Merton

It’s fine. The valve is in the preamp; it’s valve power stages (or, actually, any power stage with an output transformer) which needs a load. This uses MOSFETs so will be fine seeing an infinite impedance.

Mark changed to Markbass about 2 years ago, after a gig in Quebec where his TC head failed (not for the first time by all accounts) and he got whizzed off. He literally emailed Markbass as he flew back to the UK and they had the endorsement sorted within weeks. I know this coz the drummist in my band is the L42 drum tech 🤓

Yep. Mrs Mert has the horses; I just happened to be the wallet to pay for that. And then pay to get it through an MOT. And soon will pay to get the bodywork touched up in various places. Definitely not the best purchase of the year 😅

You know, that’s not a bad shout. It would be better at that than it is at its primary purpose 😬

Best: Worst:

I’ve had the pleasure of playing this recently. It’s exceptional

How is it with active basses? I notice the Andertons website mentions “not suitable for use with active guitar pickups” so wondered if this was an impedance thing? P.S. I’ve been a very happy G30 user for at least 8 years now. Got a little pouch which stops the dodgy battery compartment flying open and keeps the whole unit secure on my strap. But seeing the XU2 has made me ponder a change, as it could offer me a simple chance to slim down my pedalboard 😅

The new Trace Elliot TE-1200, if it ever gets released, has dual band compression on it

Love everything about this

Sounds bang on to me 😀

Never mind the speaker, what’s that bottle of wine like? 😜 Ahem. As ever excellent work and look forward to seeing all the other info appear

Not as bad as the ABM but not as quiet as my Glock…

Haha I saw your same comment on that picture of the new Little Bastard 2N on Facebook 😆

You know your rehearsal rooms! It's a great place isn't it

Nice one! They really are great cabs 🙂

This is the loud rig. It’s really rather a lot better than I am:

My preamp is also my DI box, so it's the end of the chain after the FX. Same as @fretmeisterit is used as a preamp instead of the one on the amp. Or as well as, if I need to tailor the onstage sound differently from the FOH.

Good point, I don’t like that hat either

Zeppelin Symphonic tonight at the Palladium with mini Mert and a couple of friends. The Middlenight Men with The Hot Damn! in Camden on Thursday. It’s been a while, nice to be back on it.

Yep all my Ashdown amps have fans which sound like jet engines taking off. My Glockenklang has a fan so quiet you have to put your ear right up to it to hear it, even after a 3 hour rehearsal. Should be something they can sort by choosing a better fan tbh.

There’s a WT550 in the classifieds at the moment 🤓

Definitely sounds like a DI issue. Email Ashdown, they’ll sort you out

Was there any tonal difference through the DI when you switched the various sections in or out?