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03-15-2013, 07:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: North Dakota, USA | | | Playing a live show -- Need amplification
August 30th is my first huge gig, and right now I am ampless.
I have a budget of 300 USD.
Just a side note, the venue has a completely EPIC Bose sound system with great bass response I've heard from playing an iPod through it.
Could I get by with a bass DI?
Thanks!
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03-16-2013, 08:57 AM
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Originally Posted by dwagner  August 30th is my first huge gig, and right now I am ampless.
I have a budget of 300 USD.
Just a side note, the venue has a completely EPIC Bose sound system with great bass response I've heard from playing an iPod through it.
Could I get by with a bass DI?
Thanks! | Of course you can get by with it. Whether you will like the result or not is another question. |
03-16-2013, 09:09 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: LaGrange, Georgia | | | You've got till August? Go out and earn some money, mow lawns, wait tables, clean gutters, rake leaves, or whatever you have to do. A second job for a short period of time won't hurt anyone. Surely you could make enough to buy a decent rig and then you'd have it for future gigs. Or to drive the neighbors crazy, LOL!
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03-16-2013, 09:13 AM
| | | | You really won't need an amp for that gig, but you can get a head with a DI for later so you don't need a DI and an amp at a later point. Just to give a perspective on real watts needed... I have a Rumble 350 Combo. With the stock drivers, I would play at 5 at practice with everyone else through the monitors. I put in Eminence Basslite S2010s and played at 2 last night. I will be playing through the PA at our next show and the combo will just be for the back line, but probably will mostly hear myself through the monitors. |
03-16-2013, 09:16 AM
| | | | BTW I wouldn't necesarrily recommend a Rumble, because the XLR out is tied to the volume. Other heads keep it the same or have a separate control for it. |
03-16-2013, 09:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Palm Coast, Florida | | | Maybe I am missing something here........
How does one get to the point of being in a band and getting a big gig without having some sort of amplification ?
What have you been using to practice with the band ?
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03-16-2013, 05:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: North Dakota, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by funnyfingers You really won't need an amp for that gig, but you can get a head with a DI for later so you don't need a DI and an amp at a later point. Just to give a perspective on real watts needed... I have a Rumble 350 Combo. With the stock drivers, I would play at 5 at practice with everyone else through the monitors. I put in Eminence Basslite S2010s and played at 2 last night. I will be playing through the PA at our next show and the combo will just be for the back line, but probably will mostly hear myself through the monitors. |
Alright.
So a head and a DI will temporarily work?
I mean, this PA is.... EPIC.
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03-16-2013, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by mellowinman | Thanks man.
I appreciate you not scorning me immediately at the mention of my price range. 
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03-17-2013, 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by dwagner Thanks man.
I appreciate you not scorning me immediately at the mention of my price range. | Not everybody's wealthy.
Some of us have bills to pay.
That Rumble 60 has been my only rig for the past three or four years, and I have played countless shows. It looks pretty funny sitting on a chair next to my wife's rig with two 15's. 
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03-17-2013, 11:42 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Virginia Beach, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dwagner August 30th is my first huge gig, and right now I am ampless.
I have a budget of 300 USD.
Just a side note, the venue has a completely EPIC Bose sound system with great bass response I've heard from playing an iPod through it.
Could I get by with a bass DI?
Thanks! | Man-o-day...add ~$200 and you can purchase a really nice gig-worthy used rig. OTOH, I see you live in North Dakota so availability may vary. How close are you to civilization as we know it? Not being a wiseguy...a buddy of mine is from Kulm, ND. There were 8 students in his graduating class.
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03-17-2013, 01:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: North Dakota, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Zooberwerx Man-o-day...add ~$200 and you can purchase a really nice gig-worthy used rig. OTOH, I see you live in North Dakota so availability may vary. How close are you to civilization as we know it? Not being a wiseguy...a buddy of mine is from Kulm, ND. There were 8 students in his graduating class.
Riis | Right between Fargo and Bismark, more or less.
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