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Badass! Nice work 😊

Awesome fun. Katy Hurt and band opened the new south coast “Buck’n’Bull” pop up country and western themed night at Canvas in Bournemouth. Packed crowd all well up for it, and out of the ~350 strong crowd a fair percentage knew all the words to all Katy’s songs which was ace. It was fecking loud but that aside we had a blast 🤠

Thankfully my bank balance will not allow a purchase unless I sell things. Not sure I have anything I want to sell at the moment, unless anyone needs a kidney?

That being said I can’t find it now… where’s it gone??? There’s this one though:

I almost survived last year. I see no reason why this year can’t be that one step better 🤓 (Best not to mention I’m in Bournemouth this weekend so will be heading to Absolute Music to try out the Sandberg Lionel they have on sale…..)

Think that Jake is on here for less

Found it: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/trace-elliot-design.1521151/page-8#post-26263258 Both the TE and the MiniMega use Peavey proprietary design, based on the IPR series; not ICE. Fred also confirms the TE is in no way a rebadged MiniMega, it is its own design outright (incl power amp and power supply)

The power section isn’t ICE, it’s based on a Peavey IPR power amp I think? Happy to be told I’m wrong but I’m sure that’s what Fred @ Peavey said on Talkbass

Think I might have sussed the compressor. Huzzah!

It gives us an excuse to play if nothing else 😎 And I can only imagine how this works with a Big Twin given its affinity with the Super Twin!

@JGSpector that’s similar to where I run the gain - good to know ref the comp settings!

Great review! Thoroughly agree about the gig bag, the rubber handle protector on mine has already started falling apart so that’s annoying. I run mine through one or two Barefaced Two10s, and recently like you @JGSpector bought a Super Twin. Took a bit of dialling in as I was used to the Barefaced Tens but now I’m there… my word. Levelling a city block indeed! You mentioned an input level LED but I’m not sure it does have one? My ex-demo one certainly doesn’t… Doesn’t really bother me though, it seems to have oodles of input headroom so it’s not an issue. I’ve found the amp to be a perfect platform for effects - it seems to make everything just sound great, whatever goes in (maybe except my playing haha). I need to play around with the compressor more as I’ve not quite dialled that in yet - will try your suggestions. I’ve found the comp is affected greatly by the input gain (understandably) so just need to get a better handle on the interaction. One for Saturday afternoon 😃

I’ve had a mixed bag of experiences with them but most recent was a secondhand Barefaced Super Twin. Bought on a whim on night last December when I was home alone and unsupervised, arrived less than 48 hours later well packed and with a nice hand written note on the box. (Dubious idea that - advertising the contents! But a nice touch)

That white Scarab…. One day I will have enough money to persuade you to part with it 😄

I’m in!

I was visiting my sister earlier this year and went there with my son, with the express intention of trying a couple of basses and buying him some drum hardware. As has already been mentioned, the “in stock” basses were in the warehouse, not the store, so it screwed that part of the plan. We then went to the screens to order the drum hardware (it feels like Argos in that respect!) and they couldn’t find the very item I had loaded on my phone clearly stating in stock. It couldn’t even find the page for it. Daft. Thankfully they have people who are good at pretending you’re not there unless you make a point of interrupting them after waiting 5 minutes for acknowledgement of existence and we ended up getting what we had gone there to get. So…. Mixed bag as a shop. Probably more set up to be an online resource?

Does the Eden sound good? If so maybe you can find two 8 ohm versions of that cab, assuming Eden made them of course…?

What is it about the can that makes it not right? Can prob point you at other options with that info

Got a great pic of MiniMert with that at the London Bass Guitar show in 2018 😎 In terms of backups I always take a spare bass and a spare amp these days. Sometimes the second bass gets an airing but depends on my mood and songs in the set etc 🤓

Pics or it didn’t happen 😃

The name of the band - thankfully I don’t have to live up to that name or there’d be no-one in the pub 🤣 The white bass is an ACG TKO Classic - quite the beast of an instrument. 30.5” scale, limba body with figured ash top, ash neck with rock lite “ebony” fingerboard. ACG pickups styled on a J and a P, passive volume tone 4 way selector switch (J, both parallel, both series, P). It’s a rock machine!

Loud (possibly too loud…) Lots of drunk people Fun. Depping for @Graham again 🤓 First gig with my (new to me) Super Twin, it did not disappoint. I still need more time to tweak the EQs in my HX preamps to suit the difference between this and my Two10 cabs but it sounded pretty good (from where I was standing…) Had one punter come take a closer look at my board and rig but he disappeared so no idea what he actually thought 😆 Home for a rest before the madness of Christmas… EDIT TO ADD: I didn’t play great the whole night. Some of the songs seems to get stuck under my fingers for some reason. It was the first time I’d played Treasure (Bruno Mars) and was looking forward to it but played it like a turnip 🤦🏼‍♂️

Ooooft, that is sexy 😍