What is Your Home Rig/Sound

[YourGuitarist]

I live in an urban townhouse and have to keep the volume reasonable, especially at night when I usually practice.

As a result, my main practice "rig" is a Fender Mustang Micro headphone amp, which is a truly amazing little device. It's designed mostly for guitar (which I also play), but it works well with bass.

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When I'm playing through an amp, it's my old Roland Cube Bass 100, which has some amp models and effects, but I usually play without modeling or effects. I keep the EQ flat too. Unlike many small combos, at least in my experience, the Roland sounds clear and full at home practice levels, and it's good for rehearsals and small gigs too. By contemporary standards it's heavy for a 100 watt 1x12, but the compact dimensions make the weight easy to manage.

I had the same living arrangement, oddly enough I never got complaints.

A lot of smaller combos have an upper bass hump to sound bigger but if it's overdone, it just add mud.

Granted on the topic of flat EQs since many people are mentioning it and I may be preaching to the choir but I've measured a good deal of gear now and flat from the knobs is often not truly flat. Especially weird is that those old passive tonestacks on many tube amps are flattest with TB minimum and mids maxxed.

 

[Clark Westfield]

When I play at home I use either my 210 or 212.

I purchased a Darkglass 212 in September and only gigged it 4 times, so I try and dial that box in a few times a week.

This January, I picked up a new Bergantino HP2 head. That cab and head setup is complete overkill, with 1200 watts into the DG 4 ohm cab.

So I’m still in the tinkering phase with that setup.

Normally I use my Tech21 head and Hartke 210 at low volume with a sprinkle of the HP2, just cause it’s new and I feel the need to explore.

The 410 lately, has been just a box that brings the amps controls to my hands easier for adjustment.

 

[YourGuitarist]

At home it's headphones and computer. Either thru a Line6 device or just GarageBand with the Avalon U5 setting.
Gigs are DI/IEM with an HX Stomp.
If I use an amp it's this:
Magellan 350 MG12T-V COMBO - Genzler Amplification

Their line array bass amps are cool. I almost got the 350 but I wanted send/return path.

 

[socialleper]

These days I keep it really simple.
Bass -> pedals -> Focusrite Scarlett -> DAW.
I have a handful of amp sims and cab IRs, then I listen with a set of Neumann NDH-20 headphones. No noise, doesn't bother the wife, sounds great.

 

[MLC_BassPlayer]

Mesa Boogie Walkabout into an Ashdown 210T.

 

[Crackle]

My home rig is simple.

Mike Lull V4 -> Spectraflex cable -> Marshall MB30 combo amp

 

[iriegnome]

My home rig. 1973 Acoustic 136..

 

[logdrum]

AI Clarus Combo for me. If I want some bass guitar sound. I use an EA 110 as well.
I play upright, 4-6 EB plus a 3 string that is part of a hybrid bass + guitar. AI is hifi and sometimes not satisfying EB sound, so I use a pedal for that.

Also I do have a recording setup and those are Yamaha Studio monitors plus a sub and I use cab modelers. I sometimes use that too

For headphones, nothing slams better than open back Magnetic Planars. All the preamps' and amps' headphone output not adequate to drive these headphones so I have a headphone amp as well

Lastly I use a min plugin headphone NUx Mighty plug and just an IEM headphone - this is similar to the Fender Mustang Micro or VOX amplug. Simple

 

[Stewie]

Home rehearsal room and small to medium rooms, Ampeg RB210. Just under 40 pounds, sounds pretty good. Stack it on a good 1x15 and it sounds tremendous.

 

[joelns]

Right now, just plugged into an interface and into my computer.

 

[logdrum]

I really do not use an amp for the upright - for practice. My one uprights has a big bout and carved and is loud. My 1/2-5/8 is loud like a cello when bowed.

 

[GreyBeard]

I use a monster Bluetooth amp I got at Sam's. Does surprisingly well.

 

[JimmyM]

My home rig. 1973 Acoustic 136..
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My first decent amp. Heavy as heck but fun.

 

[JimmyM]

Those AVs have a reputation, I see them all over the place.

I love mine. I have two and I can think of only one gig I’ve done over the past 10 years where it wasn’t enough to fill the stage, although the others told me it was plenty.

 

[HeavyJazz]

When people are home:


When people are not home:

 

[Nek07]

Home I use a Boss bass dual cube lx with a TU-3s strapped on top.
Got all the fx I need, plus a series of drum loops with one and a half box. I just cut the bass below 80Hz so it stay civil with the neighbors and use mostly a clean sound. It is also neatly packed in a bookshelves, no cables allowed by my wife
Basswise I use mainly my Yamaha BB434m either with both pickup or the P only.

 

[bigdaddybass12]

Rumble 100. I also have a small restaurant gig that it works perfect.

 

[Pings Bass]

I plug directly into my interface and through studio mons (Yamaha hs8) and sometimes powered 12" PA mons if needed. I mostly play a 6-string. "Low end extension" is never an issue; I can always hear all the notes. Mostly playing Latin and R&B.

I've got a GK micro head and 1x12 for situations where I can't go direct or need stage monitoring that the PA can't handle.

 

[groovaholic]

90% of my at-home practice is through my Line 6 HX Stomp into headphones (AKG K361).

I try not to spend too much time playing through my stage rig at home for 2 reasons:
1) I get along with my neighbors and prefer to keep it that way.
2) The sounds that appeal in isolation are NOT necessarily what works at the gig, and vice versa.

 

[el murdoque]

The biggest sounding home rig I ever owned was a Hughes&Kettner Tubemeister 18 guitar head on a Barefaced one10 cabinet. The Tubemeister could be throttled to 1 Watt and the one10 is great at sounding huge with low volume. I sent my pedalboard with bass preamp into it, so I had bass appropriate EQ options.

My current home rig is mostly my pedalboard DI out into a small mixer and from there either a 12" monitor wedge or headphones. The mixer has bluetooth capabilities so I can send it tracks from my phone.