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All things Canadian for Basses?
- Thread starter Bighouse
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Maestro( Fresh Wes)
Bruce Cockburn
The Guess who...Bachman trio Overdrive....Burton Cummings etc
Bruce Cockburn
The Guess who...Bachman trio Overdrive....Burton Cummings etc
Bootsauce (with the fantastic Al Baculis on bass):
How can you mention Robbie Robertson n Daniel Lanois at the same time with.........nickleback
I guess now is when I post up my guitar signed by the Tragically Hip. All the members are on it.
I had forgotten about The Parachute Club. 
And Saga.
Also, Sue Foley (aka "The Ice Queen"), a killer Canadian blues guitarist who splits her time between Canada and Austin, TX.
And Saga.
Also, Sue Foley (aka "The Ice Queen"), a killer Canadian blues guitarist who splits her time between Canada and Austin, TX.
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How wrong were some of us about Traynor amps and cabinets? Back in the day, they were uncool, so we would buy older high maintenance gear before we would use a Traynor. Stupid I'm sure…
To me, Traynor has some okay products but also a few star products.
The Traynor SB 500H and the YBA 200 are both very different amps but they really shine, at least with rock and blues music IMO. I never liked any of their combos or cabs though.
Exactly. I've played through a high-end Traynor bass rig at a sound studio and overall, it sounded pretty great. It's the first and only Traynor that ever has, to my ear. I played through a lower-end Traynor with a 4x10 sitting right beside a Mesa TT-800 with dual 12" cabs and there was no comparison, the Mesa was more flexible and sounded much more present. I tried to mix the Traynor to sound better, I really did... and failed. Granted, the Mesa had a lot more power but we're talking about similar (guitar store) volumes here.
I have an old Traynor Bloc 100W amp, generic head, and its defining characteristic was loud and warm. But in terms of sound, it had next to no functionality. Use pedals or be disappointed. I used to use a Digitech pedal with parametric EQ and fantastic gain/distortion that made it come alive, but my newish Katana 100 would blow the whole thing out of the water (yeah well, it's also 40 years newer).
