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Yup, I did this on one a couple of years ago. Not hard to do - one advantage of the original finish is that it's relatively easy to remove when you want to I refinished mine in Tru-Oil - another relatively fragile finish, but one that can easily be refinished again... Upside was the dark brown which I didn't like much is just a stain, and the body underneath was a much nicer, lighter colour, tho not a ton of grain.

I concur with Lewis' comments. Unless you're a part-time powerlifter, a quick question about the weight could be revealing - it can vary a lot: I had a 78 that was pushing 12lbs...

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1476191309' post='3152123'] ...be grateful you're not a ... tuba player! [/quote] Every single day. Not for nothing is the phrase "She's with the tuba player" one of the rarest ever heard...

Don't get me started on the Magellan...it's a great head - the two channels and two contours give an awful lot of quick flexibility...anyway, I've a fuller review somewhere on here. I ran my Streamliner with a couple of different Barefaced cabs, and they didn't reign in the bottom end, really - I was running the Bass control almost off a lot of the time, so 2 more 'conventional' 112s would change that...but if the BBT was struggling with the output, it'd have to be a pair of pretty, erm, robust 112s to get significantly more. Which is why I use three for the rock gigs. Huuuge plus point on small stages is that top 12 is a lot nearer my ears (we don't use monitors) - a few times I've taken all three but only plugged the top two in... Unfortunately I've never had Aguilar cabs, so I can't be definitive about them, but I would say that one thing to be wary of is that that nice sound in the shop/house can be a very different thing at high SPL in a band context. One of the most effective cabs I ever had was the Schroeder, and that was almost unpleasantly boxy and barky solo'd, but sat in a rock mix very very well. I ordered off t'internet, so I was kinda lumbered (luckily), but if I'd have tried it in a shop I probably wouldn't have bought it. Which would have been a mistake.

I'd say it all depends on how much you want out of the cabs - if you want to go very loud (which the Streamliner will do), then 2x112s or a 212 might not cover it (unless we're talking Barefaced). I'd suggest that the Streamliner could give two TKS 112 cabs a very hard time at high SPLs. If you're through the PA, just monitoring, and/or not in a rock band with a monster drummer, then the options are more open. I found the Streamliner a very very good head, but quite cab-sensitive, though you're on the right track with cabs which can curb that huge low end. Like Acroxixo, I found it worked very well with a Schroeder 1515L. FWIW, I moved to the Magellan, which is like the Streamliner 2.0 in a lot of ways, with two advantages apropos your OP: it doesn't have that runaway bottom end, whcih makes it more cab-neutral, and it'll run 3 x 8ohm cabs if needed. I run 2 112s in the function band and 3 in the rock band with monster drummer, etc...

Yup, one of my bands is verrrry varied stuff (Luther Vandross to Johnny Cash to GnR to Bruno Marsbar to Muse to all sorts), so I'll change style from fingers to slap to pick as required, and tweak the tone (always on the bass: two pickups and an East URetro does it all) to suit.

Yep, I had a Fusion for a while, and gigged a couple of different cabs with it, and it was very cab-neutral, if that makes sense...

Jetglo 4001, a la Geddy. Got one for my 16th birthday, after some epic paper-rounding Loved it, it was the best thing ever. Naturally I sold it a few years later for a song to get something silly, so I got another a couple of years ago. Hated it.

The Genzler Magellan is about £650, goes down to 2.67 ohms (that'd be three 8 ohms cabs, or a 4 and an 8), and the channels and filters are fantastic for versatility. Uses one of the newer Class D power modules (AFAIK not the older one in the TH500), if that is something you're concerned about, rather than what it actually sounds like, but I can highly recommend it. It's a very very responsive amp, with a 'feel' to the notes. I've a longer review of it on here somewhere.

Arrived, all good. Finally. Never has so much anticipation been created over two quid...

Just for reference, I bought a set of D'Addario NXYLs from Strings Home, they arrived quickly and are excellent. Great price, too: I can recommend them.

Good for Cliff. Probably the first real opportunity to go since the wheels really started to fall off, and he's taken it. Not seen them live (not seen them for a good few years now, and I missed seeing Bon, but I've seen them plenty from 1980 onwards), but I've watched an awful lot of footage of AR fronting the band, and I have to say I think he's bloody awful.

Nothing here...bah...

Yep, the Streamliner is 900w into 4 ohm. I had mine for years, only moved it on for the new Magellan. If he wants a detailed review of the Streamliner, there's an Ed Friedland (Bass Whisperer) video on YT which covers pretty much everything. The EQ can take some getting used to, as it's interactive with itself (if that makes sense), but there's lots of tones in there, from old school valvey to clean and clear (given it's got three EQ valves). The one thing I will say is it's sensitive to cabs - there's tons of bottom end, which can get bloomy with the wrong cabs - IME it suits more bottom-attenuated cabs.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1474373805' post='3137454'] I use my Schroeder 1212L with an Aguilar TH350. At my last gig my set up wasn't going through the PA, however, the 2 guitars were (both 100w valve heads and 212 cabs) and so was some of the drum kit. The Schroeder did not get lost at all, quite the opposite, it could have been doing with backing off the volume. I was relying someone in the audience to gauge my volume, I chose a bass player, which was clearly the wrong choice . The venue was a good enough size, somewhere around the 250 capacity. It did its job well, maybe too well. Schroeders (the earlier ones) don't focus on deep bass tones, but then I've always rolled them out anyway so not a problem for me. At the festival we played before that I used a supplied Hartke LH500 and a Hartke AK410 cab. It was a very nice sound. The volume on the amp up around 2o'clock, so not a lot left. [/quote] One of the first gigs I played with the 1515L was a club, probably 200-250 people, but quite a tight stage. Played the first set, then the sound guy comes up to me to check what channel I'm in, because he's struggling to turn the bass down. I wasn't going through the PA - he'd forgotten to connect the XLR...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1474309107' post='3137022'] Mostly true, but I will vouch for the low-mid bump present in the Schroeder 1212L... yes, it sounds a little nasal when you play solo, but at a real-world gig, in a mix, that becomes very audible lushness and the cab sounds fantastic. A really great cab if you want to be heard live, regardless. Edit: Great, now I've got Schroeder 1212L GAS. [/quote] Yep, I really liked my 1515L, and it sat very well in with a band mix, and that low-mid hump maintained a bass guitar presence [i]especially[/i] against two guitars and keyboards. At higher volumes the PA does the heavy lifting, anyway... I only sold it because I was usually standing on top of it, and it's only a small(ish) cab, so most of it was going at my knees (although it sounded much better out front) - two would have been perfect. I have a very strong hankering for more Schroeder stuff, now, too...

His reworking of the bass line to Labi Siffre's It Must Be Love is just great, tho I notice in the vid he's playing....a Rick? Blimey... It is black and white, though

Like it or not, Beatles fans: Oasis are the new generation(s) singalong-a-classic band. I see it every single gig. Our singer does daytime gigs as a solo man-and-acoustic thing in old people's homes. I asked him was his setlist was for gigs like that. "Mostly the Beatles...goes down well"... The world turns...

As I mentioned earlier, it's a shame how the thread's turned into a Class D bash (again), when the OP's posts don't seem quite as clear-cut as that...he has an issue some of the time with not enough low end, and experiences boominess and wooliness when boosting said bottom end to compensate. Sometimes. Bound to be a power stage issue... Having said that, he'll probably fire up the ABM500 and the problem'll go away...

OK, you seem to have made your mind up it's the amp. Good luck with it, hope you get a result with the cabs.

Who will care for the little ones*? There's devilry afoot, I tell eeee... * Angus and Malcolm.

Aaaaaaagggghhhhh!!! My two quid!!! I'm ruined!!!

The wooly's possibly a different thing, depending on where the rest of the EQ is, but boomy would suggest the stage environment is the issue. I've had to simply forego onstage bottom end before now because of the room - do you go through the PA? While I'm thinking on, I know you said you'd stacked your cabs differently, when you're getting boomy, have you tried lifting them up off the stage?

We've played RAF Leeming several times - first time someone who'd been to a wedding we played, the rest on recommendation after that. Fantastic gigs: always fed and watered, and given accommodation overnight - which was just as well, as the last time we were still playing (kind of...it had a been a long wild night) at about half four in the morning...just in time for the Survivor's Breakfast (complete with Bucks Fizz bar) before going to bed...