Who plugs straight in? What do you use? - Page 20

thejumpcat · #**381** 11-19-2012, 03:19 PM

P bass -- cord -- GK400rb -- LDS 1x15. Bam!

chuck norriss · #**382** 11-19-2012, 04:49 PM

Nice a lot of ampegs & fenders over here.

I'm going into ADA b500b amp to two 410s. Eden & hartke. Bringing back the full stack! Just have to figure out preamp situation looks like a pedal board w/ a few pedals is imminent until I can afford a proper tube preamp. Likely fender or ampeg.

MakiSupaStar · #**383** 11-20-2012, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by chuck norriss

Nice a lot of ampegs & fenders over here.

I'm going into ADA b500b amp to two 410s. Eden & hartke. Bringing back the full stack! Just have to figure out preamp situation looks like a pedal board w/ a few pedals is imminent until I can afford a proper tube preamp. Likely fender or ampeg.

I highly recommend the Ampeg SVP-BSP if you can find one.

chuck norriss · #**384** 11-20-2012, 12:54 PM

I'd be happy w any ampeg pre. I'll look for it thanks for the tip. Actually there's on in the ads now but I can't afford that.

jmverdugo · #**385** 11-20-2012, 01:30 PM

I'm wondering why you guys need a tuner in line ... I really enjoy playing around with effects but as other have mentioned I do not see myself using them for actualy playing, unles is and intro or something like that I guess, maybe I'm not very creative... It's been a while since I don't actually gig with a band but I did it for around 10 years and never used anything between the bass and the amp, the amp I used to use had a Limiter, an EQ and a chorus built in and I did use those from time to time though.

Currently I have a MIM Jazz Bass and a Ampeg BA110 and it sounds very nice.

rpmcmurphy · #**386** 11-20-2012, 01:43 PM

My no brainer rig. Just need muscle to move it.

JimmyM · #**387** 11-20-2012, 01:46 PM

I tried plugging straight in for the first time in a long time last night. HATED IT! Where's my fuzz on the Sly songs? Where's my OC-2 on the Hollywood endings? Admittedly, I didn't miss the SYB-3 I use as an envelope filter, but I sure missed distortion and octaver!

Sorry, but I won't be joining the club anytime soon.

chicharra9 · #**388** 11-20-2012, 01:53 PM

Dean edge pro--Peavey Mark IV--Peavey 2x15

chuck norriss · #**389** 11-20-2012, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by rpmcmurphy

My no brainer rig. Just need muscle to move it.

Oh dayummn.

chuck norriss · #**390** 11-20-2012, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by JimmyM

I tried plugging straight in for the first time in a long time last night. HATED IT! Where's my fuzz on the Sly songs? Where's my OC-2 on the Hollywood endings? Admittedly, I didn't miss the SYB-3 I use as an envelope filter, but I sure missed distortion and octaver!

Sorry, but I won't be joining the club anytime soon.

http://youtu.be/HZHwxIL9oYo

JimmyM · #**391** 11-20-2012, 02:52 PM

LOL! Exactly!

xroads · #**392** 11-21-2012, 01:59 AM

Yamaha BB424 -> GK MB200 -> GK MBE212

Tuner is not in the chain, but in the Aux out of the amp.

jastacey · #**393** 11-21-2012, 06:45 AM

What I use is Fenders or Musicman Basses, strung with TI flats, into a ThunderFunk 550-
B or TH500, into a Berg NV610 or a Berg HS410 or an Aguilar GS210 & GS212 stack, depending on the gig

kurosawa · #**394** 11-21-2012, 07:19 AM

The P lets me plug straight in with confidence I'll cut through any sonic setting. The standard P configuration has such a strong personality it overcomes bad wood, amps, speakers and rooms. Well above the lowest freqs, it has a characteristic hump that makes it sound like a bass, so I can gut the bottom and it still works fine. All I ask, like someone mentioned above, is to string it with flats (I like TI too) so my sound can cut without stepping all over the guitars.

If the sound is sproingy, especially if it's also scoopy, a lot of bottom is needed to support it and it gets obnoxious and tiring to the ear when it becomes necessary to gut the bottom to suit the room, because obviously if it is going to compete with guitars by stepping all over them, it needs more volume than if it was being heard as an independent voice by being a bass.

After years of trying to get people to call it an electric bass, a lot of players are going back to calling it a bass guitar. What's bad is they're thinking of it as a bass guitar. Trying to solve bass problems, both musical and audio problems, with a guitar, saddles your thinking with a huge handicap. The last thing a band needs is to lose a bass and gain another guitar.

Calaverasgrande · #**395** 11-21-2012, 03:08 PM

I used to run a huge pedalboard, and I still have dozens of pedals at home. But my last two bands being dual guitar 4 or 5 piece groups, I have been concentrating on dynamics instead of far out tones.
I have to say. I get a lot more compliments as a band and as a bassist when I am focussing on the dynamics. I have even had people come banging on the door of our rehearsal spot to tell us how much the last song killed.
I think a large part of that is playing delicate and pretty for the quiet parts, and dropping a 16lb sledge hammer on the audience during the louder parts.
And you know, my Sterling and my Mesa certainly aid and abet in that regard!
I kind of wish I had gotten past effects at a younger age so that I had spent more time developing my dynamics and technique. Not that I am any slouch.
(ahem)
But I could potentially be farther along by now.
OTOH I do have a whole arsenal of techniques that I have worked up using fuzz boxes (pinch harmonics) and envelope filters (dynamics again!).

KrisHayes · #**396** 11-21-2012, 03:10 PM

'01 Fender American Standard P-Bass straight into an Ampeg PF-500 or Orange Terror Bass 500, Ampeg PF115 cab. Thumps so lovely. Never needed anything else. Bigger gigs get DI'd.

KrisHayes · #**397** 11-21-2012, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by rpmcmurphy

My no brainer rig. Just need muscle to move it.

Lovely, dude!

chewy teeth · #**398** 11-23-2012, 02:46 PM

51-P RI > TB-600 > Schroeder 1212R