Skybone

Instead of using the amp's pre-amp, you're using the HX Stomp instead to shape your sound. By plugging directly into the Effects Return, you are going straight into the Power Amp, so it is literally just the Master Volume (though you can control the level from the HX Stomp). I'd advise start with the HX Output set to about 9 o'clock, and turn the MV up from 0 til it's loud enough. Running the POD Go into the Effects Return of an Ashdown MAG 300 combo, with the amp's MV at about 9 o'clock, and the PG output at around 9 o'clock, it's easily loud enough.

I still use my amp, but I route the POD Go through the Effects Return, rather than into the Pre-amp. Doesn't colour the sound quite as much as going through the Pre-amp.

Yes, really pleased with the Celestion IR's. Bought the Pulse 4x10 & 2x10 pack, and you get quite a few different choices in that lot. Just a case of working through them all, and finding the one(s) that work best for you.

Saw them last night. Stunning.

The band have been in doing some recording, and I have to say that the bass sounds ace (IMO of course). Really sits in the mix well. 👍🤘

Dopethrone - Electric Wizard

I know where you're coming from @leroydiamond, and totally agree that you just can't beat listening to a whole album. Skipping tracks meant having loads of skill lifting the needle off the record at just the right moment, and more crucially, having the steady hand and skill to put it back at just the right place. Fast Forwarding tapes was a whole other black art! Like I said, I like Moving Pictures, it's just that for me, Permanent Waves worked better as an album. There's no dispute that Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, Limelight and YYZ are amazing songs, but I always thought that the other songs weren't as strong. Again, just my opinion.

As a big Rush fan, I always thought that, although Moving Pictures has some great songs, it's also got a few that aren't that great. Always thought that Permanent Waves was a far better album, even though it was very underrated. But what do I know?

Stone Dead Forever - Motorhead

Sleeping Satelite - Tasmin Archer

He Knows You Know - Marillion

Good old Covid.

Last night's gig got cancelled.

Please Mister Postman - The Carpenters

Earth Calling/Born To Go - Hawkwind

Born Too Late - Saint Vitus

Downloaded both the 4x10 & 2x10 IR's, the 4x10's are full bodied, where the 2x10's are a bit punchier. Really liking the 4x10 sounds, really need to experiment, but added a couple of the cab models to some presets, and used them in rehearsal last night. Sounded great, really cut through.

Feather in the Storm - Seth Lakeman

Downloaded the Celestion Pulse 10 IR's yesterday. Wow, totally tansformed the sounds without touching the amp model EQ's.

The Alarm didn't have a bass player, because he was on tour with The Mission.

Black Planet - Sisters of Mercy

Although I have more than one bass, they're pretty much all the same, so it sort of counts. 😀

There's always going to be "that" person in the crowd who is more than keen to inform you that "they didn't play it like that on the record".