jimmyb625 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 If it's quite an "important" or big gig/festival, I'll take a spare bass, but apart from that I'll use whatever. Nowadays, I'm not even taking one amp, never mind two. Having said that, if I was in a smaller line-up, or reliant on specific effects/sounds, I may have a different approach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nail Soup Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 6 hours ago, chris_b said: I get the comments, but I have 2 #1 amps. Doesn't everyone? I take both to every gig and use the one that sounds best on that stage. You might be in the minority. But based on this comment, it does sound like a good idea to regularly use both your amp and back-up amp: 7 hours ago, BigRedX said: When The Terrortones were gigging at least once a week I had a spare amp that lived permanently in the band van. I never had the need to use it. However, when we had to stop doing gigs and I got it back, I discovered that a some point over the 2 years since I had last tried it out, it had stopped working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dclaassen Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 Funny, I remember the first time I gigged with a solid state amp. We were all paranoid that it would just go poof and die. Valve amps always seem to give you fair warning before they die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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