I know Im in the minority, but I do think big amps will become fashionable again one day. Just like records have come back, kids will want to experience the real thing. There is something special that digital recreations cannot capture and just the feeling of moving that air cannot be truly mimicked. Prolly not 5 years but maybe 10. Thought?
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Big Amps will come back one day!!!
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The time is NOW!!! bring em back... up to a point. I'd say maybe 30-37lbs 
. They sound better IMO and from all the digital amps I've owned.
. They sound better IMO and from all the digital amps I've owned.
What are all these "digital" amps you guys are talking about?
Digital modeling amps. Sent to front of house and monitor via in ears.
Did someone say big amps? (And small range covered here) I also have a pedalboard with a two notes torpedo m+ to cover a silent stage as required.
Will the big amps come back? Everything is a cycle. Tubes are getting hard to get with reasonable quality and expensive.
Everyone has their own preference. But for all the TalkBass back hurts / silent stage, while that is a real thing it is still the case that just about every show I've seen major or club in the last few years is still guitar stacks or at least Twins and big bass amps.
In my own experience I see bare stages with cover and review bands more often than with original bands.
In my own experience I see bare stages with cover and review bands more often than with original bands.
They really haven't left (at least for me).
SVT heads and cabinets are still available. Same with Fender.
Mesa, Bergantino, and others still make big speaker cabs.
Agreed that heavy transistor amps are going the way of the dinosaur especially since parts are becoming NLA.
SVT heads and cabinets are still available. Same with Fender.
Mesa, Bergantino, and others still make big speaker cabs.
Agreed that heavy transistor amps are going the way of the dinosaur especially since parts are becoming NLA.
Have fun with that, I plan to be dead by then.
The problem for me with emulator type products is that you dial up 'SVT' or 'Acoustic 360' and play it through a 112 or 212 . . . . nope. Especially for me as I'm old enough to have played the real ones back in the day.
I'll repeat what I once said: IF I thought I'd only ever play through earpieces or headphones from here on out, I'd sell everything and walk away. Of course, like the Neanderthals before me, I'm going extinct.
I'll repeat what I once said: IF I thought I'd only ever play through earpieces or headphones from here on out, I'd sell everything and walk away. Of course, like the Neanderthals before me, I'm going extinct.
Should we be concerned? Or make arrangements?
Big rigs are still there, with great deals used.
Class D amp and featherweight 212 cabs also available, they sound so good.
IEM monitors too.
And modelers, or tube preamps.
There's never been so many options.
And the audience don't care, but some of us do, and we have the choice.
Great times.
Class D amp and featherweight 212 cabs also available, they sound so good.
IEM monitors too.
And modelers, or tube preamps.
There's never been so many options.
And the audience don't care, but some of us do, and we have the choice.
Great times.
Yeah. I don't think they've ever left. I've never even seen a "silent stage" and I go to a lot of showsEveryone has their own preference. But for all the TalkBass back hurts / silent stage, while that is a real thing it is still the case that just about every show I've seen major or club in the last few years is still guitar stacks or at least Twins and big bass amps.
In my own experience I see bare stages with cover and review bands more often than with original bands.
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Niche markets will always have some demand, though often this demand gets filled from the oversupply of large, heavy used gear, usually for less that 25 cents on the dollar.
Gallien-Krueger is set to release a new version of the RB, which quote "will be a lead sled", in August according to the current projection.
I'm liking my QSC GX5 a lot, class H.
I'm liking my QSC GX5 a lot, class H.
I’m not so sure they’ve gone completely away, but have become unpopular for the working pro. I would doubt you can expect an increase in prices on the order of 70’s Fender Basses if a second or 3rd generation might be interested. The question is, where are they going to use them?
Never underestimate the power of nostalgia.
Riis
Riis
Is that a sock puppet on a mic stand?
With this and the return of Sunn, it's a whole new (old) era
No it’s old ugly socks I would never use to protect my nitro instruments on el cheapo rubber stands.
