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Let's see your Bass Rig
- Thread starter stevecaronna
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There is a rig behind that bass. Lol.
Haven’t posted my favorite rig in my 22 years of playing. Yes I’ve tried and owned the Mesa Subway stuff but this brings a bigger smile to my face. Disconnected the blue lights so you can see the glow of the tubes.
Got a "few" rigs I use. Helps to have a motorized stair climbing hand truck to move them where necessary. 
Wow, dbase you still have your Hartke 112HD's. I wish I still had mine. They sound really good.
Sold them a few years ago .. just have the mesa head and a subway 15 now. sold the Ric also.
I'd like to see a picture of that motorized stair climbing hand truck! Sounds amazing!Got a "few" rigs I use. Helps to have a motorized stair climbing hand truck to move them where necessary.
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Small addition to my rigs posted earlier which included no Class D heads,
I found one at a price I found palatable, sufficient watts (600 RMS/4ohms), with simple, effective features, and will serve also as a backup amp.
Peavey Mini MAX, used but mint condition with carry bag from GC for $293 to my door.
Shown here on my 2x12 as my Mini Rig Of Doom.
I found one at a price I found palatable, sufficient watts (600 RMS/4ohms), with simple, effective features, and will serve also as a backup amp.
Peavey Mini MAX, used but mint condition with carry bag from GC for $293 to my door.
Shown here on my 2x12 as my Mini Rig Of Doom.
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Cost was like $640 plus tax free shipping. I basically keep it in the house to move stuff out of the basement or from the second floor. Haven't had the need at a gig to use it thankfully. It's very small, lightweight, and portable. If I did take it on a gig I would make sure to lock it to my bass cabs with a locking bicycle cable to prevent any five finger discounts. It says it can handle up to 160 lb. It handles my 410 cab no problem.
Hello this is my amp set up. I don't always use the whole thing I piece it out according to the size and type of venue. This will be me explaining the whole rig, I apologize in advance
It's two ampeg B210 combos used primally as a power amp and speaker cabinets. The only thing I use the ampeg preamps for is on the left one I put the ultra high boost on and the right one I put the ultra low boost on.
Both cabinets are 15s the one on the right is an old ampeg 15 ported cab that is designated to the bass heavy side of the rig.
The left is a homemade cabinet my dad made for an old Kustom cabinet 15 (the old pillow cabinet was rotting but I was able to save all three speakers) this 15 is designated to the treble heavy side mainly because it's one of the brightest 15s I've ever heard also this cabinet is not ported.
My pedals are as follows in this order
The basic white tuner, into a Seymour Duncan compressor, into whatever preamp I choose to use (usually my sansamp), this goes into an AB splitter which then sends the signal to both speaker stacks
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Here’s a few different rig options for y’all to ponder for a while.
Mesa TT800 / Subway 115
Mesa D350 / Rev Sound RS28V
Fender ACB50 All Tube Combo
Mesa TT800 w/ Shure Wireless / Subway 410
Mesa WD800 w/Shure Wireless / 2x Subway 210 & Subway 215
Mesa D800+ / Subway 210 & Subway 115
Mesa WD800 / Subway 215
Mesa TT800 / Subway 115
Mesa D350 / Rev Sound RS28V
Fender ACB50 All Tube Combo
Mesa TT800 w/ Shure Wireless / Subway 410
Mesa WD800 w/Shure Wireless / 2x Subway 210 & Subway 215
Mesa D800+ / Subway 210 & Subway 115
Mesa WD800 / Subway 215
Really wish I had the gigs for this these days but not practical to keep and wheel out just a few times a year.
Nice set. I would not hesitate to keep even for several occations per year, if there is rehearsal time too for set. 210 and 115?
Thats a 210 and 212. I also ran 2x210 and 2x112.
The 410 was just going to be too heavy and the 212 was just a great cab, I didn't need to explore a 410 cab.
I ran that rig at 4ohms for the 212 and 8ohms for the 210 to load the cabs kindly when pushed.
And to be fair, you are going to push that rig.
The real joy is the amp but its not a throw into the car type rig and man handle to the stage.
Plus I didn't have a reliable place to store it and hardly rented it out either.
Yep, regrets on all that but if I had the need, would buy it back in a heart beat because I loved the sound, headroom and power
The 410 was just going to be too heavy and the 212 was just a great cab, I didn't need to explore a 410 cab.
I ran that rig at 4ohms for the 212 and 8ohms for the 210 to load the cabs kindly when pushed.
And to be fair, you are going to push that rig.
The real joy is the amp but its not a throw into the car type rig and man handle to the stage.
Plus I didn't have a reliable place to store it and hardly rented it out either.
Yep, regrets on all that but if I had the need, would buy it back in a heart beat because I loved the sound, headroom and power
Big sounding! 78 Precision -> Sadowsky Pre amp (only a little) -> AG700 -> Ampeg 8x10"
