I use a Fender Rumble 60, 60 watts. I really like it. Has a great sound and can get loud.



What do you use?

I use a Rogue GS-30R. I got it used and cheap so that's why I use it! :)

Peavey Classic 50 410. It is a dead knock off (the first year of production of the model- they changed them the next year) of the ole' Fender Bassman. Though it is/was sold as a guitar amp. it has plenty of bottom end from the 4 10" speakers, spring reverb and TUBE tone. More often, however, I use a Yorkville powered keyboard monitor. It has a line out,headphone jack for practice, is a wedge shaped cab, full range, and weighs about 10 lbs!! Us old players like light amps!
I moved from a Hartke rig, 210 and a 115 run bi-amped, cause my back just couldn't take it. If I had roadies, I would be back in the aluminum cone world in a second.

Got a Peavey off of E-bay.......

I made a pair of TL-606 EV cabs way back when. Loaded them with Kappalite 3015's and use a Peavey Mark IV for smaller jobs, and add a PLX1602 when I need max grunt. Pretty lightweight, and sounds great for the time they were designed.
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An old Peavey TKO-80.

Currently my bass amp is a recent Peavey TNT 115. In the past I have owned an SWR Workingman combo, and before that an Ampeg head/cabinet. I miss the Ampeg, but the Peavey is enough for most situations. Modern PA systems with subwoofers, even small subs, are able to fill a room better than depending on the amp by itself.

An old Hartke B60 practice amp for small or mainly acoustic settings. A 70's vintage Fender Bassman Ten (4x10 - 70 watt) tube amp for the nice all tube sound and larger venues. My most recent rig is an old SWR Bass 350 redface tube/hybrid head and a SB112 Avatar cabinet. I'm waiting with great anticipation for the Avatar cab to arrive tomorrow. The Fender and SWR were rescues and part of the fun is going through and cleaning/fixing up old tube amps. I also have a Fender Champ 12 tube amp for guitar work which is hot-rodded with Torres Engineering kits.

For practice and coffee-house type gigs I use a Polytone Miny-Teeney Brute with a Tech 21 Sans Amp and occasionally a Tech 21 Bass Compactor (a compressor) and a Boss Chorus pedal. For larger gigs I use an Ampeg 350 watt solid state bass head with either a Trace Elliot 1x15 cabinet or an SWR Goliath Senior 6x10 cabinet; I usually run directly into the Ampeg head without any modifications. When I play my fretless bass I'll have a separate signal that includes a chorus pedal going into the same amp setup. The big rig (Ampeg head + SWR cabinet) is a pain to haul around, but the tone and fun of playing through it is worth the extra effort.

Fender Bassman 150 is what I have.

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I have the Acoustic Image Coda -- discontinued now 'cause there's a newer model.

The good: It small, relatively light, 2 channel combo box with a lot of capabilities. The sound is very clean. What you play is what they hear.

The not-so-good. The controls are so small they are hard to set and difficult to see -- in particular there are some pop-out push buttons that are so small that it's almost impossible to tell if they are in or out visually. [Mute, for example -- kinda important to know if it's on or not] It's also expensive, but I got a great deal on one with a cosmetic defect.

I think the controls on some of the newer models with removable heads may be larger.

I have:
--Fender Bassman: 1963 original with blond tolex and wheat grillcloth. (This was the transition year from the blond tolex/oxblood grillcloth to the modern black tolex/silver grillcloth look.) I played one of these back-in-the-day but sold it a long time ago. I replaced it via eBay a couple of years ago. I use the amp for modest venues. It has only 50 watts of power but what tone! What I didn't know back in the '60's was that the blond Bassman I owned -- with the wheat-colored grillcloth -- was made in 1963 only. Which made finding a replacement in good condition a few years ago very difficult. With just one year of production here just aren't that many left in the world. Incidentally, I have noticed that EVERY blond Bassman has a cigarette burn on the top of the amp head -- including my original amp and the replacement I bought. I am firmly convinced that there was someone at the end of the Fender assembly line whose sole job it was to puff a cigarette and create a burn on top of the amp as the last step in the process...
--Ampeg BT-15C: 1967 original. This was the amp I bought after selling my original Bassman/Ampeg B-15 rig in 1967. It was the first generation transistor Ampeg but still retained the Portaflex style. It has two 15's and 100 watt amp head. It has cool lightling outlining the head and controls but I don't use this much. It's very heavy.
--Hartke stack: HA3500 AMP & 2.5XL cab & 115XL cab. This is my general purpose rig. I guess what sold me on Hartke was it is played by Gary Tallent and Jack Bruce (in modern times).
--Fender B-DEC 30. Bought this as a practice amp. It's got a lot of whistles and bells in the internal software including the ability to model other amps. One amp it can model is a classic Fender Bassman sound. So I run the Hartke signal through the B-DEC with latter set to model an old Bassman. Thus the Hartke approximates Bassman tone and I return to my mid-'60's roots.

It's fun to daisy-chain all of the above together and crank it up. I can cause dishes in the house next store to fall...

I suppose that the amp on my wish list these days would be a mid-'60's vintage Ampeg B-15. That would reconstitute the rig I had back when and would get me that much closer to sounding like Saint James Jamerson.

This amp has a wide tonal range and weighs in at 6.75 lbs. Best amp I've ever played through.


Jeb

Fender Bassman 60 watt. Meets my needs.

I have two:

1) Behringer BXL3000 - has plenty of power for most applications, but a little weak at the bottom end, so it doesn't do too well with my 5-string bass. But great when portability is a requirement. I actually bought it to use with my electric upright.

2) Behringer 5-channel mixer ==> QSC RMX850 Power Amp ==> Carvin 1 x 15 cabinet. This rig lives permanently at the church where I play bass in the Praise Band. Great bottom end, LOTS of power, handles the 5-string really well, but lack a little at the top end. The cab is an early one without a high-frequency driver - I'm considering adding one.

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This amp has a wide tonal range and weighs in at 6.75 lbs. Best amp I've ever played through.


Jeb

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SWR la 12 for daily playing. I love this thing and it's super portable. 3 band parametric eq and a headphone output.
Alembic preamp into a qsc 2402 power amp and an accugroove whappo jr cab. for when it has to be loud. The preamp is the same circuit as a fender bassman (the founder of Alembic designed the preamp for the bassman).

Here's one of our experiments:



Two home-designed, baffled and tuned cabs with 15"s, and a 250W low impedance subwoofer plate amp with a tunable crossover and phase, a 100W head with two 10"/6" woofer/tweeter cabs for mid/highs, with a high impedance pre-amp. We tested it with a frequency generator and hand held sound meter, and got 127 dB at 90 Hz, 116 at 27 Hz.

We also have a Crate BT-220 single 15" combo. We've not combined the two yet...we're afraid we might set off some siesmic detectors....

Edited by - musekatcher on 12/10/2009 14:02:52

Eden Nemesis 15" w/Ti horn for medium rooms and a Hartke Kickback 12" for small to medium. It's kind of according to the shape of the room, but for most gigs the Eden is plenty. Bluegrasser here, playing acoustic and Upright bass with K&K bass max bridge pickup and Sihon mute.

Works purty good !

Edited by - Thumper on 12/17/2009 12:53:58

A weird one. 1982 Fender Bassman 20 [ 1-15" speaker/18 watts/single channel with midrange control] sort of like a bass Fender Harvard amp. Anyone else have one of these. I had some luck on the harmony centrual site but they only made these about 2 years. I bought mine new. LOTS of bottom. not much middle. and i use a DI box into a sound system with my fretless P bass

GK Backline 210

I have a Peavey TKO 115...

Polytone Mini Brute III, also A 300 w. Hartke brain with A custom Toby speaker

Polytone Mini Brute III, also A 300 w. Hartke brain with A custom Toby speaker

I have a mid-80s Peavey Minx 110

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This amp has a wide tonal range and weighs in at 6.75 lbs. Best amp I've ever played through.


Jeb

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I'm curious - what cab do you run this amp into?

--Steve

Bergantino gives you a very clean hifi tone. These are the two I use, the 112 is usually enough to get the job done unless I have a blues gig, then I use them both.

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