r/Bassamps

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Is it possible to make a bass/guitar amp?

I'm tired of going here and there and buying personalized amps for my instruments. Since i play both guitar and bass I dont want to haul around my heavy ass katana or buy a rumble 25 when i have a gb-20 with an 8inch speaker.

So I thought of an idea. Both are around the same watts, and a bigger speaker would let them speak above the drums. I could make a new cabinet for the controls using the gb-20 and a frontman 20g but is it possible? Could i rig an amp to play guitar or bass at will? If its possible but hard then Im willing to do it but im not sure, ive only ever messed with guitar modding.

LMKKK PLZZ

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u/Sytzertale — 8 days ago

BASS AMPS from the 70s

Back in the 70s in NYC whatever club I was in. I always noticed KUSTOM, SUNN, ACOUSTIC, AMPEG, and MARSHALL BASS amps on stage. I don't know if Kustom, SUNN or Acoustic are still around.

u/Dynomiteknight — 8 days ago

2000W system (2300 in 4 ohm mode, currently 2.67 ohm + biamp)

Here's my outdoor / big venue rig. I practice through it because why not (and I use the head for smaller 2x10" and 4x10" setups along with a Rockville RSX20 stand).

Details:

* Bergantino Forté HP Ultra head (2000W @ 4 ohms, 1700W @ 2.67 ohms, 1200W @ 2 ohms, 1000W @ 8 ohms)

* Mark Bass 104 Energy (4x10" speakers, 8 ohms, 800W RMS, 36lbs)

* AccuGroove El Whappo (1x15", 1x12", 1x6", 2xtweeters, 4 ohms, 800W RMS, 60lbs)

* Behringer BXL3000A (1x15", 300W RMS, 65lbs)

* Dingwall NG3 5-string guitar (one of several instruments I have)

* and of course the pedals; I don't use the BDDI as a preamp in this setup.

I also have other heads and other cabs (two Mark Bass 102HF cabs, F1 Limited head, Little Mark III head).

The front of house system I am using as song practice:

Two Peavey PVXP-15 tops (980W RMS each), QSC KW181 sub (1000W RMS), Phenyx Pro mixer)

u/Camp-Creature — 12 days ago
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Warwick Gnome i Pro 600W V2 or Microtubes 500 V2

Hi, I’ve got myself 2 cabs from Warwick (due to limited space and me wanting both 1x15 and 2/4x10 speakers) and I’m looking for an amp for them, and here comes my question, which one would be a better choice (I’ve heard that Microtubes has some overheating issues) and I’m stuck between these two, or any other class D amp that my fiancé won’t muster me for buying, any ideas or recommendations?

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u/Wise-Stretch8592 — 11 days ago
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76 ampeg v4b input question

recently got this amp and it is awesome, but last night at practice I noticed plugging into input 2 was much hotter and felt like more presence and power than input one, if that makes sense...this was curious to me because everything I have read says input 2 is the padded (-15) input so I was wondering what was up with that? did find a forum post that someone was saying how they put different preamp tubes for each input making their input 2 hotter and maybe thats whats going on?

u/kellamityjane99 — 12 days ago
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Samsamp bddi or VT for Ampeg BA 108

I have an Ampeg BA 108 V2 as a bedroom amp and really like it. It is warm and full sounding but I want to have a bit more flexibility and maybe more of that Ampeg sound.

Would a samsamp bddi or VT get me there ? The problem is that amp doesn't have an FX return so the pedal would go straight into the Instrument Input of the amp. I was also looking at the samsamp because I like the possibility to use it with my pc and for mabye playing live one day.

The ampeg sgt-di seemed like another great option but I heard Bad things about longevity of the pedal and I also found it a bit too expensive.

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u/Dangerous_Dot_1707 — 13 days ago

Weird distortion suddenly appearing out of amp?

Hello! I am new to both Reddit and playing the bass in general so sorry if this post sounds a little unusual. Recently an issue has occurred with my amp and I’m not sure how to fix it?

Video example of the distortion

it is quite old (about 20ish years old) but it’s been working fine up until now

any advice is appreciated, thanks :)

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u/WastelandSquidders — 12 days ago