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this shop is literally 10min drive from my home ;) howewer I'm re-thinking about my original intent. I've decided it's impratical to have 1 amp for both bass and guitar, at least for the very specific tones I want from either instruments. regarding guitar, I'll settle on a small fender...

food for thought here. I forgot to mention another limitation, perhaps the bigger, I have to deal with: gear avalaibility. In Italy lots of the good used gear you have in US is not avalaible. Not many ebay or TB vendors agree to ship "fridges" to Europe and even if someone does it, shipping...

I'm not expert at tube amps, but here I've learned that most guitar tube heads are good for bass , and vice versa (bassman, v4..). Now I happen to have a small sum of money and I've decided to bit the bullet for a 70s sounding amp for studio-home-smaller gig. I want tube. I'd like to be able...

good page with lot of info about Cure gear and such: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] Simon Gallup is a favourite of mine: simple but catchy bass lines, and a tone that defined an era. I'm still struggling to play lovesong line fingerstyle...

it happens. It happened to my uncle (and musical mentor): his band in late 70s rented a solitary country house to rehearse for their album and left the equipment there. Lots of good gear, he said: Gibson guitars, J basses, high-end drums, Fender amps, SVT... One day they went there and only some...

Yesterday at rehearsal I used an old Pevaey 150w and unmarked 1x15 cab, found by my guitarist in his basement. I tried some tricks to hear myself better: cab at chest level and pointed toward me and the drummer, EQ with more mids... Actually it sounded good. It seems I wasn't using my head...

before talking amps, happy New Year to everybody here! We found out the head I was using wasn't working properly... the owner " casually" admitted it after we A/b'd with a simple100w combo and the volume was almost the same. He simply didn't bothered to repair it and rented it to me. That's the...

...and the entire olympic team of weightlifting to carry it :) :)

thanks, people, unvaluable real-life and real-gigs informations here! I'm compiling a list of amp and cabs to try (or at least the ones I'll be able to find in stores reasonably near to me). MB for sure, there's a good selection here. Genz Benz way less. GK a couple. TC also. There's a vast...

mcnach I will try the CMD121 combo as soon as possible when the shop I talked before reopens after holidays... do you think its 12 speaker will be enough for 2-300 people clubs and group with a not too loud drummer and reasonable guitarist? in order to use it as monitor, do you put it on a...

I'm having an icrredible wealth of informations here, thanks. Bassman1971 many thasnks, I must indagate more about tc amp, they seem really good. Drunk heffalump, a mesa would be a dream... it's a bit of stretch to my budget though. Do you said it's 410? I only found the 112 combo...perhaps in...

dropbass, in many venues we play we have to go thru stairs to reach the stage... sometimes is a cavern-basement under pavement level, sometimes a mezzanine or gallery with narrow stairs... this kills me. pfox14, in ideal conditions 100w could be enough, but we rarely had them. Many times the...

just for info, actually I'm using a Trace Elliot 300w head and 410 cab, both borrowed (better say rented "relaxately") from a friend. Sound is good, in few occasions I could have liked a little more volume. But the trouble is the cab weight: like said I got back troubles courtesy of some car and...

40 lbs is the absolute maximum I could lift without going to emergency room. But I'd like to have at least 4-500w rms... I know I could get the job done with less power 99 times out of 100 but I don't want to be catched that one time short of power... now, if someone would make a combo with this...

I'm on the market for a good head + cab. I've perused every TB post in this section, but I'm still confused. Ideally, I'd go for SVT and 410 and be in heaven for the rest of my bass life. or AD 200. or Superbass. But it would be a complete ruin for me, given I already got bad back and live in...