Merton

Now it's just mirror-imaged

Just picked up an Ashdown 4x10 cab from Andy (acting as broker/courier to get it up to @asingardenof 🤓) - lovely guy, excellent comms, cab as described, Andy even brought along a bass and amp for me to test the cab. Perfect 👍🏻

I think input gain and EQ setting need to be checked.

Thinking more about the compressor, I have the gain set very high following the USB experiments… I am sure that I need more time to experiment with the way the input gain and compressor interact. I also need more time playing with setting the comp pre- and post-EQ. So hold judgement on point 2 for now

Er, is that picture upside down for everyone? 🤣

I’ve had the amp a week now, and whilst I’ve not yet managed to play it outside of my house, I have a few observations: 1. The USB recording output is very quiet. So quiet that I have to max the input gain and master volume to get a suitable signal level. Speaking to a guy at Peavey about this, it may be down to a compromise in the chipset they had to use (supply chain issues) but it’s no real biggie as I have my Ashdown B-Social still. 2. Not sure I’m a fan of the compressor as an always on feature. Even with the controls fully off the sound noticeably thins and loses a bit of fatness. It’s great as an effect though, and I can see it being useful for a couple of songs in my function band. 3. The flat (i.e. EQ centred at noon) tone is lovely. Funnily enough it sounds like an Elf but with much more headroom and power in the low end. I actually found that the Trace nearly flat sounded very similar indeed to the way I have EQ’d my Glockenklang. The Glock is more hifi/transparent with its EQ so I have felt I have to work it to get a bit of character in the basic tone; the Trace has it there already. This of course is a personal preference thing (see the recent thread about amp flat settings!) but it works for me. 4. The fan is probably the second quietest fan I’ve ever had in a bass amp. The quietest being in the Glock - even after a long loud gig you can’t hear it at all. With the Trace there is a whisper of one but that’s nothing compared to the Elf, any Ashdown I’ve ever owned or countless other amps. 5. The preshape really is the old Trace preshape. 6. The foot switch is excellent. Sturdy, solid switches and silent switching within the amplifier. Jury’s out still whether it can replace the Glock in my affections as the big gig amp of choice (I need a few gigs under my belt before that, and the Glock has more versatility vs the Trace with the drive control and voice feature for example) but I’m liking what I’m getting so far.

I have both the Elf and the new TE-1200; I don’t really subscribe to this “it’s not a real Trace” thing. The brand died, Peavey bought it and have done their best to keep the spirit of it with these new toys. The Elf is exceptional, I’ve used it on all sorts of gigs and it’s never let me down. The TE-1200 is like a big f***-off Elf and I can’t imagine I’d ever be lacking in power…

@mortware - what are your EQ settings?

I concur. I will send you one with the new cab @asingardenof 😎

Sorry mate, you’re now banned from here for liking it. We can’t have that now can we 😂 (glad you like it here, we like having you around!)

I haven’t spoken to Martin for a few weeks now as he had other projects to finish off first but I’ll fire him an email later this week to see how he’s getting on

How much are flights to the UK at the moment? 😀

Absolutely! I’ve got two Barefaced Two10 cabs so we can do decent A/Bs with any amp people choose

They really do. So far it seems to prefer passive basses but that just needs a bit of tweaking and I haven’t really got enough time for that right now. It’s a good start, the natural tone is more musical to me than the “EQ at 0” on the Glockenklang but it will take time to work out if that’s just “new amp syndrome” kicking in.

Already had the right fuses ready to go and flicked the switch before doing anything else 🤓

So. MASSIVE thanks to @Russ who has been an absolute legend; I found a B-Stock TE-1200 on Peavey’s ebay page but they’d only ship to the US. Russ kindly took it in for me, and then arranged postage to the UK. I owe him several beers, for here is possibly the first TE-1200 on UK soil (aside from John Taylor’s ones…)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CiYPZg1qYpd/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Cheers fella! Hope the holiday was good

Already done one gig today - a kid’s birthday party with my “rock band for kids”. It was great, and if I’m allowed to share any pics later on I will - short version is it was the kid of a relatively famous drummer so they are understandably nervous of too many pics getting out. Just learning songs for the second one, a pub/club gig in Eastbourne depping for our @Graham again 🤓 (There’s a last minute dep guitarist too, so the setlist has had a slight tweak and that means three songs I’ve never played 😎)

Not that I’m aware of. What I will say is… watch this space 🤓

Think I added myself a few hours ago, just waiting to be approved A few people nearish to me it seems

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No indeed, but in terms of “without EQ influence from the preamp controls” this is the answer