Last century I was doing 3-4 nights a week with a Marshall 100w super bass into a slant front 4x12" with celestion 25w green backs and signal running through 2 Boss DI's to the desk for when I played a Ric 4001 in stereo. Also wired up my Yammy fretless in stereo too to make it easier when swapping axes during a set.

When I was down sizing I sold the Marshall setup and bought an Ampeg and fed that into some etone 15" speakers. It was a pig. Big and heavy and sounded crap, and really lacked the warmth of the Marshall valves and 12" speakers. As a result I am not a fan of Ampeg and find them quite bland.

A bit over a year ago was wanting to buy a decent more portable bass setup, preferably combo, and the slant backed Ampegs were tempting but I ended up with a Hartke HD75w with a 12" speaker and 7 band EQ for $399 delivered. Quite a big cabinet that looks like it could be hiding a 15" speaker in there and has a fair bit of weight too. Sounds great as I tend to like a bright sound as that cuts through and provides a better stage sound, and if gigging would run through a DI and let the sound guy muddy things up for FOH.

The separate TC's and a small single speaker cabinet were tempting but combined cost was a fair bit more than a complete setup for less than $400. If money was no object, that would be the way to go as the newer heads are so small and light it is ridiculous.