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Hi, new here.
Here is my beginner bass rig, I’ve only played bass for 3 weeks now.
Why such a massive rig?
Well it was cheap.
$10 for the broken Ashdown ABM EVO II amp (ridiculous price with a ridiculous fault inside), $250 for the T-bird and unfortunately as much as $300 for the EBS 4x10 4ohm cabinet which is more than I actually wanted to pay but whatever, the total is really low.
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Hi, new here.
Here is my beginner bass rig, I’ve only played bass for 3 weeks now.
Why such a massive rig?
Well it was cheap.
$10 for the broken Ashdown ABM EVO II amp (ridiculous price with a ridiculous fault inside), $250 for the T-bird and unfortunately as much as $300 for the EBS 4x10 4ohm cabinet which is more than I actually wanted to pay but whatever, the total is really low.
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I think you scored with that bass!
 
Way back when I started, I had a Peavey 300 and 15 cabinet. I sold it and wished I had not. Well, a few months back I started searching and found the head here on Talk Bass and the cabinet on Marketplace.

So, the Peavey rig with a 71 P bass (still have) is where I started. Now with my 3 Sandberg SS I am playing thru a Mark bass head and a green boy Basic 15 cabinet. The Green boy is for sale now since I only play at my church and go thru the house system. I will keep the Mark Bass and use the Peavey cabinet if needed, those old Peavey cabinets tend to be heavy but sure sound nice. I added some dampening material and a new Eminence speaker.
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Just picked up two (discontinued) Bergantino ceramic REF210’s. I’m a ceramic tone-preferred player at heart…this is now my daily ‘practice rig’…always a good bass day—just flip a switch and play some Bergantino HP2-powered, meaty bass tone! (Pedalboard: Meris LVX delay/Mercury7 reverb in the effects loop, and amp tuner-out for my Sonic Research ST-300) :cool:
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This is now my most used amp and cab arrangement. The amp is my new (to me) Ashdown CTM-30 (copy of the Little Bastard LB-30, just dressed in black). The cabs are the ones Duke LeJeune outlined in his thread Low-cost DIY practice/coffeehouse tweeterless 110 [long]. They are Goldwood bass cabs with an Eminence S2010 bass guitar speaker, lined cab and port reduced four inches. I recently refinished them in DuraTex, after my cats got a hold of the rat fur and I stripped them down to bare (PITA!) and made the port reducing blocks, then molded them in.

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While it's only 30 watts (all tube) it's just about all In use and covers all my current needs. I have a friend who has a studio, that I'm rebuilding one of his basses and he wants to record some stock tracks with it.