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I've Narrowed it down!!

In my shoes, you would buy...

  • The Sansamp Bass Driver... the new one (200 bucks)

    Votes: 20 40.8%

  • The Peavey T-40 (average 200 bucks ebay, 129-300ish)

    Votes: 15 30.6%

  • The Carrot (200 bucks)

    Votes: 14 28.6%
  • Total voters
    49
Matt Till

Matt Till

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#1
Alright, you've have to withstand a barrage of "how should I spend my money" threads from me as of late. I've narrowed it down to TWO and only two options.

My sound right now isn't what I want. When I bought my Dean bass, I was all about slapping/popping/fingerstyle funk. That was it. The times they are a becoming quite different.

I'm going through a tonal reversal, which is to say, while most bassist seem to be going forward tonally, I want to head back to the 70s! I've become disgusted with the clean/polished bass sounds of the likes of Victor Wooten. I understand the reason for that tone is clarity, so you can make out each flurry of notes.

Now, my arguement was improving my amp... A 220 Watt Crate Head and a Crate cab with 4x10. BuUuuut I simplified and cheapified and narrowed it down to the Sansamp Bass Driver.

BuUUUuuuUUt on Ebay, I can own one of my favorite sounding basses ever, The Peavey T-40! I think of it as a cheap Ric knockoff, but I love this bass. I owned a broken one, I'd like to buy one that works with both Pickups! It's built like a tank, it sounds like a tank, it's heavy as a tank.

NOTE: I do have a decent distortion setup, so I don't need the Sansamp for distortion/overdrive. More for the tone it provides. Just something to factor in.

Sort of a twist on the age old "Bass vs. Amp." Sort of.
 
#4
Dooooood.

Don't get a T-40 unless your girlfriend is a chiropractor.

I paid $100 for one, back in the early '80's, and used it for around a year. I still feel like I got ripped off.

The sound is distinctive, true...but soooooooo not worth it.

The weight will haunt your nightmares.
 
#6
It was tough I was going back and forth between the T-40 and the carrot... I then walked away for a few minutes to clear my head and came back.. I then meditated on the issue and called my local religious leaders... we have all decided.. Carrot.
 
#8
Bard2dbone said:
Dooooood.

Don't get a T-40 unless your girlfriend is a chiropractor.

I paid $100 for one, back in the early '80's, and used it for around a year. I still feel like I got ripped off.

The sound is distinctive, true...but soooooooo not worth it.

The weight will haunt your nightmares.
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I know, I know. But I'll get a really thick strap, and.... stretching exersises or something....
 
#9
The SansAmp can give you nice replication of a vintage SVT sound...with out the vintage tube amp hassle. The programmable one is pretty sweet cause it gives you 3 channels to choose from.

I just sold mine, reason being I prefer my Fulltone Bass-drive for adding that gritty vintage tube tone. I use it with about 1/3 of the drive it produces and it sounds vintage as hell with my G&L L2000. You might wanna check one out if you get a chance.

Oh yea, I'd go for the bass...used SansAmps are a dime a dozen.
 
#17
Matt Till said:
Is it a throwback sound that is... heavy? Like the John Wetton (King Crimson years) type sound? Because I want "Vintage heavy."
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Reminded me of something. One time I was in Morrison Brothers Music and I wanted to play this Lakland. Well I ask the guy and he pulls it down and then starts playing it himself while talking . He says " yeah , this bass is great , great vintage jazz tone bro. you can go for that Vintage Geddy sound or that Vintage Lemmy sound or that Vintage Jaco sound." So i finally get the bass and Im feelin mean so I turn everything up to max and start be obnoxious with it. He says " Dude what are you doing?" I say " I'm trying to get that vintage Sid Vicious Tone" He got mad. Same dude also made a comment about tone that was chunky like Campells soup. He thought he was slick. I thought he was dumb.
 
#18
Wait... he didn't show you how "awesome" he was at slap. Everytime a music store clerk "shows me a bass" they play some out of time slap. That is one of the few times I find my "shredding" extremely important. When he hands me the bass, I'll bust out an impressive/in time slap riff.

You just know they are guitarists primarily.

I love how that bass can sounds like Geddy, Lemmy and Jaco.... three very different tones... even though 2 of them play Rics, they all have very (in Jaco's case) VERY different tone.
 

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