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All tube combo?

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I've used a full SVT with mic'ed 8x10 in a larger studio w/ my own iso room. (Actually, I was running that alongside a mic'ed Mesa 400+ into a 2x15! By dinner break, that room felt like a sauna.) I cannot imagine actually cranking either amp. Its ungodly loud! And, honestly, I've gotten far "bigger" sounds on tape by using a B-15 or similar small amp. For live use at an outdoor festival I've turned up the SVT & it's great! But in the studio, even a huge studio with well isolated rooms, a cranked SVT really isn't ideal.

This is where these new (and, of course old) low-wattage tube bass amps come in! I'm gonna be all over the Ashdown if it sounds like I hope it does. In the meantime, I'll be using B-15's, SB-12's or whatever the studio has (one studio is using a 50's Bassman head into a Demeter 1x10 iso cab box- AWESOME sounding, btw).
 
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scotch said:
But in the studio, even a huge studio with well isolated rooms, a cranked SVT really isn't ideal.
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Slight understatement ; } ...In rock and roll excess there's been a few players/bands doing stupid things with dual full stacks for the guitarists and SVTs for the bassists, but even in REALLY BIG STUDIOS you can get a better result with small combos for guitars and a B15 for the bassist.
 
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JimmyM said:
the grunt bass was almost always done on a low power amp in the studio, especially back in that time frame. b-15's, b-12's, fender, marshall, sunn, west...even live, more often they used 100w amps for bass if they were into that sound. most of the svt guys from the 70's that i can remember actually played pretty clean. there were some brave enough to dime it, but nothing like now where you see a guy with an svt and you expect him to dime it.
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I remember seeing the Stones live back in 1969. They were an all ampeg band at that point ( remember Keith's and Bill's plexiglass guitar and bass ? ). Bill was using two Svt's and I remember hearing alot of thud, but hardly anything that sounded like distortion, and I was pretty much on his side of the stage down front. I'm assuming the Stones had the best PA available at the time, so maybe that had something to do with it. As I said, a whole lot of thud, but not much note definition, just a huge pillow on the bottom. Really sounded cool at the time, although I was stoned to the bone for that show !
 
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jnewmark said:
I remember seeing the Stones live back in 1969. They were an all ampeg band at that point ( remember Keith's and Bill's plexiglass guitar and bass ? ). Bill was using two Svt's and I remember hearing alot of thud, but hardly anything that sounded like distortion, and I was pretty much on his side of the stage down front. I'm assuming the Stones had the best PA available at the time, so maybe that had something to do with it. As I said, a whole lot of thud, but not much note definition, just a huge pillow on the bottom. Really sounded cool at the time, although I was stoned to the bone for that show !
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seeing the stones in 69 rocks! never have seen them myself.
 

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