Is something like this possible?

[will33]

I did variations of this in the early 80's. First I ran my modified Fender Bassman into a dummy load I built, used a line out which was a signal padded down from the speaker out, and ran that into an EQ and SS power amp. Worked fine, but I wanted more.

So into my Bassman, I wired in a preamp out, and power amp in. I had a Peavey MK III and had wired in an adjustable aux in.

I ran the preamp of the Bassman into the Aux in on the PV. (The EQ also worked on the Aux)

I used the crossover in the PV, ran the high out to the power amp of the Bassman into 10" speakers (crossed at 300-500Hz) and ran the low end into the PV power amp (driving 15's and later 18's.)

Worked great. Oh for the great bi-amped days of the 80's.

Man, I bet that sounded fantastic. Your crossover point there is pretty much where I end up when messing with playing bass woofers and guitar speakers together.

 

[Steve Dallman]

I did a little more. I modded the Bassman to a 1 channel amp, added a mid slope control, mid, 6 position treble switch. I had to add a gain stage to drive the PI, and I added an active presence to the power amp of the Bassman.

In the Peavey, I added two more sliders to the graphic EQ. When I ran this rig, I also used an enhancer (Dod...worked wonderful) and on the high end, I used a 1980 Ibanez flanger, set very subtly, to bring out the roundwound stringiness of the Rotosounds I used.

Two folded horn 15's for the low end, and eventually, two 4x8 old Fender PA columns for the mids/highs, and added a bank of piezo tweeters.

I never needed PA support. The only thing, if I had to do it again, I'd vertically stack the 4x8's.

My main bass was a headless Explorer I built. It had a P pickup set in the MM pickup position, a J bass pickup toward the neck (why put the weaker pickup at the bridge?) and Shadow piezo pickups in the bridge. The piezos had their own preamp, the magnetic pickups their own two band EQ (Dimarzo P and J) and I also built a Dyna Comp compressor into the bass, using the level control for my volume.

It was so far beyond my old SVT/64 P bass rig.

I haven't the energy to even set that rig up again.

 

[will33]

I did a little more. I modded the Bassman to a 1 channel amp, added a mid slope control, mid, 6 position treble switch. I had to add a gain stage to drive the PI, and I added an active presence to the power amp of the Bassman.

In the Peavey, I added two more sliders to the graphic EQ. When I ran this rig, I also used an enhancer (Dod...worked wonderful) and on the high end, I used a 1980 Ibanez flanger, set very subtly, to bring out the roundwound stringiness of the Rotosounds I used.

Two folded horn 15's for the low end, and eventually, two 4x8 old Fender PA columns for the mids/highs, and added a bank of piezo tweeters.

I never needed PA support. The only thing, if I had to do it again, I'd vertically stack the 4x8's.

My main bass was a headless Explorer I built. It had a P pickup set in the MM pickup position, a J bass pickup toward the neck (why put the weaker pickup at the bridge?) and Shadow piezo pickups in the bridge. The piezos had their own preamp, the magnetic pickups their own two band EQ (Dimarzo P and J) and I also built a Dyna Comp compressor into the bass, using the level control for my volume.

It was so far beyond my old SVT/64 P bass rig.

I haven't the energy to even set that rig up again.

You Mad Scientist, you.

I love it. That's one of those things that has so much modding and building nobody could ever duplicate it no matter how hard they tried. Well done, sir.