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[b][url="http://www.accugroove.com/"]AccuGroove[/url][/b] ought to be mentioned. Very good sound, quite light wheight, rather expensive.
I own a pair of Tri-112L cabs which I've done a bit of touring with, and I am even more pleased with them now, having experienced their unfailing good sound in a variety of venues.
The Tri-112L cab is a three way system, with one 12" woofer, a 6" midrange driver, and two 1" textile dome tweeters. 8 ohm. Don't remember power handling, think it was 400 W or thereabout. Specs are on the [url="http://www.accugroove.com/"]web page[/url], you know. Lots of other cabs too.
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If you're after vintage [u]tone[/u], a modern bass with a properly fitted GK pickup and a Roland V-Bass will do. I know because I use such a system myself. (although I don't have [u]extensive[/u] experience with real vintage instruments.) I quite often use the vintage P model for the occations when that sound is fitting, which is quite often, actually. It also does the Rickenbacker sound, which I like, and vintage Jazz and Hofner, which I don't use all that often, being partial to the more rock-oriented tones.

Perhaps sometime this summer, some afternoon when the weather is bad and I've nothing to do, I'll record some sound samples of these V-Bass models and post them on my web page..... so you can judge for yourself, eh?

Wow! Very cool. I remember seeing the fingerboard with the inlay earlier, good to see some progress. I think the Bee design is fabulous. And the cartoon-style rabbit inlay goes well with it.
Love the woods, too.

Thanks!

I wish I had written down what bass models I used for the various tracks. It's not always easy to hear - on some tunes the bass is a bit buried in the mix (mostly on the softer songs). I remember using the upright model on the track "Where I long to be", but it isn't easy to tell by listening to it.... The upright model sounds great though. Perhaps I ought to record some sound clips of the V-Bass alone.....

We were in the studio just after Easter holiday, and [url="http://hallgeir.no/bass/ansgar/ags-cd/"]here are some sound clips from the finished CD[/url]. Not very much - four clips about a minute long each. (the last clip is from a track by the Arc Singers from New Orleans)

I used my Benavente fretless 6 and Surine fretted 6 through the Roland V-Bass for all tracks. Worked great.