Who runs a "full range" amp?

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Who runs a "full range" amp?

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Hey guys, anyone running a full range/any old instrument amp in their rig?
You know the ones, generally built like a brick shithouse from back in the day.
I was thinking of running a guitar rig and splitting into a bass rig, but now maybe I want something that I can do both with?
Does anyone have one they run with different cabs for the whole spectrum (treble and bass)?
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There's a Bassman Ten locally that I'm eying for use with guitar, Bass VI, bass, synth, and drone. No money doe.
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Also I do have a Fender PA100 that I could use for this purpose, but no proper cab.
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My old bass player did this with power amps, PA speakers, bass cabinets, preamps and a mixer. It was just for his bass though. And to piss everyone off (couldn't hear anything...he had that bass pushing every frequency band possible).

I think his pedal board was dmm, gigadelay, green Sovtek Muff, space station, and whammy 3?
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Your bass player sounds like he was a dick, you've mentioned him in other threads before, but FUCK is that a pedal board!
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ThurberMingus wrote:Also I do have a Fender PA100 that I could use for this purpose, but no proper cab.
I'm particularly interested in these.
lordgalvar wrote:My old bass player did this with power amps, PA speakers, bass cabinets, preamps and a mixer. It was just for his bass though. And to piss everyone off (couldn't hear anything...he had that bass pushing every frequency band possible).

I think his pedal board was dmm, gigadelay, green Sovtek Muff, space station, and whammy 3?
Yeah that sounds kinda like where I wanna go.
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I run a peavey max biamped into a 3620 and an 810 for half my rig at our practice space and it's incredible. Adds so much low end and clarity as the sole melody instrument in a band. The other half is a V4 into a 412 and 215
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BoatRich wrote:I run a peavey max biamped into a 3620 and an 810 for half my rig at our practice space and it's incredible. Adds so much low end and clarity as the sole melody instrument in a band. The other half is a V4 into a 412 and 215
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spacelordmother wrote:
BoatRich wrote:I run a peavey max biamped into a 3620 and an 810 for half my rig at our practice space and it's incredible. Adds so much low end and clarity as the sole melody instrument in a band. The other half is a V4 into a 412 and 215
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Traynor YBA-3. Sounds amazing with everything I've hit it with. Too good.
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Have (or had? Buddy gave it to me for my birthday and he needed to use it and said "I guess we both own it now" or something :lol: ) a PA135 that sounded awesome for all instruments. Lackluster tone section but you can chain all channels for a little growl and power and apparently it can be run dangerously with too many cabs but I never tried :idk: if you can find them they're not too expensive. $300?
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I think you'll get decent or maybe better results with full range speakers and a regular guitar amp. Most guitar speakers act as a massive lpf, so I'd start there.

But fuzz is going to sound like running direct into your sound card, unless I've really misunderstood full range speakers. Never actually played them.
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