Let me backpaddle on this one a little…
I think they have regular weekend deals, but mostly on their extension packs. Still, often anywhere between 20 to 75% down from regular prices.
I am not sure they have many deals on their big core packages though. EZKeys 3 is coming out on May 15 (major overhaul). If you buy EZKeys 2 now, you get the upgrade for “free”. Looks to be an absolutely fantastic songwriting tool.
It was like that on Black Friday too. Haven’t seen a good deal on the core package yet. Good to hear that you like the software!
Added to the not-a-bass camp this week.
CONN Piccolo flute circa 1945
Sterling silver
Cleaned up nice
Pick for size reference
Beauty!! Congrats @John_E !!
So I done a 'ting.
Bought a cheapie drum set. $150, because it’s missing a mounting bolt for one of the toms. I hope to get it replaced easily enough.
That should be fun!! Can’t wait to see what you do with it!
Annoy the family, annoy the neighbors. You know, the usual.
Solid plan. Thump and bump for the win!
Nice one @John_E. I rarely seen the same color silver or otherwise, the piccolo i see are 2 tone. This definitely looks like pure quality.
Snagged a Harley Benton PJ Gotoh p bass in black. The next day I saw they had their 25th anniversary jazz bass with the flamed maple and ss frets for 369$ CAD, but wasn’t able to switch. Oh well, I’ll just buy it next time. Will probably put my GZR pups in it from my other HB as it looks kinda wack and doesn’t make me want to play it. Sooo much time spent looking at things and not practicing, haha.
This looks like a sweet pedal, some of ya’ll probably “need” it and should buy it 
OK so I had a few thoughts/ideas, checking datasheets, reviews etc (even nearly purchased a Markbass 2x10 box that was unfortunately sold to someone else a few hours before getting there) and finally I decided to keep low profile (in terms of size, weight and of course cost) so I’ve just ordered a TC Electronic BC208 (2x8") cab. Not sure if sensitivity and frequency response is correctly stated but will learn at the end of the week (promised to arrive by Wednesday/Thursday) and I have a practice session/gig scheduled which will be the first time for the amp, the C4 and the newcomer together. Fingers crossed it’ll work out in terms of volume, punch and bottom end (and that I won’t screw up the ~16 songs learned from the setlist lately 
).
Based on my calculations:
Therefore my expectation is altogether to be sufficient for supporting my novice skills through the mix of the keyboards, acoustic drum and 1-2 electronic and 1 acoustic (amped) guitars 
I don’t know much about the TC Electronic 2x8" cab, but I can tell you my experience with the TC Electronic BG250… It’s their combo amp that is now discontinued. From what I can tell it seems like they took the head out of that model and it is still around called BH250. Anyway, the accompanying documentation that came with the BG250 was “sparse” at best. I would expect some experimentation. All I know is that everything I’ve ever used from TC Electronic is way louder than I thought it would be. I plugged the BG250 into a buddies’ Ampeg 210 cabinet one night, and we swear it was at least two times louder than it could get on it’s own. I would describe the tone as heavily neutral to very slightly warm. I’m guessing that those 2 8’s will give you plenty of tone, presence, and will sound very good. Enjoy! And please let us know how it turns out for you! I’d love to know.
On a side note-if you want to rattle fillings out of teeth:
I used to play a Trace Eliott half stack plugged into a Klipsch PA sub that had an 18" speaker facing forward and a ported 15" facing the ground (I haven’t seen any more of those speakers in years). The Trace had 2x8" with tweeters and honestly did the brute work of ‘the tone’ that the audience could hear. The Klipsch would make peoples teeth rattle at 50 yards–it was strictly for the rumble. lol. The irony is that I couldn’t even hear the big speakers during the gigs because big speakers move big amounts of air much further away from where I was playing.
Well, that is my biggest (only) fear - if I understand your statement correctly the sensitivity of the 2x8 cab was much lower than the Ampeg 210 thus the louder performance of the same amp via the other cab.
Now in my case same power (250W / 2) will go to the C4 and the BC208 and if the stated sensitivity figures are real (100dB vs 93dB) that is over 4x different generated sound. So indeed have to play around with this combination as no experience was found during my research - I expect some improvement anyhow (now 8Ohm - half power going to C4 alone, when new cab comes then altogether 4 Ohm will mean still half power to C4 but other half to the BC208 and that should contribute to some additional sound, especially with doubling the surface area)… But fingers crossed that there’s some issue with stated sensitivities.
Most studies/experiences stated that in most case the values are provided at ONE frequency (usually 1kHz) and that would mean nothing for most bass tones (as A string 3rd fret would be C2 = 65.4Hz, 1kHz is 4 octaves higher, not even on my fretboard I assume 
) and I have no information on the sensitivity difference around ~40-400Hz range (open E string - 24th fret of G string). I mean if I don’t read frequencies all wrong
Finally arrived.
Spark GO. It’s pretty small but surprisingly loud and clean. I tried a few guitar tones and bass tones this is every bit of any Spark I own. Kudos PositiveGrids.
@Al1885 would this be a good choice for a portable practice amp for super small jam sessions? Something like for a small get-together at a local park? No drummers but a couple of guys on acoustic guitars kind of thing. Thanks for your observations/thoughts.
Absolutely @buzzroberts I think acoustic guitar would not over power this little amp. It’s louder than he blackstar mini amp much cleaner as well. You also have all of the effects you want. If you want something portable and louder the. Get the mini.
I can see the guitar people would love this.
Thank you! You also just saved me from making a mistake, I was also wondering about that Blackstar mini, I can see I’m not going to want that one for sure. I’m looking for a clean tone.
Blackstar is not bad but it doesn’t have loud enough usable tone, it can be loud just not as clean. It’s great for quiet practice when everyone is sleeping, lol.
I think the Spark series really cover the practice sector well. Excellent app and tone makers.
I use mine when I’m on work calls.
