@deej @tv1010101 How do we redeem them in the shop? That is the question. If we can’t use them, what’s the point of them? 

@boo

tbh, I’m not too bothered about them!  Just think, every hero point could be a lentil ...

Or socks...

I know you can get free stuff but I’d rather support the Bailey clan...

@tv1010101 @deej Yep, I would gladly gift my points to the cause, lentils and socks are essential. 

There is another function on here I’m trying to suss out but it doesn’t appear to do anything. There are some options along the bottom of each of our thread comment, one of them says “Gift points”. Does this mean I could pass on some points to someone else? I’ve just tried it with you two but nothing happens. 

@boo - indeed, the gift points button doesn't seem to do anything now.

The reply and quote buttons sort of work, if not in the way you might assume.  Like obviously works!  Edit is non-functional, and I guess that the site admin will get an alert if we report anything.

I guess that the site admin will get an alert if we report anything.

@tv101 I might click “Report” and say that only half the displayed functions don’t work! Hahaha...... 

@boo

I might click “Report” and say that only half the displayed functions don’t work! Hahaha.....

Then you lose 100 points ....

😆

Then you lose 100 points ....

@tv101 That’s a very good point. 🤣

I’ve just tried it with you two but nothing happens. 

It’s the thought that counts @boo 👍🏻

Add issues here ?

https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/pluckers-paradise/website-issues-log/

@marcel very nice!

@clinton It's a great amp and a wonderful cab.

I chose this cab with my ears. A couple of years ago I was attending a gathering of bass players where there was a blind test of cabs. One bass, one clean amp and five different cabs behind a black screen. Different brands and different speaker configurations (4x10, 2x12, 1x115 etc.). They all sounded great but I liked the sound of one in particular. When the black screen was removed it revealed that the one I liked most was the smallest of the five. And I was not the only one who couldn’t believe that this tiny cab sounded so powerful and clean. And a clean sound, no coloring from the amp, is what I want. I know that a lot of bass players, especially rock bassists like Ampeg amps but I don't like the wolly sound of them. It took me some time to get the pennies to buy the AA cab (they are quite expensive) but I've not regretted it for a second. Not even a nanosecond.

@marcel I dig it! 

Part of the rig....

https://flic.kr/p/2jN59dz

The Laney IRT-X is a full range flat response powered cab.  It has an 8” low end speaker and a horn.  The amp can deliver 200 Watts so that you don’t get any distortion from the cab. I have two of these cabs - one in shot and the other a few feet to the left...

The AX8 does effects, amps and speakers - I think is sounds brilliant.  

I bought the AX8 from eBay - it hadn’t been opened and I got it for a good price - the two cabs again came from eBay but were used and a very good price and in really good condition.   When I sold off the pedals and amp I still had money in the bank, well I did until I bought my thickness sander.....

Forgot to say it sounds good quiet and loud and loud makes your fillings rattle, as well as the doors and windows.

As I don't have too many amps (despite forgetting about the ones that I had!), another one turned up yesterday.

Despite having a few, none of them are proper valve amps - they're all transistor amps with various degrees of modelling built into them.  I generally have them set to crunchy/rocky tones and just plug a guitar in and make noise.  I barely even use pedals/effects.

The one that arrived yesterday is a Fender Blues Junior III.  Lots of valves, and lots of clean Fendery tones.  And quite a lots of volume too (way louder than I expected).

At first I thought "hmmmm, wrong amp, too clean".  I could get it to crunch, but that was by keeping the master vol way way down (and it gets very loud with just a small nudge of the master volume).

But then I played with it some more.   And noticed that it responds far more.  By which I mean that the tone coming out of the amp varies a lot more as I change my style of playing, pickups, different vol/tone settings, etc.  It's far more responsive to changes in input.

Then I put one of my (few) pedals in front of it - an overdrive-y thing - and, wow, what a difference.  I'd used that pedal before and - tbh - wondered what all the fuss was about.  It was OK, but nothing like the hype around it.  But, that was into my old tranny, set-up-for-crunch-as-standard, amp.  Into the clean valve amp, the pedal really made a huge difference to the sound coming out of the amp, and the controls on the pedal all clearly did something too.

In all my years of playing, I've never really had that realisation!

Hi everyone.

Mark & Carol hooked me up with Barry Vyse (Vyse amps) and I have to say I haven't looked back!

Have bagged my self a BlueRock Custom (2ch; 4x 6V6) and an AC15 Clone (EF86 only). He also built me a 2x12 to match the BlueRock.

Barry, however, is noted as running a certain Hammersmith factory and he helped define the sound of a generation with making the KT66 (think Marshall Bluesbreaker). So he's currently building me a JTM45 Mk1 🙂 And he's also finishing off a 5W EL84 combo. I also have a Ceriatone C-Wreck that's getting a head cabinet built from a reclaimed French Oak table.

This is a damn rabbit hole!

Just hope the kids take this stuff up as they'll be inheriting it!

Picture is the AC15 and BlueRock in a Wet(BlueRock)/Dry(AC15) setup into the 2x12.

Cheers.

That's an impressive array of amps @rashdown_online

Now, if only you had a really good guitar to play hrough them all ...