I needed to downsize bad. Been lugging around an svt4 pro in a 12u shock case with a bunch of rack stuff i didn't need
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I've bought several very cool and very good amps this year. None are heavy. I have heavy cabs. Need to get off my butt and build some light cabs... have all the parts. Your rig looks awesome to me!
@JimmyM 's been around the block. Maybe even both directions. He can handle the truth.Uh, don't let JimmyM get wind of this.
That comment about the singer carrying their own stuff. Whew!
On principle I help all me mates carry their gear.
Yet, due to a change of groups where for years I had to be concerned with PA it is refreshing to only pack, loadin and load out my gear. Very refreshing. Very. Did I say very? Or refreshing? Or very refreshing?
On principle I help all me mates carry their gear.
Yet, due to a change of groups where for years I had to be concerned with PA it is refreshing to only pack, loadin and load out my gear. Very refreshing. Very. Did I say very? Or refreshing? Or very refreshing?
Hey I didn't say better...
I said just as effective hahah
I said just as effective hahah
Uh, don't let JimmyM get wind of this.
I also like the two cab option in part because I only have to haul one for smaller venues and two for larger ones. If the venue is very large, then you need to depend on the PA and sound guy.
(Sorry, I get nauseous now every time someone mentions one of these)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Their pervasiveness and popularity must be an indication that SOMEONE likes them. I know I do. Celebrate diversity! I get the sound I want. What is it about them you dislike? I'm genuinely curious.
Because if we do "why" threads everyone will realize the error of their ways and get rid of their too large too small tube SS classless D natural finish attitudes and march in step with the OPs who may have never gigged because they were studying at Troll U. 
Maybe it's like our parents said. "because I said so." or... in this free world "because I want to."
I've got to get back to the "who/why Pbass" thread. Join us at "Anyone else not impressed by giant collections?" thread.
Maybe it's like our parents said. "because I said so."
or... in this free world "because I want to."I've got to get back to the "who/why Pbass" thread. Join us at "Anyone else not impressed by giant collections?" thread.
I wont be happy untill I get a cab with 1000 1" drivers driven by a head just slightly larger than the size of a speakon connector.
And another thing. Speakon connectors.... why are they so huge? It's the 21st century already! That connector is holding back my ultimate goal of a head the size of air to drive my 1000 driver cab.
Any gear you all select to use is wrong. Whats the point. Indeed.
And another thing. Speakon connectors.... why are they so huge? It's the 21st century already! That connector is holding back my ultimate goal of a head the size of air to drive my 1000 driver cab.
Any gear you all select to use is wrong. Whats the point. Indeed.
I'm glad that I can live comfortably in both the new school and old school worlds, light works for me when load in and out is to a parking garage a block away from the venue ... been doing that for over 10 years. When I can though it's old school for the sound and feel that I've yet to be able to duplicate with the new gear, but that's just my personal take on the subject.
We're wrong since the moment we need anything else than the bass itself to play and being heard. Amps, cabs, DI's... why? we play the bass, not the "rig". On the other hand, without that bunch of "adjacent" stuff we couldn't discuss all these things in a bass-related foum.I wont be happy untill I get a cab with 1000 1" drivers driven by a head just slightly larger than the size of a speakon connector.
And another thing. Speakon connectors.... why are they so huge? It's the 21st century already! That connector is holding back my ultimate goal of a head the size of air to drive my 1000 driver cab.
Any gear you all select to use is wrong. Whats the point. Indeed.
......and those of us who take a more "English" approach do indeed play our rigs as a part of the whole instrument. If I didn't misunderstand your point.
That's why there is commotion over "no one cares, all amps sound the same, the audience can't tell a P from a booteekee, just give the sound person a DI out and he'll fix it, they can't hear my amp anyway, strings?, cords?, tort pickguard tone (okay a real thing), etc. etc."
I consider the rig to be part of the instrument. An electric bass isn't very electric without one.
I have yet to hear a well reasoned argument for the POV that only the bass itself is the instrument. I (and several music pros I've known through the years) assert that your instrument is the sum of everything you control that stands between the sound in your mind and the listener's ear.
Tottally agree, I was only giving some salt to the discussion. Anytime I changed or upgraded any piece of my rig I found an inspiring fresh new tone that gave me energy to play more. responding to the OP, actually I'm thinking seriously to bulid a fEARful 162/6 to swap for my SWR Goliath III. First I change a Hartke 3500 head for a Aguilar TH 350, now it's time to lighting the cab. The differences (in a good way) of tone can be very huge too, not only on size and weight.
