Building a new rig.... opinions?

[KAOSBass]

I'm building a whole new rig from scratch. Here is what I have in mind.

2 preamps one on each side of a power amp each side feeding 2 Acme B4 cabs, one side clean one side dirty with FX.

here's the list:

Avalon U5 or Trace GP12XV
RBI
Crest 7001
2 -Acme B4 cabs
Digitech Bass Whammy
HBE Hematoma
HBE Bytchn Swytchn A/B/C
HBE Mock II Analog Delay
HBE THC Chorus
HBE Frostbite Flanger
HBE Medicane Bawl Wah (bass mod)
Dunlop Volume
ProCo Rat
Digitech Bad Monkey
Boss DD3 Digital Delay

or

Line 6 M13
Digitech Bass Whammy
HBE Medice Bawl Wah (Bass Mod)
Dunlop Volume

thoughts?

[KAOSBass]

no opinions?

[billfitzmaurice]

Use a guitar cab for the dirty/effects side.

[KAOSBass]

?? explain please

[RickenBoogie]

Guitar cabs are voiced more in the upper midrange for bass, and usually handle distortion better, too. You get your bottom from the clean/bass cab side, and dirt from the o/d distortion side through the guitar cab. A 212 guitar cab should suffice, since it's easier to hear that range.

[KAOSBass]

interesting.... always heard it was easy to blow speakers in guitar cabs with a bass

[christw]

Originally Posted by KAOSBass

interesting.... always heard it was easy to blow speakers in guitar cabs with a bass

Not if you filter out the lows and don't use excessive amounts of power. Just being smart about it goes a long way.

I did an SVT-II + 610 clean / 5w Vox head + AlNiCo 10" dirty setup for a few days. Tons of fun. Too much hassle to set it up though. It's all about trying what's out there and finding what works for you.

[countrybass007]

Sounds like way too complicated for my tastes. I use two amps in a stereo set-up, one with highs and mids, the other with mostly low bass tones. I was never happy with the bass sound through a guitar amp, always sounded too thin for my tastes. It's all a matter of what sound makes you happy.

[christw]

Originally Posted by countrybass007

Sounds like way too complicated for my tastes. I use two amps in a stereo set-up, one with highs and mids, the other with mostly low bass tones. I was never happy with the bass sound through a guitar amp, always sounded too thin for my tastes. It's all a matter of what sound makes you happy.

I don't disagree. They're voiced differently. That Vox could do icepick treble all day long and I pushed it for light, bright top end OD. I ran the II full range and used it's pre out to the Vox's input.

[zombywoof5050]

Originally Posted by KAOSBass

2 preamps one on each side of a power amp..

..thoughts?

An Alembic F-2B would do nicely there IMO.