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The Combo Club

#14,085
themickster said:
... ... You couldn't plug a combo into a bigger 4ohm speaker. Head-and-speaker lets you do more. ....
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Oh, but you can plug a combo, like Fearless Leader's Rumble Stage 800, into a bigger 4 ohm speaker cab! And it'll handle it just fine. Today's combos are much more than those of yesteryear. ;) Thus the revelry of this club!

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#14,087
Does anyone here have the Peavey Max 208 combo? If so what are you thoughts on it? I play mostly electric bass with a jazz band. So I'm looking for nice clean tone. Most of the demos I have seen have used the overdrive.


Yes, I am already a member of the combo club. I have a Hartke Kickback 10 that I use for rehearsals and some gigs. Nice amp. I was thinking of the Peavey being a nice alternative with the speaker higher off the ground.
 
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#14,088
iagtrplyr said:
Love it, SR! you're gonna have to explain that GOF philosophy now that I'm old enough to be in it. Your dinner tomorrow sounds delish. We're doing leftovers from tonight's "party" and a couple of turkey drumsticks held over from T'giving. I'm rather looking forward to it all, except for the 2-4 inches with ice chaser starting around 9:00 AM CST. Good day for some four-string playing. The CSO's January song rolled in today and it's Hallelujah. A tad somber, but a nice tune to play regardless. After Mariah Carey, ya have to turn the cheeriness it down a notch.

Happy New Year to all our Combo club members, lurkers, and TalkBass folks in general. Here's to a great 2021 where you weekend warriors can finally get out and earn an honest living doing what you love to do...play music. Cheers!
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are those drumsticks green by now? :eek:
 
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#14,092
Am I to late to wish you all a New Combo and a Happy year !!! or do I have to wait 'till next year?

iagtrplyr said:
So I am officially starting "I predict..." Go ahead and post your bass combo prognostication and wait for the comments.
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I Predict Flat screen combos, like those Flat screen TV's but with project able micro drivers, instead of LED's... so you can choose where your sound goes to :hyper:.... but not in the near future.:cautious:
 
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#14,094
RodRy said:
Still don't get the joke...:sorry:
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Right there -> Known Space

A Kzin is a very tall and very strong cat-like humanoid, and smiling at one means you are presenting a challenge. Kzin greatly fear human females and some hold we are of another species. A soft weapon is full of surprises — for Kzin.
 
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#14,095
GwenOnBass said:
Right there -> Known Space

A Kzin is a very tall and very strong cat-like humanoid, and smiling at one means you are presenting a challenge. Kzin greatly fear human females and some hold we are of another species. A soft weapon is full of surprises — for Kzin.
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:roflmao: I should have been much more specific! Back in the mid-late 1980s, I used to play in a D&D campaign where the Kzin were the most feared race we could run into. The DM would throw them at us when he thought we were feeling invincible. After the first run-in, everyone gave the Kzin a great deal of respect. After the second one, we knew to bow out as soon as they were rumored to be on the scene.

Still don't get the joke:
"A banjo player, a bongo player, and a trumpet player score a New Year's Eve gig. At night's end, the owner says hey, you guys were great! Will you play here again next New Year's Eve? And they reply sure, can we leave our stuff here?"
:unsure:
 
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#14,096
RodRy said:
:roflmao: I should have been much more specific! Back in the mid-late 1980s, I used to play in a D&D campaign where the Kzin were the most feared race we could run into. The DM would throw them at us when he thought we were feeling invincible. After the first run-in, everyone gave the Kzin a great deal of respect. After the second one, we knew to bow out as soon as they were rumored to be on the scene.

Still don't get the joke:
"A banjo player, a bongo player, and a trumpet player score a New Year's Eve gig. At night's end, the owner says hey, you guys were great! Will you play here again next New Year's Eve? And they reply sure, can we leave our stuff here?"
:unsure:
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They're asking for a year's free storage space, and they don't practice :facepalm:
 
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#14,100
themickster said:
I was talking about Elf comboes.
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Oh, sorry, I didn't realize that. You didn't specify, and then you mentioned MarkBass, so ... . . . But, yes, you're correct, most combos that can run external speakers are usually limited to 8 ohm cabs. ;)

But my point is that there are now some combos that can run an external 4 ohm load along with their internal 8 ohm speaker(s). Want SPL? Add a couple 8 ohm 410s to a Rumble Stage 800 and blast away thru 10 x 10s! I don't expect that Fearless Leader has done that yet, ... but he could! :thumbsup:

Happy New Year! :woot:
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