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They made a 2x18?! I feel that I need one of them.

It looks cool and sounds pretty good but there are lighter, more powerful and more flexible amps out there. However it looks cool.

Been 'stuck' at 6 since 2016. Two Vigiers, two Sadowskys, s9 era (so anytime from late 1978 to 1980) Fender Precision and 1974 Gibson EB3. I feel that I 'need' a six string and I am torn between a Spector or a Warwick Thumb, with a ACG Recurve being an outside bet. Not buying for the foreseeable though between pandemics, babies, mortgages and cars though. In terms of lack of use, the EB3 should really go, but I am awaiting the exact moment in time that some new age hipster starts using them causing the value of my bass to skyrocket before I sell.

I have a chambered bodied NYC 5 with true single coils and solid body Metro with humcancelling pickups. Other than that they are ash body maple neck basses. The NYC to my ears is less ‘in your face’ and slightly more vintage voiced than the Metro. How much of that is the solid body and how much is the different pickups is up for debate. Both have good to great levels of sustain but not as much as graphite neck or neck through basses (the Vigiers I have out-sustain them). The main difference is the extra string and that the NYC is silly levels of lightweight and has a bit more of a ‘wow’ factor in appearance. The Metro certainly doesn’t sound inferior, just a little bit different. The Metro also has slightly chunkier frets, as my NYC has vintage type lower profile frets. Quality of the fretwork on the Metro is on par with the NYC though.

It’s the worst time too. Buy one of the last line of Japanese Metros, wait for the first line of Warwick made Metros or make the plunge for an NYC while Roger Sadowsky is still actively making instruments? Choices, choices, choices.

Okay, I'll bite. I think it looks cool apart from the pickup covers. The tuning machines don't bother me in the slightest. The look of the bass though makes me think that I would need to water it a couple of times a week to help it grow.

Absolutely.

As a Sadowsky owner already this partnership has had the effect of making me check out Warwick basses. Now I am semi-seriously thinking that owning a 6 string GPS Warwick Thumb in Nirvana Black would be the perfect way to ease myself into 6 string bass territory...

Me too.I think that the 802 looks really impressive. It is all about function, flexibility and ease of use. I always thought that the old TD 650 just looked a bit like a really high end mids 1990s Hi-Fi amplifier. I think that the 802 is pretty similar in this respect. I did love the 'rock' look of the Fafner mk I with the chicken head knobs which I ended up buying, but then the Fafner II didn't do anything for me in terms of looks.

When I joined BC I was a 23 year old bass player for an alt-rock band signed to a small label with worldwide distribution. We were just about ready to record album number 2. Progress in writing and recording the album was very slow. So slow that I joked to the drummer that I could qualify as a lawyer in less time than it took us to finish the album. I am now a 33 year old solicitor.

Yeah, they did (and might still do) 2x10 and 1x15 combos, much like TE did. Basic designs have not really changed. The original run of amps I think were 'only' 300 watts. Later amps were 500 watts. Being used I would be more concerned with the condition of the actual amp in question rather than the model.

I am a Trace Elliot fan, however to my ears the Ashdown amps are more versatile in that you can get a semi hi-fi clean tone or you can dial in a gritty, dirty overdriven sound. Trace Elliot amps are great but if you don't like the 'baked in' pre shape sound you are pretty much just left with the graphic to get your core tone (or pedals). However if you want and need 'that Trace Elliot sound' though then it has to be Trace. In general I prefer the Trace Elliot speakers (usually Celestion) to the Ashdown speakers. So I would probably pair an ABM head with a Trace Elliot 1x15 or 2x10.

Anything up to 11lbs is doable for me without issue. As said above balance is more important to me than weight. Yeah, I have a Sadowsky and it is very very light (just under 8lbs). I have an old EB3 too and it is completely unbalanced and feels like a lead weight, but at least it looks cool.

We discussed it a while ago when it was announced at NAMM. The price is pretty damn high but I suppose it is a premium price for a premium piece of gear.

Any one of the Walkabout, Big Block 750, Trace Elliot V6 or EBS Fafner. I used to have an M6 but I found it to be too ‘clean’ sounding. I already had the Fafner and V6 which also have massive clean headroom so I sold the M6 and bought the Big Block which has less clean headroom and a built in rock grunt tone. I love it and the overdrive feature is brilliant once you set the levels correctly. I have never tried the Prodigy/Strategy amps. In terms of features though they look exceptional.

Those Powerhouse cabs are brilliant but really heavy. Two 4x10s is a great idea though. I have the 6x10 which really tests my strength limitations when loading into my car.

Walkabout user here (the 15 combo rather than the 12 combo). Rather than an extension cabinet, I would just get a larger cabinet like a 4x10 or 2x12. A larger cabinet makes a big difference, so long it has a decent power rating and the speaker sensitivity is decent. It takes about two minutes to remove the head from the combo. Finding a matching 12 inch Mesa Scout Radiator cabinet can be difficult (and expensive). Finding a separate, larger cabinet will be a lot easier. I have a Mesa 6x10 which is complete overkill, however when I run that with the Walkabout I never run into problems of not being loud enough. However, an 800 watt class D amp through a Barefaced 2x12 will be 'louder' and more portable than the Walkabout plus big cab set up. So if your set up needs to be incredibly loud, have tonnes of clean headroom and be very portable then the Walkabout is maybe not the ideal amp.

I don’t watch all of his content but Nathan Navarro is a really good player in my opinion. He also does not have an overly clickbait presentation style which I appreciate. A lot of his content is just gear demos though so there really isn’t any instructional or teaching content. That said though I have definitely stolen a few of his licks as warm up exercises. Really though I just like to watch gear demos rather than technique or ‘how to play X’ videos. So for that I pretty much just watch Dood’s videos and the Basstheworld channel.

Just trying it out, I definitely believe that the blue LED really adds greater presence to the mids compared to the standard red filament bulb...

Done!

I think that the Mesa Powerhouse 1000/1200 cab had the same issue. With a proper crossover the set up would be brilliant. I just bought the Trace set up before I knew anything about phasing or crossovers (I was 21 and this was pre-Basschat for me). Trace Elliot themselves were still doing the '10s for highs and 15s for lows' stuff in the their suggested set ups in the promotional material.

Okay, I have never used this cab. However I did gig with the separate 2x10 and 1x15 cabinets from the same Peavey-era line for about 7-8 years from 2008-2015. So basically the same cab as separates. I considered this cabinet but decided on getting two different cabs so I could have a 'big' and 'small' set up as sometimes (well, a lot of times) the full stack was over the top. Pros: - the Celestion speakers are pretty damn good. In terms of sound, I would say that they are definitely 'rock' cabinets in terms of voicing. - despite the 'Trace Elliot gear is really heavy' reputation, these cabs are very easy to move around compared with older lines. Yes the 1015h will have a bit of weight, but it will be lighter than an old Ampeg 6x10 or 4x10HLF and easier to move. - it looks cool. Cons: - there isn't a cross over. So despite the old '10s for highs and 15 for lows' logic, unless you have a crossover you are actually running '10s for everything and the 15 for everything'. The resulting phasing issues sometimes meant the sound on stage would differ depending on where I stood and could sound dramatically different venue to venue. - because of the point above, at high volumes I found that the 2x10 farted out before the 15 at moderate to high volumes. So I had a 900 watt 'stack', but it really didn't cope with a high output amp (EBS Fafner or Trace V6) on very loud gigs. I found that running the big 15 on its own actually sounded better than the stack, so sold the 2x10 eventually. - I don't think that the Peavey era stuff has the same 'bullet proof' construction of the old Trace stuff. It is solid stuff, but I had a few loose screws over the years and the speaker cones were not properly installed into the baskets when I bought the 2x10 (maybe something happened in transit). Nothing major though. I still gig with the 1x15 cab, which is going on 12 years without any issues. At a bargain price, you really can't go wrong.

Pearl Jam Binaural 14 year old me thought 'meh' in first listen, in that 'how could the band that did Ten end up doing this?'. On reflection I actually really like it. Baroness - Blue Album I loved Red Album in that it mixed 1970s prog, some Americana folk and just straight up Neorosis sludge. The Blue album seemed to me to be a step back in creative and production terms at the time. The guitar tones seemed overly fuzzy and the drum sound just seems a bit flat. On reflection though, I really like the songs on this album and the way it flows from beginning to end. I'm also scared to say this but...Load by Metallica. This is the album where Metallica stopped being a 'metal' band, and started being an alt-rock, classic rock band. I just thought it was naff when I first bought it when I was 12-13. However, now I think that there are some really good tracks on this album and that there is a really good ten track album hidden amongst the 80 minutes of material on the CD. In terms of 'non-rock' stuff, my wife really likes Kelly Clarkson of American Idol fame. Honestly, I quite like her voice at this point. I hear her more than I would like but I have a pro quid pro agreement with my wife of 'no aggressive doom music' in the house in exchange for 'no Jessie J' in the house. Accordingly, I will continue to mildly enjoy Kelly Clarkson, Ed Sheeran and Sia and other singers she likes.

Really sad news. Never played a Lull but those T4 and T5 models were gorgeous.

I have to do that at the best of times!