I really like the blend of modern and vintage. As Duck Dunn is my witness, I swear I will own another tube amp before I go belly up!
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Let's see your Bass Rig
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I reconfigured mine this weekend. I tore it down, substituted my other Flex 110 for the 110 sub and swapped the Reeves out for the Shaw. Just when I didn't think it could get any better, it did. The double-Flex effect is amazing. 
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I shared @Inky13 ‘s wish for another tube amp before I’m gone (it’s been decades since for me).
Found this Peavey VB-2 all tube in great shape at a local pawn shop for $500.
The cab (I really like the rear loaded scoop design) was $100 w/a blown speaker on CL.
300 watt CA 154 Legend by Eminence for $89 from Sweetwater, so a nice 225 watt all tube tone machine for $689.00 and a little elbow grease.
A few pics of cab transition.
Sounds amazing to my solidstate ears.
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Small room - small rig on Saturday. MB500 with an Avatar 210 neo.
Murphys law: "Your bass should never be bigger than your amp"
Murphys law: "Your bass should never be bigger than your amp"
I should have learned from reading this book.
oh that’s just GREAT!.....Now I gotta find some really tiny basses.......just when you think you’ve got it sussed......Murphys law: "Your bass should never be bigger than your amp"
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). I bet this rig sounds good, though!
Here's my rig awaiting the downbeat at the library, which is really the Baker Street Pub in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
It's two Eden D210XST cabinets, a GK MBFusion amp, a Zoom B3n multi-FX unit, and some of my orange Bayou Cables that are almost 10 years old and none has ever failed.
The Eden cabinets sound awesome, but each of them weighs almost 60 pounds. I have a couple 28 pound Audiokinesis Changeling cabinets on order.
That bass is my Skjold 5-string, which is passive and has an interesting pickup configuration; it sounds sort of like a Stingray met a Fodera. It's a piece of art.
It's two Eden D210XST cabinets, a GK MBFusion amp, a Zoom B3n multi-FX unit, and some of my orange Bayou Cables that are almost 10 years old and none has ever failed.
The Eden cabinets sound awesome, but each of them weighs almost 60 pounds. I have a couple 28 pound Audiokinesis Changeling cabinets on order.
That bass is my Skjold 5-string, which is passive and has an interesting pickup configuration; it sounds sort of like a Stingray met a Fodera. It's a piece of art.
A different combination for a local festival tomorrow 8 bands will play through this !!Local tech has many broken mark bass units and wanted his repair testing thoroughly. No problem 
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Got the mkviii on standby in case the mark bass cooks again.
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A different combination for a local festival tomorrow 8 bands will play through this !!Local tech has many broken mark bass units and wanted his repair testing thoroughly. No problem
Status update : Mark bass made 4 bands then blew..... guess repair was no good will see. Sounded super until then . Peavey took the rest and didn't die luckilyA different combination for a local festival tomorrow 8 bands will play through this !!Local tech has many broken mark bass units and wanted his repair testing thoroughly. No problem
. Correction at end of evening mark bass worked again seems to have shut down. Irritating but not blown it seems.....
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- Jan 26, 2014
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