Now the amp is fine, in fact it's just been serviced, power tubes tested fine and still match, went through the preamp tubes substituting each for a known good tube and all good there.
I'm just finding I'm preferring my other amp on it's own. After being without it for a couple weeks while serviced its sound is suddenly unsatisfying in isolation now have it back.
None of the IR presets I dialled in sound good to my ears and have started from scratch.
That being said, I checked it against some YT demos and it sounds right, all the characteristics that's are bugging me are there, but bug me less when I hear it from other people.
Still sounds good as a blend or in a mix I suppose.
Subjective Perception, eh?
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Yes, when you are spoilt for choice its easy to have many love/hate relationships.
My experience when this happens is I get the soldering iron out and end up modding the questionable amp, then end up with two amps that sound the same. so I get the iron out again as I don't need two amps that sound the same.
I would play through a speaker cab and ditch the load box for a bit too so you are comfortable with how the amp should sound with the IR's
For the first time in years I'm down to 1 bass amp. It's very versatile but it won't do every tone I want and I find myself craving everything it can't do.
Most annoying!
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
We get bored easily. We think that something is better. Grass greener. I bought a bad cat instead of a matchless. Two years later I bought a matchless. I still have both. And a morgan. Three amps all the same, rotated when bored. I also have a zvex nano I don't use.
I swapped it for a Trem-o-verb.
I miss mine a bit, but not sure I can justify another one.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I will be honest and say I much prefer the sound of the Gower over the SLO, the SLO was much more compressed, which in isolation sounds good but is more challenging in a mix.
Just play the amp you prefer on the day, it will inspire you more!