The Combo Club

[iagtrplyr]

no, definitely not an amp problem. More an "I can't dedicate an entire room or space to practicing" problem.

All good solutions provided so far, especially the cutting the volume one. As I mentioned and I’m sure you’ve already found out, these CMB combos are really bass heavy. Try dropping the Bass control to 9:00, cutting out the preamp level, and lowering the volume slightly. That may take care of it or make it easier for you to find the culprit and remove.

 

[GonePlaid]

I hope all the comboites have a very happy turkey(or whatever)day.

 

[G-Dog]

I hope all the comboites have a very happy turkey(or whatever)day.

Ditto! Happy Thanksgiving! And, yes, 'comboites' is a word!

 

[GwenOnBass]

"Kid ... Have you rehabilitated yourself?"

 

[SharpCat]

In addition to “T-Day”, clearly we need 3 more holidays, S-Day, PB-Day, and JB-Day.

Hope everyone celebrating or not has a good day!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Hope you’ve all had a great day. I’m thankful for you all.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

In addition to “T-Day”, clearly we need 3 more holidays, S-Day, PB-Day, and JB-Day.

Hope everyone celebrating or not has a good day!

Sammie Day, Peanut Butter Day and Jelly 'n Butter Day. Sign me up!

 

[iagtrplyr]

Okay, CC, it's time to get off Page 659 and back to the present. Yeah, I know, I haven't been helping the past couple of weeks, so I figured it was time to pick up the pace. I'm also guilty of not scribing a review of my new combo, but I assure you it's in the mail heading to a town near you. I've been waiting for the call from my duo partner at school, their music teacher, which came this evening. We're booked from 9-11 AM on the 20th and I'm bringing the new Markbass along for the ride with my Hofner. We'll see how the tandem does with traditional holiday faves. Admittedly, I'm still dialing in my Sire P/J U5 to the combo, but am not quite there yet. As for Karl Hofner's weapon of choice, I'm tripping the light fantastic of that pair! Those two were made for one another and it's made playing/recording so much fun that I may quit my day job, napping, to concentrate more on the bass. Eh...probably not.

For you two or three comboites out there interested in reading my drivel, I promise to give a full report on tone and function, plus some pics of the show. If you're curious, here's one of the first of four or five songs I've already recorded through the DI. what it lacks in notes I think it makes up for in girth. Now it's time to unleash the speaker to see what it can do. Let me know what ya think.

 

[shirojiro]

There’s a guy near me selling a Peavey Combo 300. They’re heavy, and the tone is not to die for.

But nostalgia runs deep and I want to get it! <must resist…..>

Are any of you still rocking one?
I wonder if adding a Bag End S15 as an extension cab would fill out the low end.

 

[GwenOnBass]

There’s a guy near me selling a Peavey Combo 300. They’re heavy, and the tone is not to die for.

But nostalgia runs deep and I want to get it! <must resist…..>

Are any of you still rocking one?
I wonder if adding a Bag End S15 as an extension cab would fill out the low end.

Finally gave my Peavey silversides combo away to a young player on a pay it forward deal. That's been about 10 years now. Do I miss it?

... a little

yet would have exactly no use for it today. I would be tempted by a Peavey silversides EQ DI pedal, though. Heck, I'd buy it and rock it. lol.

 

[Deleted member 409896]

There’s a guy near me selling a Peavey Combo 300. They’re heavy, and the tone is not to die for.

might be, if it falls over on you.

It's a good thing I wasn't in a hurry to get back to using my old SWR combo amp. It's still in the shop. "6-8 weeks" turned into "who knows." or possibly longer than that, with more holidays coming up.

 

[Ritter667]

Not sure if this counts, but I do use a combo amp in my setup, however just using the poweramp section and hooking it up with a passive PA speaker, like this:

5 string 28.6" scale Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass (equipped with an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, and strung with Elixir Nanoweb coated nickel-plated roundwound hex steel core guitar strings, gauge .080 - .062 - .046 - .032 - .024, tuned in tenor/baritone bass, A standard, tuning, that is like the upper 5 strings of a 7 string bass in regular B standard tuning) ->

->> XVive Undulator (tremolo pedal, but never actually engaged and used exclusively for its great buffer) ->> EHX Black Finger (tube driven optical compressor, with 2 preamp tubes operating at proper high 300V plate voltage, primarily functioning as a tube preamp stage, driven to just at the edge of the tubes's breakup point, but with some very subtle compression dialed in as well) ->> TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini (for adding a 1 octave up, mimicking an effect somewhat similar to that of an 8 string bass, using a custom made Toneprint) ->> Boss LS-2 [A+B Mix <-> Bypass] (parallel effect loops mixer/switch) ={ [Loop A Send] ->> Joyo Oxford Sound (clone of the Tech 21 Oxford, which is an all analog emulation of an Orange Amp type preamp, dialed in to deliver a low gain overdrive, always used blended with "clean" signal from parallel effects [Loop B]) ->> [Loop A Return] ->|+|<- [Loop B Send] ->> ([Loops B] empty, used to blend in "clean" signal) ->> [Loop B Return] ([Loop A] + [Loop B] mixed at an approximate 50/50 ratio) => [LS-2 Output] }=>->> Zoom B1Xon (used predominantly as reverb and delay unit, with various different reverb and delay patches, including my always on {very subtle Plate Reverb -> subtle Spring Reverb} reverb patch that is part of my basic "clean" tone, and beside that, among others, an extremely thick, lush reverb patch, used as a pad effect with volume swells from the build in expression pedal, and a trippy reverse delay patch, though also used for a couple of additional other effects, including a prominent "wah" pedal patch) ->> NUX Tape Core Deluxe (amazing digital emulation of the legendary Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay) ->> NUX (NBP-5) Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp + DI (loaded with a digitally emulated Aguilar Tone Hammer amp, and an Ampeg SVT-212AV IR cab simulation, with HPF @ 40Hz, LPF @14kHz, and a subtle low gain overdrive blended in at a 50/50 clean/drive ratio) ->

->> ART Tube MP Project Series (tube preamp and DI, with build in HPF, fixed @ 40Hz, engaged, tube driven to just on the verge of breakup point) ->

->> Effects Return (poweramp input) of a Peavey Solo Special 112 (160W combo amp, with the build in speaker disconnect and instead hooked up to a passive PA speaker) ->> The Box PA 502 (passive full range flat frequency response PA speaker with 1x 15" woofer/mids driver + 1.7" high frequency tweeter horn (crossover 2.3kHz))

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Okay, CC, it's time to get off Page 659 and back to the present. Yeah, I know, I haven't been helping the past couple of weeks, so I figured it was time to pick up the pace. I'm also guilty of not scribing a review of my new combo, but I assure you it's in the mail heading to a town near you. I've been waiting for the call from my duo partner at school, their music teacher, which came this evening. We're booked from 9-11 AM on the 20th and I'm bringing the new Markbass along for the ride with my Hofner. We'll see how the tandem does with traditional holiday faves. Admittedly, I'm still dialing in my Sire P/J U5 to the combo, but am not quite there yet. As for Karl Hofner's weapon of choice, I'm tripping the light fantastic of that pair! Those two were made for one another and it's made playing/recording so much fun that I may quit my day job, napping, to concentrate more on the bass. Eh...probably not.

For you two or three comboites out there interested in reading my drivel, I promise to give a full report on tone and function, plus some pics of the show. If you're curious, here's one of the first of four or five songs I've already recorded through the DI. what it lacks in notes I think it makes up for in girth. Now it's time to unleash the speaker to see what it can do. Let me know what ya think.

It says I have no access. But ibeinterested.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Not sure if this counts, but I do use a combo amp in my setup, however just using the poweramp section and hooking it up with a passive PA speaker, like this:

5 string 28.6" scale Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass (equipped with an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, and strung with Elixir Nanoweb coated nickel-plated roundwound hex steel core guitar strings, gauge .080 - .062 - .046 - .032 - .024, tuned in tenor/baritone bass, A standard, tuning, that is like the upper 5 strings of a 7 string bass in regular B standard tuning) ->

->> XVive Undulator (tremolo pedal, but never actually engaged and used exclusively for its great buffer) ->> EHX Black Finger (tube driven optical compressor, with 2 preamp tubes operating at proper high 300V plate voltage, primarily functioning as a tube preamp stage, driven to just at the edge of the tubes's breakup point, but with some very subtle compression dialed in as well) ->> TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini (for adding a 1 octave up, mimicking an effect somewhat similar to that of an 8 string bass, using a custom made Toneprint) ->> Boss LS-2 [A+B Mix <-> Bypass] (parallel effect loops mixer/switch) ={ [Loop A Send] ->> Joyo Oxford Sound (clone of the Tech 21 Oxford, which is an all analog emulation of an Orange Amp type preamp, dialed in to deliver a low gain overdrive, always used blended with "clean" signal from parallel effects [Loop B]) ->> [Loop A Return] ->|+|<- [Loop B Send] ->> ([Loops B] empty, used to blend in "clean" signal) ->> [Loop B Return] ([Loop A] + [Loop B] mixed at an approximate 50/50 ratio) => [LS-2 Output] }=>->> Zoom B1Xon (used predominantly as reverb and delay unit, with various different reverb and delay patches, including my always on {very subtle Plate Reverb -> subtle Spring Reverb} reverb patch that is part of my basic "clean" tone, and beside that, among others, an extremely thick, lush reverb patch, used as a pad effect with volume swells from the build in expression pedal, and a trippy reverse delay patch, though also used for a couple of additional other effects, including a prominent "wah" pedal patch) ->> NUX Tape Core Deluxe (amazing digital emulation of the legendary Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay) ->> NUX (NBP-5) Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp + DI (loaded with a digitally emulated Aguilar Tone Hammer amp, and an Ampeg SVT-212AV IR cab simulation, with HPF @ 40Hz, LPF @14kHz, and a subtle low gain overdrive blended in at a 50/50 clean/drive ratio) ->

->> ART Tube MP Project Series (tube preamp and DI, with build in HPF, fixed @ 40Hz, engaged, tube driven to just on the verge of breakup point) ->

->> Effects Return (poweramp input) of a Peavey Solo Special 112 (160W combo amp, with the build in speaker disconnect and instead hooked up to a passive PA speaker) ->> The Box PA 502 (passive full range flat frequency response PA speaker with 1x 15" woofer/mids driver + 1.7" high frequency tweeter horn (crossover 2.3kHz))

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Does it count? Excellent question. The floor is now open for debate.
Meanwhile, that’s quite the pedal chain! Interesting use of some of those.

 

[shirojiro]

Not sure if this counts, but I do use a combo amp in my setup, however just using the poweramp section and hooking it up with a passive PA speaker, like this:

5 string 28.6" scale Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass (equipped with an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, and strung with Elixir Nanoweb coated nickel-plated roundwound hex steel core guitar strings, gauge .080 - .062 - .046 - .032 - .024, tuned in tenor/baritone bass, A standard, tuning, that is like the upper 5 strings of a 7 string bass in regular B standard tuning) ->

->> XVive Undulator (tremolo pedal, but never actually engaged and used exclusively for its great buffer) ->> EHX Black Finger (tube driven optical compressor, with 2 preamp tubes operating at proper high 300V plate voltage, primarily functioning as a tube preamp stage, driven to just at the edge of the tubes's breakup point, but with some very subtle compression dialed in as well) ->> TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini (for adding a 1 octave up, mimicking an effect somewhat similar to that of an 8 string bass, using a custom made Toneprint) ->> Boss LS-2 [A+B Mix <-> Bypass] (parallel effect loops mixer/switch) ={ [Loop A Send] ->> Joyo Oxford Sound (clone of the Tech 21 Oxford, which is an all analog emulation of an Orange Amp type preamp, dialed in to deliver a low gain overdrive, always used blended with "clean" signal from parallel effects [Loop B]) ->> [Loop A Return] ->|+|<- [Loop B Send] ->> ([Loops B] empty, used to blend in "clean" signal) ->> [Loop B Return] ([Loop A] + [Loop B] mixed at an approximate 50/50 ratio) => [LS-2 Output] }=>->> Zoom B1Xon (used predominantly as reverb and delay unit, with various different reverb and delay patches, including my always on {very subtle Plate Reverb -> subtle Spring Reverb} reverb patch that is part of my basic "clean" tone, and beside that, among others, an extremely thick, lush reverb patch, used as a pad effect with volume swells from the build in expression pedal, and a trippy reverse delay patch, though also used for a couple of additional other effects, including a prominent "wah" pedal patch) ->> NUX Tape Core Deluxe (amazing digital emulation of the legendary Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay) ->> NUX (NBP-5) Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp + DI (loaded with a digitally emulated Aguilar Tone Hammer amp, and an Ampeg SVT-212AV IR cab simulation, with HPF @ 40Hz, LPF @14kHz, and a subtle low gain overdrive blended in at a 50/50 clean/drive ratio) ->

->> ART Tube MP Project Series (tube preamp and DI, with build in HPF, fixed @ 40Hz, engaged, tube driven to just on the verge of breakup point) ->

->> Effects Return (poweramp input) of a Peavey Solo Special 112 (160W combo amp, with the build in speaker disconnect and instead hooked up to a passive PA speaker) ->> The Box PA 502 (passive full range flat frequency response PA speaker with 1x 15" woofer/mids driver + 1.7" high frequency tweeter horn (crossover 2.3kHz))

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Please don’t take this the wrong way but this amp and speaker combo would be celebrated in the “janky rigs of doom” thread.

I have at least one rig in that thread as well.
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[Ritter667]

Please don’t take this the wrong way but this amp and speaker combo would be celebrated in the “janky rigs of doom” thread.

I have at least one rig in that thread as well.
.

No offence taken, I am well aware.

And I do appreciate the suggestion, but I already posted it there a while ago.

 

[G-Dog]

Not sure if this counts, but I do use a combo amp in my setup, however just using the poweramp section and hooking it up with a passive PA speaker, like this:

5 string 28.6" scale Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass (equipped with an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, and strung with Elixir Nanoweb coated nickel-plated roundwound hex steel core guitar strings, gauge .080 - .062 - .046 - .032 - .024, tuned in tenor/baritone bass, A standard, tuning, that is like the upper 5 strings of a 7 string bass in regular B standard tuning) ->

->> XVive Undulator (tremolo pedal, but never actually engaged and used exclusively for its great buffer) ->> EHX Black Finger (tube driven optical compressor, with 2 preamp tubes operating at proper high 300V plate voltage, primarily functioning as a tube preamp stage, driven to just at the edge of the tubes's breakup point, but with some very subtle compression dialed in as well) ->> TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini (for adding a 1 octave up, mimicking an effect somewhat similar to that of an 8 string bass, using a custom made Toneprint) ->> Boss LS-2 [A+B Mix <-> Bypass] (parallel effect loops mixer/switch) ={ [Loop A Send] ->> Joyo Oxford Sound (clone of the Tech 21 Oxford, which is an all analog emulation of an Orange Amp type preamp, dialed in to deliver a low gain overdrive, always used blended with "clean" signal from parallel effects [Loop B]) ->> [Loop A Return] ->|+|<- [Loop B Send] ->> ([Loops B] empty, used to blend in "clean" signal) ->> [Loop B Return] ([Loop A] + [Loop B] mixed at an approximate 50/50 ratio) => [LS-2 Output] }=>->> Zoom B1Xon (used predominantly as reverb and delay unit, with various different reverb and delay patches, including my always on {very subtle Plate Reverb -> subtle Spring Reverb} reverb patch that is part of my basic "clean" tone, and beside that, among others, an extremely thick, lush reverb patch, used as a pad effect with volume swells from the build in expression pedal, and a trippy reverse delay patch, though also used for a couple of additional other effects, including a prominent "wah" pedal patch) ->> NUX Tape Core Deluxe (amazing digital emulation of the legendary Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay) ->> NUX (NBP-5) Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp + DI (loaded with a digitally emulated Aguilar Tone Hammer amp, and an Ampeg SVT-212AV IR cab simulation, with HPF @ 40Hz, LPF @14kHz, and a subtle low gain overdrive blended in at a 50/50 clean/drive ratio) ->

->> ART Tube MP Project Series (tube preamp and DI, with build in HPF, fixed @ 40Hz, engaged, tube driven to just on the verge of breakup point) ->

->> Effects Return (poweramp input) of a Peavey Solo Special 112 (160W combo amp, with the build in speaker disconnect and instead hooked up to a passive PA speaker) ->> The Box PA 502 (passive full range flat frequency response PA speaker with 1x 15" woofer/mids driver + 1.7" high frequency tweeter horn (crossover 2.3kHz))

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Does it count? Excellent question. The floor is now open for debate.
Meanwhile, that’s quite the pedal chain! Interesting use of some of those.

[rabble rousing] ... [gavel banging] MR. CHAIR... [continued rabble rousing] ... I SAY, ... [continued gavel banging] ... ... [/continued rabble rousing] ... MR. CHAIRMAN! ... [/continued gavel banging] ... [/rabble rousing] ... MR. CHAIRMAN! ... [/gavel banging] ... <ahem> ... ... <harrumph> ... ...

Your Honor, Mr. Chairman, ... If you would be SO kind as to recognize this humble delegate from The Grea-aat State of Confusion, ... [looking around] Ladies and gentlemen of this Estee-eemed Assembly, ... [rabble rousing][/looking around][gavel banging][/rabble rousing][/gavel banging] ... ...

May I be allowed to submit the following proposition, ... TO WIT And Heretofore, inasmuch as the applicant possesses, and may therefore deploy and apply, a veritable, if not virtual, plethora, yay even a cornucopia!, of devices and appliances for the modulation, moderation and transmogrification of tonal signaling, reinforcement and transduction of auditory frequencies in artistic and otherwise pleasant and/or enjoyable entertainment pursuits.

Your Honor, ladies and gentlemen, ... do we, or do we not, acknowledge that the exhibited Peavey Solo Special 112 is a combo amplifier? [rabble rousing] Is it, or is it not, a single-cabinet ee-lectronic amp assembly with controls & EQ, including a dedicated speaker in said cabinet? [gavel banging] I submit that it is, indeed, such a combo amp [continued rabble rousing][continued gavel banging] by all this assembly's prior established criteria for such, and SO SAY ALL OF US! ... [more rabble rousing][cheering][more gavel banging][/continued rabble rousing][more cheering][/more gavel banging][/more cheering][/continued gavel banging][/rabble rousing][/cheering][/gavel banging]

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen. ... In closing I would say, let us not regulate, restrict or otherwise infringe on the basic human freedom and right to use our combos as we see fit, [cheering] nor penalize others for doing so. [/cheering]

"How can you say NO to Combos?"​

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Looking back at the charter…
“This if for the TBer who is not afraid to admit they rock a combo as their Main rig. I realize that there are separate threads for Fender and Walkabout out there.

Let us unite in the face of massive prejudice. let them respect our numbers if they cannot understand that our gear works for us.!!

The only requirement for this club is pride in combo ownership. No bashing brands.....if it works for you welcome to the club!!”

On the one hand, one can easily argue that @Ritter667 is not “rocking a combo as their main rig”. On the other hand, they seem proud enough of ownership, which was designated as the only requirement despite the stated purpose. On the gripping hand, would we feel the same if they were using a head with a combo speaker? Has that come up before?
I’m inclined to allow it but await any further commentary by our distinguished, extinguished, or anguished members.

 

[Barticus]

Okay, CC, it's time to get off Page 659 and back to the present. Yeah, I know, I haven't been helping the past couple of weeks, so I figured it was time to pick up the pace. I'm also guilty of not scribing a review of my new combo, but I assure you it's in the mail heading to a town near you. I've been waiting for the call from my duo partner at school, their music teacher, which came this evening. We're booked from 9-11 AM on the 20th and I'm bringing the new Markbass along for the ride with my Hofner. We'll see how the tandem does with traditional holiday faves. Admittedly, I'm still dialing in my Sire P/J U5 to the combo, but am not quite there yet. As for Karl Hofner's weapon of choice, I'm tripping the light fantastic of that pair! Those two were made for one another and it's made playing/recording so much fun that I may quit my day job, napping, to concentrate more on the bass. Eh...probably not.

For you two or three comboites out there interested in reading my drivel, I promise to give a full report on tone and function, plus some pics of the show. If you're curious, here's one of the first of four or five songs I've already recorded through the DI. what it lacks in notes I think it makes up for in girth. Now it's time to unleash the speaker to see what it can do. Let me know what ya think.

 

[GwenOnBass]

It's combo-related, yet not a combo:

Bought a 3 foot Neutrik NL4 to Neutrik NL4 from Rattlesnake Cable Company for the PJB BG-400 and C4 extension cab during their 25 percent off Black Friday sale. It is a semi-impulse buy. Been looking at, and wondering about, Rattlesnake cables for a good while. At the discount, it rings in close enough to the Pig Hog speaker cables I use with the Elf to make me pull the lever.

It's installed, and works as well as the cable of unknown origin it replaces.