what kind of amp do you use?

[nash]

valvey goodness for me.

[john_the_bass]

assuming my abm300 is hybrid - ie it's got one valve, the rest of it is SS.
Does the job

[nedsbeds]

All solid state at the moment, but would love to try some valves! probably in pedal format.

[warwickhunt]

Thunderfunk - fat, punchy with fast response

[woodenshirt]

Mesa - Hybrid and I love it!

Mart

[Merton]

Main amp is the V-Type combo, so that would be a hybrid. I guess the 12-band is almost a hybrid (same theory as john_the_bass!). Oooh, recording with both tomorrow:

V-Type - gonna be mixing the DI'd pre-EQ signal with a mic'd signal, wohoo!
12-band - DI post EQ

Well, that's my little egg of a theory anyway

[chris_b]

I'm currently using an Ampeg SVT3PRO containing 5 pre amp valves and a solid state power amp. This is a big sound. Goes deep and low with a lot of zing.

[jwbassman]

Hi guys - I've gone for 'other' because my EA iAmp200 is based on a digital architecture...

[obbm]

Other:

Epi UL is solid-state
Ashdown ABM500 is hybrid
Sound Cities are all-valve

[BigRedX]

Currently...

Bass Pod XT Pro as my pre-amp into a Carlsbro 600 Watt Power Amp. However the Carlsbro amp is going to be gone soon in favour of something digital and light.

BTW anyone making digital power amps that take an ABS/EBU digital in?

[Spikyhedgehog]

Valve pre into solid state poweramp.

Although there is only 1 valve in the Ashdown. Boo.

[gypsymoth]

solid state vox
tube sound city

[Kiwi]

Gallien Krueger solid state combos
Burman Pro all valve heads

[Gazm]

Currently using an SWR WorkingPro (solid state) but that excellent chap Dave Hall is currently building me a VT2-Dual-Bass rack mount unit so I've voted other.

Pete.

[rodl2005]

ALL VALVE 4 ME - Gotta be!

[lukeward2004]

Hartke 3500 Hybrid - Tube preamp, solid state power amp side.

I also run a DHA VT2 Dual Bass custom in front of the amp.

[Basszilla]

Markbass amps and cabs. Owned a couple of valve amps in the past, mesa 400+ and bassman 135. The bassman was nice but it kept blowing up and the boogie was just overkill!

[Ant]

SS pre and power seperate for me.

Pearce BC-1 into a behriner EP2500

[Spikyhedgehog]

With all your eq settings up to full, gotta love it.

And I bet the bottom channel is your clean one, seeing as that drive is so damn low.

[Ant]

[quote name='Spikyhedgehog' post='5107' date='May 23 2007, 02:06 PM']With all your eq settings up to full, gotta love it.

And I bet the bottom channel is your clean one, seeing as that drive is so damn low. [/quote]


hehe, the top one was the "clean" one, i used to use these settings with my p bass, the channels are voiced differently and the top one sounds alot fatter than the bottom one, and if i remember correctly the bottom has more gain available (havent fiddled with it for a while) and i used to switch it in for added dist.

it was never clean though, but it CAN do clean.

[Spikyhedgehog]

[quote name='Ant' post='5110' date='May 23 2007, 02:10 PM']but it CAN do clean.[/quote]

[b][/b]

But you can't.

[Ant]

[quote name='Spikyhedgehog' post='5113' date='May 23 2007, 02:14 PM'][b][/b]

But you can't. [/quote]

that's about right.

[ped]

I was expecting hybrid amplifiers to be the most common!

[RichBowman]

Hybrid for me:

Valve in the preamp section of the Eden. Warms it up nicely.

Rich

[ped]

I've got a ped-type

Its a whole new category alltogether!