Clean Tone

[Lucho.Metal]

Hello, I play metal and I touch the strings with force.
I have a Peavey MINX 110, I'm sick of my amp that sounds and you hear a "Blop".
What I have to do ?

-Buy a bigger amp ? (recommend me)
-Play smoother. (I don't like the smooth sound)

I love this tone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E6G_FeOpCM#t=02m41s
When I play that part my amp is completly a BLOOP.

The brands here in Argentina are:
Gallien Krueger - Ampeg (too many expensive in ARG ) - Peavey - national brands.

[bongomania]

A Peavey Tour 450, plus any good 4x10 4-ohm cab, will rock your world. You definitely need a bigger amp and cab--a 1x10 practice amp is only good for practice, not for real playing.

[ga_edwards]

That Peavey of yours is only 35 watts running its single speaker according to the specs (50w with extension cab). This is your problem if you're playing with a band, complete lack of power and you're pushing it too hard. The fact you say you hit the strings hard tells me you're trying to get more volume than the amp allows.

You need to look for something more in the region of 300 watts IMO.

The link you have posted is an Ampeg SVT amp. However, if GK/Peavey is more in your price bracket you could for one of those and perhaps a SansAmp VT bass to dial in the Ampeg sound.

[Ric5]

You need headroom

[Thunderthumbs73]

Originally Posted by Lucho.Metal

Hello, I play metal and I touch the strings with force.
I have a Peavey MINX 110, I'm sick of my amp that sounds and you hear a "Blop".
What I have to do ?

-Buy a bigger amp ? (recommend me)
-Play smoother. (I don't like the smooth sound)

I love this tone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E6G_FeOpCM#t=02m41s
When I play that part my amp is completly a BLOOP.

The brands here in Argentina are:
Gallien Krueger - Ampeg (too many expensive in ARG ) - Peavey - national brands.

I'm quite sure you need a more powerful amp, and a larger cabinet. Since I don't know what brands you have access to in Argentina aside from those three you mentioned, and it would be irresponsible of me to rule out whatever those "national brands" are which I've never heard, I'll mention a couple basics, and you can take it from there, based on what you can afford, can find, and what sounds good.

I'd say at least 200 Watt, bare minimum but am hoping you can afford 400 watts. I would also suggest at least a 4x10 cab of some sort. If the idea is CLEAN tone, you will need more headroom (power/wattage/additional unused absolute volume capability) than is needed for dirty tone. Hope this helps.

[RickenBoogie]

Yup, you need a bigger amp, and much more speakers. Trying to get a good rock/metal tone out of a tiny practice amp will never make you happy. Brand doesn't matter so much as just getting something much bigger. 4x10 speaker cab, bare minimum.

[Son of Bovril]

The link you posted sounds a bit overdriven to me, not so clean IMO

Get a Tech 21 VT Bass, that will give you the tone you are asking for without the need for an Ampeg SVT and 810 at high volume. You could also benefit from a bigger amp I'm sure

[Bassmec]

Sounds Like he has an old Ibanez ts 808 tube screamer pedal hooked up to his bass, dirty mid forward sound is how I would describe it.
His Entwistle like finger slap technique brings out the upper mid clank well but he misses lots of notes though.