The best rig you've ever had but...

[ChunkyMunky]

...it has to be comprised only of gear that you have once owned. Nothing you currently own right now and only stuff that you have sold off in the past.

I'll go with my Musicman Bongo 5HS into a GenzBenz Shuttle 10T combo. Your turn!

[RhysP]

I'd love to have tried my Zon Legacy Elite through my old Sunn Beta combo.

[CamdenRob]

I had a shuttlemax12.2 and 2x genz neo 212s at one point... It was ridiculous, could have played a stadium with it...

Edited January 8, 2016 by CamdenRob

[paul_5]

Blade 5 string through an Ampeg SVP-PRO and Ampeg power amp into a Hartke Hydrive 410. Sounded AMAZEBALLS.

Weighed the same as a whale calf.

Edited January 8, 2016 by paul_5

[Panamonte]

From 1981 to 1989 I was playing a 1979 Stingray through an Ampeg SVT and an Ampeg 2x15 cab. That was a fairly epic set up, but I had to flog it all to deal with a financial emergency😢 Sounded great, but I can't say I missed lugging it around. The MM was the heaviest bass I've ever owned too.

[Prosebass]

One of these

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With one of these

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[discreet]

Best-sounding was a USA Ampeg SVT CL and 8X10 cab. I think I may have mentioned it before somewhere.

[Lozz196]

For the glam/metal band I was in, the best set-up I had was a Gibson Les Paul bass into a Hartke racked HA4000 including wireless kit, paired with Hartke XL 210 & 115. Immense sounding set-up, too darn impractical.

[Guest Jecklin]

1999-2003 Status Groove 5 through a Hartke HA3500 with 410 and 15. Fantastic!

2004 Then the post-rock gave way to sleazy electro and the bass became a status shark 4 and analogue mono synths and the amp was whatever I could borrow at gigs.

2005-2008 double bass mostly totally acoustic (mic for pa) but DIYmicro cab when absolutely necessary.

I miss all those set ups and contexts, but am more musically fulfilled than ever with my current direction.

[Guest Jecklin]

Whoops I got carried away with nostalgia, so to properly answer, the best rig was the Status Groove 5 through all the Hartke.

[Truckstop]

I wish I'd kept my Yamaha RBXJM1 so I could have played it through the Peavey Firebass 8x10 rig I had for a few weeks!

Monster bass, monster rig.

Funny, no-one seems to have much nostalgia for lightweight stuff!

[grandad]

Lightweight -> Roland D-Bass 115.

Should have kept it.

Edited January 9, 2016 by grandad

[steve-bbb]

that would be my ealy 90s TE 4x10 combo (12band graphic one forget the model number) plus 1153 cab with my early 90s TRB6P (sounded great too with theStatus Matrix and the 4+6 Shergold double neck beast but the yamaha with the trace was totally outstanding)

[eddiehoffmann]

Aguilar Tone Hammer 500 with a DB210 and a DB212. The Tone Hammer sounded epic through those cabs. I did a tour with this rig and it sounded amazing every night regardless of the size of the gig, even some big outdoor ones. It kinda defeats the point of a lightweight head having to use it with heavy weight cabs though and I never managed to get the same sound of the Tone Hammer through light weight cabs. And I had some good ones.

[chris_b]

I currently have the best 2 rigs I've ever owned sitting in the room behind me so, of the gear I've sold, I have a dead heat between my 80's-90's rig a Dynacord BS412 115 combo and my 90's-00's rig an Ampeg SVT3 PRO through Mesa Boogie 210 & 115 cabs. These all used EV speakers, sounded like a force of nature and weighed as much as a small planet!

Unusually for me I was actually sad when I sold these rigs.

[Happy Jack]

Delighted to say I currently own my best-ever rig.

Mike Lull Thunderbird T5 --> Matamp GT100 --> Barefaced 69er.

Mind you, for most pub gigs I actually play through my most sensible ever rig.

Mike Lull Thunderbird T5 --> Aguilar TH350 --> Barefaced Midget.

[Bilbo]

I loved my Eden Metro combo but it was just getting too heavy as I was getting older and so I got smaller Acoustic Image gear. I added a PJB speaker and now it sounds great but the Metro was the one. I just needed a roadie.

As for basses, I still have the one but there is a guitar I let go that I wish I could have back, an Ibanez Artist from the early 1980s

[LayDownThaFunk]

Not owned the rig but Ampeg SVT CL, 6X10 cab and early 90s Spector NS-2.

[taunton-hobbit]

here goes:





Long gone and much missed.......(pa was an ormat as well, btw) ....my back has never been the same since.

Edited January 9, 2016 by taunton-hobbit

[bigthumb]

EA iAmp 800 and a couple of EBS Proline 4x10's and probably a US precision bass (I never quite got on with the Sandberg in the picture).

I was only thinking of this setup the other day, reminiscing just how epic it sounded. Complete overkill for 80% if the gigs I played but it was great to have. Not so great to transport!

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[obbm]

I think the best was this:



Epifani UL902
Epifani UL310 x 2
Stingray 5

Unfortunately I never got to gig it.

[Chezz55]

Genz Benz Shuttle 6 into a Schroeder 410L - lightweight, sounded great. Shouldn't have sold it.

Still playing the same Status Stealth though.

Chris.

[Roger2611]

It's amazing how many of the above posts mention weight as a reason for gear having been disposed of!

I had a late 60's precision played through a Trace Elliott Twin Valve head and a Mesa Boogie 1516E cab, really regret selling the Precision that was a stupid move, my back certainly doesn't regret the sale of the amp and cab

[JTUK]

I still own it...if it was the best ever, why would I have sold it?

[sunburstjazz1967]

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I still own it...if it was the best ever, why would I have sold it?
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Theft
Damage
Divorce
Marriage
Lack of storage
Illness
Injury
Money troubles
Gas
Not loud enough
Unreliable
Upgraded to the next model up
Gone to in ears
Moved to a city and travel on the tube

How's that for a start?