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

[hsech]

Worst one I played was my first one. It was in the early 1960's. It was a Sears & Roebuck. All tube, 2 channel, 1x15 Jensen speaker. The head stored in the speaker cab. It was a thunderous 18 watts. It would fart every time you thumped the E string. That was when it was new. It went down hill as it got older. Finally used for playing acoustic guitar in a band.

[JoeWPgh]

Crate? That's what amps are supposed to ship in.

[BassKitty101]

I see a decent amount of Ashdown hate here. I can't really argue that their budget series (MAG) isn't exactly my favorite. Not a lot of volume, no balls, can fart pretty easy.

The ABM series is quite refreshing though, it's completely different company. I used to have the MAG 300 with a MAG 410 and it was alright and cheap, never died but couldn't get loud enough to even fart.

Now I have an ABM 500 with two ABM 410's and whether I run with one or both cabs you can actually lay some bass out. Suuuuuuchhhhhhh an improvement, I was quite relieved haha.

[sanderic]

Fender 412 baseman cabinet. The one with the deep cabinet and speakers set back at angles.

[Tupac]

Acoustic or Markbass combos.

[Roscoe East]

I can't remember what was the "worst" over my 40 year career, but the most recent fartbag amp/cab I've played through was one of those Ampeg Micro-VR head/cab mini stacks. It was the provided backline at a club gig in NYC and omigod it sounded like COMPLETE CRAP! Definitely incapable of keeping up with a 4-piece rock band in a ~75-person capacity bar. fartfartfartfartfartfartfartfart

[JBNeedsBeer]

Originally Posted by Roscoe East

I can't remember what was the "worst" over my 40 year career, but the most recent fartbag amp/cab I've played through was one of those Ampeg Micro-VR head/cab mini stacks. It was the provided backline at a club gig in NYC and omigod it sounded like COMPLETE CRAP! Definitely incapable of keeping up with a 4-piece rock band in a ~75-person capacity bar. fartfartfartfartfartfartfartfart

Good god, which club? I usually cart around my full rig to NYC, but can sometimes be lazy.

[Proraptor]

My first combo

acoustic 20watt 1x12

Horrible

[Manfred_Bass]

Hartke 210XL With a SWR studio 220. At first the SWR sounded great with my Goliath III, then after a few years not so good, then ith the 210XL was a fart machine of mega-proportions

[flam]

It's interesting to me that there isn't much love for peavey and hartke. I play a mk lll bass through a hartke ak 115, and I love it. The only complaint I could possibly have is that a little more grit would be nice. Other than that, it's all the nice warm mids I would ever need.

[topcat2069]

Originally Posted by hsech

Worst one I played was my first one. It was in the early 1960's. It was a Sears & Roebuck. All tube, 2 channel, 1x15 Jensen speaker. The head stored in the speaker cab. It was a thunderous 18 watts. It would fart every time you thumped the E string. That was when it was new. It went down hill as it got older.

+1

[Liam76]

A rehearsal rig I set up in the guitarist's basement. I wanted to use something I could leave there and not care about, so I used a 200 watt solid state 70's era Acoustic amp and bought a Behringer single "15 cab, hoping to cut through with the drums. This rig not only cut through the drums, but also the cheese. That rig was farting blood so bad, the guitarist asked our drummer if he could play softer.

Otherwise, I have 70's era silverface Bassman 50 amp and 212 cab I inherited. Last time I plugged my bass into it that rig, there was a lot of buzzing and I think I saw the tubes brighten up with every note.

[cjp3044]

Originally Posted by BassKitty101

I see a decent amount of Ashdown hate here. I can't really argue that their budget series (MAG) isn't exactly my favorite. Not a lot of volume, no balls, can fart pretty easy.

The ABM series is quite refreshing though, it's completely different company. I used to have the MAG 300 with a MAG 410 and it was alright and cheap, never died but couldn't get loud enough to even fart.

Now I have an ABM 500 with two ABM 410's and whether I run with one or both cabs you can actually lay some bass out. Suuuuuuchhhhhhh an improvement, I was quite relieved haha.

+10000

[Roscoe East]

Originally Posted by JBNeedsBeer

Good god, which club? I usually cart around my full rig to NYC, but can sometimes be lazy.

The National Underground, on Houston Street. Here's a pic from their website, you can see that POS Ampeg partially hidden behind a chair

[dbase]

This amp was crap (Vox T60).. Used it for 1 gig, traded it for a Sunn.

[hampulator]

And I used this for years 'cause I was a broke bass playin kid(Now I'm a broke bass playin old fart)... an old Kustom combo guitar amp(late 60's early 70,s?) with that beautiful sparkle grey tuck and roll plastic padding. Think it was 100 w. 4+10" and 2 were blown or partially blown,using my hot red color '85-86 BC. Rich platinum Warlock bass, and all the while wondering why can't I sound like Steve Harris? How does He do it? Lmfao

[hampulator]

Originally Posted by sanderic

Fender 412 baseman cabinet. The one with the deep cabinet and speakers set back at angles.

AHHH,I had one of those back in the 80's! It got burnt down in a fire in the jam room....maybe that was a good thing?!

[RedMoses]

ANything Peavey

[spiritbass]

An old 60's Gibson. I think it might have been called a "Thor". It was more like his rectum.

[bootsox]

Anything GK, Hartke, or Fender sounds junky and undefined to me.