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Janky-A Rigs of Doom

#601
mexicanyella said:
I saw a head like that, mint, in the local GC used section last year. I think you could call that a "large-format" bass head. Look at that picture; it doesn't look that big on that cabinet in a photo. But six 15s?
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Yep -- It was six cheap 15s. I used to carry it in a 1968 Olds Delmont 88 four door with the back seat pulled out. It was a trip to get her in there. Doors would just barley close. But when you're 17 or 18 it didn't get any better.
 
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I think carrying a big cabinet around in a backseatless '70 Olds 88 sounds pretty cool even now. Sometimes I miss the stuff I used to drive in the hand-me-down cars days...which for me lasted into my thirties.

I like the idea of a big car with a cargo platform where the rear seat was, basically level with the trunk floor or close to it, and all the carpet pulled out and replaced with something like spray-on truck bedliner. You could clean a car like that out with a shop vac or a leaf blower, like Bill Murray on Caddyshack. Kind of a jank truck.
 
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Seems to work good there
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. I couldn't lift that 410 anywhere near high enough. Had to have my nephew help.
 
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To me neither sounds better just different.I basically use the 115 to get a more double bass sound out of my bass when playing up the neck.Think oldd country, bluegrass and older mellow rock. Use the 410 for more punchy stuff black sabbath, metalica etc.I kinda prefer the 2 15's sound smoother melowish but that depends on the day and what I'm playing at that particular time.2 15's can get growly also just not as harsh as the hartke 410.How do i get rid of one of those pictures ,no need for two of the same picture.
(figured it out)
 
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mexicanyella said:
I think carrying a big cabinet around in a backseatless '70 Olds 88 sounds pretty cool even now. Sometimes I miss the stuff I used to drive in the hand-me-down cars days...which for me lasted into my thirties.

I like the idea of a big car with a cargo platform where the rear seat was, basically level with the trunk floor or close to it, and all the carpet pulled out and replaced with something like spray-on truck bedliner. You could clean a car like that out with a shop vac or a leaf blower, like Bill Murray on Caddyshack. Kind of a jank truck.
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Honda Element for the win! The rear seats come completely out for when we've got to travel (and it was a hand-me-down too)!
 
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mexicanyella said:
I would take a Behringer "SVT clone" for a test drive, given a chance. Don't know what it looks like when you open it up, but from the outside it's a pretty cool-looking amp. Surely it's got some useful tones and volume levels in there, even if it doesn't sound like an SVT.
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A few years ago I tried the beast out at GC. It sounded excellent and somewhat imitated that fridge tone. I don't know about the inside of that particular amp, but other TB'ers have taken the covers off their Behringers and Bugeras in the past the the innards looks squeaky clean. And also very logically laid out. If I were 20 years younger, I'd try out that stack in a club! :)
 
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Don't have a photo, may add one later, but at the last few band practices I decided to press my Peavey TKO into service again (it had been getting dusty ever since acquiring the AK speaker cab late last summer).

The TKO (teal-stripe era--1990ish?--Scorpion speaker) seemed kind of maxed out and harsh-sounding to me when I got the other cab and started using my Zoom B2 and rack power amp instead of the TKO. But by using that Zoom, I've learned a few things about how I like P-bass tone to be dirtied up and EQed since then, and I applied what I have learned to the TKO: crank that gain up and EQ it as though it was the 6-band digital "tone stack" in the Zoom. No shortage of 150-200 Hz on a P-bass...cut a little there...I likes me some 1.2-2.4 kHz; how about a broad, gentle peak in that region...slope it off above 3-4 kHz; don't need none of that rattly trash up there. Hey, it works on this amp too!

There's a pretty serious jump in volume and overall compressed feel once you get that pre-gain up above 8; before now I thought of that part of the knob's rotation as "Here there be ye olde sea serpents."

I was unneccessarily conservative: I dimed it. This is a damn rock band! Since when is a 15" Scorpion afraid of 80 watts of midrangy bass signal?

With 80 watts, the TKO is not a Choad Hammer, but I guaran-damn-tee you that it's got enough huevos to qualify as a Choad Tape Dispenser, or maybe a Choad Chalk Line.
 
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