[QUOTE=eriatarka;13874403]You know amps do have EQs, right?[/QUOTE]

why woulden't you want tone knobs on your bass?

cos its not needed, and if you have a good amp, you should be able to modify the tone to your liking anyway

[QUOTE=fallen angel2121;7642412]Also own the amp, and I'd urge you to stop before you buy it as a giggable amp. Its a well good amp, but it simply won't do for gigs. Small ones it might just handle, but as soon as you want to go any bigger then you'll need something else as it just won't go high and clarified enough at the same time. If you're gigging somewhere with a well good PA then thats OK 'cos of the preamp out/DI out, but if you want to gig with this alone I'd reccomend the 300W head or the new 180 watt version which is coming out at some point in the near future.

Fallen Angel[/QUOTE]

What Fallen Angel says is pretty true... 120w can be a bit lacking in kick for PA-less gigs. I have the 180w version of the amp we're talking about... a BXL180, I think? Which I feel can cut the mustard at gigs. The 300w version of this combo is (in the UK at least) only around £40 more expensive than the 180w version, so if you can afford it, I'd be recommending the 300w. The 180 can pull it off (as I've found out), but I can imagine a 120w could be in trouble.

However, one thing I have to say about this amp... it's indestructable... or so it seems

Indestructible... lol

Well i did just pick up a mark bass from ebay, which i didn't even really mean to do. They tend to go for £350-400 2nd hand here but this one had a reserve of £200 so i thought i'd see if i could get it cheap since i can't find a pbass for less than £350... funny thing is i'd end up putting in the pick ups (£60) in the mark in a pbass if i'd got one at some point anyway... got the mark for £215 which came as a bit of a shock but i'm really quite happy about it.

Point is i play 'poppunk' (i'll get to that in a second) and i've always wanted a bass sound a lot like marks so this is rather good for me, i don't see having no tone on the bass as a problem, any tone i'll need to change i can do with a half decent amp... frankly i hardly ever bother to touch the tone knobs on any bass but ya i freely admit i'm not a very good bassist in the grand viwe of things... but i've rather damn good at what i do and this bass should get me the sound i want... even then anything better than the crap i have at the moment, it was brought 2nd hand years ago from a friend when she needed money and i thought having a bass about would be fun, it sucks so anything at all would be better. Only downside is the pick guard really, i'd rather it was black than blue really but given the price i've gotten it for i can't bitch to much.

Point is people are snobby ****ers, which is evident in all the 'omg its not punk' debate... 'poppunk' is a name for a type of music now rather than a description. Just like almost anything called 'emo' or 'hardcore' these days is not really 'emo' or 'hardcore'. Blink and bands like them play a music that has its roots way back in punk, it grew out of what people would call "real" poppunk and is now a whole thing of it own... the punk in it is just a name and for the most part says '4 cords, distorted guitar with roots in bands from punk music'. So ya, just a name... i just wish people didn't have to bring it up ever time poppunk gets talked about these days.

But sure i'll stick a real review of it here when i've hand my hands on it for a practices. Have one monday but not sure it will have turned up by then but ah well

Hey hotcod32, you just brought up this "poppunk" vs. "punk" debate.

Get a life loser.

at want point did i argue punk vs poppunk? where did i say one was better than the other? oh wait, i didn't :)

This isn't the place to bring up your lame philosophies about different genres, this is for reviews.

it was already been talked about in the tread and so i commented on it. I didn't bring it up but simply stated what i and most people i know see as a fact and why people whining on and on about 'punk' in 'poppunk' is silly.