[Tony474]

Had two fairly standard gigs this weekend. Saturday night was a church social club with a big rattly hall that was not all that well populated, while last night, Sunday, we were back in a familiar West London pub. Both gigs went well (last night's edged it as the better of the two), but what was interesting to me was that, as an experiment, I used my Tech 21 Trademark 60 instead of the Roland Cube 60 I've been using and praising to the skies recently.

The TM60 is a great amp but, though it sounded sweet enough, in this particular situation of mine it quite definitely lacked a certain something that the Cube 60 has in abundance. Can't identify it exactly but it's a sort of midrange punch and overall balance from the little Roland that just seem to work perfectly for what we're doing. I'm now thinking of buying a second one as a backup - unusually, they're priced quite a lot lower in the UK than in the USA.