Need a Motown-y/soul-y kind of amp. Any suggestions?

[4 Strings]

Of course a B15 Ampeg fliptop or the Kustom with 15" speakers like the man himself is the answer (having put flats on the P and 3/4 of tone rolled off) but if you can remove looks and prejudgements for a mo, I play in a Motown tribute act and we have taken as much trouble as poss for authentic sounds.

Along with the P + flats I use my Hartke 3500 and their 2.5XL. Unfashionable, looks wrong and ally speakers shouldn't be the thing but it sounds superb in this role and has attracted quite a few comments (shame they weren't about my playing!) warm and deep.

Cost a fraction of that original equipment - which I would love! - but, believe me, flat settings apart from a bit of a lift on the 'low pass' misnomer and it works. Way more power than the originals too.

[Truckstop]

After looking a lot of vintage styled gear over the last few days, I think I'm just gonna go for a 1x15 cab and leave the head on the floor behind it. I can a great sound out of the GK so I don't really want to have to buy another amp when all I need to do is get a cab that looks vintage. Ashdown look good. Or maybe if I can get a second hand Aguilar.

Thanks for all your help everybody!

Alex

[molan]

Maybe look out for an Aguilar DB cab in any of their more traditional colours - a tweed 2x12 would look great



And the, more common, black / silver still looks very 'authentic':

[MythSte]

Maybe try and get your hands on a tweed rack for your GK?

[xgsjx]

[quote name='MythSte' post='1142277' date='Feb 26 2011, 12:38 PM']Maybe try and get your hands on a tweed rack for your GK? [/quote]
& maybe a nice tablecloth to drape over your current cab?

[4 Strings]

Or a Barefaced

(The only thing I ever draped over my cabs was a union jack, long time ago though.)

[Truckstop]

I was actually looking at making a box for the GK to go in and cover it in tweed, but have you seen how expensive that sh*t is???!!!!

Jeeeez!

Trcusktop