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I use a Walkabout with my Supertwin, and it gets every db out of it: I play (sometimes) with two 412/Marshall head guitars in a loud rock band, no PA support, and it's verry loud. I've also used it with an 800w Magellan and at no point have I ever thought it wasn't going to cope. I have no GAS for anything else, and I've had a lot of other cabs.

No time for this...blocked. Seeya.

But THAT reggae came from Manchester. You're verrry fast to label people, aren't you?

Au contraire, my judgemental and proscriptive friend...and you can pack it in with the 'Euros', too...

A Walkabout through a Super Twin goes very, very loud...just sayin... 😀

Exactly - if it's in the contract, everyone knows waaaayyyy upfront, so it's done professionally, and no-one has to tug a forelock to get fed 🙂

Au contraire mon ami: even the most, erm, challenged gait can be morphed into a swagger. Ian Brown, for instance, spent an awful lot of the 90s looking like he could possibly be carrying a week's shopping internally... 🙂

There is a perception, judging by the numbers of Class D sales not general, but some people find them lacking in what has come to be termed around here as 'heft'. There, I said it... 😕🙂

Straight face, confident walk. Worked for Howard Marks. Mostly.

Oooooh look: it's a universal 110/240v power supply, which means one bought in the States would work over here...just sayin... 😁

Well done...I could hear the restraint from here... 😁 I'm sure Class D has a way to go, it's certainly improved over the various generations/iterations I've owned so far, and it'll get better. It's all a matter of degrees, and hinges on people's sensitivity/priorities. See 'Tonewood' or 'Are £3k basses six times better than £500 basses?', or 'Killing rock n roll', etc, for similar boxes of subjective frogs... In general terms, though, I'm finding more and more that the old traditional amp-behind-you-providing-possibly-heft to the back of your legs isn't needed like it used to be, and in fact is detrimental to sound (on and off-stage), even in small pubs. I've still got a small rig (WA/212), but I use it less and less. A pair of in-ears, two tops and a sub* is sooo much more useful if you're gigging as much as I am. And if you're as old as I am... 😕 * We're even considering getting better tops and dropping the sub...

Somebody mentioned Peaveys the other day, and I spent waaaayyyyy too long looking at MkVI heads in a misty-eyed haze... 😕🙂

The newer Class D power modules (the D800, Magellan, etc) are very good, and a different animal from the older ones.

The Walkabout preamp is the best thing about it (it's just enough - I thought the M-Pulse pre was too much), and I don't have any Class D baggage, so this looks very very promising - I like the HPF, too. I'd love to hear/try one, but it's gonna cost as much as a small car, so I can't see that happening for a good while... 😕

Yep: the best bit being 'We just played on...' 😀

My Shukerbird has no Gibson parts in it at all - it started life as a nice Epi body, and that's all that's left amongst the Hipshot, East, Dingwall and Shuker bits. I wouldn't trade it for a Gibson.

We went over to his home town in Italy (Lecce) last year to do some gigs, and I'll never forget the look of head-shaking disappointment on his face when I suggested one afternoon we pop into McDonalds for a quick bite...we didn't go in... 😕🙂

You name it, he doesn't like it...and we've played some very very well-catered weddings...the last but one we played was at a very nice hotel somewhere in Leicestershire, and the food was from the restaurant...I thought lobster and truffle ravioli might raise an eyebrow, but nope...

Oh no, I'm really sorry to hear that, it's a nightmare. Everything crossed for a speedy and safe return.

I've played in an originals band with a BL who wrote (and sang) everything, and was very sure of how he wanted it to sound. He was (and is) a very talented musician on all sorts of instruments, and I loved the songs, so I was happy to play what I was told, how I was told to do it, for a few years at least. A pub covers band, though, is a very different box of frogs, and the OP's guitard sounds like very hard work. It'd have to be a verrrry good band for me to put up with that sort of control freakery...

This. The next day, when my other/better half says 'How was the gig?', the first thing I mention is the food... 😀

Don't hate them: they're just making some music. All very talented, yada yada, but didn't do much for me, and though they're playing it 'live', it sounds like it's been put together on a laptop. Nice P sound, tho...

We have a picky eater in our function band - the drummer is Italian, and has very forthright opinions about English food. Like all picky eaters, we just shrug and ignore him... 🙂 For a wedding gig, we have it in our contract that we are fed and have one drink, and I don't recall any client who has objected. As for the order of buffet access, if the client wants us to go on immediately after the buffet, we politely request we get an early run at the buffet so we're done in time. Again, we've never been refused. The hardest part is maintaining a facial expression of delight when the fifth client in a row announces proudly "We've got a hog roast!" Oh goody... 😕🙂

I had a Peavey Mk, I think VI head, which was my backup head when my SVT went fizzzzzzzz, as it did with distressing regularity, and I preferred the actual sound of the Peavey. If I hadn't have been such a brand tart I'd never have persevered with the SVT... Edit: Just checking my memory and yeah, it was a Mk VI - one of the all-black/grey early ones. Good gravy: it was 250w into 4 ohms...now, I used it in LOUD 2-guitar bands with an 810 fridge and I never even considered the wattage, or difference in wattage: they were both plenty loud enough. You'd expect it from an SVT, but man, those Peavey chaps could squeeze all the noise out of 250w...

Not last night by any means, but one of the more impressive rooms we've played in...yep, that's Concorde 🙂