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Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
hdracer said:
I intend to get a valve jr for guitar
Never occurred to me to use it for bass. Doesit hold up ok?
blowinblue said:It's so sad. This poor, forgotten pair has been relegated to being the official 'bedroom practice amp'. You can almost feel their pain.
M. M.
That is kinda sad.
It's great. I modded one for my son too.
Even for a guitar you will need to put some decent tubes in it. My son and I have done a lot of tube rolling with them. He has his favorites and I have mine.
For bass you need a bigger output transformer. I use the Hammond 125ESE. It is the biggest one you can put in there. It is only $51.00 It handles the B string just fine. After these mods it sounds great with a guitar or bass.
The whole rig in my photo with mods and tubes and cab only cost me about $250.00. It will shake the windows and pictures on the walls. Plenty loud for home practice.
Hopkins
Commercial User
I picked this whole rig up for $50 the cab is pretty bad, but the head sounds ok. It holds its own in the practice space.
Here's my dorm setup:
Fender Blues Jr, while it is a guitar amp, its very convenient as a bass amp.
Fender Blues Jr, while it is a guitar amp, its very convenient as a bass amp.
here it goes:
furman voltage regulator capable of 30 ampere plus a procool rack fan unit, all inside a nice skb 4 unit rack case.
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my effect 6 unit skb rack. I have a wireless line 6 g90 in there, a rocktron patchmate which controls all my effects (lehle p split to divide my affected signal and my clean signal that goes to my mesa titan, a markbass compressore, a mxr octave deluxe, mxr envelope filter, sansamp vt bass, carl martin bass chorus and mxr carbon copy ) plus a boss dr 880 drum machine to jam alone. i have a nice DI in my mind to put in there for those gigs i do not bring my amp. this unit is controllable with my rocktron midimate.
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my amplifier 6 unit skb rack case. peterson strobo tuner, procool rack fan unit and my mesa titan. great amplifier. i either plug directly or use the effect rack. anyway, one channel is not affected, the bass signal goes right in channel one and the effects go to channel 2. i only have to choose channels with the mesa footswitch.
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my mesa 112 powerhouse. great cabinet. small, light and yet powerful delivering all the goods on smaller rooms. i would like to add another one of those one day.
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my mesa powerhouse 412. awesome cabinet. i can destroy a wall with it. this one goes for the big shows.
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the family picture.. i have cut my collection of basses to those 2 (a fender custom shop 60' jazz that has more lows than any other bass i have used and a fender tony franklin fretless precision). i have one more (ibanez sr590) that was a parents gift but it is not working, maybe batteries. after much experimenting with a LOT of basses (including fodera and smith as the most expensive ones and the more regular stuff like tobias, musicman, warwick, etc etc etc) i figured that i prefer passive single coil basses. and 4's which was something i always declined after always playing 5's exclusively.
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i am very happy with all this. i can do whatever i remember with it.
regards
furman voltage regulator capable of 30 ampere plus a procool rack fan unit, all inside a nice skb 4 unit rack case.
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my effect 6 unit skb rack. I have a wireless line 6 g90 in there, a rocktron patchmate which controls all my effects (lehle p split to divide my affected signal and my clean signal that goes to my mesa titan, a markbass compressore, a mxr octave deluxe, mxr envelope filter, sansamp vt bass, carl martin bass chorus and mxr carbon copy ) plus a boss dr 880 drum machine to jam alone. i have a nice DI in my mind to put in there for those gigs i do not bring my amp. this unit is controllable with my rocktron midimate.
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my amplifier 6 unit skb rack case. peterson strobo tuner, procool rack fan unit and my mesa titan. great amplifier. i either plug directly or use the effect rack. anyway, one channel is not affected, the bass signal goes right in channel one and the effects go to channel 2. i only have to choose channels with the mesa footswitch.
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my mesa 112 powerhouse. great cabinet. small, light and yet powerful delivering all the goods on smaller rooms. i would like to add another one of those one day.
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my mesa powerhouse 412. awesome cabinet. i can destroy a wall with it. this one goes for the big shows.
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the family picture.. i have cut my collection of basses to those 2 (a fender custom shop 60' jazz that has more lows than any other bass i have used and a fender tony franklin fretless precision). i have one more (ibanez sr590) that was a parents gift but it is not working, maybe batteries. after much experimenting with a LOT of basses (including fodera and smith as the most expensive ones and the more regular stuff like tobias, musicman, warwick, etc etc etc) i figured that i prefer passive single coil basses. and 4's which was something i always declined after always playing 5's exclusively.
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i am very happy with all this. i can do whatever i remember with it.
regards
Practice rig and room... GK 1001RB II into the Schro BMF212.
I don't gig with either the head or cab so's they get to stay put.
The band rehearses in my home media room as well (for now anyway), I use a Mesa Deisel 1 x 15 with a GK 400RB III.
My gear closest is in this room so the rig changes frequently...
The closet has 4 aggie gs112's, a Genz neox 212, LDS 15/6, Orange TB500, Genz Shuttle 9.0 and the DB750, next to the GK and Mesa is a Mesa Walkabout Scout mini stack.
Note the Dr *ass 2460 for vox.
What the hey, here are some fotogs of that rig and room too.
And if any of you are high end audio/video buffs. The speaks behind the drums are the venerable NHT 3.3's, rears are Apogee columns, the amp is an ATI 1505 and a it is all driven by the awesome and fully loaded Theta Digital Casanova - yummy stuff and totally rock n roll aproved!
Sorry for the crap iphone fotos
I don't gig with either the head or cab so's they get to stay put.
The band rehearses in my home media room as well (for now anyway), I use a Mesa Deisel 1 x 15 with a GK 400RB III.
My gear closest is in this room so the rig changes frequently...
The closet has 4 aggie gs112's, a Genz neox 212, LDS 15/6, Orange TB500, Genz Shuttle 9.0 and the DB750, next to the GK and Mesa is a Mesa Walkabout Scout mini stack.
Note the Dr *ass 2460 for vox.
What the hey, here are some fotogs of that rig and room too.
And if any of you are high end audio/video buffs. The speaks behind the drums are the venerable NHT 3.3's, rears are Apogee columns, the amp is an ATI 1505 and a it is all driven by the awesome and fully loaded Theta Digital Casanova - yummy stuff and totally rock n roll aproved!
Sorry for the crap iphone fotos
Dynacord Eminent II and a TC Electronics RS112 cabinet. 80 W of tube power from the 1970s, into a very modern cabinet! No complaints from the neighbors so far.
I'm typing on mine right now so I can't show it to you. Laptop with RealTek software and good headphones. Music from either my files or a Sony MP3 player with adjustable pitch and good filters. It's really all I need. I get all my music from iTunes. BTW if you travel (as I do) there are really inexpensive thumb drives that hold literally thousands of high-quality tunes. I can take a handfull and have a huge music library anywhere I go.
