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Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:59 pm
by terminator
sounds like your sister is friends with lars/liz. I have no easily portable amp suggestions. big is beautiful.

Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:50 pm
by theavondon
terminator wrote:sounds like your sister is friends with lars/liz. I have no easily portable amp suggestions. big is beautiful.


Don't you have a tiny Traynor?

Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:56 pm
by MaxMaps
i am going to throw my hat in the ring and say get something akin to a Fender Bassman or what I have a Music Man HD 65/130. Older amps but around the 400 -500 price range and sound fucking awesome on either bass or guitar. I found one here in oregon for 600.00 for both the head and the cab. Have not looked back since.

Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 12:43 am
by ChetMagongalo
Yeah! Lars is the guy.

MaxMaps wrote:i am going to throw my hat in the ring and say get something akin to a Fender Bassman or what I have a Music Man HD 65/130. Older amps but around the 400 -500 price range and sound fucking awesome on either bass or guitar. I found one here in oregon for 600.00 for both the head and the cab. Have not looked back since.

I would totally get down with a bassman stack for $600. there's a band I like that plays one of those. I think a friend of mine actually has one I could try.

I think now I realize you were talking about the musicman amp haha. Never played one but my friend had a combo by them he liked (definitely a back breaker)

Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:07 am
by Moustache_Bash
Sell the Sunn, and GK cab. Buy a Peavey for guitar, which will be like a $100, then you can buy/save for a lighter big cab for bumpin bass.

Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:52 am
by terminator
yes I do, dono. I wouldn't consider it a light amp though. and with a 4x12 it's not tiny, you asshole. yba1a into a dietz sounds great. the traynor wants 8 ohms, I give it 4.

+1 for musicman. get a 150 combo and a much heavier guitar. carry one in each hand for balance and shove your pedals in the back of the amp and your guitar case. one trip, done.

Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 1:07 am
by theavondon
terminator wrote:yes I do, dono. I wouldn't consider it a light amp though. and with a 4x12 it's not tiny, you asshole.


I mean, 370's aren't thaaaaaaaat heavy...

But, actually, on topic, ever looked into Acoustics? The old ones are really amazing on both bass and guitar. My friend's 140 isn't heavy at all, and is pretty damn loud. Plus, usually incredibly cheap.

Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 1:20 am
by Mudfuzz
ChetMagongalo wrote:I'm actually very happy with the Sunn sound wise

:thumb: that was easy :thumb:

Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 1:22 am
by Mudfuzz
ChetMagongalo wrote:How do you guys like the Roland Jazz Chorus series?

they weigh as much as or more then a sunn...

Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 4:02 am
by ChetMagongalo
Mudfuzz wrote:
ChetMagongalo wrote:How do you guys like the Roland Jazz Chorus series?

they weigh as much as or more then a sunn...

This is true but I'd only have to carry one box, and I think they come with casters or you can put em on easy

$40

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 11:01 am
by rustywire

Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 11:28 am
by terminator
acoustics do sounds great on bass and guitar. one of the best tones ive heard was a 140 (or some small model) into an ACC 6x10.

i think mudfuzz is the most right. and sometimes you just gotta carry shit. but then you dont get to shop for a new amp, which is the real point.

also, i use a 2-wheeler to move my cabs too. not a fold up one, though. my cabs would bust right through that. you think i could get one of those fEarful geniuses to build me 2 4x15s loaded with kappalites?

Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 11:58 am
by rustywire
That foldup handtruck is rated for 150lbs, which is plenty for *most* 2x12+head...and some halfstack+heads...and any combo amp, even a JBL-loaded Quad Reverb.

Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 1:17 pm
by ChetMagongalo
That's a sweet dolly for $40! And yeah I do wanna buy something new. I've already posted the Sunn on CL. I'll have try some older acoustics someday

Re: Help me deciede my amp future

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 1:24 pm
by terminator
my cabs are probably only 100#, but i like having pneumatic tires. for stairs and whatnot. my shit gets beat up. i actually should get my cabs truck-bed lined. they are untolexed dietz pa mains. 2x15 (x4). but for a single half stack rig, that dolly should work alright. if i had a smaller halfstack setup, i'd think about getting a 1" ratchet and run a strap around the head, cab and dolly. instant tiltback combo.