Here’s my Orange Crush Bass 25 and Bass 50 , the 25 is for the small jammin room we use and the 50 for larger rooms.
I love the tone from these Orange combos and they seem to work really well with my Yamaha bass, well to my novice ears anyway
Here’s my Orange Crush Bass 25 and Bass 50 , the 25 is for the small jammin room we use and the 50 for larger rooms.
I love the tone from these Orange combos and they seem to work really well with my Yamaha bass, well to my novice ears anyway
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Good day everyone. I’m finally posting my amp. I started out with a Rumble 25 and then upgraded to the Rumble 100. This is the largest size amp I’d want to practice at home, as I live in a small condo, and I have to move the amp from a closet at one end of the condo to the living room at the other end. A heavier amp would suck, and with a bigger amp I’d be bumping it into the walls even more than I do now. 
If you’ve seen one Rumble 100, you’ve seen them all, but here’s mine anyway.
I like this amp. It’s plenty loud enough to practice with and has a nice tone. I also like that it has a 4 band EQ, and the presets are nice too. I’ve even played out with it a couple times. Both were small venues, though, and one of them I used the DI into the house PA. The one with the PA was a folk band, and the other was a Rock band, but they didn’t get crazy loud. It did great for those, and I don’t think I turned the volume up more than halfway. But if I started playing out more and played larger venues, I’m sure I’d need something bigger.
Since my amp is boring, I thought I’d also show you my humble pedal collection.
I have a Boss compresser and an MXR chorus. The pedal board tote and Behringer chromatic tuner were gifts from a friend who’d upgraded both. (When we lived in the same town, I used to do setups of his Fender P-bass for him, because he didn’t know how and didn’t want to learn or do it.) I would’ve never bought a tuner pedal for myself, but it’s really nice to have. The chorus pedal is great for Journey songs. 
I don’t use the pedals much at home, as it’s just one other thing to drag out, but they’re nice to have for gigs (especially the tuner). One day I’d like to get a looper pedal and an octave pedal, but I think that’s about it for pedals (at least for now!).
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With quite a lot of design help from a friendly acoustician, this is my first home-made amp cabinet. A 200W TC Electronic BAM200 amplifier driving two 100W Kevlar coned drivers, with a Vox Stomplab. All in a hand-butchered hardwood box, which combines a stool (needs a cushion), an under-lid storage box (for the wireless charger, a capo and some plectrums) and a guitar stand. The box sits on rubber feet and the side handles double as adjustable ports.
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^^nice job.
a long time ago we had a discussion on here about power amps instead of integrated amps. i am still to this day kicking around the idea of switching to this setup. this stereo one has really been calling my name. i just don’t know if i’m ready to redo everything again.
albini played a homemade/frankenstein power amp setup. cool as hell.
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Just when I thought I had my amp and pedal set up pretty settled this amp came up on marketplace for only a few hundred…a bit of a bargain and I got it because it is how I would design an amp with dual preamp channels 1 tube 1 solid state and you don’t see that much
it has got
- Dual Channels FET and Tube Preamps (Individual or Blendable)
- Active 4 Band EQ with Dual Parametric Mids for each channel
- Adjustable 3 Band Signal Shape Circuits for master
- Three Effects Loops! (fet ch, tube ch,master)
- 1200W!! (2x600)
Got it for the features above (not really the 1200w part thats just funny since I play only in a small room 
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I am yet to integrate it into my setup, and I will need to test it with a cab (I have none) to see if I like the D class power amp…the preamp section is great so even if I end up bypassing the power section into something else, it is still very useable, but hopefully I like the power amp sound and can just use it with a cab
Because this is a D class amp it weighs just 6.75lbs/3kg it feels like its empty when you pick it up…it also has nice little things like an input mute switch and a tuner out which can also be used as a dry out for recording
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Yeah, I just noticed a Mesa Boogie 600W head near me for $500
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Fender Rumble 15 for quiet practice
Ashdown ABM Klystron 400
from 1998 has never let me down possibly done 1000 gigs with it
Ashdown ABM 1510 Cab also from 1998
Ashdown CTM-300 valve head. This is the best amplifier I’ve ever used / owned
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GR Bass AT Cube 500 combo and AT Cube 112 (8 ohm, 350 watt)
Fender Rumble Studio 40, on top of my 500 combo, before I tracked down the 112 cab (the 112+ cabs were easier to find).
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Just picked this up (exceptional service, made to order by James Demeter). My 800D combo with the tube preamp is still the number one amp, but this one, which has the amp only section of the 800D, will be paired with my Noble tube preamp. When the Noble is used as a preamp, it will have no “coloring” from the other/combo preamp.
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Did you have to read the manual to understand all the controls @booker_t or did you just wing it?
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I really like that setup. Cab size is perfect.
Edit: saw I’m a little late to the party. 
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My new Boss Katana 110 bass amp and an older Fender M80.
I’m still learning how to dial in the katana but it’s pretty cool.
The M80 totals out at 160 watts is incredibly loud with maybe too much punch.
I’ve got a couple other amps and don’t use the M80 much but a nice Fender anything is cool. I use it more as an end table these days which is totally fine with me.
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Last year I purchased the Ampeg Venture V3 amp head and VB-112 cabinet. After a year, it just hasn’t lived up to my expectations. I was thinking about trading the head in for this:
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ABM300EVO4--ashdown-abm-300-evo-iv-300-watt-bass-head
Has anyone had any experience with this amp or the manufacturer?
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