This was my first amp back in High School, lugged it everywhere. I remember it sounded sort of generic, but you could toss it down a staircase and it would keep working just fine.My former Peavey TNT 100 is old enough for it's own crochet cover
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The Combo Club
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My TNT 100 is somewhere still in use! I made a pay-it-forward arrangement with a friend's son. He says it is very loud.
My first real bass amp was a Peavey Basic 50.
That’s when I realized I should start checking the weights on amps before buying them.
That is some mighty fine work!It's a bass that I built way back in 2005. The body shape was heavily influenced by Rob Allen. However, this bass is 2 1/4" deep and made from maple. It's a fair bit bigger than Rob Allen's body. It's a heavily chambered internally. There's no sound holes or F holes. The internal chambers are sealed, even the rear control cavity is separately sealed. The idea I had was to keep all of the acoustic energy internal. The white binding is very Rob Allen influenced! I carved the bridge from a solid block of Cocobolo. It's design is influenced by Rob Allen, in it's shape (although this one is a lot bigger) and I loved his idea of the integrated volume control.
The neck is a three piece walnut and maple laminate and is a set neck. Twin truss rods. Cocobolo lined fretless fingerboard. A 5 string with a zero fret. Bone nut and Hipshot ultralite tuners. The pickup is unusual, it's a highlander IP-2 under-saddle piezo mated to it's class A preamp. It's very similar to the pickup Rick Turner uses in his renaissance range of basses. It's currently loaded with Tomastic acoustic nylon core strings (again another nod to Rick Turner). Although it looks a lot like Rob Allen's work, which is certainly on of it's influences, it's also influenced tonally by Rick Turner. oh...and it's super light weight too
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Thanks for noticing!
So you’re a social studies teacher, eh?
Very cool!
I’m a Spanish teacher @swink !
Elementary SS and Science, year #34. One to go and then it’s bass and naps.
Now how many pages am I behind? Seems as if crocheting and Peavey bass amps are thf keywords of the past 24 hours.
As much as I’d love to catch up tonight, I’m actually gonna get some sleep and maybe stay up tomorrow night instead. I need to do some recording this weekend for December’s song.
As much as I’d love to catch up tonight, I’m actually gonna get some sleep and maybe stay up tomorrow night instead. I need to do some recording this weekend for December’s song.
Elementary?!
You are a brave one.
That's pretty much it:
We're all crocheting and buying Peavey amps now. You need to do it, too.
All the cool kids are doing it. You want to fit in, don't you?
(I thought some peer pressure might help.)
@nuage420b @KaraQ @FirewalZ @Morrighan @Miles_ONeal
Oh, and these dudes have a killer new comedy routine going:
@GonePlaid @biguglyman
This guy's got a nutzo new amp that I don't even understand what it is:
@GMC
These people are smart and understand what this amp is:
@Doctor Intrepid @Liko
This guy knows his doilies:
@WestyBassBob
This dude's just my man:
@G-Dog
Did I miss anything?
Okay, CC.
Since you have REFUSED to buy me the $3K Fender fretless, I will ALLOW you the honor of buying me the only non-Fender P bass that I will allow in the house.
Here it is:
For Sale - 2014 Les Paul Std.
@RodRy Could you handle this for me please?
Good mooooooooooorning, @swink !!!!!!!
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good morning???? it's almost noon here
Hee hee!good morning???? it's almost noon here
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I kind of want to know how to crochet a siversides Peavey now.
I don't remember them on hat shelves, but someone I knew always had exactly one spare roll in the toilet, under a crocheted hat.
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Maybe this was an early, non-lethal, mutation in CV-19?
I have a reasonable suspicion that it starts with a ball of wool, but I would start with a course "Peavey crocheting for beginners". If I were you...
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Vintage Peavey wool is surprisingly heavy.
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Fender Rumble 15. The ultimate in Portable Bass Goodness. Which is as well, for circumstances dictated I had to walk several miles with it, as well as travel on a train and a trolleybus, to bring it home.
My first impressions: it's sensitive to whatever I do. Whether I pluck differently, or turn the tone pot, or play a note on a different string, all has a far more pronounced effect on the sound than what I'm used to on my other combo.
My other combo is a MarkBass Players School, and it always just keeps pushing on. Very handy with loud guitarists. The Rumble 15 is the opposite. Its sensitivity reminds me of playing the Violin, which was my main instrument once upon a time.
One happy bassist.
Fender Rumble 15. The ultimate in Portable Bass Goodness. Which is as well, for circumstances dictated I had to walk several miles with it, as well as travel on a train and a trolleybus, to bring it home.
My first impressions: it's sensitive to whatever I do. Whether I pluck differently, or turn the tone pot, or play a note on a different string, all has a far more pronounced effect on the sound than what I'm used to on my other combo.
My other combo is a MarkBass Players School, and it always just keeps pushing on. Very handy with loud guitarists. The Rumble 15 is the opposite. Its sensitivity reminds me of playing the Violin, which was my main instrument once upon a time.
One happy bassist.
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Any combo that can be carried that far by hand is a win.
Okay, okay, A-a-ron.
I've noted this brown nosed 'attaboy', too, in your GGG file. [sheesh!] .
Okay, okay, A-a-ron.
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If you want real portability and sensitivity try one of those VOX headphone amps. You hear every touch of the strings, really makes you focus on your attack and muting.---> NCD <---
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Fender Rumble 15. The ultimate in Portable Bass Goodness. Which is as well, for circumstances dictated I had to walk several miles with it, as well as travel on a train and a trolleybus, to bring it home.
My first impressions: it's sensitive to whatever I do. Whether I pluck differently, or turn the tone pot, or play a note on a different string, all has a far more pronounced effect on the sound than what I'm used to on my other combo.
My other combo is a MarkBass Players School, and it always just keeps pushing on. Very handy with loud guitarists. The Rumble 15 is the opposite. Its sensitivity reminds me of playing the Violin, which was my main instrument once upon a time.
So you would need a nice, tight crochet and some fine wool. After you've made a big sheet of it in whatever pattern you like you would use some sort of adhesive to carpet the cabinet. Much like how the stuff that's on there now is just a sheet that's been glued to a plywood box. \
It would probably be best to make your own cabinet with a peavy amp and speaker. Then you could upholster onto fresh material. If you had the time, patience and skills it wouldn't be that difficult and would be great for the granny metal band I'm going to start (because by the time I do start a band I'll be dating grannies)
