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good small combo

#2
SWR Workingman's 10. It sounds nice and it is portable. Find one used and get the extension cabinet if you need more volume. This will get you 100 watts. I tried amps with less power and I was always cranking them to get more volume. They would fart out and distort. The Fender Bassman 60 is also a nice little amp.
 
#8
Yorkville stuff sounds great IMO. I'd like to have a small low watt combo with which I could practice electric and do small upright gigs...and the XM50 looks nice. (I used to have a Peavey Microbass that would cut small trio gigs fine!)

That said, $300.00 new is kind of pricey.

Will
 
#9
I have had the redhead and am now playing through the eden metro. Love the metro. My bass teacher had the CXC110 combo from eden. That thing kicked butt. It is pricey though.

at the school I sit in at they have a GK kickback (monitor) amp combo that sounds really great. I think that they are 400 new, but you should be able to find it for half that "semi" used.

Stumpy
 
#10
I've got a pair of Ashdown 1x12 MAG series combos that rock for home, small gigs, recording. I got both for under $400 each. The Electric Blue are built on similar preamps and have gotten good reviews.... as has the "little" Ashdowns (after eight, perfect ten and five fifteen).

I also own a Peavey Microbass.... I've even done a radio broadcast performance with it (played with my singer & his acoustic). It does nicely with 5 string and a couple acoustics.
 
#11
I have an Ashdown Perfect Ten. It's a nice practice amp. It's pretty loud for 30W and has really smooth, clean tone with an even response across the strings at moderate volume settings. I leave it at my G/F's apartment for when she doesn't want to look at me anymore and I head off into a corner with my bass for some low volume practice... Actually, it doesn't get used a heck of a lot. :smug:

If I didn't get this I would have gone for a used Trace combo of some sort, an SWR WM 110, or a Peavey Micro or Minx. The Perfect Ten cost less than most of them. ;)
 
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RunngDog said:
The GK MB 150 is definitely not cheap, but it's very practical. Small enough to use as a practice amp (weighs 24 lbs) but packs 150 watts, which is enough for most small venues.
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I use my MB150-S for small gigs. Sounds great but as Runngdog states, it's not cheap. If I were getting an amp for practice ONLY I'd find an old Fender BXR 25 or get one of those small Peavey Micro amps.
 
#16
SWR Baby Baby Blue. OKAY I know it's not technically a practice amp but it would be one hell of a paractice amp. 120watts at 8Ohms... then you can add an extension cab and have 160 watts... wow..I want one as a "practice" amp... while I practice recording using that nice ass preamp.
 

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