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Teeny tiny amps - any use?


Ajoten

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I need a little practice amp to take the place of my acoustic bass - so doesn't need to be any louder really, playing-along-with-the-stereo volume. It needs to be small so I can whip it out from behind the sofa kinda thing.

Are these Blackstar Fly or Eden Micro Tour amps worth considering or are they just gimmicky daft?

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40 minutes ago, chris_b said:

I use my Barefaced One10 and my regular gigging Aguilar TH500 with the volume right down.

It's the size of a couple of big packets of Shreddies and gives a better tone than any other small rig I've used.

I agree.  I use a one10 and GK MB200.  It sounds superb.

I do like the idea of one of the small PJB combos but I can't justify the cost given that the one10/MB200 is perfect for home practice.

Back to being sensible - the older Fender Rumble 15 sounds great at home volumes and is cheap as chips.  I've seen them at £20 to £40.

Frank.

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2 minutes ago, machinehead said:

. . . . the older Fender Rumble 15 sounds great at home volumes and is cheap as chips.  I've seen them at £20 to £40.

I agree, at that price a Rumble 15 would be hard to pass up. Probably wouldn't fit behind the sofa though.

My kids have grown up and I'm not as cash strapped as I was, so these days I fully support the "Life is too short for bad tone" approach.

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I recently got a Micro cube rx secondhand for £100 to use for acoustic rehearsals and home practice. I'm very pleased with it - sounds fantastic with all my basses even the Kala u-bass and NS-design CR-5M, and is much louder than the spec suggests it would be. The documentation said that rechargable batteries wouldn't work, but they do - I'm using 6 eneloop AAs and they last for days.

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On ‎11‎/‎27‎/‎2017 at 22:12, Ajoten said:

Are these Blackstar Fly or Eden Micro Tour amps worth considering or are they just gimmicky daft?

I have the Blackstar, loud enough with my passive J to keep up with two acoustic guitars and a cajon :)

 

get the extension speaker for more oomph 

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On 28/11/2017 at 00:20, ped said:

Indeed they are quite loud and full sounding. 

I modded mine a bit by taking the badges off the grille (one rattled) and took off the plastic corner protectors. Looks rather neat. 

 

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Looks like a full gigging rig for an elf.

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On 2017-11-27 at 23:32, Dazed said:

My go to reply is the PJB Doublefour - 75 watts, very transparent, in a shoe box size package. 

+ on that! The ones you mentioned in your initial post are toys; this is a real bass amp, yet tiny...

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