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Some crazy people will tell you to sell the car and buy a nice rig. Only kidding, although if you are desperate to hear yourself play, there's a few headphone amps on the Market, like vox amplug bass. Which will bring it to line level, which you can then plug into you car, although that sound wouldn't be amazing. There is also a few low priced practice amps out there for a few bob.

My first bass was a Epiphone T'bird, not the best Starter bass, bridge is naff, and the god damn neck dive, but it looks the bees knees and sounds pretty good. I would alsways suggest to any new starter to buy one of the CV VM or deluxe squier over a starter pack. Good bang for buck, will last a lifetime and when you feel the need to upgrade you'll probably be in a better position in the way knowing what you want, or even cheaper just upgrade the bridge and pups. You don't really need all the bits and bobs when starting. In my opinion the gear that's in a starter pack is crap anyway.

[quote name='s1ater' post='805688' date='Apr 14 2010, 08:41 AM']You could run a volume pedal after the bass balls[/quote] +1 there's a few units that out thier that can increase or decrease input level, placed after the baseballs it would keep you volume level, a few by boss, GEB-7 LMB-3, or indeed you could get a volume pedal. Does it keep the same level when between guitar and amp?

Fenders tony franklin is basically a P bass with an added J pickup in the bridge. Although tht frank bello bass comes with somenice hardware, except I could use a tone nob or 2 on something like that.

I'm sure the asdown superfly series had a 4x8, although I wouldn't be to confident with how much low end something like that has.

Awesome looks like I have to shift some old gear to get another though. I'll try getting some YouTube vids of this with both my basses, as I just upgraded my power jazz and it's a thousand times better.

Could well be things like that, maybe some EQ will do the trick, or usually playing quite close it makes it seem like it's not getting any louder, I've found half volume is suitable for a small to medium gig.

Deep, punchy, growling, sustain. Just some thing I like about the sound I'm doing with my current band. Even on a crappy cam corder you can hear all the notes I play quite clearly and defined.

Well it probably is easy as pie to remove the head from it's combo casing. Difficulties will arrise when you want to connect the head to a cab. How is it connected to the speakers. I know that the Marshall MB series, the higher powered ones, are just the 450 head in a combo casing connected to to speaker via the jack sockets on the back of the head unit.

Well it's lowest frequency is 31.8 or something which is low. I don't need a graphic eq pedal no more since my amp has a 9 band one.

2x15 would be my prefference for lows and warmth. Barefaced do one that's LOUD! But yes assuming ohmage is matched and the 8x10 isn't rated too high it'll be fine.

I think we all forget the Fender musicmaster 12w bass combo. However the ones I see on eBay are either £200+ or too expensive. I would love some kind of reissue of that.

[quote name='ahpook' post='804475' date='Apr 13 2010, 12:30 AM']fancy buying my boss bass eq pedal ?[/quote] what ever amp you get you can get a graphic EQ pedal, im sure there must be one with more than 7 bands on.

I dunno, on talkbass there was a few guys talking about the Orange BT should have been a low watt all valve job. The only low watt all valve bass head in manufacture is ashdowns little bastard, no idea how good or crap it sounds.

Yeah I'm fairly competant when it cones the shematics and soldering, plus if I get stuck my dad is an electrical engineer

back when i was looking for an all valve guitar amp, I was looking at that epiphone juniour thing and hearing loads of mod talk on guitargeek.com, and all about adding a tone nob or a boost circuit or something, I'm sure there must be away of modding it for bass frequencys. The jaguar sounds awesome through my Orange, especially overdriven.

Is it possible to upgrade something like epiphone junior to accept bass frequencies?

bosses line selector lets you run up to 3 outputs simultaneously, atleast I think. Atleast 2 anyway.

My friend, you are now a tone snob. Only kidding. I try and find amps that that are transparant, so I can hear my bass and the way I play it. I also stay away from tweeters as I find they sound artificial.

Yup thats the second time we have played there hopefully will again soon.

If you are ever worried about what to get you cant go wrong with an Orange bass Terror, plus if you buy new you'll get a warranty(i think) and its 500w at 8 ohm which would suit a barefaced bass compact. Which IMO is amazing cuts through like a knife through butter, even with the 275W I get with my SVT-3 pro it surprised me at how much it punches. plus with that I get the option to add another to get 450w. Orange BT = 450 ish new, barefaced compact = 475 delivered, thats 925, then you have 75 to buy a speakon cable some nice instrument cables, new strings, a pickup upgrade whatever. Or theres two used compacts in the for sale section at aropund 350 ish, that 800 quids on a more than brilliant gigging rig. with 200 left for other crap.

So after a while of having my Marshall MB4210, I was pretty happy with the hybrid valve type ampifier, I liked how it was IMO a transparant aplification of my bass. But although its a cobo its very heavy, and as I dont drive and my band relies on parants to transport our gear around for gigs and practice I quickly got bored of going back and forth to pick everything up. So began the search to find a light, copmpact, loud, value for money rig. I wanted a head and cab thing as the option to upgrade parts is nice and its easyier to stuff seperate squares into a small van than one large one. Anyway, I had my mind set on a at least 300w and a decent 2x10. I quickly found that good light 2x10's arnt that common opr cheap. Also i kind of narrowed my head search for harkte Lh500, Orange terror Bass or a GB shuttle 6.0. Although I searched ebay and here and talkbass, I couldn't get a used orange or LH500, and the GB was out of prive range. Then I got stuck, I convinced myself that the Orange wasnt versatile enough and the LH500 was my only option. Then sudden case of GAS and impulseness struck me while going over ebay. I saw someone selling an ampeg SVT-3-PRO with a footswitch and inside a LD systems gig carry hard case thing at £450. I messaged him and got him down to 420, which I thought was a brilliant catch. Obviously I did some research on it and 3 pre amp tubes is better than 2 or 1, no? plus I grew up with the sound of mark hoppus and his SVT-4 pro, and if it the 3 is good enough for Robert Trujillo its got to be good enough for me and my amateur needs. Next was a cab. I dont know why I was being narrow minded about a 2x10. I was looking at all kinds of neo loaded cabs, some still weighing around 20 Kgs, anyway, I thought I'll email alex at barefaced and ask his advice. Amazing he replied in less than an hour. He asked a bunch of questions like my current gear and my bands sound, and my EQ settings, he assured me that the Compact would suit me just fine although the SVT-3 might under power it a bit. It came the other day and I got it all together and practiced the crap out of it. Im still astonished at the compacts lightness. I dont need my graphic eq pedal no more as i use the Ampegs on board 9 band graphic EQ. The sound is pretty amazing, I still get the transparant amplification of my bass, with added features, like the low button adds a great sub harmonic to everything. It's true that the SVT-3 pro under powers the compact it but after around 3/4's of master volume it starts to drive the speaker and stuff starts to fall over, stuff in my bathroom fell over, and you can really feel it push the air. The notes are clear and seperate. I gigged it that night and it was great I could not only hear myself on stage but feel it too. It has great punch in a crowded mix, specially with a double bass happy drummer and two loud guitards . I still find it funny when people think the cab is going to wiegh a tonne. I can walk out the house with the amp head bass and cab in one go, so theres no return trips to the car for me, and my band is back at complaining about the drum kit. I think the only thing i'll need at a later date is another compact to start running the ampeg at 450w at 4 ohm. cheers for reading and here comes a few pics I took the other day. [attachment=47018:IMG_0614.jpg] [attachment=47019:IMG_0615.jpg] [attachment=47025:IMG_0626.jpg] [attachment=47026:IMG_0627.jpg] [attachment=47027:IMG_0628.jpg] PICS from the gig: [attachment=47028:23590_13...429667_n.jpg] [attachment=47029:23590_13...445975_n.jpg]