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advice on bass heads

Phillip Trammel

Phillip Trammel

Apr 1, 2012
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#1
I'm looking to buy a used micro bass head in the next week due to I'm tired of lugging heavey gear nowadays. I am torn between a genzbenz shuttle a little mark markbass and the new 350 or 500 aguilar. Unfortunatly there is no where close that sales these amps for me to try out. I play a lot of country motown funk style of music on electric and I play a good bit onupright as well so I am looking for a head that could do a descent job in covering these sounds. Any help would be much appreciated from personal use and opinions. Thank you
Phillip
 
#6
I probably wouldn't go Shuttle for the type of music you're doing but I might look at the Streamliner. And I'd look at all the other amps you mentioned as well. But as an endorser, I would also recommend taking a look at Ampeg's offerings in the micro department, namely the PF500 and SVT 7 Pro.

:D
 
#9
But seriously, it depends on your tonal goals. I own a Markbass LMIII and an Aguilar TH500. The Markbass sounds a good bit tube-like and it came quite close to sounding like my SVT-CL. That said, it's a very clean amp and it won't growl any. The TH500 isn't as tube-like, but it's still a very warm amp, and on the plus side it can have some nice grit and growl added to it's tone. In addition, the mid sweep knob on it makes it VERY flexible for most band settings.
 
#10
JimmyM said:
Listen, if you think 13 lbs for 1000w isn't micro sized, then you must be the pencil neck geek to end all pencil neck geeks.

Apologies if you're actually a badass ;)
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It's actually 15lbs :p

Nah, to me micro isn't necessarily all about the weight but also the size of the enclosure. If I can't fit the amp in a gig bag or cable bag then I don't really consider it a micro.
 
#12
From what you have listed "I" would choose the Shuttle. It has the most flexible EQ on your list. I do not play upright so no opinion with the shuttle and upright. I do have a Little Mark, and while it is a very nice amp, it lacks a little bit of sparkle to my ears, but I hear great things with markbass and upright. Good luck!
Any of those amps will work great I'm sure!
 

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