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I have a real amp (Bugera 1960) and a practice amp (Marshall JTM30). I have 3 basses, but one of them (crappy hondo pbass) is just for beating on at home, the other two are my "real" basses (G&L L2500 and Squier VM Jag). I need two because of tuning changes at gigs.

Someone buy my goddamn Swell pedal!!!!!!!!

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That's awesome.

PUPPIES!!!

i'm gonna have to get a proper bass amp if i intend to play the instrument other than in a home recording context or jamming where i can use other peoples' rigs. at home i play through the Laney, which is fine with it because it has 12" low-frequency Greenbacks.

jwar wrote:Someone buy my goddamn Swell pedal!!!!!!!!

I think I'm going to be in that exact same boat once my B-PEG comes in.

Those pedals are THE BEST when you want a tube sound and you have a solid state rig.....now I have a power amp with 16 tubes.


I have been considering getting a practice amp. It goes against my very being....I would usually just lug the huge ass rig around....but I want to preserve this vintage tube amps and keep those tubes lasting as long as possible. The problem would be trying to find something with a similar tone....I don't want to have to tweak pedals when changing from practice amp to gig amp.

My gig-band rig is a 200 watt Orange tube head into a 4 ohm Avatar 2-12. Plenty big and loud. I have only played one gig with out P.A. support in the last year or so and the rig I had at the time worked fine for that too.
At home I have a 100 watt Univox tube head and a Univox 2-15. They do not have the same tone at all, kind of a PITA, but not horrible. I have 2 basses, and one that I am slowly piecing together. I definately think a back-up is crucial...gigging and such.
I have one acoustic guitar, one Electric 6 string, and one guitar amp. At home use for the most part.
I also tend to think for the most part, I should use it, to keep it for music gear. There are a few exceptions. I do have a collector's mentallity (OMG huge Star Wars collection) and recently had to stop that in regards to pedals. I am cool with being spendy on things I use.

I tend to like...buy amps. And, now I have a lot of amps! It's nice.

Though, due to apartment living, I've been getting a lot of use out of the $80 peavey combo I bought forever ago. I mean, it sounds pretty much like whatever you put into it, which is cool.

Not sure how many of you guys still actually go to TB, but for our West Coast bros, Nerve is playing a few dates. I can attest that they fucking rule live, John Davis is a beast.

4/24 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC
4/25 Showbox, Seattle, WA
4/26 Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
4/27 The Knitting Factory, Reno, NV
4/28 The Regency, San Francisco, CA

verrrrrrrrrrrry cool! Regency in SF is NICE. i'll definitely get to that one. COOL.

thanks meng!

behndy wrote:verrrrrrrrrrrry cool! Regency in SF is NICE. i'll definitely get to that one. COOL.

thanks meng!

To make it even better, they're opening for DJ Shadow on those dates.

oh SHIT. off to buy tickets now. fucking LOVE Shadow.

holy SHIT. tickets are $35 with a $11.50 convenience fee. that's........ that's way too much. the Regency is a nice place, but where bands play it's a medium sized club. like Slims, where shows are at MOST $15-$20. oof. i'd like to Shadow and i'd love to check out Nerve live....... but that's way more than i want to spend on a few hours of music.

OOF.

Whoa, yeah, that's ... a lot.

yah..... i'm not cheap..... but unless it's something to make the wiff happy, it's hard to justify almost $50 on one show.

i saw Prefuse73 at Slim's in SF i think, also a really nice club, and that was like $20. yikes.

behndy wrote:yah..... i'm not cheap..... but unless it's something to make the wiff happy, it's hard to justify almost $50 on one show.

i saw Prefuse73 at Slim's in SF i think, also a really nice club, and that was like $20. yikes.

I straight up won't go to shows unless I can get in for less than $30. Too many great bands playing at $10-$15 to justify paying more.