want it to win!). So, I moved from the Walkabout combo which was struggling at times, to the Walkabout head with two Bag End 12 and voila, still an easy load in/out, but both the volume and the tone I was after 👍

Yep that’s an ugly mod likely the combined result of limited cavity space and lack of circuit design imagination or skill. Shame

I'd agree re a couple of posts above, a lightweight combo might not be the best shout for a loud rock unit

Absolutely this 👍

Good luck with that 🤔

By which I mean that it sound different to pretty much every other amp I've owned, including the M-Pulse 360 or 600 which are to all intents more powerful/versatile versions of the Walkabout, and I doubt any head will replicate it exactly if that's what you're after

This.....

Whether it's your thing or not, the Walkabout has a pretty unique tone. Best bet to my mind is to but the one on here at present, IIRC it's under £500

Welcome Langy, great to have you here, and as has been said, we've probably all listened to your playing many many times over. I took the Electronic Music Techology Programme at LCF in the early 80's and we used to pop over to Sarm East regularly - ABC were often in around then IIRC. As studios go, it really was the place to be, and some incredible recordings came out of it. It must have been incredible to be part of it and I expect you have some stories.......

51 this year 👍

Yep 👍

BVs can really bring an upright player into the audience’s attentional space 👍

On stage I’m too absorbed with the physical and emotional demands of playing to give a f*** about how I look, in short I’m totally absorbed. In which context an Italian lady came up to us after a gig a few years back. The singer - a good looking guy 20-years my junior - naturally assumed she was going to talk to him. She did, but she said ‘The bassist plays his instrument like it is a beautiful women he wants to make love with’. Still makes me smile, and I like to remind hime. He now recognises the true hierarchy in the band 👍

Best lesson ever? Seeing a video of myself gigging fretless. On stage I assumed I looked/sounded like a cross between Jaco and Jamerson. I was very wrong. Just as Richie Benaud used to say ‘There’s only three things wrong with the England Cricket Team - they can’t bat, they can’t bowl, and they can’t field….’, there were only three things wrong with my playing; tuning, timing, and tone 🤫

Interesting and to a degree sobering read to this point. The good points. I want to go and listen to do much music I’m unaware existed, and will be doing so. The less good? Anyone who at the same time (mid to late 70s) loved reggae, who also - being a longhair - had to endure the ever present threat of walking around a corner guitar in hand to be confronted by a bunch of skinheads (I took several beatings, one quite serious), and who struggled at the time and ever since to understand the fact that the very same skinheads also loved this same music, will find several sections of this book both enlightening and - in terms of the actions of some music business people at the time in essentially hiding the ethnicity of the performers to increase sales and build a white market for reggae - disappointing in equal measure. Certainly, and whilst recognising it was far from reggae, how I view the Two-Tone artists/label/era have shifted hugely. I think I’m going to give it some thought and start a separate thread 🤔 But back to the glorious music which is what this thread is about. Gonna listen to some of this tonight 👍

Nice to see you back Rob, sorry to hear you’ve had some challenges, but yes, bass is very good for the soul 👍

Thanks @SimonK so that’s why we don’t have similar issues with other old and unused sockets on the same amp?