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Don't feel bad -- those things are awfully dark and tubby. The real Gibsons were, anyway.
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I've picked up a couple of decent ones at garage sales over the years. Its a good cheap bass amp thats hard to find.
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'Taint necessarily so - you'll have to shop around a bit, though. While you can easily find used - and even new - practice-amp (20W or less) bargains in the under-$100 price bracket, I'd recommend something in the 40-50 watt range to start (it's all about clean power and headroom rather than sheer volume) and a 12" speaker minimum if you expect to reproduce those bottom notes satisfactorily. I've seen used '70s/80s Peavey, Kustom, Randall, and Univox combos - some of which have 15" speakers and 100+ watts power BTW - as well as similar late-model Acoustic, Fender, and Hartke combos routinely going for $100-150 at the big-box stores, and if you're lucky you might find the occasional early-2K's Ampeg Portabass 250W combo (total tone monster, BTW) or SWR Workingman for comparable money on CL or at a garage sale. If you're more inclined toward buying new - and there are many valid reasons to do so - $200-300 sets you up with a number of good-sounding. lightweight combos from the major makers:
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If you can stretch your budget to a used Squier vintage modified, or Classic Vibe, I would say it would be well worth it. Especially the Classic Vibe imo can be excellent for the price.
As for amps, I have encountered some used Carvin combos that sounded great considering the very reasonable price point, as around here at least, Carvin does not seem to retain value.
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I've been familiar with Carvin equipment since the mid-80's - had a former band-bud who owned one of those oak-cab X-100 Boogie-clones (still kicking myself for not buying one back when) and worked with a couple sound guys who used their power amps - and all their stuff is well-engineered and tough as nails, not to mention the extremely reasonable prices even when new; that said, I find their bass gear skewed toward a distinctly "modern" sound. Perhaps it's the fact that mine is a 3-way system (12"/6"/tweeter), but it's definitely pitched to the slap-&-pop/roundwound crowd; even with the tweeter turned off it has a glassy "in-your-face" quality, and in spite of the advertised -3dB@50Hz response (approximately low G#) there's no natural warmth - my flatwound-equipped Gibson SG bass requires extensive EQ tweaking to get a useable tone, whereas every other bass amp I own (including my cheapo '80s Peavey Minx 110) is a plug-&-play affair. It's got a few good things going for it - 30-pound total weight (I'm not getting any younger), compact size (not much bigger than my Minx), 250W power, switchable pre/post DI, the aforementioned EQ flexibility, on-board compressor - and in that light it'll be my grab-&-go rig for a while. Although it's got the 'nads to play a medium-size gig, you're going to need a 15" (or 18", if you can get it) cab to put the rumble back in that lowest half-octave - and forget about using it as a stand-alone if you're a 5- or 6-string player; unfortunately Carvin discontinued their full-size 1x15"/1x18" bass cabs a couple years ago (the current MB15 cab is -3dB@60Hz - useless in this application) - and the extra bottom kinda defeats the purpose of a compact rig anyway...
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GC has lots of them for under $100 on their site.
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The best guitar shred narrow nut width 30" scale length for 189$ is the Squier Mustang. I put EMG noiseless PU's in mine and it is so fast.
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I've been playing bass for over 40 years. Forget the Squiers and Epiphones. The best cheap basses are made by Rondo: http://www.rondomusic.com/bassguitars4.html
They also have an Ebay store, which is how I bought mine. Paid $110 over 10 years ago and the price hasn't gone up much since then. (Tried to link a photo of my bass but doesn't show up - it's a Fender Jazz copy in turquoise with a rosewood neck) I bought mine when they had the original headstock design similar to Fender and apparently there was a copyright issue and they had to change it to the current ugly headstock. (But I see at least one bass on their website with the old headstock so I don't know what the deal is) This bass feels more solid and not cheap like a Squier or Epi. It gets rave reviews on the TalkBass forum. They have medium and short scale basses and also 3/4 size basses. |
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Would something like the TC Sub-n-Up ( @ $129 ) work ?
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I have one of the Rondo Music SX 3/4 Ursa basses I bought a couple of years ago just to learn bass at home...I got the package with the little bass amp (not too great but ok for low practice at home, I have a Zoom B1on Multi FX pedal which I love, helps out). I think it was on sale for $120 or so and it seems fine fit and finish wise and sounds good to me. I have a Rumble 40 amp which is also good for my at home playing...
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