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Lowtown said:
So.........folks

No having a single bass amp with a million knobs doesn't mean you don't like tone - actually it is the opposite.

If you really like tone control, you will use:
- a power amp
- different pre-amp pedals to adjust tone.

Power amp + pre-amp pedals gives you the greatest tone control per $ spent
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That's great, except I prefer to gig without pedals (even though I have dozens of home-built fx units). I get the basic sound for the venue from my amp's eq, then do the rest with the controls on my bass.
 
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Lowtown said:
More knobs, more buttons, more points of weakness, more problems - basic probability math.

I know the problem well .
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Basic probability math should tell you that the more complex your signal chain is, the more likelihood of failure. Pedals need to be connected, patch cables are a weak link. Pedals need to be powered, either with batteries which drain, or power adapters with distribution cables which are also weak links. Knobs and buttons on an amp are far less likely to fail (the only time I've ever had an amp go wrong at a gig was a tube amp, and I simply swapped the tube out and carried on).

I'm not anti-pedals btw, I have built literally dozens of them:
 
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FWIW... I'm going to offer this: I use a pedalboard with an Aguilar ToneHammer as the last in my pedal chain. I go from this into the 'Return' on an old (reliable) Peavey Bass Mark III, bypassing all of the controls except the output volume (post gain). So for simplicity, I'm basically using it as a one knob mono-power amp, and any of the other controls are completely irrelevant and never need to be touched (and if they are it has no affect). This is the setup in my practice space, and I love the simplicity.

As a comparison, I use a Quilter Bass Block 800 as my live amp, and I have the knobs marked to where I don't have to touch them (and I can easily set them back to where I want if they get bumped). I have a terrible time with too many knobs, and really just want a single "louder/quieter" knob as well. The quilter is pretty much perfect, but I am always on the hunt for a powerful mono single knob power amp as well! I want it to be light and small-ish which is why I love my Quilter.

I don't have a recommendation for the original poster, but I can certainly follow the desire for pure simplicity.
 
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Bonecat said:
... GR Bass gear. I’d never heard, or heard of them. Amp and a carbon fiber cab for a 25 lb load-in. Fascinating idea. Anyone ever used/heard this gear?
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Heard OF them? Yes. HEARD them? No. There seems to be some difficulty in that department. But a few people do have some of their stuff -- there have been threads. Search those out, or start a new one specific to that brand.

Just from casual observation, it seems like the speaker cabs are flat, manufactured carbon-fiber panels joined at the corners with some sort of plastic or metal extrusion. I could have been interested if they were laid-up or otherwise continuously molded as one solid piece, but that style of construction holds no appeal to me.
 
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