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11-11-2011, 07:46 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Toms River,NJ | | | Would you recommend...
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11-11-2011, 07:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Absolutely, without question, YES! |
11-11-2011, 07:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Santa Rosa, CA USA | | | Yes, unless the store has a bass just like your bass that you can use. |
11-11-2011, 08:10 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: just outside B-more Maryland | | | Always do
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11-11-2011, 08:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Texas | | | Every time. |
11-11-2011, 08:31 AM
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11-11-2011, 09:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: austin,tx | | | At least your own bass, if you can, one of your cabs too, unless it's something current production the store already has one of. |
11-11-2011, 09:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: austin,tx | | | Also any pedal/effect you routinely depend on. ie: use regularly, not just once in a while. Basically as much of your gig setup as is practical so the differences you're hearing is just the amp.
That's in a perfect world of course. |
11-11-2011, 12:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Dallas, TX | | | Fo sho
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11-11-2011, 02:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: valparaiso, in. | | | Yes take your bass with you. If I'm trying out cabs I take my amp along to try the set-up I'm actually thinking of using. They're all parts of the puzzle. |
11-11-2011, 03:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: White Plains | | | Yep
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11-12-2011, 09:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: austin,tx | | | Ideally, you'd bring your whole band, setup and play for an hour or 2. Obviously that isn't practical, so you bring the most important parts and do the best you can. |
11-12-2011, 01:44 PM
| | | | Always. Otherwise you will waste HOURS just finding a bass that's close to it. |
11-13-2011, 01:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Toms River,NJ | | | Good points...I'll be bringing my bass
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11-13-2011, 02:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Manitowoc WI | | | Never buy an amp without playing your bass through it
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11-13-2011, 04:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Norway | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by theduke1 Never buy an amp without playing your bass through it | Meh, the last time I did that was in 1988. 
For some of us, that is simply not an option. Most online dealers have a 30 days return policy, so it's really no issue IMO.
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11-13-2011, 04:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Narvik, Norway | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by 4-string
Meh, the last time I did that was in 1988.
For some of us, that is simply not an option. | If it like that in the south of Norway,..... Even worse in the north. I live about 200km north to the polar circle, the only music shop around here is 100km away. They have only a Nexus head with 4x10" cab, one SWR combo and one Hartke combo in the shop. Well at least the last time I was there. But they have much more if one order by the web. I actually haven't played my Rick, my Geddy and my CV p bass before. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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