Show your amps!

[bassist31588]

and one of my 'system'

 

[NV43345]

I dont try and kill it, I use the small amp for what it is intended, see my other post for more juice.If that dont work for you try this.no problem with the "B".LOL.

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[bassist31588]

Originally posted by NV43345
I dont try and kill it, I use the small amp for what it is intended, see my other post for more juice.If that dont work for you try this.no problem with the "B".LOL.

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yeah... No I'm not saying that a 1x15 and 4x10 rig is overkill, but when people use 2 of those then it starts making me think if its really nesecary... lol... who needs that amount of volume when there should be a PA around for that type of gig? For a gig like that you're rig should be just for stage volume and tone, but then again, I'm not saying it's useless. If I had the money I'd have a couple 'rigs'

 

[NV43345]

I play These 2 basses, both wired for stereo. my sound is unreal, The BIG Amps, it's all about headroom,getting a nice clean tone without having to push the amps to there limit.With this Ric 4003
I use the "Ric-o-sound" box to split the signal
I can switch from one amp to the other with the selector switch on the bass.
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[NV43345]

With this Yamaha Attitude Limited, I can mix the sound right on the bass, and put a little overdrive and compression on one side.Playing in stereo is awesome.
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[bassist31588]

Originally posted by NV43345
With this Yamaha Attitude Limited, I can mix the sound right on the bass, and put a little overdrive and compression on one side.Playing in stereo is awesome.
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hah, you WISH you were billy sheehan! I've always wanted to try out that bass. I used to use a radio shack signal splitter (ya know, one of those adapters) so I can run my jazz bass into my hartke combo and mix a lot of low end down there, and then run another signal into my 15 watt squier 8" combo. Obviously,. I couldnt crank the hartke up that much before low end started distorting, but now I have a rig, and I might look into possible ways to be able to biamp my system when i get a high end driver (I want a 2x8 personally if I can find any, i just like the tone). My Hartke 3500 head can't biamp, but can I add a crossover, is that what I need in order to biamp???

 

[CrawlingEye]

Originally posted by NV43345
Do some lookin around, I saw someone in one of these threads that was selling a Bam 210.But I cant remember where I saw it ?

If you remember, could you PM me with their user name or some contact info? Thanks.

 

[ColonelZulu]

Originally posted by CrawlingEye
Sadly, I don't have a very good picture of my rig, ATM.

My rig may not stay with me too long. I think it's on the verge of getting replaced by a BAM 210 combo for 3 reasons. Better sound (IMO), more versatility and more portable. My 410TXF weighs 95lbs alone and my firebass weighs 50lbs.

Good setup but doesn't quite do it for me, then again, I have very odd taste in sound. I like bright without being too attacky with a good high mid nasal sound to it, that's not too overbearing.

Seemingly, I've been able to do this with my Sterling and a BAM being strung with Prisms.

Anyway, enough useless comments.

Here's a pic from a community day my band did about a week or so ago.

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Where was that and what's your band's name???

 

[BillyB_from_LZ]

Bassist31588...

To biamp you need a preamp, an electronic crossover and two mono power amps, one for the lows and one for the highs.

With bass heads, you can often take the signal from the fx send, send it to the crossover and then return either the highs or lows to your bass amp and send the other frequency band to another power amp.

I looked at the manual for your Hartke head and found out that the fx loop is before the EQ...this means that you could follow the signal path that I mentioned except you wouldn't be able to EQ either your highs or lows... Hartke didn't do you any favors...

What you could do is take the signal from your DI (which can be post eq) and send that to a crossover but the signal hitting the Hartke's power amp would be full range as there are no access points to the signal path after the fx return.

Your other choice if you wanted to use 8s for high end is to use a passive crossover between the Hartke and the Avatar/2x8 cabinets. There are lots of them available at www.partsexpress.com or you could design and build your own.

Have fun!!!!

 

[bassist31588]

Originally posted by BillyB_from_LZ
Bassist31588...

To biamp you need a preamp, an electronic crossover and two mono power amps, one for the lows and one for the highs.

With bass heads, you can often take the signal from the fx send, send it to the crossover and then return either the highs or lows to your bass amp and send the other frequency band to another power amp.

I looked at the manual for your Hartke head and found out that the fx loop is before the EQ...this means that you could follow the signal path that I mentioned except you wouldn't be able to EQ either your highs or lows... Hartke didn't do you any favors...

What you could do is take the signal from your DI (which can be post eq) and send that to a crossover but the signal hitting the Hartke's power amp would be full range as there are no access points to the signal path after the fx return.

Your other choice if you wanted to use 8s for high end is to use a passive crossover between the Hartke and the Avatar/2x8 cabinets. There are lots of them available at www.partsexpress.com or you could design and build your own.

Have fun!!!!

yeah, well I mean this is exactly why hartke made the 7000 head, those are practically like the 3500 only difference is you can biamp. The 3500 is less expensive, so hell

Seriously though, I bought the 3500 and the avatar because I was low on money obviously, I'm 15, and for me this rig gets me past everything Im doing, but I'd just like some smaller drivers in the mix to smooth out the tone. If I were to add 2 8's to even it out, I can't possibly see how they'd be safe unless I biamp it. I'm using a 5 string and upright and those alone are pretty crazy intruments for a 2x8 cab. Of course if I were using ONLY my upright at a show I'd use just the 15, but whenever I'm playing electric I like to make a big deal with amps, so I'd plug the upright into the rig Im using electric on. yadyayda... I just think it would be cool to run a 2x8 extension cab from the 3500, but it would have to be an expensive brand where the speakers can take a lot. Anyone thinking about Accugroove? . Adding another cab for me isnt about volume, i've got enough right now, rather its about having a more even tone. I like the tight low B, but if it's not shakin' the floor its not right... So basically I want a tight as possible low B with the ability to shake the floor.

I can always just add a 2x10 and run that at a lower risk of speaker damage in tandem with the 15. Won't be able to biamp, but still, as long as the 2x10 isnt crapping out when the 15 is doing the lows.

 

[BillyB_from_LZ]

Here's the cheap route to 2x8s...get a pair of 16 ohm 8 in. guitar speakers. Build a sealed box for them and connect them in parallel giving you an 8 ohm 2x8 cabinet. Between positive terminal of the the speakers and the tip of the jack, insert a series combination of 200 uf capacitors (Parts Express part no. 027-366...you could use a 100 uF cap except that economically priced series is rated 100V which PE equates to 200 watts..making the series combination gives you a 400 watt crossover). The capacitor will roll off signal below 200 Hz saving the 8s. Your Avatar would run full range and the system impedance will be nominally 4 ohms above 200 Hz. You could probably find the capacitors locally under the guise of "Bass Blocker" at at car audio shop...you'd need 200 Hz (or so) at 8 ohms (or 400 Hz, 4 ohms which is the same value capacitor).

 

[Fuzzbass]

I redid my rack rig. As you can see, I'm trying to cram as many knobs as possible into six rack spaces.

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[embellisher]

Peavey BAM 210 combo.

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Built in modeling and digital effects, and handles my low B string very well. Best sounding combo I have ever played through, and I used to own an Eden Metro.

 

[BIg O]

Hey Jeff: Welcome back! Where ya been?

Nice new little beast, although I still get chills when I think of your disappearing Eden Metro...bummer!

 

[mgood]

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All Carvin circa 1990.

Pro Bass II head - seriously under powered and has seen better days.

V410T - either the tweeter or the crossover blew. I rewired the cab to be two 4-ohm loads instead of one 8-ohm load so I can get more power from the head. I then built a strange-looking patch cable that hooks the two sides together in series to get back to one 8-ohm load for when I use it with the 1x15 cab. This cab has always sounded great.

V115 - I don't usually like fifteens by themselves for a bass rig. I really just bought this to get the 4x10 up off the floor. But I was pleasantly surprised by the sound of this cab. It's rarely used by itself though. I stack the 4x10 on top of it as pictured.

Sometimes I put the head in a rack with some other junk:

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I need a more powerful head to run it with.
But what I really want is a whole new stack like the Carvin RL1018 (R1000 head, RL410T, RL118), or possibly even the Carvin R1000 head with a couple of Bergantino cabs (don't hold your breath, but I do think Bergies sound great).

The basses in the pics are my old faithful 1989.5 Carvin LB70 and my new 2003 Carvin BB75P. Not pictured is my 2002 Carvin BB70WP (my avatar).

 

[embellisher]

Originally posted by BIg O
Hey Jeff: Welcome back! Where ya been?

Nice new little beast, although I still get chills when I think of your disappearing Eden Metro...bummer!

Busy with church, family and gigs. I hope to start spending more time here.

 

[BIg O]

Originally posted by embellisher


Busy with church, family and gigs.

All good things to be busy with.

 

[embellisher]

Originally posted by BIg O


All good things to be busy with.

True. The organization that my church belongs to had their district conference here in town, and I got to play 5 of 6 services. Great time, and got to play with some great musicians. I am blessed.

 

[tombowlus]

Well, the rest of those EA cabs came in, so now my "EA Rig" looks like this:

 

[tombowlus]

In deference to my former "Big Rig", which never did really get revealed in its full glory, here is what I have been using prior to getting the EA cabs.

Mesa Boogie Diesel 4x10 ("Deep" version) and Eden 212XLT. This rig holds it own surprisingly well against all those EA cabs - I was up late last night shaking the ceiling tiles!