Ex-Barefaced users?

[largo]

Have you tried https://archive.org 

[discreet]

14 hours ago, fleabag said:

I've lost a few things since owning the behemoth

Your marbles? 

[fleabag]

Ouch - none taken   

[Kevin Dean]

I've had a super t12 & 2 super compacts but I preferred the Ashdown ABM neo stuff sound wise & for me they look the part  , robust & nice inset handles ;).

[potato bass]

On 14/09/2017 at 17:10, Conan said:

This could be a long story... http://basschat.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/%3C#EMO_DIR%23%3E/blush.png

I started with a G2 Compact, then sold it and bought a Vintage, just because it was big and available! That was an awesome cab, but the rehearsal space my (then) band were using had some awful, twisty, narrow stairs and I just couldn't be arsed humping the cab in and out of that room. Also, we weren't gigging all that often. I traded the Vintage for another G2 Compact.

A few months later, an original Big One became available. I'd always wanted to try one of those (partly so that I could tell people that I had a Big One... http://basschat.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/%3C#EMO_DIR%23%3E/rolleyes.gif ) and wasn't disappointed. HUGE sounding, yet still a fairly small box and light as a feather. Worked great with my Hartke LH500, but then I started to use J basses most of the time and I felt I needed an amp with more control over the mids... then followed a period of about six months when I tried lots of different amps (story [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/255371-new-amp-dilemma/"]here[/url]) but found all of them wanting in some way. Several (especially the Aguilar TH500 - story [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/257641-aguilar-th500-distortion-issues/page__hl__th500%20distortion"]here[/url]) were incompatible with the Big One - so one (or both) had to go! Initially it was the Aggie that departed, to be traded for a GK MB800, but the stupid controls were just too close together! That was sold and I bought my current amp, which is a Mark Bass LM2. I'm dead happy with that!

I sold the Big One, and purchased a pair of Bergantino HS210s - mainly because I had listened to all the BF haters who claimed that Bergs were "the best". Well, they weren't for me. They sounded OK, to be fair, but after years of BF usage, their relative heaviness was just not necessary - so off they went.

Next up was my (current) G2 Compact - the third such cab I have owned! It is just brilliant, and does everything I want it to do. From time to time, I still get bursts of GAS* but once I heard another BC member (wateroftyne) playing through my rig, I understood how great it sounded when used by a real bass player! http://basschat.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/%3C#EMO_DIR%23%3E/cool.png So whenever I don't feel quite happy about my own sound, I just recall how it will sound to an audience.

* The last cab I bought was a TKS H115. I still have it. It is great. Just as good as the Compact for me. I rarely need both cabs, but it is wonderful having them just in case! They sound kind of similar, but the TKS is slightly "cleaner" and has the dubious benefit of a tweeter. It is slightly larger and heavier, but still an easy lift. It also looks the business http://basschat.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/%3C#EMO_DIR%23%3E/tongue.png

If I was really strapped for cash, one of them would have to go - but that would be a [b][i]very[/i][/b] tough choice... http://basschat.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/%3C#EMO_DIR%23%3E/sad.png

So, I have tried a lot of stuff over the last four years or so (some not mentioned here!) but I am happy to still be a Barefaced user! http://basschat.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/%3C#EMO_DIR%23%3E/man_in_love.gif

TKS: H-15, for clear tone, and portability, and plenty loud. Really sweet, and paired up with a clean head, for projecting the Bass of choice, What a CAb ! 

Edited Friday at 17:59 by potato bass

[tauzero]

A bit of a necro thread...

 

I was a BF user, had a BB2 and later a One10. I found the One10 started distorting at quite low levels, so stopped using it. I later fancied changing to a combo and bought a GR Bass AT800 Cube (1x12 combo) and sold the BB2, and later went back to separates and went for a GR Bass AT212 to go with my Tecamp Puma 900 (despite having built a BC 112 Mk3, which I also sold).

[Jack]

When this thread was new I was a current Barefaced user but now I'm one of these modern weirdos who doesn't have any backline most of the time. I've had 2x midgets, a compact, and 2x FR800s, all of which are exceptional and the fr800s were easily the best cabs I've ever used. If I need stage volume these days, which used to be pretty much never then I use a QSC k12.2. However both of my new bands look like they might be stage volume bands, so I am considering a big twin to amplify my quad cortex. Who knows what the future holds eh?

[fretmeister]

Another ex-user here.

 

I've had One10 x2 stack, a Super Twin, then One10T + One10 stack. Enjoyed them all, but I've gone back to my first light weight love: Mark Bass.

My first actual love was a pair of Marshall VBC412 cabs with separate big iron Hartke and Ashdown heads. I am never lifting all that again! It might not even suit me these days as my musical tastes have changed a lot.

 

It's been about 18 months since I quit my last band and if I ever look for another I'd be perfectly happy to swap to IEM and no backline, but the last band was big band jazz without any PA support - piano, bass, guitar all had their own amps - so if I did that again I'd still need an amp. The brass and reeds are loud enough without any PA in the venues were were doing.