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09-18-2008, 05:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Atlanta | | | Asked to provide backline for gig?
Yeah, so my band was asked to provide the backline for a gig our singer had sorta leaned into us about. A few details first,
We are a three piece rock/americana/post punk sometimes band.
One Guit/vox, bass/hat, drummer/singer.
It's a fairly small gig - from what I'm told it's located in a basement of sorts. Anyhoo, should I:
A. Let the all the bands bassists, there aren't that many from my understanding, Use my 112 ex bergie & LMII? OR
B. Break out ye old Peavey 115 keyboard/bass amp?
Bonus. It has reverb too!
Would I be right in doing the latter?
Please advise.
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09-18-2008, 05:47 PM
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If not, ye olde Peaveye shoulde gete the nod. |
09-18-2008, 06:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Atlanta | | Ooops. SIlly me.
Nope. also, no beer, but possibly snacky cake things on doylies & whatnot . 
Ye old peavey is starting to sound good.
It's a compromise in weight but....
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09-18-2008, 07:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: La Mesa (San Diego area), Cali | | | Peavey!
WAY too many chances for you to get scr***d using your good rig! There are only a couple of people I would ever let use my gear - without me standing there with a baseball bat!
Take this with a grain of salt - I'm the guy that loaned a "friend" a 10-piece Sonor kit and never saw him or the drums again! Bitter, d**n right I am!
Dan K.
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09-18-2008, 07:10 PM
| | | | I have a feeling everyone will agree on peavey
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09-18-2008, 07:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Exit 4, NJ | | | Peavey. And mark the volume knob with a sticky
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09-18-2008, 07:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Bezerkely, CA | | | No
Given how friends have been known to treat gear, strangers IMO are out of the question.
*I* think you should tell them, I got your rig right here. Failing that, throw the Peavey at them.
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09-18-2008, 08:03 PM
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09-18-2008, 08:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ohio | | | If you're able to take both, use your good amp and then leave them the peavey. |
09-18-2008, 08:33 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Horsham, Pa | | | I've supplied the backline many times. In fact, I prefer it that way I know I'm not playing out of a peavey. lol. It's pretty harmless letting someone else use my rig. My bass is compeletely out of the question, but my amp. No worries.
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09-18-2008, 09:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | I've provided the backline myself. I have a little talk with whoever is using my rig before they even plug into it. That volume knob better not go past 3! 
My opinion? Bring both. Plug your Berg into the Peavey's speaker line out, and then when you want to play, plug in your LMII
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09-20-2008, 11:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Norfolk, Massachusetts | | | my band just used another bands backline for a gig we did up in nh.
we were at a college outside, nice system and everything.
he uses a svt 4pro and a mesa 15. great sound.
its making me think about taking my 4x10 and trading it in for another 1x15
2 1x15s sound good to me right now!
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09-21-2008, 07:28 AM
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I took the peavey. It delivered. Hmm. reminds me of the old days when that was all i had. The other bands were like, Oh, it's a keyboard amp. My response was, yeah, feel free to change whatever settings you like - plus, it has reverb!
It sounded fine for that gig. And, after all i think ultimately we were more concerned with the overall volume anyway.
So Kudos! to the peavey 115 bass/kboard amp 
Thanks for all the input all.
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10-05-2008, 06:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Mudsock,Ohio | | | I don't know ,the whole idea behind supplieing the backline has me on a fence.
I mean it's a free rental for everyone else.
You've heard that expression, "drive it like a rental".
It could happen that you get a real noobie who doesn't know any better about working with a amp and what it can and can not do.
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10-05-2008, 07:04 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | No good deed goes unpunished! Don't do it! |
10-05-2008, 03:35 PM
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Glad to hear the gig went well.
Cheers,
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10-05-2008, 03:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cambridge, MA | | | Agree before hand what would happen if the equipment goes "bad" or is damaged for whatever reason.
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10-05-2008, 05:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Atlanta | | Quote:
Originally Posted by sedan_dad I don't know ,the whole idea behind supplieing the backline has me on a fence.
I mean it's a free rental for everyone else.
You've heard that expression, "drive it like a rental".
It could happen that you get a real noobie who doesn't know any better about working with a amp and what it can and can not do. | Yeah, that is why I chose to bring the peavey. In the event of a newer bassist/amp abuser what have you. So what better amp to git learnt on? It takes all you throw at it, and still rattles the butt bone. 
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10-05-2008, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by jazzbo58 Amen Brother!!! Those are words to live by.
Glad to hear the gig went well.
Cheers,
Jim | Thanks Jim. BTW I'm gonna be in your neck of the woods soon. And there ain't no back lin'n this one 
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10-05-2008, 05:29 PM
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Cheers,
Jim
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