What amps do you find go well with your Alembic

[palembic]

Hi brother Mike,
 
with an SF-2 you can play bass behind a corner.
 
Ever played in a club where the public is in the long part of an  and the band in the short part? CAn you imagine it?? Can you guess what your bass would sound like in the end of that L??? An SF-2 shapes bass sound wonderfully, any bass, even the Woyasukixuder of your little nephew.
But ...it's all in the tweaking ...and patience ...patience ...
 
Paul the ol' bad one
 
(Message edited by palembic on July 10, 2005)
 
(Message edited by palembic on July 10, 2005)

[ox_junior]

Paul TBO and Alan,
 
This SF-2 sounds pretty cool.  And yes, Paul, I have played in a configuration like you're talking about.  My little brother has one of those Wyzlplzkian basses you're talking about - perhaps I'll give him an SF-2 for Christmas if he's a good lad....and then I'll give myself one!
 
I'll look for one on e-bay.
 
Cheers, Mike Bisch

[flaxattack]

dont laugh
i use a fender rumble 15/150 watt and for 300 bucks go find a better one- sounds real good in small clubs  
for outdoor gigs i bought the deads wall of sound on ebay-lol

[jetbass79]

Please, nothing is more ghetto than an SWR Workingman's 10 and a Trace 1x10 cabinet that I use for practice.  I'm waiting for the Workingman's 10 to blow up one of these days.  The input jack has always been loose and I have had the thing for nearly 5 years.  It kills me it hasn't failed -- yet.  My SVT classic pulls live duties and does so with authority.

[bstark110]

Like others in this discussion, I use SWR. I get all of the power and portability that I need for the kind of gigs I do. Here's my rig:
 
SWR SM-500 Head
   Goliath III 4X10 Cabinet (for gigs)
   Goliath Jr 2X10 Cabinet (for practice & small gigs)
 
I play the Spoiler 5 String and a Series I 5 string.
 
I gotta tell you, Its a combination hard to beat, and people have no problem hearing and feeling the bass!

[jacko]

Well, after all the guff earlier about moving away from trace and building an Eden rig, I've just bought an excellent condition used Trace 1x15 cabinet to sit under my 4x10. Should arrive tomorrow or Friday. can't wait to 'feel' what it sounds like - probably at my next gig on wednesday.
Looks like the eden rig will have to wait a while.
 
graeme

[ginobass]

I use a 'vintage' (ca.1978) Ashly pre-amp and a QSC power amp (which replaced my BGW which I sold a long time ago -like an idiot). No effects, but I'd like to get some type of digital delay/reverb for some depth sometime soon here. For speakers I built 2 EV-TL 15 inch vented cabs and loaded my also 'vintage' JBL K140 and JBL 2135's into them. Seems to do the trick. Although I am lusting for those Bergantino cabs....

[811952]

I recently picked up an Ampeg B5-R head and a Kustom Groove Bass 410H cabinet.  They sound great together and move plenty of air.  I am quite happy with the setup, as is my Series I (it seldom complains about anything though).  I'm playing mostly rock-through-the-ages stuff, with a range of tones from Hofner-esque to, well, Entwistle-ish, fingers and pick, and the system does them all with aplomb.  And I can lift them.
 
John

[rockbassist]

I am using a Gallien Krueger 1001RB-II running biamped through a GK 410RBH and a GK 115RBH. In the past I have tried Ampeg SVT's, SWR, Hartke,and many others. I love the way this GK set up sounds with my Alembic and my 76 Precision.

[jlpicard]

I'm with you on GK! Coincidently, I've just returned from a local store after spending time with a 1001RBIII two ten combo. My Seried II went from a great round finger tone to a killer slap tone, to a nasal Jaco, to a big warm dub tone all with just minor EQ tweaking. Very nice!

[hasadari]

I use a Mesa Engineering M-Pulse 360 and Mesa Engineering 4x10 + horn cab.  Simply awesome and very flexible.  Between the flexibility of my Alembicsd and flexibility of the amp, I can get almost any sound imaginable.

[mpisanek]

I use an F1x into a QSC 2402 and power 2 Eden 2x10 XST cabs.  The sound is ncredible.  Both my Spoiler 6 and upright 6 sound great through it.  It is great to have a rig that can be used in both small and medium sized venues.  This rig will even work in very large venues.  
 
Sound is clean and crystal clear.

[karl]

Has anybody here tried one of those Phil Jones Briefcase amps with their Alembic? I'm looking for something more portable than my current rig and it struck me that I honestly can't remember the last time I played a gig where I didn't have a direct line out the back of my amp to the PA. So all that stuff I carry round with me is just for onstage sound . . .  
 
Anyway, I'd love to hear anyone's opinions on the Briefcase thing.
 
For the record, my current rig is a Hartke 3500 head into a Hartke 210XL and a Hartke 115VX. And I don't like the way it sounds with my Alembic - Fine for my other basses, but makes the Alembic sound a bit boxy and brittle somehow. I need something warmer, to bring out the rich bottom end of the Alembic nicely.
 
K.

[jacko]

Hey Karl. That little amp you 'borrowed' up here a couple of weeks ago sounded fantastic - EH or something if I recall correctly. Might be worth looking into. I believe the distributer is Overwater.
On a similar (but slightly different) tack, I'd be interested to hear what everyone uses for practising - Mrs J isn't that happy when I unpack the trace elliot.  
 
Graeme
 
(Message edited by jacko on September 02, 2005)

[karl]

Hi Graeme,
 
Heh, funny thing about that EA amp I borrowed: halfway through that gig you heard, I noticed it 'farting', like the speaker was about to blow. Gain and volume were both on 3, so it wasn't like I was overdriving it. Tried turning it down, but then I just couldn't hear it, so we soldiered on with the onstage farting and got to the end of the set intact. But the next night, it started off fine, farted for a bit then actually went dead about two thirds of the way through the gig - the head was still working but the speaker had died, so I had nothing onstage at all. I had to ask the sound guy to patch some bass back through my vocal monitor, which was enough for me to hear what I was doing.
 
So, anyway, after being initially impressed with that little amp, this experience put me off getting one of those! (Also, the damn thing had too many controls - little eqs for each eq band! Couldn't get my head round it at all - I can only just visualise what my Alembic controls do - I can't be dealing with all those other eq options too . . .)
 
K.