Bass driver or practice amp. Help!

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I just ordered a Hot Rod P-bass from musicians friend, ( I just missed one at GC, by about 10 seconds, on Labor Day.)
I don’t PLAY bass, but I need to start tracking some bass on my recordings. I don’t think that I want to play it through my guitar amp,( boogie DC3), but if anyone thinks otherwise, let me know how…

My dilemma is that - this bass is primarily for recording, but I also know that I’m going to want to just play it.

So, bass driver or practice amp, or does everybody have both!?

Anyone using a practice amp for recording, and if so which one? I don’t want to spend more than $200.

Thanks,

mcmd
 
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking for a practice/recording bass amp as well....some of the folks here gave some really good recommendations....among them, the peavey Micro, and the small Crate bass amp....

I got to play the little Crate, and I also played a Hartke 30 watt as well as a Rogue 30 watt......couldn't find the Peavey Micro...

The Hartke was great, the Crate was great....solid, look great...but I ended up buying the Rogue...It has most all the bells and whistles the other two had, i.e. line out, headphone jack, send/return loops, EQ, etc....and it was way less expensive.....

The one I played sounded like it would do everything I needed, so I ordered one from MF for $79 plus shipping.....it arrived about 6 days later....and I'm happy with it....it did, however have a buzz coming from the metal plate on the front where the controls are...I took a broken guitar pick and shimmed it in the middle and got rid of it, and you can't see where I put the pick.....so I had to do a little labor for the small buck purchase....

However, if it wasn't for the ridiculously low price of the Rogue I would have gotten the Hartke....($169 at SA, $190 at the store I saw it at....regular list is $219)...both the Hartke and Crate look cool, and gave me the impression they're both more "substantial" in their build......the Rogue isn't ugly, it looks kinda like the step-child of a Marshall......all three had great sound.......gibs
 
you're right, you don't want to play a bass through a regular guitar amp, you'll blow out the speaker.

I love my Zoom 506II Bass pedal, It's a DI box/bass fx processor, and sounds great plugged direct in a mixer.. tons o' parameters, emulations and a tuner (which is a must for me, my routine is to tune the bass and record a test tone on the click track because it's easier to tune the guitars to bass as opposed to tuning a bass to distorted guitars).. Cost was just under $100..

Cy
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mcmd-

Most practice amps don't have an XLR out for recording direct. If you find one that DOES, then it might be a good choice because you could practice with it and use it for recording. If you have a decent mic and preamp you could record a practice amp but I don't know how well they record because I don't have any experience with them. Maybe someone could comment on experiences miking a small combo amp.

The Sansamp Bass Driver D.I. would sound good played through a nice set of monitors and obviously you could record with it. If you bought it and later decided you wanted an amp to jam with other musicians you could buy one down the road.

Congratulations on the P-Bass.......Fenders rock !
 
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