Amps and DI

[moody]

All that being said, my bass cab is a single 15 and 2 x 10. I got it before I knew all this and it sounds good. Not noticeably different to a single 15 but good.

[pablopepper]

I used to run a 4x10 and 1x15 Hartke setup, what a pain in the ass. Currently, I'm using a 2x10 Ampeg cabinet which has a tighter, punchier sound than the large stack (not as much volume, as I've lost 200 odd watts of power, but still easily enough to drown out a guitarist and drummer). That surprised me, so I can see Moody is on the right track. Personally, I won't go back to stacks. Smaller cabs are where it's at, and sooooooo much better for your back

[DrNomis_44]

When I'm playing guitar I either go straight into the amp (if I'm using my Marshall MA100C 100W All Valve 2X12 Combo Amp), or, I keep the amp I'm using set to it's clean channel and use a good sounding Distortion pedal, if an amp is not available to me I'll resort to using either my Digitech RP50 or Zoom G2and go straight into a mixer via a D.I. box.

For my Bass Guitar, I use my Peavey TKO 80 Bass amp (it's the one without the EQ controls), I need to do some service work on my TKO 80 amp because it has a background noise issue (there's a slight crackly sounding distortion whenever I play notes even at low volume settings), I need to get the TKO 80 amp chassis up on my workbench and connect it to a dummy load to find the cause of the distortion.

[Fretworn]

I'm old enough to know that you will never need more than 30w of anything. I'd love a smallish 15w-30w tube combo. In real life I have a Fender solid state 60w combo (smallest decent solid state combo I could get with a 12" speaker). It's never been past 2 1/2 on the gain and volume knobs, which is a problem because you don't get any tone until both are past 2. I went solid state because they are a) lighter, and b) less afraid of getting bumped around. I spent 18 months without a car and used to lug all my gear around on the train using a fold up trolley. Would have problems if it was a tube amp.

[keloooe]

I used to run a 4x10 and 1x15 Hartke setup, what a pain in the ass. Currently, I'm using a 2x10 Ampeg cabinet which has a tighter, punchier sound than the large stack (not as much volume, as I've lost 200 odd watts of power, but still easily enough to drown out a guitarist and drummer). That surprised me, so I can see Moody is on the right track. Personally, I won't go back to stacks. Smaller cabs are where it's at, and sooooooo much better for your back

Yeah for starting I'm staying away from stacks at all costs, I might snag a TC Electronic 2x10 combo, I'm with you on the tight, punchy sound a 10 inch speaker provides!

[DrNomis_44]

Yeah for starting I'm staying away from stacks at all costs, I might snag a TC Electronic 2x10 combo, I'm with you on the tight, punchy sound a 10 inch speaker provides!

A friend of mine gave me an old Peavey Backstage Plus Guitar Amp, it needed a new speaker as the old one didn't work anymore, so, I ended up ordering a new 10 inch Jensen C10Q online, the speaker came in the mail a couple of weeks later and I wasted no time in installing it, the amp sounded great with the new speaker, very Fender-ish, anyway, I was playing my guitar through it when some of the pots failed, now I need to find proper replacements for them in order to get the amp working again.


Quick update:


I've just managed to get my Peavey Backstage Plus amp back up and running again, I had some pots that I could use as replacements with a minor mod to the circuit board, all the controls work as they should so I'm pretty happy with it so far cause now I have a good 35 Watt amp I can gig with.....