Amps for Busking?

[JHBASS]

Hello all again,

I was recently in town, when I saw a band busking. My band may be doing something similar as well. They had a full set up, including a amplified bass player. He was going through on of those Roland Cube RX amps (it was off the batteries). I went home did some research and found this costs £160+, and I'm looking for a cheaper alternative. I've found a number of guitar-specified amps, like the Micro Spider or Vox DA 5, do you think these would work? I don't really want effects etc. just the ability to use it with batteries/without a mains power supply. Does anybody have any suggestions?


Cheers,


Josh

[Golchen]

My experience of guitar amps is that bass sounds crap through them. I have that small Vox battery amp and it's horrible for bass.

I can't recall how much it was, but I got a Roland Microcube that works on batteries and I absolutely love it! the sounds are really great (in my opinion)

[chris_b]

I've seen Crate amps being used. This one in particular:

[url="http://www.crateamps.com/products/pindex.php?prodID=26"]http://www.crateamps.com/products/pindex.php?prodID=26[/url]

[basskit_case]

[quote name='JHBASS' post='591625' date='Sep 6 2009, 07:54 PM']Hello all again,

I was recently in town, when I saw a band busking. My band may be doing something similar as well. They had a full set up, including a amplified bass player. He was going through on of those Roland Cube RX amps (it was off the batteries). I went home did some research and found this costs £160+, and I'm looking for a cheaper alternative. I've found a number of guitar-specified amps, like the Micro Spider or Vox DA 5, do you think these would work? I don't really want effects etc. just the ability to use it with batteries/without a mains power supply. Does anybody have any suggestions?


Cheers,


Josh[/quote]


Hello,

I am also looking for a small portable bass amp.
I have seen [url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.asp?section=practice&ID=222"]this[/url], would be interested to know if anybody else has tried it, has any thoughts?

Thanks

[thisnameistaken]

Bump!

I'm looking for something mega-portable, battery-powered, doesn't have to be especially loud, and I've been looking at the Roland Micro Cube RX too. Anyone got any other suggestions? It seems a lot of money for a tiny little combo, and I don't really need or want all the COSM guff they bundled in.

[jimmybass04]

halfords power converter. i bought one , they are great charge them up and you can plug your amp into them.
last summer i went buskingand plugged a hundred watt peavey monitor into it ,and busked for up to 4 hours and i never ran out of power.
plugged my bass and a drum machine in to the monitor, excellent.
dont waste your money on one of those five watt busking amps. i paid about £90 for the power converter, check it out.

[thisnameistaken]

I see where you're coming from but I don't really want to lug my whole bass rig (compact as it might be, my cab is still a two-handed carry, then there's the head, and a bass...) around with me in the street if I can help it. What I want, ideally, is a little reinforcement for very little effort.

[jimmybass04]

you could use any small amp to plug in to it, who wants to lug a rig about the streets

[V4lve]

I think the bass player from the Huckleberries uses a GK microbass and his sound is pretty good.

Edited February 11, 2010 by V4lve

[thisnameistaken]

Is that amp either battery-powered or light or cheap or any two of those three?

[casapete]

I use a Pignose Hog 30 - just about ok for the job.
Not sure of the price now,when I bought mine from Thomann I seem to think it was around £90.
Last quite a few hours on one charge, keeps up with rest of jazz band but only just.

[V4lve]

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='742701' date='Feb 12 2010, 12:33 AM']Is that amp either battery-powered or light or cheap or any two of those three?[/quote]


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