Who has an Ampeg 810 without an SVT?

[zachoff]

Just wondering... I wasn't ever impressed with an Ampeg 810 until I got an SVT. Now I couldn't imagine it any other way.

[JimmyM]

i used to use a v4b with one and loved it.

btw, the 78 cab is just called the 810. they were never called the 810e until slm came out with them.

[coreyfyfe]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

i used to use a v4b with one and loved it.

Ditto. But now I have an SVT. And FWIW, when I had an SVT-CL before I didn't have an 8x10. Funny how things come full circle.

[georgestrings]

I have an old SVT-810, but don't own an SVT head - I'm thinking about selling it or trading it for a good 410, though... It's not the weight or size making me want to do that - it's that I already have a 610 and a 215 that both give me more of what I want than the SVT-810, which is tons of low end... 410s that I know will work for me from past experience are the SVT-410HLF, SWR's Goliaths, and Eden's XLTs...

I tried my 810 with the all-tube AlphaBASS, thinking that it would respond better to a tube amp - but in the end, I just prefer ported cabs...


- georgestrings

[jastacey]

I have/use a SVT 8x10 cabinet when the need calls for it ... I like the wall of sound behind me ... the cab sounds good with a Bassman 300, Peavey VB-2, Traynor YBA-3, Ampeg V4-B ... but lately I've been using a smaller cabinet

[zachoff]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

btw, the 78 cab is just called the 810. they were never called the 810e until slm came out with them.

[Eric!]

I've seen TONS of people with the ampeg 810s without an SVT

[countrybassist]

On occasion I'll hook up a LMII instead of a CL to an 810. It's sounds cool.

[Mooblar]

I own two! No SVT.

[JMac4strngr]

Ampeg has made more versions of an 8-10 cab than any other amp/cab company that I know of, which would be why they are so easy to get your hands on. For 8-10's I think they are the industry standard. Heck, as far as I know they were the first guys on the block who offered an 8-10.
Mine has sounded pretty darned good with any head I have hooked to it.

[Buster Brown]

I play a 4 pro through my 8X10.....but I have a new Heritage CL on order...

[Murph_Orpheus]

I used to have one and used a BB750 and Genz Benz GBE 1200 through it and both were pretty monstrous sounding unfortunately I've had to downsize from the 8x10

[Calaverasgrande]

Honestly I never owned both an Ampeg SVT tube head and an 8x10 at once. Yet to pass that milestone. I owned the solidstate SVT that had chorus or flange or something when I had an 8x10. I later had a blueline SVT with a mesa 2x15. AWESOME combo!
One of these days I will own every worthy Ampeg model and every tubed Mesa bass amp.

[Corey Y]

I've had an 810e for a number of years and I've never owned an SVT of any sort. I use my Sound City B120 and now my Little Mark II with it. I got it because I used to use a Peavey 1820 and once my Peavey MkIII blew up and I switched to tube amps it just sounded very flabby and I couldn't get the punch I liked from my tone at the time. I happened into a great deal on the 810e new and it got me that punch I wanted and didn't feel like it skimped on low end thump. Most of the gigging bass players I know who play in loud bands (metal, rock, hardcore) have an Ampeg 8x10 and not an SVT actually.

I have thought about swapping for an Ampeg 1540 in the past, but never pulled the trigger. I'm starting to warm up to the idea of maybe a 2x12 and a 15 though, with some of the newer more efficient cabs out there. Over the past 10 years I was always much more concerned with power and attack than clarity and efficiency, but as I'm getting older my ears (and my back) are more sensitive to these things I suppose.