The Needlessly Oversized, Inconveniently Excessive Bass Amp Thread

[Marko 1]

Congratulations Sir – you’ve laid my little rig to waste!

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

Pedulla Club #45 Unique Arrangements of Hymns, P&W Standards, and Original Tunes
Administrator, Official Tobias Club #133
Administrator, Fretless Club #943
Big Cabs Club #23
My Basses
My Rig: Stage and FOH Friendly
Pedulla Club #45

Well... that's not quite full-blown dumb...

but nice rig anyways.

 

[FugaziBomb]

Congratulations Sir – you’ve laid my little rig to waste!

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

Pedulla Club #45 Unique Arrangements of Hymns, P&W Standards, and Original Tunes
Administrator, Official Tobias Club #133
Administrator, Fretless Club #943
Big Cabs Club #23
My Basses
My Rig: Stage and FOH Friendly
Pedulla Club #45

Well... that's not quite full-blown dumb...

but nice rig anyways.

Yeah, that's a pretty classy stack

 

[WayneP]

Well... that's not quite full-blown dumb...

but nice rig anyways.

Fortunately, I’m not competing against DJs, so it serves me well.

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

Pedulla Club #45 Unique Arrangements of Hymns, P&W Standards, and Original Tunes
Administrator, Official Tobias Club #133
Administrator, Fretless Club #943
Big Cabs Club #23
My Basses
My Rig: Stage and FOH Friendly
Pedulla Club #45

 

[vvvmmm]

If I walked inna club and saw some of the above rigs, I'd double-check me for ear plugs, aspirin, and a change of hoondies.

 

[WayneP]

Yeah, that's a pretty classy stack

You are too kind, sir!

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

Pedulla Club #45 Unique Arrangements of Hymns, P&W Standards, and Original Tunes
Administrator, Official Tobias Club #133
Administrator, Fretless Club #943
Big Cabs Club #23
My Basses
My Rig: Stage and FOH Friendly
Pedulla Club #45

 

[BuddhaFingas]

 

[trevcda]

Amateurs! Has it been a year already? Is it time to drag this train wreck out again? Me (the pup on the left) playing through an 8 x 15" stack, powered by a couple of Carver PM-1200 amps, some processing and a Yamaha PB1 bass pre-amp (I think). I've come so close to re-purchasing those cabs again, only for good sense to win out over nostalgia.

 

[Marko 1]

If I walked inna club and saw some of the above rigs, I'd double-check me for ear plugs, aspirin, and a change of hoondies.

No matter what rig I bring, I don't get louder than is appropriate.

But to your point, I wouldn't bring a huge rig into a small place 'cause it WOULD scare people.

 

[Spearsy]

Behold, the world's biggest, dumbest bass rig.

"Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing ..."
.............................................. Dale Peters

 

[220_Hz]

This was my home rig for a while in 2020. Usually both cabinets through an SVT at 2 ohms, or through a music man head at 8 ohms (the speaker jacks on those amps are in series)

Now that I play live I’ve “downgraded” to a 1000 watt power amp into a full range 2x12

 

[JuanB]

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Those are some HUGE glasses!

 

[Marko 1]

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first, lose the glasses...

then do like everyone else, lay on the floor and take an upward pic.

It'll look HUGE!!

 

[Grinderman]

Tommy Wiseau asks rhetorically...

This song @1:30 truly belongs in that thread from a while back about weirdest or strangest guitar parts or solos.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

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Behold, the world's biggest, dumbest bass rig. This is two 18" subs powered by a 2x450 watt Crown XLi and a 2x10 Peavey headliner powered by one 50 watt side of a Mesa Stereo 2:Fifty tube amp.

This came about because of playing in reggae and hip hop bands where I couldn't get enough low end to compete with the DJ between sets. At the time, I was playing an 8x10 and an 8 space rack head with the Crown powering the whole thing and the damn DJ was still hitting so much harder than I could below 100hz. So I decide in lieu of a traditional bass amp, I'd carry around my own PA with a sub. I eventually added the Mesa to run my pedal board through and left the Crown to handle the clean lows. It sounded great!

Then one night for a laugh, I added in another Peavey 18 I had lying around. Sure it was a lot louder, but the thing that was really nice about it was that I could just wheel each stack in and out without having to carry anything. You get to the gig, drop an 18 cab and put the 210 atop it, dolly it in and then do the same thing with the other cab and rack. It might seem counterintuitive, but adding the 2nd 18" cab actually made load in and out easier. So that's what I did for a few years. Carting all this BS around never bothered me, up until the bands I was working with started to dissolve. That was about 2 years ago. Now I just sit and play this thing in my home while my neighbors weep.

My drummer (Emmy award winning sound engineer none the less) on a gig looked at my Eden rack and stack and said “ That’s the largest heaviest DI pedal I’ve ever seen!!”

I still have my 1250 Watt stereo amp rack and two D-Series 210 cabs. But these days I take one cab, a smaller class D head to 90% of my gigs.

 

[Killing Floor]

Awesome is as awesome does.

 

[pingvuiini]

My current rig.
Weight: around 178lbs.
Watts: 2400.
Neighbors: angry.

 

[pingvuiini]

Correction: 3200 watts.

 

[vvvmmm]

What's an 800 watt error between bassists?

 

[ELG60]

 

[Rebel Rocker]

Never used this live. But nice to know it's there, Just in case

. lol