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New Amp for Nickthebassist.

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Yes, a new amp should bring the growl out of your basses (as we've told you many times) but in order to get the tone you are looking for you will need something extra with overdriven tube emulation i.e. a SansAmp....

A normal 'overdrive' pedal probably won't give you that tone... espicially as you've already stated that your pedal doesn't really 'growl'...
 
#54
JMHO but sell some of those basses and get the best amp you can afford. You have two really nice basses - do you need the other four? Regardless, what's the point of having nice basses if your amp is too small and crappy to make them A: be heard, or B: sound good?

Alex

P.S. And scour eBay and the secondhand market - many bargains to be found. Or take things up a notch and import a rig - worked for me!
 
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Nickthebassist said:
Ok, so I need a tube amp of some description, or something that can emulate the sound? Hmmm
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That's the growl sound you're after.

Ampeg SVT with an 8x10" is exactly what you'd want... but it's way too spendy for you at the moment.

You get a very decent SVT emulation with a Sansamp BDDI, but you really need something loud to go with it (it's not hugely convincing through headphones)

The rehearsal studios I use in glasgow have Ampeg SVT classic heads and Ashdown ABM300 EVO heads, both going through Ampeg 8x10 cabs (depends which room you get as to which head you get). I like a certain amount of rumble, which I get direct from the SVT. I have to add the Bass Driver for the Ashdowns.

I get a convincing sound from my Trace rig and the Bass Driver, but being transport deficient, I often have to use whatever I can get my hands on for out-of-town gigs (which accounts for 100% of recent gigs :)) The Bass Driver has saved the day on more than one occasion.
 
#60
Oh wow. Nick, the head is the amplifier. It has the preamp (tone shaping section) and the power amp (the amplifying section, depends on how many watts). The cabinet is what that power is heard through. They can handle upto a certain amount of power from the head. The lower the impedance, the more power the head will put out. Think of impedance as resistance, and the head wants to put out as much power is possible. The less ohms you have, the more power your head will put out. The more ohms you have, the less power your head will put out. There is a limit to minimum impendance on amps though. Most amps cannot go under 2 or 4 ohms. If you have two 8 ohm cabs, you will have 4 ohms. There is soem formula to determine how much it will be, but if you have two cabs of the same impedance, divide it by two.
 
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