Really really small amp!

[selowitch]

Note that the Phil Jones Double Four BG-75 with two 4" speakers runs at 70 watts and weighs 8.80 lbs. It's 11" wide, 8" deep, and 7" tall (that’s .356 square feet). The size-to-power ratio is impressive.

 

[Bassquest]

If it were me I'd get a cab I could sit on as a stool ie. A cajon box with a speaker installed with an input for a mini amp.

 

[nonohmic]

Yes.

Before some make a recommendation, realize it is going into one of these.


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For more info on said trailer, >Scamp 13' Fiberglass Lightweight Travel Trailer Camper - Standard Layout 1 Big Bed - Scamp Trailers

You're not getting much alone time with the wife in that bad boy!

 

[selowitch]

If it were me I'd get a cab I could sit on as a stool ie. A cajon box with a speaker installed with an input for a mini amp.

Nifty idea.

 

[Bassquest]

Nifty idea.

In fact I may try it just for the heck of it.

 

[selowitch]

You can’t get much smaller than the Quilter Interbass (but of course you will need a speaker and a power supply in addition):

 

[JKos]

Don't laugh. If you really want to save space and have a completely multi-use item, get a JBL Charge 4 Bluetooth speaker and a preamp pedal. I sometimes play through my son's Charge 4 via the 3.5 mm connector and it sounds great. Oddly and satisfyingly very good.

 

[MNAirHead]

If it were me I'd get a cab I could sit on as a stool ie. A cajon box with a speaker installed with an input for a mini amp.

Actually I have one...

Problem -

• I play 7 string and BEAD tuned upright.... both go low and feedback...
• I also play in classy clubs and churches (they hate amps)..
• small amps suck (most break down on a B String at volume)

Solution -

• I closed and ported a Peavey Nashville 112 extention cabinet - worked stunning until I had upright feedback...
• I then found an obscure 80s/90s sub... Dawn.
• I mounted a GKMB200 (I currently have an Elf on it) to it and installed an Eminance... Not really super tiny.. but probably the smallest giggable 110 amp that I've seen

Stock Pix of the Down Fire Cabinet.

Problem with the 112e is that they're holy grail cabs for steel guys and heavy

 

[Ostie]

My wife has a fearful personality, and besides we need to save up a bit of money. She doesn't want to do anything until we both get vaccinated.

Understood. We feel very safe in our RV. We can eat, sleep, shower, etc in there. It gets us out of the house and out of doors, in season. And we get to see places that we haven’t visited.

Hope you can get that trailer soon and enjoy the Great Outdoors.

 

[JoshS]

Understood. We feel very safe in our RV. We can eat, sleep, shower, etc in there. It gets us out of the house and out of doors, in season. And we get to see places that we haven’t visited.

Hope you can get that trailer soon and enjoy the Great Outdoors.

Same.
We have a small hard-side pop-up (think a-frame), which we chose b/c of the very long bed and b/c it fits in our garage. Once we got the bathroom dialed in, I wished we'd have done more camping last summer.

I bring an inexpensive bass to practice and use Vox headphones. That's sort of a stinker. I think next summer I'm going to bring this little Martin, Jr (guitar) I recently got instead. I don't get much bass practice in anyway.

 

[Meaculpa]

A Hartke hd15.

 

[Rip Van Dan]

My wife and I are planning to buy a small Scamp 13 trailer sometime later this year or next year, once the pandemic dies down. I'm looking to get myself a Traveler bass for when we hit the road, and I will need to get a very small amp, one that weighs very little, since I want to keep the total weight of the trailer down as much as possible. I already have a small amp in an Ibanez Promethean, but I'd like something even smaller.

A little smaller than the Promethian is the Eden EC8, which is a 20-watt amp with an 8" speaker

The dimensions are:
H: 12.6 in / 32 cm
W: 10.5 in / 26.7 cm
D: 8.5 in / 21.6 cm
Weight: 11 lbs / 5 kgs
Handle is on the top.

It has gain, enhance, and tone. Tone is a simple bass to treble sweep. Enhance boosts the bass and treble and cuts the low mids as you turn it up. It's a bit like a loudness button on an old stereo but is adjustable. It is great for low-level practice where it's normally hard to hear the bass and treble but the mids are fine. it has one 1/4" input for your bass plus another for your headphones and a 1/8" input for your mp3 or CD player. Street price is $249.

If that's too big then you also have the choice of the Eden Micro Tour

It's a 2-watt amp with one 4½" speaker. It is 5.3" wide, 12" tall and 3.7" deep. It's powered by either an Eden 15V power supply, which is available separately (same as used on their WTDI), or you can power it with 8 "AA" batteries. It has a 1/4" input, 1/8" (3mm) headphones out, a volume and a tone control. Street price is ~$65.

 

[Aledal]

I don't have a scamper van but I do live in a tiny apartment where the walls are possibly a similar thickness so spent years trying to find something that would work for practice and not get me kicked out my building.

If you can afford a Phil Jones Double 4 then I'm not sure if you will see or hear anything better. The new tiny Trace Elliots are great but still missing the clarity and assuredness of the PJ.

 

[themickster]

I have two Fly 3s and two active speakers. One Fly is a bass build; the other is Bluetooth. Either would do what you want.

 

[CosmicRay]

This is a cool little amp. I have one. Amazing for it's size. Plus the effects....


https://www.roland.com/us/products/micro_cube_bass_rx/

 

[DTRN]

the roland micro bass cube RX isn't actually that light due to its internal battery. is is, however, quite small and at low volumes, it sounds good.

did someone here mention the hartke HD15? lots of bass from that 6" speaker, more than i would have thought possible. along with my traveler ultra light, it makes for quite a small package. not as small as with the micro bass cube RX, but quite small.

I have the Hartke HD15 I got for free. I was amazed at how good it sounded.

 

[bombpop14]

For a really cheap solution I hooked up my GK 200 to a small 8 in desktop subwoofer with a rca adaptor. It works and super small.

 

[fishdreams]

Quilter Interbass with a Acoustic Image DoubleShot. 14lbs altogether that fits into a common tomtom bag. You can totally do a jazz gig with this and sound great filling the room nicely. Speaker takes more powerful amps too (up to 500 watts continously at 4 ohms).

 

[NeonVomit]

I have the Blackstar Fly Bass. It's not bad. PJB Double 4 is way way better though.

 

[Playbyear]

Joyo MA-10B. I have one for my workbench. Battery or adapter powered.

I have seen those on eBay and figured “junk”. Looking at them again now, they might be ok for some things.

https://www.thomannmusic.com/joyo_ma_10b_portable_bass_amp.htm

Perfect little amp for home practice
pdro74, 10.12.2020
I bought that for home practice, small acoustic rehearsals and to take it on vacations. It is perfect for all of that, very convenient. Much better sound than the blackstar alternative. I don't think it is possible to find anything that sounds like it, and at the same time it's so cheap and small. So this is perfect for room practice at low volume, and portability. For anything else, use a real amp.

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Loud enough
Mr Woody, 11.11.2020
I play bass and when it comes to jamming round the camp fire even a large acoustic bass is too quiet. This little baby does the trick. It's best for a singalong with nothing else amped. All the knobs do what they say. Tone sweep is actually quite impressive. So glad I bought this