Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I hate to admit this, but oftentimes these days I'm rehearsing in my living room with a 10-watt Peavey Microbass. I hate it, but it is what it is, and it can be heard over the keyboardist and vocalist without causing my tenants to leave. Depending on the gig, the amp might be a twenty-five-watt '68 Ampeg B-15N, a fifty-watt '72 Ampeg B-15S, or a 350-watt '92 Ampeg SVT-III mounted in an SVR215 enclosure, one of Ampeg's more unusual designs (two 15" speakers mounted back-to-back in order to reduce excursion distortion, with a crossover sending the low-lows out the back and the upper-lows out the front, and a defeatable horn. Meaning you can't put it up against the wall).

I'm still waiting for the day someone invents an amp the size of a Fender Champ that sounds like an SVT 8x10.

--Bob

A student of mine recently bought a Fender Rumble 25 with 25 watts and an 8" speaker and I was knocked out by how good it sounds. It would work well for practicing and lower volume gigs.

Last gig I used my Fender Rumble 350 and two Marshall 1550 whith my 3001. I will use my Ampeg V4BH or Ampeg Svt Vr(when it´s fixed) and a 810 in the future.

update...no pictures yet but I picked up a Genz Benz Streamliner 900 to go with my GK NEO410 and 115. Wow what a sound, thick and wooly. I run the horns off and treble up and I get plenty of harmonics with headroom to spare. Really makes the Rick come alive but I have not quite found the setting for my Jazz that sounds as good.

jps wrote:Can't help with the comparison as I only had a Mesa DC-2 that I used with various cabinets. But I did use an old blue line SVT at a gig once, primarily as a stage monitor!

Tell me how did you get into that Mesa Boogie head and what was/is it like to play through?

My very first ebay purchase was a DC-2 combo amp that I bought for guitar use. For kicks one time, I tried it through the SUNN Sorado cabinet that I had put Eminence Delta 15A drivers in (Chris Pappas has that cabinet, now) and was quite pleased with the tone, so I contacted Mesa Engineering and they had a white (cream, in their parlance) head case for it which I duly purchased, and I used the amp that way for some time.
Another friend of mine now has the complete combo amp, these days I use a Swart STR-Tremolo for a guitar amp.

Two EL34s, so 50 to 75 watts through a very efficient cab w/big speakers. That would work. There's watts and there's watts.

Speaking of a different pic, what is that Traynor cab? I used to have a little 35 watt Garnet combo tube amp. "Those are Canadian watts," is what the sales rep told my friend, the store owner.

By the way, I love playing gigs with different age groups from little kids to old people, etc. Of course a bar gig is fine too. Anywhere people are enjoying themselves.

The DC-2 uses 2 EL84/6BQ5 power tubes, so about 18 watts out of that amp, totally adequate for most reasonable volume gigs with the right cabinet(s).

The Traynor cab is a TS-15 from the mid/late '60s, I had two of them with Eminence Delta Pro drivers I put in them along with fiberglass to line the inner walls and back panel of those cabinets. Back in the mid to late '70s I had a '60s YT-15 cabinet that I put two EVM15L drivers in and ran that with a 2nd generation SUNN Concert Bass amp.

Here is a photo of gear I used to have; some of it is still around or with friends of mine.

I find that the new Fender Rumble heads (V3) are absolutely a great match with my V63 !!! I run it through a GK NEO 212 cabinet and could not be happier! After all those years trying and swapping rigs, seems like this one is a killer !!!

Rumble v3 500 210 combo...all the punch one needs , love it!

I know!! Surprising isn't it about those Rumble heads? And I have owned several brands over the past years!

Acoustic Image Contra for small venues. Acoustic Image 10-2 for larger places.

Just purchased an Orange OB1-300. Still messing with it. So far, it's real nice! Not sure it will replace my Terror Bass Hybrid head but it may.

Sepp

I just found a lovely Acoustic Control 320 Power Amp and it's matching 408 (4x15) Cabinet

The cabinet runs at 2 Ohms, as does my B-15 head

Pictures to follow once I have it

thx1955 wrote:I just found a lovely Acoustic Control 320 Power Amp and it's matching 408 (4x15) Cabinet

My back twinged just reading this!