Any of them would work, but the Markbass is by far my favorite when it comes to warm (that is, if you define warm as Ampeg tube amps, which I most certainly do).
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Amp for Progressive Rock
- Thread starter In Absentia
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- Dec 18, 2000
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I think you would find an EBS Classic 450 head for that kind of money! It is basically a stripped down EBS head that delivers the EBS sound, but a bit more rock'n roll due to the dual mid controls that is very helpful to find the sweet spots in the midrange easily and the drive on this amp is absolutely amazing. Check out Link Removed they recorded their new album Lazarus Bird using this head.
Well, back in the heyday of prog, the amp was HIWATT.
Floyd, Crimson, Genesis, Tull, ELP ... about all the British prog except Yes. Even Rush (Alex) used them.
So for $1000 I'd say try out something similar but with modern features - the Peavey VB-2
Its' a big, powerful (225W clean and warm), el34 based modern bass amp. It really reminds me of a HIWATT 200 (though probably better).
I gotta check out Porcupine Tree.
Floyd, Crimson, Genesis, Tull, ELP ... about all the British prog except Yes. Even Rush (Alex) used them.
So for $1000 I'd say try out something similar but with modern features - the Peavey VB-2
Its' a big, powerful (225W clean and warm), el34 based modern bass amp. It really reminds me of a HIWATT 200 (though probably better).
I gotta check out Porcupine Tree.
Big Porcupine Tree fan!!!!
i can definitely tell, and i LOVE my ag500 now that ive gotten to play it (although i must say that i much prefer colins tone on deadwing or in absentia, my favorite pt album is fear of a blank planet... however, i am also a big fan of on the sunday of life... nevermind, its all great stuff)
