Most fartbag amp or cab you've ever played through?

[JackTheRipper]

When I was in high school (early '80's) I had an Acoustic 100-watt solid state head (I don't remember which model) and an Acoustic 2x15 cab. I had to crank it so much to try to keep up with a Marshall half stack and it just wasn't happening. Farty as hell. I later had a 100-watt tube Vox head that I used with the same cab and it was farty as well.

Ugh, now every time I think about Acoustic amps it makes me throw up a little

--jack

[Challenger73]

Ah, yes, the Teneyck 550 crapper with the Christmas lights. I even installed blinking ones. MDF cabinet and crapola speakers. Weighed a ton. It did have it's own moving dolly that screwed onto the base with a wing nut. The cabinet wasn't ported so no low end. I tried putting Utah 15's in it, but the cabinet was too shallow. Couldn't use it, couldn't sell it. Cut it in half and put the 15'ss in the back of my 64 wagon with a high power 8 track. All it was good for.

[HeavyJazz77]

I had a Carivn 115 combo w a 12" depth once. That thing would literally make fart sounds given the lack of cabinet area. A silly design!

[Arjank]

Hilarious thread!

When I had one of my first real gigs (some 22 years ago...) I played on a festival and they allready had the "backline" onstage. I can't remember what the head of the setup was but the cab looked like a carlson cab but then without the "lens" in front of the 12" driver. Man, it sounded bland!, no punch, no clarity... crappy farting sound. Back then I had a 4 string Ibanez roadster.

On the highschool I was on they had a very crappy bassamp in the music classroom(can't remember the brand, thought it was a Crate). One of my classmates and I were allowed to play music in that room during breaks so I've played a lot through that bad sounding amp. It was a combo, 12" driver with high Fs and an open back.....Looked more like a guitarcombo to me but I really can remember that it said bassamp! The sound was like an open back cab, hollow, no bottom, the infamous cardbox sound and ofcourse a ticket to fart-city when cranked

[Arjank]

Originally Posted by R Baer

What I find most interesting is the fact that this thread was started in 2006. Then, there's a four year gap with nothing and then a new post in 2010. It seems like someone would have had to have done a search for "fartbag" and then, when he found what he was looking for, jumped right on in with his .02 cents worth and continued this thread!

+1
Love this thread! Man, I just discovered it and I can't stop laughing with all these fartamp stories!

[gumtownbassman]

Originally Posted by Arjank

It was a combo, 12" driver with high Fs and an open back.....Looked more like a guitarcombo to me but I really can remember that it said bassamp! The sound was like an open back cab, hollow, no bottom, the infamous cardbox sound and ofcourse a ticket to fart-city when cranked

Sure it wan't a Fender Bassman guitar combo?

[Arjank]

Originally Posted by gumtownbassman

Sure it wan't a Fender Bassman guitar combo?

I'm very sure it wasn't a Fender Bassman, I would have remembered if it was a Fender.
I'll do a google search, see what I can find.....
Btw. that "bass" amp had a slightly slanted baffle.

[Arjank]

That Crate combo looked something like this one, but then a 90's model(casters included).....
Edit: it's also possible that is was a Laney, they looked very similar (everything from Crate/Laney I played through was bad, really bad, honky/farty sound)

[Arjank]

Originally Posted by David Studenick

Little Behringher 120W combo amp.

Sounded like a whale farting into a giant kazoo.

LMAO!

[Arjank]

Originally Posted by Billy-Bob

Carvin PB100-15. Look up "fartbag" in the dictionary, and I'll bet a photo of this sorry combo amp will be depicted right next to the definition.

Billy-Bob

HAhahha, another great quote!

[Arjank]

Do fartsy drivers also count?
Here's my list of fartsy 10" drivers (in no particular order)

-Dap audio 10" driver (don't recal modelnr., bad fartsy driver, went up in smoke....)
-Visaton BG25NG(sounded good up to medium volume, after that fart-city)
-ol' Emi 10" driver (sounded good, nice mids, but did fart out to soon)
-Emi Delta 10B (fart city all the way, sold them the same day I've got them..., made someone else happy)
-Emi Deltalite 2510 MKII (good efficiency, bit to much low-mids for my taste and starts to really fart as soon as it hit's xmax(4mm), dropped them in the garbage can after comparing them to the oberton 10B200)

[Toptube]

Orange Crush B25 combo amp (bought in 2008). WAAAAY too expensive, no real low end (a bunch of boomy mid bass). If you dug in, it would fart in a hurry.

It did have a nice sparkle to the highs and high mids, though.

[Diesel Kilgore]

My 30 watt Drive amp. POS. Its basically a mp3 speaker now. Which is the only thing it okay at.

[Wesley R]

I used a Jordan, 2x15 combo for one set. The grill cover was actually the material used to dampen the sound on clothes dryers.

[MikeB_30]

Those Fender combos are hit and miss. I have a 4 year old Fender Bassman 250/115 combo and I can get a good tone out of that. We're a three piece rock band and it cuts through the mix pretty good. Not sure how it would hold up in a really loud band though. I bought a Fender Rumble 60 for a practice amp and no matter what I do I cannot get a good sound out of that thing, just mush. It's really evident if I go straight from that to my Markbass rig, it actually pisses me off it sounds so bad. I ended up taking it over to my guitarist's house and leaving it over there if we feel like working on some stuff.
In one of my old bands I was the drummer and the bass player had one of those Peavey cabs with the 2 10's and 1 18 in it. I never did like that tone, it was just just loud, and uber-farty. Luckily, it weighed 12,000 pounds and half our gigs involved many, many flights of stairs. I hated that amp. I'm sure it's still alive somewhere, lurking and plotting to crush some school-children should they decide to mock it.

[Arjank]

Originally Posted by MikeB_30

I hated that amp. I'm sure it's still alive somewhere, lurking and plotting to crush some school-children should they decide to mock it.

Sounds like a real devilish amp! Would make for a great Stephen King story.....

[Eric Perry]

Some Ashdown head and 410 cab I played through where the backline was provided. It was grade A crap.

[oerk]

Originally Posted by Arjank

On the highschool I was on they had a very crappy bassamp in the music classroom(can't remember the brand, thought it was a Crate). One of my classmates and I were allowed to play music in that room during breaks so I've played a lot through that bad sounding amp. It was a combo, 12" driver with high Fs and an open back.....Looked more like a guitarcombo to me but I really can remember that it said bassamp! The sound was like an open back cab, hollow, no bottom, the infamous cardbox sound and ofcourse a ticket to fart-city when cranked

My first "bass" combo was a "Leem" 40 watt something with a 10" speaker and open back. I didn't know better at the time and played it for one or two years, later with a 12" Gallien-Krueger extension cab, which also had an open back. Did GK make guitar cabs at some point? It's the only explanation I can think of.

[basscooker]

jordan 50 watt ss combo. can't even remember if it had a 10 or 12. the drummer in my first band had a little sis who got it with her yakima bass as a package deal for a gift. the first couple of weeks we played together that was what i used. we called it "flatulus maximus".

BTW great thread topic. thanks to whoever dug this one up.

[nukes_da_bass]

Some Yamaha head and cab that was titled "bass (some model number)". Had no sound other than distortion- not enough volume- told the bandleader "no thanks".