lessthanphil

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='207726' date='May 27 2008, 11:56 PM']Give Denmark St a miss and go to [url="http://www.thebassgallery.com/"]The Gallery[/url][/quote] Looks good, though their prices look a little bit high...I'll see how they go on their 'matching'. Thanks for the advice.

Thanks for the advice guys, really appreciated. Having taken the above into account, I'm going to go take my bass up to Denmark street this weekend and see if I can find the two heads (SVT3 and the GK700RB). Will play them side by side and see what I make of them. If the ampeg is 100% more my cup of tea I'm sure I can persuade myself to spend the extra 300 or so quid and get the SVT3. What I was really hoping for was someone to say, no, get the ampeg. Then I could justify the extra outlay to myself (and moreso the missus, big thumbprint here!) Will see how it goes, but as said above, thus far I've heard nothing but good things about the GK head, so who knows it may well (I hope) suprise me considerably! I'll post back the outcome Thanks again, Phil.

Hey guys, I'm sure a similar type of question has been asked before, but I didn't have much success with the search functionality on the forum, so if you don't mind I'm going to ask away So first a little bit of a boring backstory so you can see where I'm at. Basically, I'm a guitarist by trade, but recently (January) I filled on on bass in a mates band and I've become permenant! Actually really enjoy delivering the basslines so I'm sticking with it. I started out with an Orange Crush 30B practice combo which I really like the sound of (for practicing obviously) and hiring what I think is an Ampeg 450H hooked up to an 8x10 Ampeg cab from our reheasal studio (it sounds great, really like the tone). Now I'm going to start gigging with these guys and obviously I'm not going to be able to do so with a 30 watt pratice amp. Consequently I'm in the market for a bass amp I can gig with. What I would really like is an Ampeg SVT3-Pro, but it's a little bit pricey to be honest. For quite a bit less cash I've found the GK700RBII head and it looks like a good bet. I've heard that the low end GK stuff is a bit pants, does this head fall outside of this category? Would this be a good choice of head for general rock/pop-punky/metal (i don't slap/pop, but love the punky tone in bands like rancid, pennywise, blink etc) ? Or should I wait and try and pick up a used SVT3 or save the extra needed? Can you replicate an ampeg sound to a decent level without an ampeg? The second quandry is which cab to hook the head up to. I would use GK cabs, but to be honest, I haven't really seen any bassists playing through them (except flea, but that's probably down to him getting them for nout). I was thinking of a 4x10 Ampeg HE or 4x10 HLF (I just don't think my back/arms could cope with an 8x10) with a view to adding a 1x15 or another 4x10 (are 2 4x10's the same as a single 8x10?) at a later date. Does this sound like a good idea or should I stick with GK cabs (I hear you can only bi-amp the GK with GK cabs, though whether I'll ever need this or not I'm not sure). Got a budget of about £1000 but would like to keep it below £900 if possible as I'd like to get a quarter pounder to chuck in the P-Bass from the same budget. Are these a worthwhile addition to a Standard MIM P? I understand that I've actually asked about 10 questions in that post, so apologies for sounding like I'm asking you to do all the legwork for me! I'm just a bit lost and don't want to go spend a thousand quid, then have to sell and re-buy something else because I made the wrong choices. Any advice appreciated. Thanks, Phil.