Good cheap and small bass amp for recording?
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Good cheap and small bass amp for recording?
I'm doing some tracking at low volume without headphones and need to get a bass amp. I'll be using a sf champ and a blackstar five watt amp for guitars. There's lots of cheap small guitar tube amps around. Has anyone tried these out for bass?
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Cheap? Honestly I like the modern amps Kustom has been producing the past few years.
Loved their amps from the 60's and played guitar through a Kustom 200 head and their 3x15 tuck n roll cab. But even their modern little cheapies sound pretty substantial to my ears.
Loved their amps from the 60's and played guitar through a Kustom 200 head and their 3x15 tuck n roll cab. But even their modern little cheapies sound pretty substantial to my ears.
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+1 for Traynor. The YBA-2 Bass Mate is a small two output tube bass amp perfect for lower volume-with distortion-recording. 1 Yorkville 15 and 2 EL84s or 6V6s depending on which one you get. Late 60s to early 70s. Not very loud and they start to get distorted at around 3 on the volume control. They go for around $200 on eBay. Get matching tubes and you'll be happier. Excellent guitar amp too. Easy to fix and mod if you're into that sort of thing.
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This sort of thing sounds like it would fit the bill, but does anyone make anything new like this?Jettison wrote:+1 for Traynor. The YBA-2 Bass Mate is a small two output tube bass amp perfect for lower volume-with distortion-recording. 1 Yorkville 15 and 2 EL84s or 6V6s depending on which one you get. Late 60s to early 70s. Not very loud and they start to get distorted at around 3 on the volume control. They go for around $200 on eBay. Get matching tubes and you'll be happier. Excellent guitar amp too. Easy to fix and mod if you're into that sort of thing.
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I've actually got the bass driver but the best tone I've gotten sonar is using my champ. The problem is I'd like to use the champ for guitar while tracking. I remembered my guitar player has one of those cheap epiphone tube heads so I think I'm going to try the bass into that.kayagum wrote:Get a Sansamp Bass Driver or a good direct box, send XLR output to record, 1/4" output to your guitar amp for monitoring. You'll probably get a better tone and have something that you'll use for many other applications.
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The new Acoustic bass amps sound pretty good. I've played on the 1x15 before and liked it. You can adjust the tweeter amount. The EQ sounds good and is versatile. It has a narrowing Q on it which is pretty cool. You can turn up loud enough to play with a drummer. It takes distortion pedals well too.
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