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Why do we still use amps?
- Thread starter Raimonds
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Personally I like to hear myself on stage so I like to have a bass amp up there.
As I get older , I become more lazy when it's time to load gear to a gig..This year I bought an Ampeg Pf350 class D head and recently I got a used Harley Benton 2x10 bass cab for 75€ . Enough volume to hear myself on a regular stage. I still keep my two big Hartke cabs and the big and heavy HA3500 bass head. It sounds awesome and somtimes you need a big rig.
I have a Sansamp and most of the times I send a signal from it to FOH and I use the amp for stage volume.
As I get older , I become more lazy when it's time to load gear to a gig..This year I bought an Ampeg Pf350 class D head and recently I got a used Harley Benton 2x10 bass cab for 75€ . Enough volume to hear myself on a regular stage. I still keep my two big Hartke cabs and the big and heavy HA3500 bass head. It sounds awesome and somtimes you need a big rig.
I have a Sansamp and most of the times I send a signal from it to FOH and I use the amp for stage volume.
We had a gig where the “concert venue” was shut down by the health inspector and the backup venue was a coffee shop with two mains on sticks and a monitor the soundman pulled out of the other venue to make this work.
The soundman adjusted levels by walking on stage and adjusting the amps. He had me so loud it was the first and only time I’ve felt a tube bass head (Traynor YBA200) start to brown out.
Didn't understand the part about roadies. If have enough money to hire roadies, this post has absolutely nothing to do with you and your experiences. I wanted to hear the opinion of independent / underground musicians that do regular gigs and carry their own gear on a plane, a van or a car.
Most of the guys that have replied here have reasonably sized rigs for monitoring purposes and are responsible for their own setup and sound. I've never seen a wedding band arrive with a trailer and roadies. I see no problem in carrying a cab and an amp 2 days a week, and for restaurant, corporate, wedding etc gigs there will probably be no sound guy, no big PA subs and so on, so there's no choice.
I was more concerned about the typical rock and metal venues, that usually have a decent PA and will always take a DI signal from your amp and no matter how awesome your cabinet is, you'll probably be the only one who actually cares about it.
Didn't understand the part about roadies. If have enough money to hire roadies, this post has absolutely nothing to do with you and your experiences. I wanted to hear the opinion of independent / underground musicians that do regular gigs and carry their own gear on a plane, a van or a car.
Most of the guys that have replied here have reasonably sized rigs for monitoring purposes and are responsible for their own setup and sound. I've never seen a wedding band arrive with a trailer and roadies. I see no problem in carrying a cab and an amp 2 days a week, and for restaurant, corporate, wedding etc gigs there will probably be no sound guy, no big PA subs and so on, so there's no choice.
I was more concerned about the typical rock and metal venues, that usually have a decent PA and will always take a DI signal from your amp and no matter how awesome your cabinet is, you'll probably be the only one who actually cares about it.
"RODIES LOVE AMPEG" was an old tounge in check bumper-sticker that is about humor as the one guy OBVIOUSLY picked up on rather than the droll relevance of the question!
