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24th November 2006, 02:52 AM
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| cheap bass amp for recording solution I'm wondering if any bass players can lend an opinion. I currently record bass through a DI only (tg-2 > distressor) It sounds great, but it lacks the bite of an amp. I've considered saving up for a b15 or Orange tube jobby, which I will do at one point but I really cant get too loud either. will any of these pre-amps sound like an amp? like the Demeter/ampeg etc? or do any of these cheap little solid state jobs sound good? like the orange crush 20b or swr 10"? or is there, like guitar, a low watt tube bass combo. (like the swr baby blue or something - does this even sound good?) (I should mention I have 2 Fender american basses. A hot rodded p-bass and a Jazz V) i hate paying amps in music stores. even if it's quiet enough and there's no stupid sales dude up my ass it's never the same when i get it home! if i can at least narrow my search down . . . thanks!
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24th November 2006, 08:17 AM
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| my bass recording chain as latly and thinking in the same direction as you are rigt now is: bass into sansamp bassdriver pedal, from there into micinput of ltd-1 into distressor in opto mode into rig. the sansamp pedal has a second output ("processed") which i often feed into a normal tube guitar head. since i do mostly rock and harder stuff ,this is 99% a dual rectifier, but in clean channel, but the push feature engaged. i set gain just that it starts to enrich and saturate, but n distortion. i dial in lots of mids. the cab with v30 is miked with an sm57, into another ltd, into another distressor, but set to 1176 style compression. i do smack this signal a lot, whereas the forementioned opto style distressor just lightly compresses. come mixtime, i just blend those two signals. it helps to nudge the DI track a little back to align with the mic signal. no dedicated bass amp here, and so far all the bass players liked the results.
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5th December 2006, 02:38 AM
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| I do run my bass through a guitar set up, but i'd like to get a dedicated system. also guitar speakers aren't meant to play bass. so I use my mesa recto pre. . . doesn't always work . . .
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6th December 2006, 02:34 AM
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| Cheap Bass Amp solution? How about a LabSeries L9, 1 15" in it. Mine has a JBL but they did come with an EV that sounded kinda good. I have used it in the past with pretty good results. Maybe you can find one used on the cheap. Just thought I would throw that idea out there 
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7th December 2006, 05:10 PM
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 | Check out Genz Benz combos. They aren't super cheap, but they are quality amps, for both bass and guitar. My current guitar head is a Genz Benz El Diablo 100 and it kicks ass, and for bass I used to have a Genz Benz rig (sold it and then had to get a new bass rig). Try their 2x10 or 1x15 combos.
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7th December 2006, 10:07 PM
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| The original Baby Blue is my favorite SWR amp ever. But for the same price, you could buy a vintage B-15, which is arguably the greatest studio bass amp ever. I think I paid $350 for mine (a few years ago). Another small bass amp to check out is the Trace Elliot BLX 80. No longer made, surprisingly good sounding but decidedly Trace Elliot. I was never thrilled with my big Trace Elliot in the studio but I'd imagine the BLX 80 would do ok. |
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8th December 2006, 04:07 AM
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Have you tried the new baby blue? does it compare? I'd love a b-15 - I gotta troll ebay . . .
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8th December 2006, 04:22 AM
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| I really like my re-issue tweed single 12" Fender Blues Deluxe. Great for jams, rehearsal and tracking.
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8th December 2006, 03:21 PM
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The B-15 is big in size but the cabinet is terribly inefficient so it never really gets too loud. A 40 watt guitar amp could easily drowned out a B-15. Of course, it's not for every person or every app. I also have a SWR redhead for that very reason. They're two ends of the spectrum. OTOH, as you get closer to the cleaner SWR tone, you can probably DI a similar tone. The SWR BB I used had a really special thing happening in the mids. | |
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16th December 2006, 10:48 PM
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| There are two other threads about it already, but I've been having a blast with my new Epiphone Valve Jr Head through my SVT 8 X 10 cabinet. Does some very sweet stuff to my '64 jazz bass on low volume. If you take that signal into another mic pre the possibilities are endless. Seriously the best $99.00 I've ever spent on anything and I'm all grins! 
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