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  1. Merton
    Ralph’s had Covid I believe, so probably not been actively on here a while. Have you PM’d him?
  2. Merton
    Good point @Dan Dare - I use my Glock (a Blue Rock, a forerunner of the Steamhammer) with Barefaced Two10 cabs, so more of a coloured tone than the PJBs.
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    The Glock can, you just work the EQ and drive controls and it will do pretty much anything you want. It’s an immense amp, really well thought out. I can’t comment on the Thunderfunk but knowing its lineage I’m sure it has some wonderful versatility
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    Agree. Sometimes I want clean and uncoloured, sometimes I want the amp to impart something extra. In this aspect the Glock can do everything whereas the Trace may be a little more limited … hence no decisions yet
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    I’ve used loads of amps through the years - Ashdown, Eden, Hartke, GK, Trace, Glock… class A/B, D, valve… All have their own tonal tints and hues, the Glock being the most transparent/flat with everything at noon. I’ve found recently that the way I EQ that to my liking creates a tone very very similar to the Trace TE-1200 set “flat”. As @BigRedX says, find the one with the base sound that you like and use that. For me at the moment that seems to be the Trace, but I’m not making a rash decision yet because I’ve spent the last 15 years doing that 😅
  6. Merton
    Will potentially entertain sensible monetary offers, especially if able to collect/meet at the SE Bass Bash on Oct 23rd
  7. Merton
    Thinking “what am I doing all the way up this end of the fretboard?”….
  8. Merton
    The FOR SALE list - please copy and add to it as you see fit: 1. Merton - ACG Mule, chambered short scale fretless, £1600 2. Merton - Warwick Rockboard ISO power supply with lots of different leads, £70 3. Merton, Barefaced One10 with official cover, £300 4. 5.
  9. Merton
    Hopefully you have enough time to still recover but totally understand - hope you get better soon
  10. Merton
    Absolutely. I’ll have my ACG Mule (in the classifieds here already), possibly some other bits too. Do we want to start a list of bits?
  11. Merton
    Magic smoke all the way. You only need one cable from the amp to the cab, the cab will present its 4 ohm load and the amp will be happy.
  12. Merton
    Monster Truck and Those Damn Crows in Islington next week 😊
  13. Merton
    Oh yes. The Uproar. Thanks for the reminder!
  14. Merton
    Indeed - I’ll have at least two amps with me 🤓
  15. Merton
    Did a live video shoot for my new function band, in a barn on a farm. It’s a wedding venue, so not quite as rustic as one may think 😅 Was pretty good; we had a stand-in drummer though because our normal tub thumper was in the hospital with his wife who was giving birth to baby no 2 - we couldn’t really ask him to put us first 😅 First time I’ve used in ears (to avoid too much noise onstage for the audio recording) and I have to say I enjoyed it quite a lot. Still an old school Luddite who likes a rig making noise behind me but the IEMs worked a treat. Not sure I’ll be shelling out big money for any just yet, wait for the gigs to pile up a bit more first…
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    Cheers @stewblack Nothing to be envious of, you have a mighty collection of cool stuff 😎 I have a second Two10 which is awaiting the matching grille and then I’m contemplating a ridiculous set up of one clean rig (Glockenklang Blue Rock plus one Two10) and one effected (what you see above). Number of gigs I’d need this? Probably zero. Number of gigs I’d use it on anyway? More than that 🤣
  17. Merton
    First outing for the TE-1200:
  18. Merton
    This also works! I’m no longer on the GR path, having acquired stupidly powerful Glockenklang and Trace Elliot amps in the last 12 months or so 😬
  19. Merton
    These are great amps. Loud, sound great, very simple to use. Bargainous
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    I bought this on a pretty crazy whim earlier in the summer when I convinced myself I needed a 4 string fretless. I don’t, not in any of my current bands. It has been used at precisely three rehearsals and one gig (for one song…). Alan originally had it installed with a P Retro but I’m a fan of passive basses so he changed this out to volume, tone and pickup coil select (ceramic / both in parallel / both in series / alnico). The battery compartment is still there should you wish to change it back. It is a lovely, lovely bass. Super lightweight, sounds amazing. I just don’t need it and have to be sensible as we head into winter, sorting out the credit card bills before the heating kicks in… The specs: Chambered alder body Stripy ebony top with black binding Maple/mahogany neck Ebony fingerboard with pear wood fretlines 30.5” scale ACG BZ1 pickup Passive with vol/tone/pickup coil select (edit - the switch was active/passive when the P Retro was installed; now it’s a kill switch) Hipshot type A bridge Gotoh resolute tuners Dunlop straplocks Neutrik locking jack socket Strung with La Bella tapewounds TGI gigbag More photos from Alan’s website: https://acguitars.co.uk/project/0438mule4-30-5/ Price wise, commissioning one of these would set you back somewhere in the region of £2.5k I believe; I think a fair price delivered to mainland UK is £1600. Can’t deliver further afield due to that thing we do not name. Not looking for trades at this point thanks. REDUCED TO £1450/£1400 collected
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    Ooh I didn’t realise you’d got a new ABM V! Now I understand why the IV is up for sale 😅 Is there a marked (sonic) difference between them?
  22. Merton
    Black Crowes at Brixton Academy on Monday 😎
  23. Merton
    Ok got a much better grasp of the interaction between the gain and comp settings now and can see that sort of setting being very useful in places, plus found a more sensible “set it and forget it” scenario too. Also used the headphone output today - superb quality. Not a peep of hiss or background noise at all, much like the Glock but absolutely nothing at all like my old Ashdown RM head where I was told “it’s a class D head so there will be noise, use less good headphones”. Does kinda make me wonder …
  24. Merton
    Ooh I like that
  25. Merton
    Agree. They missed a trick there, and I wonder if they'll do an evo version where this is the case...
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