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So we borrowed the little other pub's Hartke bass amp for the gig last night and after much deliberation the bass player is going to stop fannying about with cheap substitutes and drop the cash on a "proper" Gallien Krueger. This one I think.
http://www.gak.co.uk/en/gallien-krueger-mb150s-iii-112/2658?gclid=CP2qs72U-7oCFSoUwwodfngAyQ
Without a PA last night, and because I'm a nice guy, I let the other singer guitar player use this (also borrowed from our regular gig):
http://www.dv247.com/assets/products/84317_l.jpg
Which meant I was stuck with our horrible shit-at-all-trades Laney "PA" which is basically a cheap and nasty keyboard amp with 6 inputs. That sounded so bad that I kept switching between that and an equally horrid little Roland keyboard amp for my guitar and banjo which just distorted horribly before getting anyway near the volume I needed to cut it in a busy Friday night bar. I lost my voice from yelling trying to compensate for the shit PA and cut the crap out of hand bashing the guitar for the same reasons. It was a tough gig.
So! I'm now we've got the bass sorted I'm thinking, fuck getting a PA, we'll get two of those decent little acoustic amps. One for me for for Lucy, we each have our own instrument and vocal going though our own amps. The bass player and accordion player can just lean in for their BVs.
Anyone know 'owt about acoustic amps? That little Trace Eliot is fucking fantastic. They're about a grand to buy new though. I hear nice things about AER but again... VERY expensive. Anyone have any experience?
Cheers.
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