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Charlie's spot on, said he wanted my bass extender and paid for it immediately. Another excellent BC transaction. Cheers mate. Steve

Not that John needs any more excellent feedback, but it's only fair that he gets the credit for an excellent transaction. we did a deal on his flower power bass and was delivered, supremely packed, in a very short time. One of the best sellers on BC/BW without a doubt. Steve

[i]Features 8/10[/i] Remember, this is a budget small combo. There are the standard bass, mid and treble controls (apparently these are intelligent contouring functions whatever those are), 3.5mm aux in and headphone sockets and balanced line out with pre/post eq switch. A very basic tuner and mute function is also included. In addition there’s the variable Tubedrive effect (think MarkBass VLE) and the TC hyped Toneprint function. This Toneprint facility allows you to select predefined effects patches and upload them to your amp via iPhone/iPad/Android wirelessly or via USB cable from a computer. Sounds a bit complicated but actually you select the patch on your phone from the Toneprint app, press a button, hold the phone close to the guitar pickup and within 5 seconds the patch is loaded. The Toneprint knob then allows the effect to be applied to a greater or lesser extent. The range of effects available is currently flanger, octave, chorus, vibrato, overdrive and compression, with many variations of each. This amplifier retails for around £300. I bought a five month old one for £200. [i]Sound Quality 7/10[/i] I play Fender Precisions and Jazzes, Rickenbackers and a Tanglewood semi acoustic through this. Firstly volume. Let’s not get in to an argument about stated power and whether its 250 watts, 200 watts or 25 watts with some amazing trickery involved. What matters is the volume that you need it to perform at, and the sound quality at that volume. For such a light, cheap and small amp the volume is very good indeed. I also have a Ampeg BA 115HP (stated 220w) and this out performs that combo. I can easily hold my own against a DW thumping manic and two Marshall 4x12 smitten loonies. The sound changes slightly depending on the master volume and sounds best at setting 4 and above. It’s a reasonably tight sound for a 15” driver in a thin cabinet. The Tubedrive is excellent and I found myself playing around with it just for fun. I can get a really good Trace sound out of it. The Toneprint is fun to play with but given you can only have one stored at a time then choosing that one is difficult. The shipped effect is a Chorus, but I found that the compressor, modelled on the one in the RH450/750 is far more practical. [i]Reliability/Build Quality 6/10[/i] Made in China but still fairly new so I’d hope there’s no issues with it so far. Scores are for build quality rather than reliability. It is very light (16kg) and as such does feel a little flimsy. The tolex is thin as are the corner bumpers. I also have a Roland Cube 30 and that feels much more substantial, despite being much smaller. The control panel is recessed nicely and all the operations are on the top, although the power switch is on the rear. The input for the optional three button footswitch (mute, Tubedrive and Toneprint on/off) is also on the top. [i]Customer Support 9/10[/i] I had a RH450 and now have a RH750. I contacted them once about one of the knobs being loose and they sent me some new ones within 48 hours. Other than that, I’ve had no issues with any TC products so far. [i]Overall Rating 7/10[/i] It’s not as nicely designed as the RH heads and RS cabs; in fact it looks a bit bland but you can’t fault the value for money. The sound quality is excellent as is the Tubedrive. The Toneprint is a bit gimmicky and I can’t see myself rushing for my iPhone mid song to switch from overdrive to chorus, however the useable patch for compression is a nice touch and will remain as my default. If there was the option to store a number of different patches it would make it much more useable. Build quality is good overall but doesn’t give that comfort feeling of something you know will stand up to day to day rigours of gigging and rehearsals. The weight is the big plus point here – definitely a one hand carry and a comfortable one at that. The tuner is ok if you play standard tuning and referenced against a Peterson it holds up well and it’s quiet and gets to a decent overall volume. Overall, given what I paid, I think it is a very good amplifier and suits my practice requirements if not a number of my small gigs. If I were to play exclusively though the PA this would be perfect for monitoring. I guess the P3115 Promethean is its closest competitor in terms of price, size and output and if I were buying new I would definitely try both these before deciding.

Morgan Nicholls

It's just what we need. I'm gonna pop round tomorrow to see his new place, best of luck Nick. Steve

How's this one fairing?

How's the weight? Glad you're getting on OK with it! See, no need to have worried!! Steve

Analogman Chorus with deep mod, or EBS Unichorus would be my two recommendations.

Excellent price for a superb cab and it arrived with me exactly 24 hours after payment. Great communication to cap it off - a credit to Basschat marketplace. Cheers Owain. Steve

[quote name='Johnston' post='1227964' date='May 11 2011, 08:07 PM']IIRC all the MIA precisions have the neck plate with the 60th anni logo on it.[/quote] I agree. When Fender did the whole 60th anniversary thing a few years ago they stuck little silver discs on the headstock of all guitars in that year and eBay was full of people trying to flog them as anniversary editions. The real anniversary editions were something else. In the sellers defence, I don't think he's suggesting it's a limited model or anything, he just sort of mentions it in the description. Slightly misleading perhaps at most.

..and likewise sir.

Blademan - you have PM. Peter Train, thanks, you're first in the queue if it doesn't work out. And by the way, I just found it in the garage. It's a MAG300, not a 250, sorry.

Had this hanging around for a few years. Usual carpet covered standard size variety. It works fine and is in good condition with all knobs etc but on the couple of times I've used it at a practice it cuts out for 30 seconds or so after it's been on a while. I don't know what's up with it but I'm sure it's an easy enough fix. I'm moving house in a couple of weeks and can't be bothered to faff around with it, given that I've another five or six amps floating around. Free to whoever wants to collect from north west Cambs (between Huntingdon and Peterborough). If it's still here end of June it's bound for the skip. cheers Steve

Nice one, cheers - gonna try that in the morning! S

I can't say about the 210 Alan, but I use the RS212 with my RH750. With volume on halfway I don't any PA support. I set compressor to 1/3 of the way, tube tone to +2 'dots', back off the bass to -3 'dots', +1 'dot' on the low mids and same on high mids and leave the treble flat. I also have the cab (tweeter off) on a Gramma platform to counter any boomy floors. It did take me a while to find a default setting that I was happy with, and then it's only minor adjustments from there. What were the recommendations from TB? cheers Steve

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='1217182' date='May 2 2011, 08:25 AM']Hope to buy a 750 today - it's the future. Thanks for your review Steve, great to see you gracing the board again.[/quote] Good to hear from you too Alan. If you're successful today I'd be really interested obviously in your thoughts. Cheers S