It's your rig, your gig. I unless your current rig sound like a pile of crap, and or looks like it too, I'd ignore them.
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Amp help!
- Thread starter dannyc12
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It's your rig, your gig. I unless your current rig sound like a pile of crap, and or looks like it too, I'd ignore them.
I would feel I’m being pretty rude if I suggested to another musician what they should be using. What credibility do you grant your guitarists in their suggestions of bass gear?
Based on the feedback, I'm ignoring them.....which obviously is quite easy to do!
What credibility do I give them Re their bass knowledge? ZERO!
Funny, as a bassist and a guitarist, I wouldn’t listen to anyone incessantly telling me to get anything. Especially if someone was going on and on about a modeling amp. Not to disparage them because they have their uses. However, even though modeling technology has come a long way, the real thing is still better. As far as I’m concerned, modeling amps are about quantity not quality. Once you know what you want, I think it’s always best to go for quality. As many have said, if you are happy with your sound, there’s really no need at all to switch, even more so if you don’t use a lot of effects or need variety. If you have an ear for tone, I would start scrutinizing their tone, and that should tell you all you need to know about their opinions.
It is odd that they focused on one new, unproven amp to the exclusion of many others. Sounds like they are just guessing the bass amp will be great because they like their guitar stuff. This could possibly be the most inaccurate guage ever proposed. 
If they pay for it ! Otherwise, tell the guitar player to play an amp he's not playing.
Love the PF500, me - with a 1x12" it keeps up with 50 watt 2x12" guitar amp combos with no problem.
As far as the reco for the Boss bass amp, why doesn't your guitar play like you?
As far as the reco for the Boss bass amp, why doesn't your guitar play like you?
Are they going to buy one for you? Cool! Ah, they aren't? When they play bass they can use whatever amp they want.
It shows you how much they know: that combo is nowhere near as powerful as your existing rig. If you like the sound, why change?
You should ask them to buy a couple of 5W Fender VibroChamp amps, they're really nice too.
I think something like the Katana can be useful in some playing/performing situations, especially quieter ones. Even pubs and weddings, etc, but it really depends on what your band mates are using, particularly the guitar players. How good are they at controlling their volume levels and dynamics?
I own a Boss Katana 210 combo and I like it a lot.It gets as loud as most other 210 combos on the market but asking any 210 combo to cover what your doing now with your 210 and 15 cabs is asking a lot of any 210 combo despite who makes it or whether it is class ab or d,how many watts etc.If you can get by with just a 210 combo then the Boss Katana 210 will serve you better than most because I shopped around before I bought mine.But at this point if you want to downsize a little cant you just quit using the 115 cab and use the 210 and the head.
Short answer; NONE!
Less short answer; many (not all) guitar players don't really comprehend the amount of power and speaker mass needed to produce clean volume on bass to match the volume of a guitar amp (let alone two). As Scotty would say, "Ya cannot defy the laws of physics capt."
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Since you're running your Ashdown RM210 and RM115 "amps" with a TC head, I'm going to conclude that you really meant to say your Ashdown cabs not Ashdown amps.
Looks like that Katana is 160-watts into 4Ω. Without adding another cab to it, I would guess it's an 8Ω load with its internal speakers putting out about 80 to 120-watts. It's a class A/B amp so it's probably a bit more than 1/2 the watts into 8Ω. I would be concerned about it being loud enough, considering your TC 450 head is putting out 225-watts at 8Ω. Running both your cabs, it can put out 450-watts compared to 160-watts for that Katana combo. Would you really use all those modeling choices that it offers or will you use just one sound for most of your music?
Beware of Guitar players who think 160-Watts rms is a lot of watts. It is for a guitar certainly, but not for a bass. Heck in 1971-1973, the amp I used back then was a 200-watt amp (Standel) using 2 x 15" CTS speakers in a bass reflex cab that were a perfect match for it. But that was 50-years ago... We've come a long way in speakers and amps since then.
It would absolutely be a no-go for me, but I don't use any real effects on my sound. I do have a chorus pedal my son gave me for Christmas, but I haven't performed with it yet. And I'm not trying to sound like some other amp. I'm trying to sound like my 1982 passive Fender Jazz with maple neck.
I would say you really need to be sure to play through that Katana 160W 210 combo before you buy it. It might be OK for your gigs or it might be worthless. Definitely try before you buy.
There's a jack on the back of it to add a second cab (minimum load 4Ω), which I presume means the internal speakers are 8Ω so he'd be getting maybe 80 to 120-watts at 8Ω. Compared to 225-watts in his TC head into his Ashdown 210 cab.
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Other posts here said it didn't have extension cab capability. But even if it does, that's less output. Unless OP has some desire to play with amp modeling, and deal with less output, I don't see a reason.
All too true! My band has three skinny string players and it took me educating them (and the drummer and the keys player) to understand why I have the gear that I use.
