bassman7755

I dont think you mentioned what amp it is that your actually trying to capture ?

There isnt much I grew up on that I dont like anymore. If anything listening to old classics often reveals riches I didnt appreciate at the time e.g. Micheal Anthony's bass playing on early van halen albums, or the bluesyness of Angus Youngs playing to name some random ones.

Noone is handing out medals for forcing yourself to listen to stuff you dont like. I've been through phases where I felt I ought to be listening to things will more cultural significance (Bowie etc) and/or musical sophistication (Jazz), but at some point I thought sod that and went back to AC/DC ...

All right now is one of my favourite songs ever to play, original bass work on it is superb (sadly the vast majority of people I see cover this song have obviously never sat down and really listened to it to do it justice ...).

I get the sense of underutilisation of a multi effects but it is irrational because the marginal cost of adding extra effects to a digital unit is tiny so of course they are going to thow in everything they think anyone might concievably want just like most phones and computer come with loads of stuff on them that most people never use. Digital units that do just one effect are actually the illogical choice because they will have generic DSP hardware internally anyway - just running one effect instead of many. I realise the OP was talking about analogue seperates but I see no reason to use analogue audio processing in this day and age (with the possible exception of valve power amps, but even there its getting iffy).

It will work and gets good reviews from guitarists BUT ... guitar needs a lot less power amp headroom than bass so there is a question mark around whether it would be loud enough for live band bass applications (if thats what you had in mind).

This is why I like playing in tribute bands - it solves this inherent tension between what people want to play and what people want to hear on a night out. Everyone is there to play and listen with a shared love of whatever band it is, you also generally a lot of leeway with more obsure song choices.

There very few songs on my "no way in hell" list, actually Dirging in the Free World is about the only one. Happy to play Mustang Sally et al.

I dont hink its much of a loss because I think you have to like a genre to be good at it beyond a certain level otherwise how are you able to judge what is a great line vs merely a good one ? - music (yes even jazz) is about taste not formulas telling you what notes to play so if you dont like a genre how can you apply taste to your playing ?. Ive been in a couple of blues bands for example but am very "meh" about the genre so I could never be a great blue bass player, merely a competent one.

Back in the day my setup was a QSC PLX bridged with a rated output of 1600 watts rms into cab rated 750 watts. Thats playing rock/metal with a 5 string in a loud band. Realistically I was probably only ever using 2 or 3 hundred watts as that is pretty loud through any reasonably effecient cab, the surplus power is only there to keep the transients clean.

Adjusting the amount of bass using on stage sound is likely very missleading, suggest a radio/long lead/looper to hear what its like out in the room.

Hes my simple as possible common sense advice: Dont worry about complex calculations and using juggling impedences to extract the maximum power from an amp, any of the following will do just fine: A single 4 ohm cab. A single 8 ohm cab. Two 8 ohm cabs in parallel (the default wiring scheme for amps and cabs with multiple connectors). Yes two 4 oms in series technically works as well but ... why would you ? its fiddly needing custom cables an less effecient than 2x8 in parralel. Dont obsess over driver size, the design and quality of the cab is much more important, any good 10 or 12 loaded cab can produce the necessary frequency range. All other things being equal more speaker cone area moves more air using less amplifier power irrespective of whether this is achieved withing the same cab or multiple cabs stacked. 2 * 10/12 drivers should enough to get a decent volume with a mid powered amp like yours. Dont worry about over powering the cabs, really just dont so long as your using one of the configs listed, actually damaging any half decent bass cab with a mid powered amp is very hard in practice unless you are deliberately setting out to abuse it (and if you are abusing it having an amp with a lower nominal rating than the speaker is not an absolute gurantee than you wont do any damage).

3x10s are often 3 x 16 ohm in parallel giving 5.2 ohm and thus work decently as single cabs with most amps.

This is quite an expensive unit (even though its discontinued), I would suggest selling it and getting seperate amps and cab(s). If you hack it about you risk a) not getting anything usable at the end of it and b) not having anything with any residual resale value.

Im in swindon and Ive got some barefaced cabs, a old 1x12 midget (which is better/smaller than pretty much any 1x10) and a 1x15 compact (smaller than a 2x10) you can potentialy have a play with.