You wake up tomorrow & you're playing a stadium tour - describe your dream rig!!

[Marial]

These are always fun and there hasn't been one in a while so here we go!!

So You wake up and magically overnight you're touring with a platinum-selling artist. Companies are falling over themselves to give you free gear. You can afford anything you want. You're playing stadiums. Describe your dream rig / signal chain... basses, amps, pedals and all....

it's fun to pretend!!

What the heck:

Basses: Wal MkI fretless, mahogany/wenge
Pedulla Buzz in caramel
'66 Jazz
Rob Allen Mouse 30
Upton Bohemian Hybrid upright

Amp: Aguilar TH500s

Cabs: Two AudioKinesis TC212s

Pedals: Strymon Timeline
Strymon Blue Sky
EHX MEL9
EHX Superego
EHX POG2
Earthquaker Devices Arpanoid
Hologram Dream Sequence

That's all I can think of right now.

 

[Mvilmany]

Dream Rig:

The bass: a First Act "Adam Levine" model guitar, converted into a one-string bass. Yes, you only need one string. E string? No! The H string. It's like a G went to 11.

The amp: a 10 watt Gorilla amp from the mid-80's.

The mic: a "Realistic" model from Radio Shack (yes, they're actually still in business, as sad as that is). It should be plastic with a high-impedance 1/4" cable hard wired to it.

Imagine what Jaco could've done if he had a setup like this!

 

[basscooker]

Hey I think you backlined a rig for me once.

 

[jbd5015]

I had one of those gorilla amps as my first amp! 8 inch speaker! Sounded *great*.

 

[RoeyHaviv]

It really depends on the gig.
Probably my Vigiers, to my LeBass preamp, Aguilar DB751, 2 DB412s and a Moog Sub37 if needed.
The rest of the pedals depend on the song needs.

 

[Clark Westfield]

Ampeg SVT's and many 810 cabinets, as long as we have roadies carrying the stuff.

 

[mikeswals]

I already own my dream rig...I'd simply bring both of my Mesa rigs!
Rig A being the clean side: Strategy 8:88 ontop of two PH212 cabs. Rig B being the dirty side and all the effects run thru it: Bass 400 ontop if a Diesel 215 cab.
I even already own my dream basses. And the best wireless I've ever heard, the Shure GLXD.

I'm just waitng for that platinum artist to call....

 

[Munjibunga]

B|Amp and two HDN212s.

 

[Petethebassman]

An early 70's vintage Acoustic 360/361 stack - no, make it two stacks!

 

[username1]

I would love to do a big concert with just a little pignose and let the sound system and monitors make it work. That would look cool.

 

[A. D. Fairhurst]

Ampeg SVT's and many 810 cabinets, as long as we have roadies carrying the stuff.

And as long as you have a hernia-treatment specialist at hand.

 

[Fishheadjoe]

Another NV610 and I am there.
Fishheadjoe

 

[Sufenta]

I would love to do a big concert with just a little pignose and let the sound system and monitors make it work. That would look cool.

I went to a show at a club in PDX and the bass player had his 5-string going through a tiny Pignose mic'd into the FOH. Granted he had A+ chops, but his tone was incredible. Couldn't believe it.

 

[zisme]

stadium dream rig...
bass: warmoth p-bass or a gibson ripper
amps: sunn beta bass. the pb-10 pre amp into a power amp (sunn/crown/qsc) would be sexy
cabs: pair of emperor 4x12s
effects: korg pitchblack rack tuner;
actually really happy with my current pedal lineup - ehx bass nano muff, malekko b:assmaster (silicon), akai e2 headrush

 

[FFTT]

With a crew?
Have a Reeves 225, totally content, but any pro is going to have double everything for backup and service rotation, so a vintage DR-405 or Reeves 400
Dual 4X10's dual EV 2X15's where 's the party

 

[DocShocker]

G&L L2000 (k-wired)
MTD 5 of some manner. (great instruments at all price-points, so I'm not picky.)

My Nemesis 4x10 combo for on stage, DI to the FOH for the big-rig.

Daddy-O overdrive (I just can't quit this peddle) for some dirt on-demand, compressor, and a tuner.

 

[blastbass]

....almost forgot, a #$%ˆton of mogami leads and patches.

 

[FFTT]

Daddy O' pedal is a budget sleeper with just the right amount of crunch overdrive available.

Wish my old friend would return mine.

 

[A. D. Fairhurst]

stadium dream rig...
bass: warmoth p-bass or a gibson ripper
amps: sunn beta bass. the pb-10 pre amp into a power amp (sunn/crown/qsc) would be sexy
cabs: pair of emperor 4x12s
effects: korg pitchblack rack tuner;
actually really happy with my current pedal lineup - ehx bass nano muff, malekko b:assmaster (silicon), akai e2 headrush

What type of Ripper? Fat-style or thin-style?

 

[zisme]

What type of Ripper? Fat-style or thin-style?

thin most likely. the late 70s nats with the maple fbs are what i think of when i think ripper. but really i'm not that picky