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02-21-2011, 12:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NC | | | Best looking AND compact combo
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I've seen the threads about great living room amps and smallest combos for club use - I'm looking for a living room practice combo with fantastic style AND compactness. So far the Phil Jones Briefcase takes the prize - any challengers? |
02-21-2011, 12:39 PM
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Partner: Otentic Guitars | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Gorinchem,The Netherlands | | | they all ran of with their tail between their legs.
the Briefcase rules! |
02-21-2011, 12:51 PM
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Endorsing Artist: J Worrell Pickups / J Worrell Bass | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Dayton OH | | | Meh, style is all relative. I love the look of my pretty dark red cabinets and big white (grey) and black heads. For a living room I'd want a 30-50w tube amp with a 12" speaker in a well carved but unobtrusive wood case probably. |
02-21-2011, 12:51 PM
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02-21-2011, 01:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Toronto, ON | | | Sorry, but the Walkabout has to take this one. Black vinyl bronco, nice grill cloth. Oh yeah. |
02-21-2011, 01:01 PM
|  | Is this thing on? | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Where else? In the dog house. | | | I played a briefcase and an AER amp 1 side by side at Atlanta Bass Gallery and IMO the AER kicked PJ butt. But at three times the price it should. Just my opinion. |
02-21-2011, 01:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NC | | | IMHO a 10 or 12" speaker combo is not compact. I've got a Markbass F1 head and a GK MB200 head and 2 Markbass 2x10's if I need them - this amp needs to be SMALL and unobtrusive. I'll admit the AER and the Mesa are great looking amps and the TV Bassman, well its a classic, but no tweed in my living room. The wood cabinet idea sounds nice but is anyone doing a furniture grade micro combo? |
02-21-2011, 01:17 PM
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Endorsing Artist: MLaghus Custom Basses | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Boca Raton - FL | | | Most combos with a similar size would destroy the briefcase, which is a pretty weak sounding combo.
Genz Benz Shuttle 8" or the Acoustic Image combos are good options... |
02-21-2011, 01:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NC | | | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but the Genz Benz amps are not stylish. The Acoustic Image amp is not as stylish as the PJ but the specs are impressive - seems about double the price. |
02-21-2011, 01:30 PM
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Editor-in-Chief, Bass Gear Magazine | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: North central Ohio | | The Briefcase is pretty cool, but if you don't need the batter-power option, I might steer you towards the Flightcase BG-150, instead. It's slightly larger, but lighter, louder, and it matches up with the new PJB PB-300 powered 6x6 enclosure.
Here's the Briefcase next to the Flightcase BG-150:   |
02-21-2011, 01:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Manhattan | | | Although it's a little large, I'll have to agree that a well-appointed Walkabout is about as classy-looking as it gets. |
02-21-2011, 01:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NC | | | Flightcase is cool - I heard about a Cub? I don't need the battery option for sure. |
02-21-2011, 01:35 PM
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Partner: Otentic Guitars | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Gorinchem,The Netherlands | | | It's pretty important to put the Briefcase with the back side at no more than a few iches from a wall, or even better, in a corner. Anyone testing it who didn't will never know what it might offer. |
02-21-2011, 01:35 PM
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Editor-in-Chief, Bass Gear Magazine | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: North central Ohio | | Quote:
Originally Posted by IntrepidCellist Although it's a little large, I'll have to agree that a well-appointed Walkabout is about as classy-looking as it gets. | True story.  |
02-21-2011, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by don21480 Flightcase is cool - I heard about a Cub? I don't need the battery option for sure. | Yeah, the Cub is very cool, too, but not as loud as the BG-150, of course. |
02-21-2011, 01:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Moore, Oklahoma | | Quote:
Originally Posted by IntrepidCellist Although it's a little large, I'll have to agree that a well-appointed Walkabout is about as classy-looking as it gets. | QFT.
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02-21-2011, 01:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NC | | | Volume not a big issue for me in this situation but now that I think about it, it might be cool if I could accompany someone singing and one acoustic guitar with whatever I purchase - you know, the small cafe gig. |
02-21-2011, 01:44 PM
|  | Jack of all grooves, master of none | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Nashville, TN - Music City | | I'm a Markbass guy:  |
02-21-2011, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by don21480 Volume not a big issue for me in this situation but now that I think about it, it might be cool if I could accompany someone singing and one acoustic guitar with whatever I purchase - you know, the small cafe gig. | Then I'd prefer the BG-150 over the Cub. |
02-21-2011, 01:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NC | | | I love Markbass too - maybe remove the yellow logo and cover in tolex? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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