karlfer

I got two of them Phil Jones C4 lites and tried them at home the day they arrived. They were on their way back to Thomann the following day. Beautiful tone out of them, but VERY lacking in the beans dept. Even with my (at the time PUMA 900) No way would I get the volume out of them that I need live. Hugely disappointing. Although in a gig hiatus until next weekend, the two TKS S112's with my newly acquired PUMA 500 give me no such concerns. The 2 Vanderkley EX112'S I had were excellent, but I simply wanted smaller boxes (and less glue smell!)

PUMA 500 Mike. More than enough beans, daft simple to use. I know folk say you shouldn't worry about it, but 900 watt head and 500 watts of speakers worried me, hence changing from the PUMA 900 to the 500. Enjoy the hunt

Another 2 today

Tim, have a word with Gary at Promenade in Morecambe. Bit of a trek but they usually have a good stock of Markbass gear in. That 800w you are looking at on FB, remember, since they changed to Indonesian assembly, prices have come down a good way. You can buy new/warranted now at the price of quite a lot of advertised used stuff if you look around. EDIT. Oh, and two Traveler 102P's stacked vertically make a great noise, take up very little space and have the top speaker quite close to your earhole

Bless you David, you brought so much pleasure and inspiration to so many. RIP.

Alain, if it doesn't work out, take your original guard off and take it to Richie Tomson in Wigan Tell him what you want it in and he will sort you.

Down to 4 now and trying to get down to 3. 99.9% of my gigs, I use my Mex FSR P Bass Special Deluxe Series. Amazing passive P/J that just plays and sounds

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1452275361' post='2948449'] With typical gain staging half way on many amps and with many basses equates to full power on louder notes. Plenty of amps have the gain stages set so that they reach full power well before noon with typical input signals, because people assume that if an amp is as loud with the master volume at 10 o'clock as another amp with the master at 2 o'clock, then the first amp must be more powerful. Sadly it isn't but it sells amps in shops and means we end up with lots of amps on the market where the second half of knob rotation is worthless as you're already at full power by then. [/quote] So which amps are "guilty" of this then?

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1452264165' post='2948239'] If you'd had a way of measuring how much power you'd actually used on your gigs, I'd put a fair amount of money on you having used almost all the power fairly often, and definitely used every last watt a good few times - bass guitar is an extremely dynamic and power hungry instrument. [/quote] You know best. As a Luddite the only point of reference I have is how far I turn the two volume knob thingy's around. NEVER more than half way on gain or master, rarely that far. Against two noisy Blackstar' d gits and a mic'd up Lurch on drums.