My last GAS act : a Yamaha 4x10" cab with Eminence speakers. It used to belong to a jazz club in Paris, and then it has been used by a local metal band for about 10 years. This cab has played hundred, if not thousands of concerts. But it still works perfectly. Very wide bandwith, very clean and pure sounding, close to a FRFR with the tweeter fully engaged. It’s a bit dusty right now but nothing serious.
Also a bit of guitar GAS with this Visual Sound Son of Hyde. This is a heavy distorsion greatly inspired by the Marshall Shred Master, which happens to have been my very first pedal (sold long ago). It sounds very 90’s, in the idea of the Marshall JCM 900’s.
Great sounding pedal, with internal settings for an embedded noise gate and the Bass control. very weird that they did not put the Bass pot on top of the pedal like the other EQ controls. Still a very interesting distorsion.
And finally a Laney Mini Supergroup amp. It’s a 3 watt solid state battery powered amp. This thing sounds way better than expected on the clean channel. The drive channel is way less interesting but still kinda useable. Lovely little toy.
Forgive me Father for I have sinned (I mean serious symptoms of GAS kicked in even though wasn’t really planned, honestly!), for ~200EUR I have just purchased some old fashioned 115+210 Behringer stuff and transported it to rehearsal space. Main driver being lazy to carry amp and Ashdown 112; home I have the RB210 (that’s convenient to carry around and can deliver 500W with the 112 extension), from this point it’s sufficient to only take my bass and good to go. Tested with the Squier 40th Anniversary JB:
I am loving this new bass - great tone, perfect intonation, very comfortable and light. The multiscale fanned frets are nice for my hands, feels more ergonomic to me and movement around the upper frets is a lot easier. I’ll try to get a new cover up in the coming weeks showing it off.