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03-05-2013, 05:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: coffs harbour,n.s.w, Australia | | | Good bass head for under $1000
Anyone know any good bass head for under a grand? not looking for something that loud. |
03-05-2013, 06:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lake Havasu City, Az USA | | | More than you will have fingers and toes for!
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Originally Posted by beans-on-toast
I told my manager that I wanted a regular gig. She told me to try prune juice.
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03-05-2013, 06:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: coffs harbour,n.s.w, Australia | | care to recommend anything? I can't really specify the genres I play, as I play lots  so versitile, and I'm looking for something that I could use in my bedroom as well as gigging. |
03-05-2013, 06:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: coffs harbour,n.s.w, Australia | | | I'm thinking maybe an Ampeg SVT Micro Bass Head? |
03-05-2013, 06:27 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Fender Basses, Ampeg, Curt Mangan Strings | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: South Shore, Massachusetts | | | Ampeg and GK have some great heads in the price range you are looking at.
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03-05-2013, 06:30 PM
| | | | Genz Benz ShuttleMax 9.2. You can get these new for ~$1000. Used units go in the $500-$700 range. Lightweight and plenty of tonal options. |
03-05-2013, 06:31 PM
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Hi-fi into an old tube amp | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Albuquerque, NM | | | Mesa Walkabout perhaps. Doesnt everything cost a fortune in Australia though?
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03-05-2013, 06:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: New Zealand | | | A grand Aussie is well over a US grand these days too.
So many amps, get something with a lot of EQ shaping ability.
I don't trust micro amps as far as I can spit one. If it can't survve being shot to the moon or be fixed in a shed with a soldering iron I don't want it.
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03-05-2013, 06:39 PM
|  | Say something once, why say it again? | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Saint Johns, Michigan | | | Ampeg: SVT-7PRO, PF-800/500/350, Micro-VR.
Genz-Benz: STM-900/600, STL-9.2/6.2.
All are wonderful heads, all are under $1000. They are voiced differently, so you have to decide what voice you want. Personally, I prefer the SVT sound, so I went with an SVT-7PRO, but the GB heads are just as good, maybe even better. |
03-05-2013, 06:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Frisco 415 | | | I paid a grand for an SVT 4-Pro. (I think it was from Bass Central, a few years back) |
03-05-2013, 06:52 PM
|  | a/k/a Steve Cooper | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Huntington WV | | | The Aggie TH500 is worth checking out. |
03-05-2013, 06:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lake Havasu City, Az USA | | | G-K 700RB II, 1001RB II, Fusion 550, MB500, MB800, MB Fusion, MB200 (Ampeg is covered).
Hartke LH500, LH1000
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Originally Posted by beans-on-toast
I told my manager that I wanted a regular gig. She told me to try prune juice.
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03-05-2013, 06:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Mystic CT | | | its actually harder to think of heads over a grand!... anything from TC, Ashdown, Genz, GK, Hartke, Aguilar will all tickle your toes
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03-05-2013, 07:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: ca | | | Sorry but not much available with that budget...best bet would be used, flea market, stolen............... |
03-05-2013, 07:15 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | Quote:
Originally Posted by B-string  G-K 700RB II, 1001RB II, Fusion 550, MB500, MB800, MB Fusion, MB200 (Ampeg is covered).
Hartke LH500, LH1000 | Love my LH1000. It's my main onstage amp. Solid, reliable, great old-school tone. Just replace the tube every 6 months if you work it regularly.
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03-05-2013, 07:19 PM
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03-05-2013, 07:21 PM
|  | 6 String Nut | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Santa Barbara, CA | | | How about my Gallien Krueger 700rb I'm selling! It's about 2/3s less than $1000!
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03-05-2013, 07:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lake Havasu City, Az USA | | You want to ship down under and do the power supply voltage change before it ships?
BTW we are already up to 20 specific amp models keep going 
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Originally Posted by beans-on-toast
I told my manager that I wanted a regular gig. She told me to try prune juice.
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03-06-2013, 06:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | +1000000000000 on the GK 700RB II, it's as loud or quiet as you need it to be, and tone for days. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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