Bass amps for Live work

[Greg_L]

Oh yeah, that's us!!! Well, not the football. My son wanted a city at night time with UFO's. He got it. The windows on the buildings are painted with glow-in-the-dark paint so they light up when the lights are off. It's pretty cool.
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I don't know if you know, but I'm from New Orleans and I love the style and architecture of the city. My mom is a fantastic artist and she paints scenes and stuff on walls like your wife does. She has rooms in her house that look like old brick walls you'd see in the French Quarter. Cool stuff. I don't know how that would go over in my house, but it's nice to look at.

[Chili]

I don't know if you know, but I'm from New Orleans and I love the style and architecture of the city. My mom is a fantastic artist and she paints scenes and stuff on walls like your wife does. She has rooms in her house that look like old brick walls you'd see in the French Quarter. Cool stuff. I don't know how that would go over in my house, but it's nice to look at.

Yeah, I love that style too. When done right, it can really change a room. I bet your mom's house is beautiful.

In previous houses, my wife went too far and fauxed or painted everything. Most didn't work well, but she just had to be creative. With this house, I manned up and said No to most of her ideas. LOL. But I got her to make it all work together and not overdone and it looks great.

[BroKen_H]

Don't know if this helps, but watts are not really all the same. There's RMS, Brittish RMS, and a few others in the old school, and they are rated completely different today. My '73 vintage Yamaha B100 that I've used since '74 was always PLENTY loud for school auditoriums. Ran through a 18" W horn with a front facing 10 with an XO at 240 Hz for most of my high school days. When I stepped into live gigging at larger bars and venues up to 1,000 I ran the head direct to a monitor onstage, and biamped @ 120 to 2 Carvin PA amps running a 2xEV18B cab (rear facing and weighed in at about 180#) and a Ampeg 8x10 respectively. Now I play in a fairly large church and am running the same head through an Acoustic cab with (again) a single 18 and single 10. I can't turn the volume knob past "2" or it blows everything else out of the water...but like I said, it was 100W in '73, which probably is about 400 watts in today's specs. I've always loved that sound (18 & 10), but crossover points vs power play a very huge role. You can push a lot more air with 4 10s than you can with 2 18s, but you get a nice fuzzy low end from the 18s that you just can't get from 10s. It just oomphs if you know what I mean.

[Lt. Bob]

nah, that's not true. Your needs in a church setting just aren't the same as a rock band. And 100 watts RMS is the same 100 watts RMS that it was in /73.

[CoolCat]

How about input on a Fender Bassman 400?

good, bad, ugly, crap, great, ?????

[Greg_L]

How about input on a Fender Bassman 400?

good, bad, ugly, crap, great, ?????

Head or combo?

[Lt. Bob]

How about input on a Fender Bassman 400?

good, bad, ugly, crap, great, ?????

is it the old tube 400 or the newer one?
I had the old one ........... it literally took two people to carry it and I was young then.

did a quick look at the new one ..... 350 watts into 4 ohms. From me that's around the minimum but it is within the range of power I'd be looking for if you get a great deal.
But you'll want to make sure you have a 4 ohm load for gigging.
If it puts 350 into 4 ohms it'll probably only do 200 into 8ohms ........ not too bad depending on how much juice ta' want.

[CoolCat]

combo 2x10

no mention of tubes

old craigslist at $300 ..

[Greg_L]

combo 2x10

no mention of tubes

old craigslist at $300 ..

You gonna gig with it, or is it for recording?

[CoolCat]

gig

replacing a Fender 100watt ruble 2x10 with a line out to a ROss 400watt head/Ampeg SVT 15E.

Goal: need more volume than the Rumble 100watt, and reducing cargo load of the PA head and extra cabinet