Maybe you’ll be able to sneak it in. Outdoors and Florida can be tricky, but you might luck out. Maintain that positive mindset, GP! At least that’s what we tell five-year olds. Sometimes it works.
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The Combo Club
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Maybe you’ll be able to sneak it in. Outdoors and Florida can be tricky, but you might luck out. Maintain that positive mindset, GP! At least that’s what we tell five-year olds. Sometimes it works.
One day, when I was feeling kinda depressed, a voice came to me saying "Cheer up. Things could be worse". So I cheered up. Sure enuff...
Thought I'd join in. I've had this David Eden CXC112 (WT-330 head) for quite a while, along with its CX112 extension speaker. I use the combo without the extension for a stretch each year when I play bass for the high school musical pit band at my daughter's school. There's extensive sound support, so this is just my pit monitor. This combo's a brick and stupidly awkward to carry, but it's very warm and responsive. The coaxial 12's are very interesting. This is the only combo I've had for a while other than my Acoustic Image Contra (and its extension) which see use once in a while for upright, but more commonly for piano or acoustic guitar.
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16 years on TB, but only now plugging into this thread. Big combo fan, here. Saw a lot of urban bassists make good use of combos in my trombone years, and also digging the functionality in multi-band load-in high-theft situations.
In particular, I dig the great products from the late, lamented Genz Benz. Over the last 6-7 years, my most useful unit has been the GB Shuttle 6.2 1-12" speaker, but with a Shuttle 9.2 in the saddle - gotta be careful about volume abuse, but it sounds great, especially when I have the extension 1-12" on tap. Over many years, huge functionality from the GB 3.0T-10-T, and I also have the 8-T speaker cabinet, which is surprisingly capable on 5-string, so long as you do not expect volume miracles. And in a remote location where I sometimes jam or gig, the GB Contour 500, with a 1-15. Have done small/medium bar gigs, with no FOH, quite well in an outlaw country context with this unit...which could have been the B-15/B-100/Peavy whatever/Roland Cube 60 Monster Combo of its time, had Fender not pulled the plug on GB.
I'm not entirely in combo-land due to love for Audiokinesis cabinets...but I might be nuts, because a good 12" combo, with a good 12" extension, could cover all that I do. And I have huge admiration for the GB Neox 400, and the Eden Time Traveller combos, as pathways to that particular goal. Yo, Mesa: ever consider pairing a a Subway 800WD with a 12" combo cabinet, with extension? Also curious to see what comes of the GK Legacy line, in this regard.
In particular, I dig the great products from the late, lamented Genz Benz. Over the last 6-7 years, my most useful unit has been the GB Shuttle 6.2 1-12" speaker, but with a Shuttle 9.2 in the saddle - gotta be careful about volume abuse, but it sounds great, especially when I have the extension 1-12" on tap. Over many years, huge functionality from the GB 3.0T-10-T, and I also have the 8-T speaker cabinet, which is surprisingly capable on 5-string, so long as you do not expect volume miracles. And in a remote location where I sometimes jam or gig, the GB Contour 500, with a 1-15. Have done small/medium bar gigs, with no FOH, quite well in an outlaw country context with this unit...which could have been the B-15/B-100/Peavy whatever/Roland Cube 60 Monster Combo of its time, had Fender not pulled the plug on GB.
I'm not entirely in combo-land due to love for Audiokinesis cabinets...but I might be nuts, because a good 12" combo, with a good 12" extension, could cover all that I do. And I have huge admiration for the GB Neox 400, and the Eden Time Traveller combos, as pathways to that particular goal. Yo, Mesa: ever consider pairing a a Subway 800WD with a 12" combo cabinet, with extension? Also curious to see what comes of the GK Legacy line, in this regard.
Your rhyme is as sweet as honey,Interesting query, I'm not at all sure.
But if I reply...it's your choice
Will you call me immature?
Did that help any?
to confess I don't master this
but a compendium of quirky quotes could be funny.
I can vouch for the Legacy 112. Light, loud and can get any tone you are looking for.
Your rhyme is as sweet as honey,
to confess I don't master this
but a compendium of quirky quotes could be funny.
Touché to our friend from Brussels!
Howdy, jmlee! So glad you wrote to be one part of our bass combo menagerie. We’re pleased and humbled for your interest. I have a hunch those two twelves in the picture can produce quite the bottom end.
Let me get to my membership scroll later this evening and I’ll proudly add your name. See ya in a bit.
Joebone, so nice to make your acquaintance! Wow, it’s the night for making new friends. Glad you found us. The name says it all, we love our combo bass amps, but still separates too.
If you’ve gotta picture of your Contour 500, post it and I’ll add your name to illustrious membership list, and including soon-to-be member, jmlee!
You sound as if you know your equipment and could be a great source of info to our group. Please consider signing up and I’ll get you your very own number later this evening. Thanks!
Thanks! That Contour 500 is at my sister's house in Colorado Springs, and I'm in Los Angeles, so there won't be a picture for a long time - perhaps Christmas, 2021? But perhaps I can launch some photos of the other combos...and thanks for the warm welcome - I'm not a club kind of guy, but this is my kind of tribe!
OK, so I'll ask the question nobody else has. What kinda 'bone? B4 playing bass I was a bari sax/bass clarinet guy. So. Bass 'bone?
Well...in truth, a tenor player. In high school All-State, everyone had a Conn 88H, while I sported my Selmer Bolero. Through my pro years, it was a pawn shop straight Bach 36 (my main salsa horn), and a delightful Bach 42BGlt...I used that 42 on R&B touring, many recording sessions, high-end wedding gigs, and many latin-jazz gigs (Raul da Souza is one of my major influences)...stupidly sold it when starting my law career. Many of my colleagues found love with the King 3-B, or the Bach 12, but neither was ever my thing. Over the last few years I've figured out that my wide jaw and neck, coupled with a shallow palate and a strong lateral shift when changing register, had a lot to do with choosing unusually bigger equipment for my gigs...a wider slide lets me make my embouchure shifts while clearing my jaw and neck - it's all ergonomics... which has spilled over to my thinking about bass equipment. But for the record, my current trombone faves are a Kuhnl & Hoyer .512, that same pawn shop Bach 36 I bought in 1975, and I have another early 1970's Bach 42BGlt on deck, although it does not seem to blow as freely as my horn from 35 years ago....of course, that may be me, rather than the horn!
jmlee, you will now be known as member 236 of the Combo Club, congratulations! Don't forget to add us to your sig as we're always looking to spread the good word of the combo...like your Eden! I think I'd enjoy playing through it. Thanks for signing up, you're welcome 'round these parts anytime.
Jb, you may post any of your combos, we look at them all the same. I mean, we all have our favorites, but a combo bass amp is but a tool we use to make great music, and if it works for you we honor it without any malice. Post away, but we'll also wait until Christmas '21 for a pic of the Contour!
I have your number ready to go...
Due to ongoing dental issues, I've not attempted any horn playing for awhile. I doubt if I have the air to play the bari any more. We'll see when I get it back from an overhaul. I have 3 other saxes plus the bass clarinet so if the community concert band ever resumes post-COVID, I might try to regain my embouchure.
I'm glad you responded to him GP, if even out of respect for all that deep info he typed out. Wow, you brass guys!
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Tenor sax until I lost my embouchure following a tonsillectomy when I was ~18. Toyed with several instruments until the bass a few years later.
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AHHHhh! Like Lora Logic!!!! Tenor sax is soo awesome. Rich and sonorous.
Sonny Rollins is the Saxophone Colossus, and my first musical hero.
Years of traditional music education taught me how to play music, but did nothing to teach me how music works. [RepeatedStory] I'm about 17 when the cool guys say hey join our band and I say where's the music? Because without a score I can't play for pewp. [/RepeatedStory]
Sure, there's piano in all that, it's where I started, just like everyone. And mentioning that because so many keyboard players are classically taught, it can be really hard to find a keyboard player who knows how to jam. Recalling a long article (whereabouts presently unknown) of a classically trained pianist who stepped up to demonstrate his proficiency at a new, experimental music school (upstate NY?). He chose The Minute Waltz by Frédéric Chopin, and played it flawlessly, exactly as he was taught.
"Now play it slower," the instructor said, and he was absolutely stumped.
So yeah all this education I still chase actually works this time around. Friday is my day to play for the camera with my Phil Jones BG400 combo amp's DI to a DAW. This is a strict technical exercise with major scale patterns over the circle of fifths. Working to make it musical. Ari Cap's new book ships this week! The spiral bound edition comes my way, along with some swag that makes the deal even sweeter.
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