combos

[pcpmanic]

Hello.This is my first post (I hope I don't break any rule)
I want a combo to play in my room.I dont know a thing about bass amp brands.I always played guitar only.
What combo can you recommend me ?I cannot test them personally and I'll buy it online from other country (no more personal details why).
These are my options , now:
Warwick Blue Cab 60.1
EBS Classic Session 60
SWR LA12 Bass

Other wattage are acceptable.You can suggest any other.
I play mostly rock and heavy music.
Thank you very much

 

[Eberbachl]

Hi, and welcome to the forum!

I Highly recommend Warwick's Blue Cab series of bass combos for practice. Affordable, built like little tanks, and have lovely tone.

If you're only practicing in your room, I recommend either the Blue Cab 30.1 or 15.1. Both are quite loud enough for home practice and have great tone.

I use a Blue Cab 20 and 15 at home for practice - the 20 is no longer available, and has been replaced by the Blue Cab 30.1.

If you plan on going out and rehearsing with others, the Blue Cab 60.1 is a good choice.

If you want to go and gig, you will get away with the Blue Cab 60.1 for small gigs... it really is very capable - but remember it's limits. You'd be able to play coffee shop gigs with a jazz trio no trouble, but it's obviously never going to cut a pub gig with a metal band - so for gigging you'll most likely want to get a bigger rig later on...

Good luck!

:d

 

[Florin]

Hey pcpmanic, and welcome to the forum.

All your choices are good.
The Warwick combo is more transparent, while the SWR one has the SWR grit, that changes the nature of your instrument. it is bad you cannot try them, hard to suggest one or another...

If you plan to use for rehearsals too, then I would chose something over 150W, actually over 250, and minimim 15" or 4X 10" speakers.

For home you can live with less than 50W

Cheers,

Flo

 

[ned zeppelin]

hi pcp and welcome to forum, I'm a newbie on here too and let me tell you these bass men know their stuff and are very helpful,
so listen and learn from them.
your question....I am a bit radical so take what I as an alternative view point.
firstly as a guitar/bass/keyboard player of about 50 years I suggest rather than wasting money on a practice amp I would suggest you
save your money and get a proper set up. and when practising at home use headphones as from experience the learning of the bass
is very annoying to anyone in the house/next door.
I would suggest you get something like I have a Korg tone worksAX1500G I think they have been updated since I got mine but you can
pick up similar things for about £50 - £100 they have a good sound through headphones and loads of effects you can also plug in you hifi
output and play along.
Its only an idea but it works for me, I can blow my brains out all night and disturb nobody

 

[Pedro]

firstly as a guitar/bass/keyboard player of about 50 years I suggest rather than wasting money on a practice amp I would suggest you
save your money and get a proper set up. and when practising at home use headphones as from experience the learning of the bass
is very annoying to anyone in the house/next door.

Good point NZ, but I gotta disagree. My gigging rig uses a 211 cab (which isn't exactly huge) and I find that it is simply too loud for bedrooom play. Headphones are fine, but if you wanna rock out to a CD in your room they can be very restrictive.

PCP, I would go for whatever takes your fancy for under £80, don't be tempted by a really cheap £20 amp - i bought one and I'm sure the controls for 'bass, mid and treble' were simply there for display purposes, they didn't actually do anything! The speaker broke after a couple of months, so I ended up replacing with a small Marshall combo.

For bedroom use, you don't need anything above 30 watts. If you wanna take it out for practice, however, you'll need to look for something over 100 watts. I played the smallest Warwick Blue Cab in a shop and was very impressed, great tone out of such a small combo.