Most fartbag amp or cab you've ever played through? - Page 15

Russell L · #**281** 02-08-2013, 12:30 PM

Played a friend's Behringer combo (the one with four tens, I forget the model number). It sounded big, but that was all. No character or definition, IMO, and heavy as hell.

TheRealKong · #**282** 02-08-2013, 12:44 PM

Worst Amp was my first amp, an FAL Kestrel, hube 1x15"-Solid-State-Combo with literally no sound at all. I changed the speaker with an Electrovoice, did not help. I bought an Acoustic-Clone, 200 Watt Solidstate, and only used the Cab, so I was loud enough.

Sold the FAL Kestrel, abd bought a f*cking big and heavy 118"-Marshall-cab, only deep end, no tone at all. Sold the crap and got me a Peavey 215"-cab, this one worked with the Acoustic-Clone.

One year later, I bought my first GallienKrueger 400 RB, and everything was all right. It was beautiful with my Peavey 215".

Heard some buzz about bad farting SWR Redheads. I had one of the first models in Germany, and with an extension cab it was real beautiful! But maybe it was the extension cab, a sealed 410", built like the upper half of an Ampeg - 810". he cab delivered the creamy mids I liked with this rig. I got a lots of compliments because of my sound in this times.

Ciao

Uwe

bolophonic · #**283** 02-08-2013, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by bootsox

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

This sounds like you just don't know how work an amp.

Not yet · #**284** 02-08-2013, 01:29 PM

GK Backline at Buddy Guys Legends.....Great in front, horrific on stage

timber22 · #**285** 02-08-2013, 01:35 PM

A 160 watt Behringer combo. I don't remember the model number. I blocked it out of my memory.
I played a gig and was told the amp would be supplied, and this thing ended up being it when I arrived. I couldn't find any way to EQ it that didn't sound awful.

RS66LB · #**286** 02-08-2013, 01:35 PM

A 1980 Peavey mk3 bass head -at that time the promise of '300' watts sounded amazing -what I got was a lesson in fudged specs and promotional gimmicktry

gazzatriumph · #**287** 02-08-2013, 02:06 PM

Fender Rumble 150 couldnt get a decent sound out of it. Got Ashdown gear now great gear and awesome sound

Freez · #**288** 02-08-2013, 02:13 PM

My first amp; it was a 1-15 combo amp and it had a plastic plate on the speaker grill that said ARB. Should have said POS. The tone controls (both of them) seemed to have no real bearing on the sound. The volume control had only slightly more impact. I remember playing with a dude who was going through a little 10 or 15 watt Gorilla, and he was just burying me!

Fuzzbass · #**289** 02-08-2013, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Triclops

For me, It was my first "serious" combo I ever owned. The old blue carpeted Yorkville 400B ...

70's (?) silverface Fender Bassman head through a smallish 2x15 bass cab (maybe a 2x12?). Borrowed it from a friend. I don't know if there was something wrong (tubes/bias), but it was fart city.

Actually, the tone was kind of cool... not too different from live recordings of Mel Schacher, Felix Pappalardi, Jack Bruce. Definitely not the tone I wanted all the time, though!

druidnz · #**290** 02-08-2013, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by oerk

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.

Was it the Same as this?
I still Own the Leem, and i dont know why. Low level practice its fine, any louder and its like a female trying to sneak a fart out but it goes wrong and get the loud squeak instead.

I Purchased this when i first started playing bass and didnt really know what is was doing (in some regards i still dont, hence a trawl the TB pages).

krstko · #**291** 02-08-2013, 03:23 PM

Haha you guys have no idea what farting means. I once played (or should I say I tried to play) on Bugera Nuke 3600 (or whatever it is) through 15' Behringer PA sub .. I had to go back home and pick my amp for that gig ..

timber22 · #**292** 02-08-2013, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by druidnz

Low level practice its fine, any louder and its like a female trying to sneak a fart out but it goes wrong and get the loud squeak instead.

I've seen bass tone described 1000 different ways on TB, but that may be the funniest description I've ever seen!

bringitlow · #**293** 02-08-2013, 03:52 PM

Ampeg SVT 350h through a Carvin 15" cab... the tone was so bad, so fartingly terrible that I still have nightmares about it

PluckyThump · #**294** 02-08-2013, 04:01 PM

A Traynor 2x10 cab. Didn't sound anything like a 2x10, more like a 1x18 with a blown driver.

marcberez · #**295** 02-08-2013, 04:05 PM

In 1974 my father bought me an Ampeg flip top bass amp with a single 15". I felt embarrased to play throught it. Horrible sound and very heavy. The tubes were hot as hell. Now you can find them on Ebay selling for a lot of money. Nostaglia is an illusion, a lot of the old stuff was crap. LOL

lowend1 · #**296** 02-08-2013, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by marcberez

In 1974 my father bought me an Ampeg flip top bass amp with a single 15". I felt embarrased to play throught it. Horrible sound and very heavy. The tubes were hot as hell. Now you can find them on Ebay selling for a lot of money. Nostaglia is an illusion, a lot of the old stuff was crap. LOL

Yeah, nothing says crappy bass tone like an old B-15. I hate it when tubes get hot!

cjp3044 · #**297** 02-08-2013, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by lowend1

Yeah, nothing says crappy bass tone like an old B-15. I hate it when tubes get hot!

LMAO - I'd give my left nut for a vintage B-15, but it would never leave the studio!

christopherogut · #**298** 02-08-2013, 04:35 PM

Rogue RB-120BT. A complete waste of MDF, tolex, and components. It's sad to think that Man toiled to remove and refine a bunch of rare metals, oil, and wood from the Earth so that Rogue could turn around and assemble such a piece of **** combo.

nozkcb · #**299** 02-08-2013, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Aarix

Old Crate gray rat fur coverd 200W amp. No idea what the model was, but it had a powerful graphic EQ that could shape the sound all the way from whoopie cushion to baby squirrel farts.

I also really liked the feature where it would melt anything plastic (like cords) near the back of the amp.

I think I used that on stage with Derek Trucks for an opening act "blues jam" when he played my local high school once though... Fortunately the sound guy had the sense to use a DI. I was told that it sounded ok out front, but I couldn't hear squat. That thing cut through a mix like squirrel butt.

I have to say, that is one of the funniest posts I've seen.

petrus61 · #**300** 02-09-2013, 08:32 PM

Is Bugera still making speakers, or did they all spontaneously combust into a brown cloud of death-fart? I remember playing through one of their 4x10's at an open mic and it had to be one of, if not THE worst thing I ever had the displeasure of being within earshot of.
Every single note rang like a monkey humping a bag of golf clubs.