I have finally succumbed to the small rig vibe.

[DiMarco]

This rig is arriving next week, standing about 114cm tall.

I should tell you my other two rigs are a Trace RAH600SMX with an SWR Henry the 8x8 cab, and a Trace Hexa Valve with Barefaced Big Twin II.
The main reason for the small rig is I don't see any bigger venues in the near future and play small jamsessions and in-house parties more.
I went for as much utility value as possible hence the TC head with all its bells & whistles.

Wonder how it will stack up to the bigger rigs. Tonewise I will probably be losing quite some heft and warmth I'm afraid.

 

Edited December 26, 2020 by DiMarco

[DiMarco]

*I also own a Trace Elf mini amp, but that compresses the living **** out of my signal when it needs to deliver more watts than it was intended to.

[Chienmortbb]

Too much amp overhang for my liking lol. 

[DiMarco]

15 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

Too much amp overhang for my liking lol. 

Oh come on! 😁

[Chienmortbb]

I was joking.

[machinehead]

That looks good.  I love small rigs too.  My small rig is a Quilter BB800 with a Barefaced one10, or a pair of one10s if I'm playing a stadium. 😉

Frank.

[TheGreek]

11 hours ago, DiMarco said:

Tonewise I will probably be losing quite some heft and warmth I'm afraid.

That's right...don't sell the big stuff.

[DiMarco]

1 hour ago, TheGreek said:

That's right...don't sell the big stuff.

No worries. My Hexa Valve is the holy grail of amps. I will never let that go.

[DiMarco]

Yay! Tomorrow the cabs arrive. Amp later this week I hope.

[Alec]

My RH450 is a better fit on my Genz Benz STL-10T.

I love the fact that when I'm out and about with my bass, amp & cab, the heaviest item is the bass....

Edited December 29, 2020 by Alec

[machinehead]

1 hour ago, Alec said:

My RH450 is a better fit on my Genz Benz STL-10T.

I love the fact that when I'm out and about with my bass, amp & cab, the heaviest item is the bass....

My setup for smaller pub gigs is a Quilter BB800, a Barefaced one10 and a Steinberger Spirit XT2 bass.  I don't think I could go any more compact.

Frank.

[DiMarco]

I owned a One10 but sold it. Just wasn't loud enough. These T-E cabs are really nice though.
More top end then the One10 and the lows are great too. So far loving them!

Now I only need that RH750 to arrive - The Elf does run out of headroom pretty quickly.

Edited December 29, 2020 by DiMarco
Multiple typos

[Woodwind]

1 hour ago, DiMarco said:

 

on a tangent what bass is that? Viscount? Vincent?

Looks interesting

[DiMarco]

 

15 hours ago, Woodwind said:

on a tangent what bass is that? Viscount? Vincent?

Looks interesting

Vincent. I had it built by my specs. Passive, bridge pickup is switched single/single/parallel/series with the three jaguar style switches. Slanted neck pickup for more even bottom end across the strings. Lacquered bubinga fretboard because I love Rics.

Meanwhile I received the new amp for this stack. It sounds very tight, solid and warm.
"Tube tone" on the amp is a bs dial though, I see no use for that. The Spectracomp on the other hand is really nice.

Here's some closeup pics of that Vincent bass:

Edited December 30, 2020 by DiMarco
Always typos

[DiMarco]

Bass lessons for the daughter. How cool is this setup?

[40hz]

@DiMarco Lovely rig!!

I've been long thinking about buying two of those TE cabs also for use with my TC BH550. How loud/low can they really get? Is there much punch to the set up? What about high end (these are tweeterless as I understand?) 

Edited January 28, 2021 by 40hz

[DiMarco]

On 28/01/2021 at 09:46, 40hz said:

@DiMarco Lovely rig!!

I've been long thinking about buying two of those TE cabs also for use with my TC BH550. How loud/low can they really get? Is there much punch to the set up? What about high end (these are tweeterless as I understand?) 

Surprisingly loud, but I yet have to test them properly in a live situation. With the lockdown going on I haven't really had the chance to use them in the band yet- haven't practiced in over a month now.
That said, at the local jamsession where there's two guitar combos and a drummer, usually a sax and keyboards too my old SWR 2x10" can hold its own just fine so I expect two 2x8" of this quality to be more then sufficient in that setting. On a bigger venue I will use the Barefaced 2x12" which is insanely loud.

I play in a punkrock band where I have to compete with two 100w Marshall stacks and a hard hitting drummer so it remains to be seen if I can use the 2x8" cabs in that setting. But I mainly bought this small footprint rig for situations other then the group of overly noisy maniacs I call my band. 😁For the band I have a Trace Elliot RAH600SMX, Hexa Valve and an Ampeg SVT-4 Pro.

 

Edited February 1, 2021 by DiMarco

[DiMarco]

Here's a part-of-the-family pic. The RAH600SMX and SWR Henry the 8x8 cab are in rehearsal room.