JHBASS Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Hello all again, I was recently in town, when I saw a band busking. My band may be doing something similar as well. They had a full set up, including a amplified bass player. He was going through on of those Roland Cube RX amps (it was off the batteries). I went home did some research and found this costs £160+, and I'm looking for a cheaper alternative. I've found a number of guitar-specified amps, like the Micro Spider or Vox DA 5, do you think these would work? I don't really want effects etc. just the ability to use it with batteries/without a mains power supply. Does anybody have any suggestions? Cheers, Josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golchen Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 My experience of guitar amps is that bass sounds crap through them. I have that small Vox battery amp and it's horrible for bass. I can't recall how much it was, but I got a Roland Microcube that works on batteries and I absolutely love it! the sounds are really great (in my opinion) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 I've seen Crate amps being used. This one in particular: [url="http://www.crateamps.com/products/pindex.php?prodID=26"]http://www.crateamps.com/products/pindex.php?prodID=26[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basskit_case Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 [quote name='JHBASS' post='591625' date='Sep 6 2009, 07:54 PM']Hello all again, I was recently in town, when I saw a band busking. My band may be doing something similar as well. They had a full set up, including a amplified bass player. He was going through on of those Roland Cube RX amps (it was off the batteries). I went home did some research and found this costs £160+, and I'm looking for a cheaper alternative. I've found a number of guitar-specified amps, like the Micro Spider or Vox DA 5, do you think these would work? I don't really want effects etc. just the ability to use it with batteries/without a mains power supply. Does anybody have any suggestions? Cheers, Josh[/quote] Hello, I am also looking for a small portable bass amp. I have seen [url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.asp?section=practice&ID=222"]this[/url], would be interested to know if anybody else has tried it, has any thoughts? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisnameistaken Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Bump! I'm looking for something mega-portable, battery-powered, doesn't have to be especially loud, and I've been looking at the Roland Micro Cube RX too. Anyone got any other suggestions? It seems a lot of money for a tiny little combo, and I don't really need or want all the COSM guff they bundled in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmybass04 Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 halfords power converter. i bought one , they are great charge them up and you can plug your amp into them. last summer i went buskingand plugged a hundred watt peavey monitor into it ,and busked for up to 4 hours and i never ran out of power. plugged my bass and a drum machine in to the monitor, excellent. dont waste your money on one of those five watt busking amps. i paid about £90 for the power converter, check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisnameistaken Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 I see where you're coming from but I don't really want to lug my whole bass rig (compact as it might be, my cab is still a two-handed carry, then there's the head, and a bass...) around with me in the street if I can help it. What I want, ideally, is a little reinforcement for very little effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmybass04 Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 you could use any small amp to plug in to it, who wants to lug a rig about the streets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V4lve Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 (edited) I think the bass player from the Huckleberries uses a GK microbass and his sound is pretty good. Edited February 11, 2010 by V4lve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisnameistaken Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Is that amp either battery-powered or light or cheap or any two of those three? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 I use a Pignose Hog 30 - just about ok for the job. Not sure of the price now,when I bought mine from Thomann I seem to think it was around £90. Last quite a few hours on one charge, keeps up with rest of jazz band but only just. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V4lve Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 [quote name='thisnameistaken' post='742701' date='Feb 12 2010, 12:33 AM']Is that amp either battery-powered or light or cheap or any two of those three?[/quote] Here you go [post="0"][/post] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=74648&hl="]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=74648&hl=[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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