Why are venue house bass amps always such utter sh#te?

[Chienmortbb]

1 hour ago, Lozz196 said:

A cuckoo clock?

I’d that a bass amp? 

[ASW]

My festival experience this year has been different. I've played a few festivals and venues with its own back line and it's all been quite good. There was an Aguilar Tone Hammer and 4 x 10 at one festival. I liked the amp enough to buy one myself!

 

I always carry a small pedal board with an Origin Effects Bass Rig so can DI from there if necessary. 

 

I'm sure that every gig I've played this year, we got a list of the back line and if we didn't we asked for it, so we knew what would be there to use. This enables us to ascertain whether the back line is suitable and can negotiate beforehand if we feel we needed to use our own equipment (we didn't). Admittedly, it doesn't help if the equipment doesn't work though, but still worthwhile.

 

There will always be outliers, such as the time I played a gig years ago and their "bass amp" was some child's practice amp from the 80s with a blown 8" speaker. No proper foldback either so I couldn't hear anything I was playing and taking a preamp pedal would not have helped. That was before I learned to find out what the back line was! 

Edited yesterday at 13:23 by ASW
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