Everyone, thank you for your replies. I asked the store to give me another day to think about this. My apologies for this long reply!
Your sentence construction is poor.
Is it 600CDN for the used cab which you like? Seems high for a used cab.
You can probably add customs duty to the shipping when importing. Brokerage too.
One plus for simple 1x12 is it's easy to mic up consistently.
My apologies, it was a rushed and not-at-all sober post in the middle of a party! Yes, 600CDN seems high to me too; for comparison getting a Baer ML112 would probably cost more like ~900CDN
ends up being $200 over my planned budget, but GAS is more expensive. Getting a new Aguilar DB112NT tends to be $630-to-800CDN here, depending on where your brick&mortar store is, or adding-in the cost of shipping. I'm gearing-up for paying gigs now, and am honestly kinda terrified of playing through a PA, and hope that miking will ease the transition.
I wish I could get a DB112
That would be an easy decision!
Alternatively I can pick up a 112 GK Neo II from Long&McQuade for ~542CDN, and if it doesn't work out, return it to a local branch, minus the shipping cost (I'm assuming $70). No idea if this one will sound magical to me
so I wasn't really counting it as an option. What do you think?
I have no idea what kind of music I'll be playing this next year, but my strengths are in classic rock, alternative, and a bit of fingerstyle funk and jazz. Pbass with TI flats or some brand of broken-in nickel rounds. I like the sound of an SVT classic plugged into a 60lb sealed Traynor 115, but it's more musical (magical for me) with a db112. The Streamliner is my wannabe SVT Classic--but portable--compromise. I haven't found a Markbass, SWR, or Hartke cab I liked. Fender rumble is an almost adequate compromise, but not loud enough. Aguilar SL112 feels a bit out of control with an SVT (maybe just in my head
), so I assume it would with the Streamliner. The shelf-ported Ampeg Neo 210 leaves me cold.
Chef, hennessybass: Does the Baer still have that magical something-something in the mids that the db112nt has more of then a sealed 115? If it does, I'm guessing it's the most versatile one-cab solution, though maybe harder to mike than the db112nt? Have either of you compared a GK Neo II 112 to a db112? I don't think I need the sizzle of a tweeter, but like to be able to get more of a woody click, or at least something occasionally more interesting than just a thunk with fingerstyle ghost notes. Without a band, the db112 seems like it'll get me there, but I worry it'll get lost in the mix. On the other hand, the critic in me says that as long as I can hear it enough to get emotional feedback from that sound, then it doesn't matter if it gets lost
