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Back in the old day's I would learn the drum parts then the bass parts then the guitar parts then vocal's

This G & L Bass I traded a guitar for it. I still have a Ampeg 1970 SVT 320 watt head but after my cervical surgery I cant lift it.

So I got a Eden WT800C 27 pounds bridged 880 watts RMS @ 8 ohms and my Bag End Q-4 x 10" 800 Watts RMS peaks to 3400 watts.

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67plexi said:
Back in the old day's I would learn the drum parts then the bass parts then the guitar parts then vocal's

This G & L Bass I traded a guitar for it. I still have a Ampeg 1970 SVT 320 watt head but after my cervical surgery I cant lift it.

So I got a Eden WT800C 27 pounds bridged 880 watts RMS @ 8 ohms and my Bag End Q-4 x 10" 800 Watts RMS peaks to 3400 watts.

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That is a BADASS Bass Amp !!! Bag End enclosures are SA-WHEAT !!!!
 
Col Mustard said:
I sold my Raven bass a week ago, so I am down to one boom stick now.
Last year at this time I owned three basses, which seemed extravagant except for the
fact that I actually played them all onstage.
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I just couldn't allow this thread to continue without at least ONE Fender bass showing.
Even if I don't own him any more, Sluggo in the center there was the real deal... my 1966 Fender Jazz.
All those parts are original except for the durn tugbar... which I removed forty years ago and put in a
box (along with the chrome ash trays and the pick guard). AND all the screws in a medicine bottle.
About eight years ago I looked... and found that old box with all the parts... except the tugbar was missing.
I tried the pick guard back on, and it still fit! *grins ...so I bought a new tugbar made of ebony, and regarded
that as a definite upgrade over the old plastic job.

These three beauties all have different virtues, so they all justified me owning them. But recent events
have caused me to down size just about everything, so I'm now a one bass guy. Only Luretta on the right
remains with me. I was always like "until they pry my dead cold hands off my Fender" but sometimes
life's events can change a person's mind for him, willy vanilly.

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So I'll play this one. A guy can only play one at a time, right?
I'm still using my Roland CB-60XT amp... one of the best and most useful
bass amps I've ever had.
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Sixty watts and a ten inch speaker with a pair of "ports"
low down. New technology, and it sounds great to my ear. This little amp
does everything I need in small venues (which means it runs fine and sounds lovely
at a volume of 3).
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When we play a bigger venue, I just ask the sound man to plug it in to the P.A.
with an XLR cable and it sounds huge. There are a number of 'models" on this amp that I
will never use, but the "Flip Top and the "Bassman" are my favorites, and I use them all the
time. I use the barest minimum of the chorus and delay, and a bit of compression. Sometimes
we share the stage with other musicians, and other bassists are usually happy to use my amp
and not hump their own in and set up. Many of them will choose the "Super Flat" model, and
I can't argue with that. They usually sound really good through my rig.
I can pick this amp up with one hand and my bass in the other and walk out to the van.
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There you have it... my bare minimum rig, after owning and playing the best: The Fender J-Bass and P-Bass.
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been curious about the ROLAND Cube bass amps----never played one I have a MICRO CUBE guitar amp and it makes LOVELY sounds for bedroom level playing
 
2010 Ibanez SRX2EX Active preamp..25 year bass player(prob only reason my guitar comes out OK, i can bail my self out recording..lol)

its a beast, gets modern Ibby stuff but can dial back & get close to some traditional bass..My cuz is a jazz bassist, use his Fender American Jazz & P when needed. It's weird, if my guitar player didn't quit when i had studio time booked & paid for.. never would of picked up a guitar. Still wondering bout dem xtra 2 strings & what to do with em
 

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eSGEe said:
been curious about the ROLAND Cube bass amps----never played one I have a MICRO CUBE guitar amp and it makes LOVELY sounds for bedroom level playing
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I like mine a lot. The venues I play don't require a huge amp and huge amounts of power
and huge speaker boxes. So I do fine with the 60W version. Roland makes more powerful amps too.
Mine is a modeling amp, and would make a fine practice amp for someone who plays large venues and needs all that power and weight for performance, but not for practice.

My old Fender Bassman Compact had wonderful solid state tone and a 15" speaker,
but the amp was always unhappy when played at a volume of 3. So I sold it to a young
guy for a hundred bucks and bought the Roland, and never looked back.

My small Roland by-passes the whole "tube amp discussion..." I like the tone, and I never play loud enough
to distort any amp anyway. In my school of thought, when everyone else in the band is using f/x
...SOMEBODY needs to play clean. Guess who? *grins. The Roland does this beautifully.

And when I'm accompanying a finger picking acoustic player in a small venue, I need an amp that
sounds great when played at low volume. AND then I can use f/x (sparingly) and have audience members come up
after a show to ask about my bass and amp, and how I was getting it to sound like that.
A tiny amount of chorus and delay sounds good behind an acoustic guitar.

A bassist who has to stand next to an insane drummer will want a bigger rig.
 
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Or a bat to hit the drummer with occasionally ;)

My Hartke is 60 watts and has been my love in bass boomology for many years now ---it doesnt model--nor reverb or any other stuff-- it just turns on reliably --and goes BOOM -- and that --- is pure -- simple -- awesomness

I hope one day to try a Roland -- they have a smaller one .....but Im skeptical on its true BOOM ability ----
 
Same name JOhn--- great minds shrink alike......I built this from a kit (with some added bits from All PArts--)
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My goal was to mimic the KRUSTY musty OLD Ricki I found in my freinds basement in the 80's-- his dad had been in a band in the 60's and 70's and this OLD beat down rusty crusty bass was HOURS of enjoyment--- wonder and "improvisational noodleing" on rusted out of tune strings as a youth -----I think I recaptured it decently.....
 
Used on the songs been recording this year. Switching approach when we go back in after a month break..really going to focus on bass this time...really popped the last 2 songs by getting into it again..feeling comfortable on guitar finally..now back to the love of the low end !!
 

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This the only bass in our possession, I got it on a horse trade I did a number of years back, found a bag of cymbals in a dumpster in Laguna Beach, they where mid 80’s simmanators and I got the bass and a squire strat, we donated the 5 piece drum kit to the church9517CFC2-774F-40BA-A7E1-D27A94BD21D8.jpeg
 
YEP I call it the "EB-P" by Gibson lol
its also Fretless-- and the Mudbucker is a moddern DIMARZZIO affair -- Schaller "P" pups (made in Germany stamped on the back even) ----
its beat down finish checked scared tatttoed and a true WOLF in sheeps clothing
 
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