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The calculated 5/800w RMS figures for this amp (or even, if you like impressing your friends with stupidly big numbers '2000w Peak') will be loud enough to damage your hearing on a gig, especially with a cab(s) with good sensitivity, which will get the maximum SPL out of those watts. I gig with a 300w amp (having owned 5-800w amps in the past) and a Barefaced cab which has good sensitivity, and it's at least as 'loud', and plenty loud enough for a two-guitar, Marshall 412 rock band with a shed-building drummer. I'd still be interested in hearing of any reputable bass amp manufacturers who use Peak power ratings as their sole sales figures. That's historically been the preserve of Tandy, Amstrad and the shonkier end of the amp market.

One word of caution which has nothing to do with logistics or any such dull practicalities: when auditioning singers, always bear in mind that on the self-awareness scale of Confidently Realistic to Barkingly Delusional, you're looking at a role which is even more prone to the latter the lead guitards... Don't forget to record and share the more a*se-clenching bits...anonymously, of course... 🙂

Or a medley of In Dulce Jubilo and Kevin Bloody Wilson's Oi Santa Claus You Cnut? That'll keep the punters on their toes... 🙂

Yep, I've done exactly the same - the maroon hoohah comes of very easily (I sanded it), and I think they look much nicer without. I Tru-oiled mine.

It'll probably help Andertons shift some £149 basses... "I'm after a new bass" "What's your budget?" "Anywhere from £149 to £7000" Said nobody, ever. 😐

If appearances weren't everything then they might've designed something different to the Streamliner, but they didn't. They made an amp with the same (nearly) layout and same concept and whoops, it looks the same. A better analogy from the same company would be a BDI21. I've got one of them, and it does the job. At about a quarter of the price of a Sansamp. Interestingly, it doesn't look the same. Perhaps they were a bit more worried about Tech21 knocking on their door than the soon-to-be-defunct GB...

Well, although we've established it's either my face or my talent, there might be a third reason: T'Th'Implacable North; "That Jimmy Henricks fella..." "Yeah?" "He's not too bad, is he?" "S'pose not. D'you want another slice of whippet?" "Aye, grand"

We've already heard it isn't. For better or worse.

Similar appearance? Other than the comp, it's pretty much identical in concept, format and layout to the Streamliner, even down to the 220/600/2.5 mid frequencies. Pfffft. It's definitely a cheap version of the Streamliner, which is a great amp, and if it's half as good at a third of the (original) price, then it'll be worth it.

Nobody has ever, ever complemented me on my tone. Or playing. It must be my face. Or my lack of talent. It's probably my face. Hopefully. They have, however, complemented me on the quality of the band(s), and that's what counts to me. 😀

Having listened to John Deacon's isolated bass tone in another thread, this can also work in the opposite direction, too...

Playing bass in a band makes me happy, bottom line. If I don't like how I sound, I'm not happy, and that leaks into how I play. When I use backline, the amp and cab are a practical compromise between how I want to sound and what is practical for me to gig with (I'm never gonna own another 810 or 70lb all-valve head, for example) and yeah, I've bought lots of gear to get to this point, but then again I've sold anything which didn't work. Basses are a completely different thing to me: they're things of beauty in the eye of the beholder, and I'll pay whatever I can afford for something I consider beautiful in look and feel. Like Shukers. Everyone else can, in the words of Bungedit Din: Fakir. Off. 😀

This. I have three, and I've owned three more. Given the choice of literally any bass, I'd take its equivalent budget to Jon instead.

I enjoyed that - I've used BF cabs for years now - a couple of Compacts, then a Compact & Midget pair, then a Super 12, then a Big Baby II (the only one I didn't really get on with), now a Super Twin and a 'spare' Compact. The Super Twin's going nowhere. 😁

I had two failures with the left-hand IEM of an ACS single-driver pair (entry-level, but my tinnitus isn't great, and I'm working to budgets), and it also turned out they'd cast them to the wrong impressions. That's the bad...the good is they remoulded them very quickly to a pair of Emotions, and so far I'm a happy camper.

A shameless serial snurgler... Actually, I think he might have that on his calling card...

The tangy aroma of forty years of Depsweat? I think I'll pass...

My point exactly. Apart from the smell, possibly, but hey, as long as you're not doing it in the street and frightening the horses... Any instrument can be anything from a decorative item, to a sentimental one, to a status symbol, to a simple tool*, to something to be sniffed in private...as I say, you pays yer money... * Shush at the back...

There's a fundamental difference between owning an instrument and playing one; the emphasis can be weighted heavily either way...YOB basses are an ideal example.

Not to me it doesn't, and it's my money I'm spending.

I forgot my in-ears for the gig on Friday, and to make things worse it was a big pub so louder than usual. To make it worse I was having to listen to the PA top next to me to be able to hear anything I was doing. Horrible. Saturday was a blessed relief. Once you get in-ears right, especially if you have any level of tinnitus (and let's face it, as stated above, an awful lot of us do), then not having them makes you wonder how you got on without them. I also have ACS attenuators, and yes, it sounds different (but nowhere near as bad as generic earplugs) and yes, you lose some of that immediacy of sound, but it's still better than permanently ringing ears...the best advice I've read was to put them in early - like while you're setting up - so that you get used to the reduction in sound levels before you start playing. That way, it doesn't sound like the music's being neutered.

I've had mine for years now, and it's withstood the ravages of GAS-based changes, and it's the only non-Shuker gigging bass I have. Which is saying a lot, trust me... Having said that, it's got the P-Tone pickup in it, and a John East U-Retro, too, so it's kinda an ABZ4+ Oh, and it weighs a sniff over 7.5lbs, and is probably the most resonant bass I have.

The Streamliner (to which this amp bears a suspiciously close resemblance, at least externally) had a very warm tone, which I'm putting down to the valve(s) in the preamp. IMHO, YMMV, etc, etc, Unfortunately, I have no experience of the Bugera...

That Peak Power thing is a bit like Daewoo saying their Matiz will do 122mph, because that's the terminal velocity in air of an object falling off a 1500ft cliff...

Three-gig grueller this end, not helped by the middle gig being a little further away than where we expecting. BL has previous as long as an orangutan's arm on this front*, this time it was a complete inability to interpret postcodes: "It's in Leeds, it's only 40 miles away" (we're coming from North Manchester) "What's the postcode?" "It's LE15" "That's a Leicester postcode. Leeds is LS." "Oh." "That's pushing 150 miles." "Oh." You can imagine the rest of the conversation... Anyway, as luck would have it, it was a small verrrry posh wedding reception with no influx of evening guests, so they'd all be on their hind legs since mid-morning. Consequentially they all drooped badly by ten, and we packed up in an empty room not long afterwards and were on the road for eleven... * See "The New Forest...it's near Stoke, isn't it?" from a previous rant/post somewhere...