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I use the preamp section of a tube amp, in pedal form. Always with active basses (EBMM/Spector). It has two discreet channels with gain,EQ,master each. What sound are you after, do you have examples? Ar you judging your sound in bedroom/solo or in band context?

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Any amp with around 17 heft will do.

Sounds like any of the Aguilar preamps could do this.

It has.

Didn't the EBS fafner have one? and the ampeg pf20/50 maybe? If there's a tube in the design, why wouldn't they show it?

One aspect may be that RMS ratings must be given over undistorted signal, and most tube amps that are built for bass and especially guitar amplification are run way beyond clean.

Haven't seen one in the flesh yet

Good thread revival, 15 years! I have a Kustom Defender (pre-mod) that I used as a practice amp at home.

https://fusionbomb.lu/ Luxemburg's very own old school thrash metal band put on a spectacular show. Their bassist was rocking a Sandberg when I was at their show a couple of weeks ago.

Ok, that's fair.

What trips us up is that in this case, Sadowsky basically put an active onboard bass preamp in a pedalbox. Not an alternative amplifier preamp with a proper gain stage. I suspect both the behringer and mxr units will let you rattle the windows, and opens up a whole new money pit to dump your hard earned into.

Maruszczyk, Mayones, Menzinger, De Gier Just to name a few more European brands. Good luck finding them for your budget though.

Try very clean, hifi-like bass when the guitars go distorted and a bit of overdrive on the others bits. This helps give the rowdy parts extra dynamics and sits the bass better in the mix for the rest of the songs. Sounds counterintuitive but works a treat!