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Who plugs straight in? What do you use?

never used a pedal in my life, so it's a very early reissue P-bass with LaBella flats and a cable into whatever backline is provided. my own cabs are a modified Ampeg BT15(eminence kappa pro), Kustom 2-15 with JBL D140's and a Bag End S15D-L. heads are an Ampeg Micro-VR and a heavily modified blackface Fender Bassman running 6550's, di of choice is a Radial JDI
 
this bass into this rig ...
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I usually go straight in - 1976 Ampeg SVT with two 8x10s cabinets with a 1976 Fender precision. I like my rig loud and driving like Lemmy! I plug into one-normal and then bridge two-bright into two-normal

EQ for channel one: Volume @ 10 o' clock; Treble @ 8 o' clock; Midrange all the way up; Bass @ 10 o' clock; ultra-hi off, mid switch on 0, ultra-lo off

EQ for channel two: Volume @ noon; treble and bass cranked; both ultra-hi and ultra-lo on

Carpe Diem!
 
Warwick Corvette $$5vr -> Ampeg SVP-BSP -> Carver 2.0i 1000W (modded to be mono) -> 4x10 Carvin 'red-eye' and sometimes a MesaBoogie cab that has a 15 and 2x10 and an 8 in it (I think, it's my studio-mates cab. I love the thing, but don't know much about it). I also run a Fender tuner (cylops style) and a pedal board on the dirty channel of my preamp. the SVP-BSP has a clean and dirty channel (both can run an fx loop).

This is my head. The SWR is just a practice head that I have, but not my main head, although a sweet head just the same.
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This is my cab and my SX Jazz 5vr that I play sometimes
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This is my board before I arranged a couple of pedals into better positions. :p
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For the funk band I'm subbing in: Sandberg California Tt Passive with flats, Tecamp Puma 500, Tecamp S212. I'm tempted to bring pedals for several songs, but since the main bassist doesn't use any, I'll keep it straight, too.