My main rig, Sansamp RBI into Crest power amp, into 4 Hartke Hydrive 112 cabinets. Will handle any situation and a lot easier to move than a big cabinet. I use 2, 3 or all 4 cabs depending on the venue.
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A Just For Fun Thread - "Coolest looking cabs\stacks"
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It might have been answered already, but this is Rod Gonzalez, bassist for German band "Die Ärzte". They should be well known across the pond as well since they claim to be the best band in the world.
Main purpose of the overhead cabs is to provide anchor for the disco ball, I suppose...
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Partway through practice I hooked up the power amp (the Mesa drives the top two 410’s) so that the rest of the stack would function and enjoyed some pant-flapping, back-massaging goodness the rest of practice. And hey, it’s been a while, so I had to make sure it all worked.
Best stack I've ever build, beats any commercial bass cab when it comes to precision and dynamics.
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Partway through practice I hooked up the power amp (the Mesa drives the top two 410’s) so that the rest of the stack would function and enjoyed some pant-flapping, back-massaging goodness the rest of practice. And hey, it’s been a while, so I had to make sure it all worked.
That's Rodrigo González of German ska punk band Die Ärzte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Ärzte
The band formed in the early 80's and was/is quite popular. They are still active. He can certainly afford that rig and the roadies that go with it.
Still, I like the disco ball
Edit- sorry, late again, as usual
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Well, Greg Lake had also a cool rig - and enough money for roadies...
Those Purple CORD rigs were Australian with the company situated on Parramatta Road, Sydney.
Long gone of course. After they went, WASP took off as the main amps of Aussie bass players.
THANK YOU!
I was going to look for an image of that rig. JBL Horn lenses....CHECK!
Analogeezer
p.s. I posted about this a while back but nobody ever knew it or figured it out; what he used to preamp that rig.
I have seen pictures of an amp rack, he used Crown DC-300's, but I have no idea what he used as a front end
Well not only roadies for the bass rig, he had a special roadie just for the Persian carpet!
Analogeezer
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Partway through practice I hooked up the power amp (the Mesa drives the top two 410’s) so that the rest of the stack would function and enjoyed some pant-flapping, back-massaging goodness the rest of practice. And hey, it’s been a while, so I had to make sure it all worked.
Fine , that's your practice rig for, you know, messing around, but show us your REAL rig.
Thought I'd post another one I had . Sorry if it offends anyone . I haven't used his cabinets for years and would never recommend them but this rig killed .
Big rig: Fender Bassman 500 and Low Down Sound Faital 2x15". It looks and sounds huge, but both are super lightweight and easy to transport. I'm thinking about changing the grill cloth on the LDS cab to something that matches the Fender head better.
Small rig: Ampeg PF800 and TecAmp S210. Great looking and sounding pair.
Small rig: Ampeg PF800 and TecAmp S210. Great looking and sounding pair.
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Partway through practice I hooked up the power amp (the Mesa drives the top two 410’s) so that the rest of the stack would function and enjoyed some pant-flapping, back-massaging goodness the rest of practice. And hey, it’s been a while, so I had to make sure it all worked.
You get extra points for a STACK (and yes people THIS is a STACK) which requires a step ladder to adjust the amp controls
Maybe add two or three rackmount tuners for dazzle effect and it would be perfect!
Analogeezer
One of the more epic setups, Glenn Hughes at the California Jam....
EIGHT Folded horns powered by two HiWatt heads
Analogeezer
p.s. The second picture is not from the CalJam, but it shows the rig better.
For those who don't remember the original CalJam in 1974, it was held at Ontario Motor Speedway (which is now long gone), attracted like 400,000+ people.
Very sophisticated PA for the era, they combined the PA provided with ELP's PA and used delay stacks, not sure if this had been done before.
The other trick they used was to have TWO stages, mounted on railroad tracks. They would push one off to the side after a setup, and push the next set into place. Then unload the stage from the prior set and set it up for the following set.
This allowed them to rapidly have the next act ready to play with minimal delay between bands.
A sorta beef developed when it was decided that Emerson, Lake, and Palmer would close the show, Ritchie Blackmore (who I always thought was a total ****) got super pissed and trashed one of the ABC video cameras on stage.
That is why when ELP came on there was only one broadcast camera on the stage (they had others mounted on cranes far away).
Sadly the rights to this are tied up because ABC broadcast the show (over several nights) and will apparently not release the official footage to make a movie or documentary.
So all you have are various YouTube versions of the show.
The first CalJam is most famous for Emerson's "spinning grand Piano trick" where he sat behind a grand piano that was elevated and started spinning around like 30 feet in the air.
It was just for show as the piano was an empty shell (if you look closely at the footage you can see the 4" x 4" that goes through the thing to rotate it), as they played some piano track through the PA while Keith faked playing.
Still way cool and mind blowing at the time....still is.
EIGHT Folded horns powered by two HiWatt heads
Analogeezer
p.s. The second picture is not from the CalJam, but it shows the rig better.
For those who don't remember the original CalJam in 1974, it was held at Ontario Motor Speedway (which is now long gone), attracted like 400,000+ people.
Very sophisticated PA for the era, they combined the PA provided with ELP's PA and used delay stacks, not sure if this had been done before.
The other trick they used was to have TWO stages, mounted on railroad tracks. They would push one off to the side after a setup, and push the next set into place. Then unload the stage from the prior set and set it up for the following set.
This allowed them to rapidly have the next act ready to play with minimal delay between bands.
A sorta beef developed when it was decided that Emerson, Lake, and Palmer would close the show, Ritchie Blackmore (who I always thought was a total ****) got super pissed and trashed one of the ABC video cameras on stage.
That is why when ELP came on there was only one broadcast camera on the stage (they had others mounted on cranes far away).
Sadly the rights to this are tied up because ABC broadcast the show (over several nights) and will apparently not release the official footage to make a movie or documentary.
So all you have are various YouTube versions of the show.
The first CalJam is most famous for Emerson's "spinning grand Piano trick" where he sat behind a grand piano that was elevated and started spinning around like 30 feet in the air.
It was just for show as the piano was an empty shell (if you look closely at the footage you can see the 4" x 4" that goes through the thing to rotate it), as they played some piano track through the PA while Keith faked playing.
Still way cool and mind blowing at the time....still is.
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