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

[bootsox]

Originally Posted by bolophonic

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

or maybe I just don't like those brands.

I can get killer tone out of nearly anything Peavey, Ampeg, Markbass, SWR, Mesa, or just about anything else. I just can't get a tone that works for me out of those 3 brands in particular

[PWRL]

I had an old Sunn 215 with the wrong speakers in it, back when I was broke. It's time had come long before I bought it. It was all blown out and sounded awful, not to mention the back rattled like heck, and the rest of it was held together with drywall screws. It also had the world's squeakiest caster wheel. I thought it was the worst until I played one of those use-the-other-band's gear shows, and I played through the world's most worn-out Acoustic 215. It was everything you'd expect and nothing you'd want.

[ThirtyOver]

played a markbass 2x8 combo at a GC recently...sounded more like taking a dump than a fart so I dont know if that qualifies.

[LiquidMidnight]

Definitely my Crate BFX100. I still have it, but I haven't fired it up in years.

When I was in my first "real" band, my lead singer bought this homemade 2x15 off of a guy he worked with for like fifty bucks. I still remember that it was bare wood - no tolex, carpeting, or bedliner. I think it had some cheesy gold grill that the dude put on it.

This is a great example of how making a great cabinet is more than just sticking some speakers in a box. My lead singer's father was an awesome bass player in his own right and would let me use his vintage blueline with this cab (since the aforementioned Crate just wasn't cutting it in most rooms). This cab was proof that you could actually make a blueline sound bad. Everything sounded like farty Jack Bruce riffs. And the cab was so unresponsive that it didn't matter where I put the knobs on the SVT. Everything sounded the same.

I saw my old singer this past summer. I should have asked him if he still had that cab.

[JimmyM]

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

Then why am I still using one?

[NWB]

Crate B100.

I'll never get those years back.

It had a 12 in it with the surrounding board painted black to look like a 15.

Absolute garbage. I can't write much more that would be TB appropriate.

[NWB]

Originally Posted by petrus61

Every single note rang like a monkey humping a bag of golf clubs.

Crying laughing....

That's spit out your coffee and roll off the chair in tears funny!

[cjp3044]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

Then why am I still using one?

Because you are lucky enough to have one. :envy:

[BassKitty101]

Originally Posted by bootsox

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

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[eban3]

Aguilar head with a Genz benz 8 10's bottom , worst pairing of a head and cab Ive ever head unless something was wrong with the thing sounded god awful no matter what i tweaked

[NeonVomit]

Marshall VBA400 into a Marshall 4x12 that had been provided for a gig. Couldn't get a decent tone out of the damn thing. I mean, I've played on crappy little amps before, but with those you get what you pay for.

After that incident I'd take my own head with me everywhere. Best thing to do, IMO.

[gumtownbassman]

Originally Posted by NeonVomit

Marshall VBA400 into a Marshall 4x12 that had been provided for a gig. Couldn't get a decent tone out of the damn thing. I mean, I've played on crappy little amps before, but with those you get what you pay for.

Really? I wouldn't exactly say the Marshall VBA400 was a fartbag amp???

[bobunit]

Originally Posted by gumtownbassman

Really? I wouldn't exactly say the Marshall VBA400 was a fartbag amp???

One man's turd is another man's treasure.

I like Marshall amps, but I've yet to try one of these...

[jaxstarke]

Anything Behringer.

[FrenchBassQC]

For me it was in the eighties, I had a Bryston power amp with a Furman preamp with a parametric equalizer, it sounded like crap not fart.

[kimmyt]

St. George The Count, made in Hollywood, guessing 65' or so. It is SolidState and had a separate 212 cab. Loaded with Jensens. Upon opening it up someone had burnt into the insulation "No Good". It was my first bass amp back in 72', never had enough power. I still have packed away in the rafters.

[adk teleman]

In the last band I was in the bass player had one of those Hartke Combos something like 200 watts into a 12" speaker. Sounded like a can of angry hornest with bad gas. I hated when he would play because it sounded so bad!

[StephenR]

I know this is not going to be a very popular response but for me it was my first amp... an Ampeg B-12. Problem was more with the expectations my thirteen year-old brain had back in 1965 than with the amp itself. Used at a moderate volume level it sounded good but being young my fellow bandmates and I were convinced that you had to turn ALL amps up to ten or it wasn't worth turning them on. I am sure that the crappy Japanese bass I owned at the time didn't help with the sound either but at the volume we thought we needed to play the amp never had a chance to sound good.

In later years I ran two B-15 bottoms each loaded with an EV speaker powered by a V4B and the rig sounded good. That was my last foray into the world of Ampeg. Rig was replaced by an Alembic F2-B, BGW power amps and JBL bass cabs. I still prefer clean sounding modular rigs where I can mix and match components as needed.

[petrus61]

Just thought of another gem: The P.O.S. Randall practice amp I'm stuck using currently at home. I will bet $10000 it sounds worse than anything mentioned thus far.

EDIT: Does anyone remember PLUSH amps? Fartabulous.

[gumtownbassman]

Even though not an amp,
the most fartabulous bit of gear i had was a Boss WS-10 wireless,
put your hand too close to it and it would take off with fart noises,
really embarasing because everyone thought i had dropped a big one.