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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 2:14 pm
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Whats a black star?

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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 2:17 pm
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For what it's worth, I've always found passive (i.e. no battery, only one tone control) circuits to produce a more open, natural, growly tone, with (and this not everyone may agree with) a more articulate and defined bottom end. But there's less tonal variation, at least electronically, than with an active (battery, usually 2 or 3 band EQ (tone controls)) bass. There's a LOT of tonal variation possible with a simple passive P-Bass, with just the one volume and one tone control, but most of it has to come from your fingers :wink:

Oh, and if you choose an active bass, make sure your amp has a separate "active" input jack, or a little button marked "pad" or "-10dB" or something, next to the input jack - otherwise you may overload your amp's preamp stage and cause unwanted distortion or clipping, which is bad for your sound and physically bad for your speaker(s).


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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 2:22 pm
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The Blackstar was loud too. I did not see any Ampeg or Acoustic there.

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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 2:31 pm
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Blackstar amps are indeed loud, and lovely. But Blackstar don't make bass amps, only guitar amps, as SK says. You need a specialised bass amp. Fender make a number of excellent ones, as do Line6, Marshall, MarkBass, Trace Elliot, Ashdown and quite a number of others. Look on a good music dealer's website under "bass amps".


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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 2:38 pm
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Is there no love for Ampeg, Carvin, Hartke or old Acoustics? :D

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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 2:43 pm
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PKBassman wrote:
Is there no love for Ampeg, Carvin, Hartke or old Acoustics? :D


Oh, definitely, especially Ampeg :D But you'd already mentioned a couple of those :mrgreen: (And I don't like Hartke, at least the ones I've tried - too brittle :shock: )


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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 2:55 pm
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PVTele wrote:
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Is there no love for Ampeg, Carvin, Hartke or old Acoustics? :D


Oh, definitely, especially Ampeg :D But you'd already mentioned a couple of those :mrgreen: (And I don't like Hartke, at least the ones I've tried - too brittle :shock: )

They're very brite, but they can be toned down with the right strings, pickups and EQ settings.
Although nothing beats an old tube Ampeg or old Acoustic.

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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:03 pm
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PKBassman wrote:
Although nothing beats an old tube Ampeg


Amen to that :mrgreen:

(Though I have to say Line6's modelling of the old Ampegs doesn't sound bad at all...)


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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:15 pm
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Never tried one, but I've seen a few of the people here have and had good things to say about them.

Although I'm not very impressed with their guitar amps from the few guitarists I've played with recently.

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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:25 pm
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I recently bought a Line6 Studio 110, and I'm delighted with it, really blown away.

Their guitar amps are more variable, I think, but Pete Harris (British blues guitarist and band leader) uses one, and sounds very good indeed through it.


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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:45 pm
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Don't know Pete Harris, I'll have to look him up on Google.

Brother Dave mentioned that amp also.
I'm getting old and don't gig like I used to,
maybe I should check it out.

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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:48 pm
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Certainly a lot easier to lug around than an SVT - or even a B15 :wink:


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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:51 pm
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I've lugged an SVT with 2 8X10 cabs before the band got roadies.
I no longer have roadies, nor do I have a back anymore. :roll:

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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:55 pm
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The Pete Harris Blues Band: http://www.peteharrisblues.com/home.htm

They played the finale gig for the Swanage Blues Festival last week - a good time was had by all!


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Post subject: Re: New On Fender
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:00 pm
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PKBassman wrote:
I've lugged an SVT with 2 8X10 cabs before the band got roadies.
I no longer have roadies, nor do I have a back anymore. :roll:


2 8x10's is just greedy :wink: No wonder you have no back left... That's even worse than me carrying a Selmer T&B 100 + Goliath cab to & from an upstairs rehearsal room, back in the day. It's no wonder we have back problems these days.


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