ITT: build your dream rig!!

[pablomigraine]

Assuming no restrictions to size, weight, portability OR COST.... lay out your fantasy rig for your peers to lust or flame....

Real gear, non-existant gear, let's have it talkbass... here's mine:

Signal to:

Summit Audio mic preamp
Ashly crossover (set @ 100hz)
Sansamp RBI (highs - way dirty!)
Sansamp RBI (lows - tubby but clean)
Ashly compressor

To two each of the following:

Crest CA-9
Custom folded horn 15" bin (lows)
Custom 212, ported, high SPL, no tweeter. (dirty highs)

Rhino covering for both, and CASTERS!!

[Sundogue]

Meyer cabs.

[theory028]

Being realistic, I'd expand my rig by adding another SVT810AV (after I recover the grill on my current 810 with the 70s cloth to match). From there, I'd just need to get a few more Jazz basses and maybe a few pedals for the fun of it.

If I were recreating it, I'd probably do something with an Avalon 737, a power amp, and a couple of SVT810Es.

[pablomigraine]

Originally Posted by Sundogue

Meyer cabs.

+1

[tom once dead]

A big rack containing.
Cooling Fan
Korg DTR 2000
Line 6 Relay Rackmount wireless
A 32 Band graphic eq
SVT 2 Pro set Clean
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SVT 2 Pro set dirty
Cooling Fan

That running into two 810e cabs.

[James Hart]

this is easy

a pair of Bag End D12-B cabs stacked vertically with a Mythic Amps 'Odin'* sitting on top for jams / gigs.

for recording... a Bag End S12-B with a Mythic Amps 'Frigg'* sitting on it.

* don't exist other than in a bunch of schematics, layouts and sketches here at my desk. First prototypes will be built this coming year. All I will say at this point is they consist of a pair of 6SL7, an EF806 and either a pair of KT-120 or pair of KT-66

[christw]

Basically, I'm content with what I have now. There isn't much that that my rigs can't handle right now. I wouldn't mind some Bag End cabs instead of my franken micro rig but I'm not complaining.

[KramerBassFan]

4 x 215 Folded Horn Cabinets, each one being fed by a 200w VOX Valve Amplifier.

[naturalkinds]

Really nice IEMs.

[NecroticImbecil]

[ThatBassistDude]

The Kustom KB-200 head with the matching 412 and 212 cabs with a boss frv-1 fender reverb pedal

[Sartori]

What NecroticImbecil posted.


Except, I think... four of those. Powered by my D-180's preamp except with an active mid, and some sort of old radio transmitter ridiculous tube power amp. Yeah.

[pablomigraine]

Hmmm... lotta takers for Bag End.... they dont get too much coverage here on TB... whats the skinny?

[fivestringgecko]

Like Christw, I'm pretty content with the modular/flexible rig I have now As far as a dream rig goes though, mines actually a small one... Ampeg Heritage B-15. That's my Holy Grail.



5sg.

[James Hart]

Originally Posted by pablomigraine

Hmmm... lotta takers for Bag End.... they dont get too much coverage here on TB... whats the skinny?

They get lots of love here on TB actually

I discovered them in the early 90s. They just sound best for me and my needs. I've been through a few other 'boutique' brands and have come back around to Bag End. They are hifi, but vintage... tight, punchy, clear, sit great in the mix... but without horns they are mellow at the top and with the cubes I use (S12, S15, D12) the limited internal volume makes them a tad shy at the very bottom... so they don't rumble / mud up the mix.

[KAOSBass]

Hmm.... depending on the situation:

For anything and everything.... this (actually building this rig right now)

Preamps:
Avalon U5 or Trace GP12X
RBI

Power amp:
Crest 7001

Cabs:
2 - Acme B4

FX:
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)
ProCo Rat
Digitech Bad Monkey
Boss DD3 Digital Delay


For a strictly Metal rig:

70's Ampeg SVT
Ampeg 8x10
Proco Rat
HBE Medicine Bawl Wah (Bass Mod)
HBE Mock II Analog Delay

[PunkSweeper]

A line 6 Pod X3 Pro and a bunch of this stuff.

http://www.jblpro.com/catalog/genera...?PId=237&MId=4
http://www.jblpro.com/catalog/genera...?PId=236&MId=4

[pablomigraine]

Originally Posted by James Hart

They get lots of love here on TB actually

I discovered them in the early 90s. They just sound best for me and my needs. I've been through a few other 'boutique' brands and have come back around to Bag End. They are hifi, but vintage... tight, punchy, clear, sit great in the mix... but without horns they are mellow at the top and with the cubes I use (S12, S15, D12) the limited internal volume makes them a tad shy at the very bottom... so they don't rumble / mud up the mix.

Hmmm would a D10BX-D on top of an S18E-D crossed over at 100hz work for my setup listed above do you think?

Ashdown Amps used to make the exact setup I lust for but its now discontinued:

[levis76]

Wenge neck Warwick Corvette w/ Bartolinis running wide open into a Mesa 400+ loaded with a full complement of JJ's into a pair of Mesa Diesel series Deep 4x10.

Oh wait, I have that.

I guess I'm good.

[LiamPodmore]

In a rack:
Line 6 Relay G90 Wireless
Korg DTR-2000
Voodoo Labs GCX Audio Switcher with a Ground Control Pro
Various effects (I have a list somewhere)
Some sort of Compresser (Undecided yet)
Mesa/Boogie Big Block Titan V12

On Top Of:
Mesa/Boogie Powerhouse 610
Mesa/Boogie Powerhouse 215

And also a Mesa/Boogie Walkabaout 1x12 Combo for an Electro/Acoustic Bass.

Liam