Large rigs

[Kevin Dean]

I just looked at Mr Foxtons bass Rig that I thought was large at 2x15 & a 4x10 , So I asked Mark Gooday from Ashdown what was the largest rig that He had supplied ? It was for Greg Lake 20 plus cabs including 21" & Acoustic amps for the High end ....Typical pub rig then .

[Steve Browning]

I seem to remember seeing a video of Van Halen where Michael Anthony had a wall of Ampeg 8x10's which would have found favour with Donald Trump.

[Lozz196]

Bigger than most pubs I`d reckon. I`d love to try a rig like that out, just to try and understand why people feel the need for them. I just always think of a "Back to The Future" moment when looking at rigs like that.

Bruce Foxtons rig is nice though, he gets a cracking sound from it. Nice & twangy but with a good controlled low end.

[thodrik]

I would love to try two 8x10s stacked horizontally with a big valve amp.

[jazzyvee]

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I would love to try two 8x10s stacked horizontally with a big valve amp.
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Me too, I have a stereo bass (individual pickup outs) and would love to try that through my QSC PLX2402 amp with a a rack pre-amp on each channel, plus a roland JC120 taking the high end out from pre-amp crossover output fed from the bridge pickup.

However there aren't many gigs that I could do that setup and not annoy the sound guy. I'm not after the volume just the clarity and density of sound.
That said I've done a few gigs at a large music college in town and the sound guy is happy for me to do that setup next time I gig there. :-)

[Salt on your Bass?]

Biggest rig I owned was this one (tb1200, retro610, 210 and s15)...immense bass that rumbled the inners like nothing I've ever felt in a small rehearsal room. Nothing compared to that ashdown set up though! also no real practical application for gigs I play!! XD Big rigs rule.

Edited August 12, 2017 by Salt on your Bass?

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

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Greg Lake 20 plus cabs
[/quote]I saw him some years back with 'only' two SVT cabs, and you couldn't hear a note from them anyway, it was all PA. Giant rigs are OK for impressing the kiddies, but that's about all they're good for.

[jacko]

When the Grateful dead were using the wall of sound, Phil Lesh had a pair of stacks either side of the drums - 16 x 15inch cabs on each side.

[EBS_freak]

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I would love to try two 8x10s stacked horizontally with a big valve amp.
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Whenever I think about horizontal 8x10s, Nicky Wire (Manic SP) comes to mind...

4x horizontal 8x10s

[gjones]

It's just all for show. A large PA can put out more bass than any 'Monster' bass rig.

A guitarist I knew, years ago, toured with Michael Shenker. Shenker had the obligatory wall of Marshalls but was actually plugged into a little Mesa Boogie combo, which was hidden behind the 'wall'.

[jacko]

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It's just all for show. A large PA can put out more bass than any 'Monster' bass rig.

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On the other hand, John Myung has been pretty much inaudible since he stopped using on stage amps.

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited March 1, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[Lozz196]

There`s also the - and we know it`s wrong, don`t we - point that many punters will expect big amps/speakers, and if they see small amps on stage they feel that the band can`t be a "real band, otherwise they`d have real amps". But then I suppose that depends on which scene you`re playing, metal, rock, punk, you kindof expect big ampage & cabbage.

[Kevin Dean]

I know you can put a cab on a table or beer crate , but a stack just looks the part .