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Been using this set-up for quite a while, old, heavy cabinet, but it really sounds wonderful, Berg HS410 & Subway 800+
 
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Hi all....Oh so many mighty rigs, I feel like this is the right place! It's my first post, and I thought I'd throw my paltry solid state trinket into the mix to give us all a laugh. Just for an extra giggle, I'll let you know it's eating my house, and I don't care 🤣
I've split to 2 chains and generally run thusly:
Chain 1 - EHX Battalion main channel into bass Big Muff into Boss Space Echo channel A into Ashdown RM800 into a pair of 450w 410 cabs
Chain 2 - Battalion dry out into EHX Pitchfork into Waza Ds-2 into Morley Fuzz Wah into Shimverb into Flanger into Space Echo chn B into Ashdown Mag300 into 400w 2x12 cab.
Everything's at 4 ohms and the load's distributed pretty evenly across the system and I can blend the amps easily to suit the room.
To make this work, I primarily use an old 80s Aria Pro II sb1000 and a Squier fretless JazzV - the heaviest axes I could find to go with the heaviest cabs available! It's why we have children - to carry our gear, right?
Anyway, thanks for indulging my first post. I welcome any thoughts on non-tube rigs and on how long I can survive like this without having to spend large amounts of money. All up, my current rig has probably cost less than 6k over the years with trades, upgrades etc. And I figure a decent valve head would command that much on its own!
Here's to budget bass....I hope
 
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The EBS cab in the first pic is long gone but the Ashdown ABM410 & 115 are still here. 1977 Hiwatt DR103, two Lab Series L2 heads and one L4 (all from late seventies) and a newest acquisition: Trace Elliot Series 6 GP12 AH200 from probably early 90's.
The whole stack is quite humongous with the Hiwatt and the Trace can drive it pretty loudly too. With the Lab heads I can use only one cab but those are loud amps too and I rarely need more than one cab.
The Hiwatt has been with me since 1997 and only about 25 years later I bought the first L2 (got the other for free 10 years from that!). All the Lab heads need a bit of a maintenance at the moment so when the Trace was available cheaply I 'thought why not. Time to get something modern! 😆

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PhR75 said:
The EBS cab in the first pic is long gone but the Ashdown ABM410 & 115 are still here. 1977 Hiwatt DR103, two Lab Series L2 heads and one L4 (all from late seventies) and a newest acquisition: Trace Elliot Series 6 GP12 AH200 from probably early 90's.
The whole stack is quite humongous with the Hiwatt and the Trace can drive it pretty loudly too. With the Lab heads I can use only one cab but those are loud amps too and I rarely need more than one cab.
The Hiwatt has been with me since 1997 and only about 25 years later I bought the first L2 (got the other for free 10 years from that!). All the Lab heads need a bit of a maintenance at the moment so when the Trace was available cheaply I 'thought why not. Time to get something modern! 😆

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Love the ashdowns man!
 
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