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Trivia: I think I read once that Mani said it was a riff he'd heard during the recording sessions for The Second Coming, so was an idea Squire had in his pocket for a while - would be interesting to know if that's true. Either way, great riff, with an interesting transposition when it changes key over the outro.
BTW...not trying to change your mind here. If you don't like it, you don't like it.
https://i.imgur.com/H6a3qhm.jpg
Well, I just picked one up locally this afternoon for £650. It's pretty much everything I hoped it would be. Sounds fantastic, as new condition and looks gorgeous. Bond theme & Portishead - pretty much all I've played on it so far. What fun though!
Doubt I'll ever play it in anger but at home it's perfect on the 0.5/0.2w settings, depending how much drive you give it.
I've swapped in an Ipswich made Celestion V30 and it sounds GREAT!!! The hardness I was hearing at gigs is gone and drive pedals sound soft in the Vibrato channel. My only worry is that the Tonemaster Deluxe power amp is 100W and the V30 speaker is 60W. I think the power amp is over-engineered for clean headroom and does not actually deliver 100W RMS. That said, I attenuate to 15W anyway - playing at the "22W" setting makes my band mates complain.
Interesting combination though - I don’t normally like V30s with most Fender amps, and I’m surprised it’s less ‘hard’ sounding than the stock speaker, even if it’s a well-broken-in UK one. The ones I had in my Mesa Trem-o-verb sounded fantastic on the clean channel with pedals as well as the overdrive too - I’ve never thought of the V30 as a bright speaker as some people do, for me the top-end is actually quite dark, the ‘edge’ is in the upper mids, not the treble.
"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 get a way better sound from it than any other amp modeller I’ve tried.
Here’s two videos I did this week with it, every instrument running through it apart from acoustic.
https://youtu.be/_82jM6HCMRU