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02-05-2013, 10:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: North Ridgeville Ohio | | | Best name in bass amps
Reading through a recent thread I was amazed by the great variation of opinion on various manufacters: "I love Fender", "I would never own a Fender", etc.
My question is; what in your opinion are the best name brands for Bass amps and in what order?
I'm really curious to see the results!
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02-05-2013, 10:34 AM
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02-05-2013, 10:35 AM
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02-05-2013, 10:38 AM
|  | Deckard. B26354. | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Balto., MD | | | 1. CRATE
2. Kustom
3. Bugera
Work your way down from these three.
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02-05-2013, 10:39 AM
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02-05-2013, 10:42 AM
| | | The best amp is always the one I just paid way too much money for. 
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02-05-2013, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Sid Fang The best amp is always the one I just paid way too much money for. | That one is only good until you pay too much money for the next one.
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02-05-2013, 10:51 AM
| | | | Mesa Boogie
Genz Benz
Aguilar
Mark bass
Fender
Peavey
Further down the line
Ampeg
Behringer |
02-05-2013, 10:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK, Essex | | | What's the best beer?
What's the best football team?
Who's the best Bond?
Entirely subjective IMO.
I think you would need to do an unscientific poll to find out the most popular brands on these here forums. Even then, it will only be a handful of people who answer.
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02-05-2013, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Ash Jazz Reading through a recent thread I was amazed by the great variation of opinion on various manufacters: "I love Fender", "I would never own a Fender", etc.
My question is; what in your opinion are the best name brands for Bass amps and in what order?
I'm really curious to see the results!
Thank you | Well read a dozen more threads, your answer should be clear as mud...
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02-05-2013, 11:01 AM
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It's Ampeg because the word "amp" is in the name.
That's all the logic and reasoning you need right there, |
02-05-2013, 11:05 AM
| | | 1-Glockenklang / Merlin( no longer made) on par and really quite different from one another.
2-Hevos
For me anyways and in this order. 
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02-05-2013, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by ga_edwards What's the best beer?
What's the best football team?
Who's the best Bond?
| Yuengling
Ravens
Connery
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02-05-2013, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by majortoby Yuengling
Ravens
Connery | Blech, blech and agreed.
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02-05-2013, 11:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Tampa, Fl USA | | Hey I hate em too but they won 
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Originally Posted by JimmyM I just love when punks try to be punker than thou | |
02-05-2013, 11:15 AM
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Exar went out of business, so... | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | I've always felt the best name in amps is Glockenklang, just because it sounds so cool and Kraftwerk-y. But I don't mean to say their amps sound or perform better than other brands, necessarily. |
02-05-2013, 11:15 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Conklin Guitars (Basses) | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Kansas City Metro Area | | | For rock and metal and big stage stuff, i have owned an Ampeg SVT, a Peavey Mark IV and my current (to me) Mesa M-2000. The Mesa is a godsend, i hated the Ampeg and some days i miss the Peavey. It had a 4x12 dual ported cab from the 70s and i think was a full frequency amp. I sold it for money for things of vanity, not things i needed. I have also had an old school peavey 115 combo and it was a workhorse.
I really do love my Mesa though. I've used it with my Upright even.
I just got an Ibanez Promethean a week ago. The 5110, not the new one. Its freaking amazing!
Hopefully i can get the 110c extension cab and that will probably set me for my big, medium and small rigs for life!
Crate sucks.
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02-05-2013, 11:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Dallas, TX | | | As with most things, "best" is only really "preference". Popularity is quite another thing, and not the best way to judge any piece of gear.
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02-05-2013, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Violen Crate sucks. | HATER!
Best Names in Bass Amplification:
Sears
HeathKit
Lafayette
CRATE! |
02-05-2013, 11:26 AM
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(excepting Sunn)
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