I can hear it from my house, Nu, and I don’t even know where you live! But hey, I respect anyone who labels their tone controls so they can run multiple preamp pedals with even more tone controls. Nicely played.
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The Combo Club
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I can hear it from my house, Nu, and I don’t even know where you live! But hey, I respect anyone who labels their tone controls so they can run multiple preamp pedals with even more tone controls. Nicely played.
Thank you! I've spent many many many hours in bed reading about EQ and recording and the such. Then going through comment sections on YouTube as I check reviews and a common trend of people telling others that they are idiots and what not for having this pedal and that pedal which effectively do the same thing. Then the inevitable back and forth of the lesser experienced before an experienced Wiseman steps in with wisdom that gets overlooked and buried in the mud slinging. I look for those little jewels and have yet to be disappointed in their teachings.
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Betting it's a big heatsink that comes with the Keeping up with the Phils' BG-400. The combo is a C4 cab (four 5 inch drivers, front port) and a 500 watt @ 4 ohms amp. Since the C4 weighs in at 30 pounds, that means the amp alone is 10 pounds.
At 28 pounds, the PJB Session 77 Combo may be near-ballpark. Two 7 inch drivers, rear ported, and 100 watts. Only a Line Out and Headphone Out. My SWAG is an Elf combo is going to be a lot louder all 'round. Different tools.
Friendly bandmates who offer to help load-in a BG-400 without ever having seen one before will experience the opposite of @biguglyman 's bandmates when they lifted his GK for the first time.
Were one to believe in karma, the physically diminutive PJB BG-400 might be seen as interest paid on unkind thoughts about hauling a Peavey combo.
At 28 pounds, the PJB Session 77 Combo may be near-ballpark. Two 7 inch drivers, rear ported, and 100 watts. Only a Line Out and Headphone Out. My SWAG is an Elf combo is going to be a lot louder all 'round. Different tools.
Friendly bandmates who offer to help load-in a BG-400 without ever having seen one before will experience the opposite of @biguglyman 's bandmates when they lifted his GK for the first time.
Were one to believe in karma, the physically diminutive PJB BG-400 might be seen as interest paid on unkind thoughts about hauling a Peavey combo.
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My concern with tone in the 80s was being heard over a Strat and a Telecaster. There weren't a lot of brain matter required in that one.
From my readings, the Session 100 puts out a very polite hundred and has to push it to stay with other instruments. Polite amps sound terrific playing alone, but I want a little rudeness on tap when live. That’s why you have an Elf, M, and I have a Terror Bass.
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The Elf
(that I may recap for our players at home)
powered my C4 when my BG-400 and I were on two different continents. All together again in blissful happiness, it seemed only right to pair the Elf with its own cab. The Cab27 intrigued me enough make the plunge over the two TE offerings. Rough estimate is with two Cab27s I have a bit more spl going than with two 1x10s and a bit less spl going on than with two 2x8s. Hard to say.
What isn't hard to say is I will happily gig an Orange Terror. An Orange Terror and two cabs of choice looks like a whole lot of fun. But it ain't replacing the BG-400.
And would ya believe it... all this drive and I end up playing Don't Stop Believing...
For me it was being heard over a Gibson and Ibanez. Humbuckers both. One guy had two 4x12 cabinets and a 2x12 combo head running them. So 10x12 speakers. I compensated by going low with my single 18. May not have been able to hear what notes I played, but you could feel them.
No issue at all lol. I was noodling around and accidentally played the intro riff. Journey is my wife's favorite band so the obvious course of action is to learn the song.I don't see a problem.
What did I miss?
Yeah- never liked that song, until our band started playing it- WOW! Lots of fun on bass to play, and our female vocalist really belted it out!!!
It's a good line but I never liked the tone he got. Just my opinion.
You caught me...I missed a comma there. Should have read "...instead of porting, like the double 4" meaning it would have a radiator like the Double 4.
Agree with ya, GP. Ross Valory was a very good bass player, but I never liked his tone much. Even though I'm not a big fan of Randy Jackson, I actually thought the tone he got when playing with Journey (I believe he is again) was fatter and had more pop to it. I saw Journey about 20 years ago with Steve Augeri. I thought he did a Steve Perry imitation pretty well, but his voice supposedly wore out, and they sent him to the glue factory.
Possibly the latest membership ceremony I've ever performed...my apologies to BigAndyA, our 230th member of this grand club! It was (and is) that kinda week, but you are welcome just the same. Don't be a stranger, especially if you have a question about a certain combo or wish to add a comment to someone's post. Thanks, BAA!
The members of the group were all excellent but-to me-some of the eighties sounds were so......uh, 80's.
I hardly feel like I've been here this week, yet I've tried to chime in when I could. We're 230 members strong and acting sassy. For tonight's sassiness, here's a CL ad for a Fender Rumble 40 I saw this morning. Call me nosy, but I couldn't help myself to try and set this guy straight about the used market and how it normally works via an email. Normally I wouldn't give a hoot, but I imagined some kid buying his first amp getting suckered in thinking he was getting a good deal and that soured my morn. Here's his ad:
I bought this amp, opened it, plugged in once, and it just wasn't quite loud enough for me. It's loud enough for playing at home, maybe small venues, and that's all I really need, but I want something that can rumble a little more. The return policy on the amp required me to pay a restocking fee and pay for return shipping, which was half the price of the amp, so I'm selling it here.
There's nothing wrong with the amp. It's brand new aside from the 5 minutes of testing playtime. It comes in the original packaging, etc., it's just been opened. (Specs on the amp copy-and-pasted below for your reference.)
It goes for $199.99 + tax. I'll save you the tax (roughly $14 when I bought it; I'll eat the cost) if we make it an even $200. Please don't offer less.
I prefer cash, but checks are fine too. If you live in Muscatine, I'll even drop it off for you, otherwise we can try to work out an arrangement.
I wrote to him and mentioned there was another ad for an older Fender Bassman 60 a few posts down that was competitively-priced and that if he wanted to actually sell it he might want to do a little better than just knocking off sales tax. Heck, GC has a 40C for under 150 bucks and a 100C for around two. Okay, go ahead and tell me I was wrong for doing that, but I hoped it made the guy re-think to who he'd be selling it to. Anyway, I just checked and it hasn't changed as of yet so maybe it was to no avail. Oh well, I've got RR excited about a Quad Four combo!
I bought this amp, opened it, plugged in once, and it just wasn't quite loud enough for me. It's loud enough for playing at home, maybe small venues, and that's all I really need, but I want something that can rumble a little more. The return policy on the amp required me to pay a restocking fee and pay for return shipping, which was half the price of the amp, so I'm selling it here.
There's nothing wrong with the amp. It's brand new aside from the 5 minutes of testing playtime. It comes in the original packaging, etc., it's just been opened. (Specs on the amp copy-and-pasted below for your reference.)
It goes for $199.99 + tax. I'll save you the tax (roughly $14 when I bought it; I'll eat the cost) if we make it an even $200. Please don't offer less.
I prefer cash, but checks are fine too. If you live in Muscatine, I'll even drop it off for you, otherwise we can try to work out an arrangement.
I wrote to him and mentioned there was another ad for an older Fender Bassman 60 a few posts down that was competitively-priced and that if he wanted to actually sell it he might want to do a little better than just knocking off sales tax. Heck, GC has a 40C for under 150 bucks and a 100C for around two. Okay, go ahead and tell me I was wrong for doing that, but I hoped it made the guy re-think to who he'd be selling it to. Anyway, I just checked and it hasn't changed as of yet so maybe it was to no avail. Oh well, I've got RR excited about a Quad Four combo!
No biggie, I catch "kids" all the time with that. The problem is I'll be doing it forever most likely!
Fair enough. I'd not heard of one those at the back. I've learned something.
So you ventured into the "rubber room" to try and rationalize with one of it's inhabitants...
Bless you for trying! ; )
