gig with a combo amp?

[rmkesler]

I still use a Peavey Combo 300. I keep saying I'll buy a full rig when it dies...

This has been going on for years now.

 

[kraigo]

The bassist I gig most with as a drummer uses an Ampeg B3/158, which is a biamped combo, 100 watts into a 15, 50 watts into an 8. I love that thing. It does the kick and roll and is plenty loud. I can get fairly loud as a drummer. It fits in the trunk of a Honda Civic.

KO

 

[dougjwray]

I used an Ampeg B100r many times; usually with PA.

Me too.
Everywhere from small clubs to a TV studio to festival stages.

 

[acleex38]

I've gigged with the Shuttle 3.0-10T and a GK Backline 210 (along with once using someone else's BA115 that was WAY too powerful for that little open mic). I've seen two other people gig with 100 watt Peavey TKOs. One of them was in a hard rock band with a would-be metal drummer running double bass drum. No problems (and I talked to the bassist during a set break - the guy is the opposite of a gear-head...he has what he could afford when he started and isn't seeing a need to upgrade since it's getting the job done).

 

[71Rick]

My main gig rig is an SWR Super Redhead, and I add a 115 ext cab when needed. This rig has proved to be plenty for a wide variety of gigs and venues. If it ever dies, I may consider a Mark Bass combo after all the good things I've been reading here about them.

 

[BassBot]

The the little GK combo seems to work for alot of bassist, particular in a small venue. Maybe someone could confirm that.

 

[LaughingGroove]

I have seen people use a fender rumble before.

I used to gig with a rumble 60. Of course thru the pa's. I even played at the Big Easy (Knitting Factory now) with it. Now its just a bedroom amp. I will see if I can find the pics from the Big Easy show, I know that in some of them you can see the little amp on the stage, funny looking anyway.

 

[wyleeboxer]

lately Ive been gigin' with my SWR redface 350 basic into a 212XLT, which was a bit much for a couple of the smaller venues and was harder to control the boomyness in the room. The cab is in for a recone and I've had to go back to my Nemesis RS115 combo only for practice this past week... after EQing it to get a touch more fatness out of it with still some strong clean highs for tone, I think it would work perfectly for about half of our gigs, and make the room easier to control then a larger rig? This weekends gig in a large dance venue not a chance tho, I'll have the SWR 212xlt back for that gig!

 

[Rob Martinez]

For small venues, I use an Ampeg BA112, a 50 watt combo. Mind you, our drummer plays with brushes, and guitar player uses a Princeton 5 watt amp, we play 50s rock, so it is perfect. It also works well with PA support. For bigger gigs, I sometimes use an Ampeg B100R which over time has become my "big" rig, whereas it used to be my small rig.

But that works for my band and the venues we play.

 

[Pilgrim]

Absolutely. As long as it's enough amp for the venue and band, of course you can gig with a combo.

 

[jaywa]

Anymore I'm probably running 60-70% of my gigs with my Line6 LowDown 150 combo. Including bar gigs with a 3-electric guitar band. It has pretty much retired my 4x10 stack except for bigger rooms and outdoor gigs. It's a kickback style so I just turn it around facing me, with a wedge next to it for monitoring vox and the rest of the band, plug the XLR out into the board and I'm good to go. The only time it didn't get the job done was on a sub gig with a 12-piece horn band where it just didn't have the volume.

If you have a decent P.A. (subs and adequate wattage) and don't demand outrageous stage volume, you can get a lot of mileage out of a quality combo amp.