First/current gigging rig

[BottomE]

Great thread.

The bass was a Sattellite Jazz copy - a right hunk of rubbish which i played through a grey Carlsboro combo which needed 2 people minimum to budge it. Together they sounded sh*te but i wasn't bothered.

[robocorpse]

1984, Early 70s Ricky 4001 through a Vox Venue 100 bass combo. Arion distortion for those fuzzy moments. Sounded the DBs!
2010: EMG-equipped Thunderbird or Status S2 through Ampeg SVT3, Dod bass distortion, Boss CS3 stereo chorus, Boss DD3 Delay.
Thats my entire "rig" for 90% of my playing, but I'll stick in the odd pedal or 2 from my collection as and when the gig/session requires.
My sound hasn't really changed much in the intervening 26 years, I know what I like/am good at/can get away with and I'm sticking to it

[Spike Vincent]

1979 - L/H Columbus P bass through an H/H VS Musician guitar head and an unbranded 1 x 15 W bin.

2010 - L/H 1979 Fender P bass through a Peavey Mk.6 400 watter through 2 1 x 15 cabs.

[Bassassin]

First rig, in about 1980, was a Selmer Treble & Bass 50w head & matching 2x12 cab (about £30 from a charity shop) plus a home-made 1x12 bass reflex cab. My dad helped me make that & I wish I still had it. Wouldn't want the Selmer (it was sh!te) but they do fetch a few quid these days. At that time I had a shortscale no-name JapCrap LP-shaped bass, bought off a schoolmate for £50, which was actually half-decent. I did a fair few rehearsals with that lot but don't think I ever gigged it - as soon as I got in my first serious band I got a Washburn B-20 Stage series (lovely but incredibly neck-divey) and an HH VS Bassamp 100w 1x15 combo, which had a control panel that lit up green in the dark - epic stuff!

These days I have a Gallien-Krueger RB700 1x15 combo & have jut got a Hartke 2.5XL to sit it on:

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And an assortment of elderly JapCrap & slightly odd basses to plug into it.

Jon.

[Bassman Sam]

My first rig in '73 was a H H 100watt head into a Marshall 4x15 slop front cab, bloody heavy, a Ricky 4001 fretless and a '72 Fender p-bass. All long gone and now have a USA '57 RI made in '83. Amp is a Torque combo. Wish I still had the '72 P bass, best I have so far played.

[sshorepunk]

circa 1978 - unbranded P-bass, through a red 4 channel FAL PA a speaker amp, into a 1x15 cab. Bought a celestion speaker and made the cab!

circa 2010 - Fender CS sea foam green Jazz or MM stingray 2005 buttercream, Fretless Fender deluxe jazz thru a Matamp GT200 with 1 or 2 Matamp 4x10's, Boom!

Tony

[benh]

First gigging setup was a 2nd hand Yamaha (one of the BB range I think) through a Peavey TNT 150, mint amps, wish I still had it! Then "upgraded" to an Ashdown MAG 300 2x10 combo (which was worse, and a lot quieter than the TNT!), then got an SWR rig and a Spector 5 string. Still gig with the Spector, but play it through a Genz Benz Shuttle 6.0 and a Barefaced Compact, good times!

[matski]

First gig set-up (1984):

Aria SB 'Black & Gold I' and Fender JV Precision > Boss chorus, flanger, octaver and MXR phaser stompboxes > Carlsbro Cobra 90 combo.

If you check out my sig, you will notice I still have all of this gear - apart from the sh*tey Carlsbro. Yes, I am a gear hoarder

Current gig set-up:

usually StingRay 4 or StingRay 5 > Digitech BNX3 > Ampeg SVT3 Pro + Ampeg 410 & 115 cabs.

[bluesparky]

First: Sunn Mustang P-copy, through a peavey TKO 1 x 15" combo.
Current: Stingray 5 (occasionally my std fender jazz), through GK 1001 RB head into a Ashdown 4 x 10" bentley cab (ex MK), via a Boss GT10-B.
Looking to get a couple of Barefaced cabs to replace the 4x10".

[lojo]

first : a borrowed PA system head with about 10 channels and huge pa speaker, then soon after an old fender valve guitar combo

current : TC RH450 212 & 210

[ShergoldSnickers]

First gig?

1975 – Avon EB3 copy > [url="http://www.chambonino.com/work/work1.html"]Linear Conchord[/url] 30w valve amp > 2 by 12 sealed cabinet. Awful.
1976 – Second incarnation: Sound City 120 > home made reflex 1 by 18 cabinet. Big and heavy but it worked pretty well. Wilson Rapier bass.
1977 – Third incarnation: Sound City 120 > SAI 2 by 15 cabinet.
1978 – Fourth incarnation: H||H VS 1 by 15 combo. Shergold Marathon fretted
1980 – Fifth incarnation: Marshall Superbass 100 > Fender 2 by 15 Dual Showman. Shergold Marathon fretless.
2007 – Sixth incarnation: Eden Nemesis NC115 (240w @ 4Ω, 1 by 15 plus tweeter)
2009/10 – Seventh incarnation: Eden WT550 > Barefaced Super Twelve T

[foal30]

Jansen Crusader
Yamaha Precison Copy
Ibanez RoadsterII

closely followed by
Peavey Databass
L2 Steinberger


now
probably

Ashdown Klystron 400
MTD 5
and either Fretless Jazz or L2 Steinberger

[Rich]

First:
Höfner Artist II -> Phoenix PHA1 amp -> Custom Sound 4x12 cab

Current:
Shuker custom/Status S1/Wal Pro IIE -> Genz Benz Shuttle 6.0 -> 2 x Nemesis 1x15 cabs

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='744933' date='Feb 14 2010, 04:24 PM']Hofner Artist Bass

I wish I still had the Hofner.
...

HOFNER ARTIST BASS
[/quote]
I've still got mine.
I get a big nostalgia rush every time I pick it up. My goal is to finally make it giggable again, it's got that fabulous 'woof' in the sound that you only get from clunky short scale 60s basses. I also need to get hold of a replacement plastic logo for the headstock, but the last one to appear on fleaBay went for £62...

[deaver]

I promised this about a year ago. Anyway, here it is, Burns Flyte with WEM Dominator c.1984. The jumper I can neither explain nor defend. Current rig is LMII with Barefaced cab, usually with a Jap Precision.

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Edited April 29, 2011 by deaver

[chrismuzz]

My first rig was a Peavey International Series Dynabass (cracking for a first! Even though I've destroyed the neck and truss rod with Billy Sheehan type antics, it still plays and sounds great! ), direct into a Laney R5 2x10 combo.

Current rig is in my sig

[paul h]

First ever gig rig was a Laney Linebacker and a Vox bass I had to borrow because I didn't have one at the time.

Current rig is a Harley Benton BA500H, a Barefaced Compact and my Retrovibe Aero2.

[Ross]

Epiphone thunderbird through a fender rumble 100 combo. - 4-5 years ago
Fender Jazz through a bass pod pro, through the same rumble 100 combo. - Today

Still searching for a new amp (It's a bit of a wallpaper paste amp thisun) but my project bass is coming in way over budget so it's been put off for a while.

Kind of wish I still had the thunderbird though, it had a nice boomy sound and played ok sat down. I stupidly decided to sell it to a friend cheaply because he wanted to start playing, on credit at the time and he took ages to pay, saw he'd sold it on ebay a few months later, w***er.

Edited May 5, 2011 by Ross

[Prime_BASS]

First: Epiphone thunderbird through a Marshall MB4210.

Now: EBMM Stingray through a Markbass LM Tube with a Barefaced super12T

Vastly different but I'm also moving on the markbass to afford a RH750

[barkin]

First "proper" setup in the early '80s was:

Westone Thunder 1
Acoustic 120 head
Acoustic 404 1x15 cab.

The 120 went up in smoke during a rehearsal sometime in the mid '90s, and was replaced with a Carlsbro TC60 all-valve head. Sounds gorgeous, but runs out of steam at all but the smallest of pub gigs, so I've added a Hartke HA2500 amp.

Still going into the Acoustic 404, and still using the Westone - I love that bass !

[chris_b]

I brought my first rig from the proceeds of 3 years of summer jobs working on my Grandfather's market garden in Kent. My rig was a Nashville 60 watt PA amp and a Crook 412 cab. The bass was a Framus Star Bass. I know, you've never heard of them, but believe me it was the best sound I'd ever heard!!

See my sig for current rig(s).

[paul_5]

a short scale Hohner P bass thing into a small Marshall 1x12 combo.

Currently a Blade B15 into an Ampeg B2RE and a Hartke Hydrive 410. And loads of effects...

[Matt_Arlita]

First gig rig 2005- Ibanez SR500 into a Fender Rumble 100.

Current gig rig 2011- Rickenbacker 4003 > MXR Bass DI+ > Ampeg SVT450H > Ampeg SVT610.

Future gig rig- Rickenbacker 4003 > MXR Bass DI+ > some form of Markbass amp > Barefaced Compact + Midget.

[ThomBassmonkey]

This thread highlights how much GAS I've had in the last year.

I've stuck with GK but I've moved on from the 700RB-II and two 210RBHs to the 2001RB-II and two 410RBHs then downsized a bit with a more compact rig in the MB Fusion and two NEO212s (still got the 2001/410 rig for bigger gigs).

My bass has changed from the 406QM to a Warwick Thumb BO5 to a Sandberg JJ5 and now I'm using a Sandberg MM5 (with the JJ5 as backup).

[yorks5stringer]

Then (1974) Truvoice (Selmer T& 50 watt Head, homemade 1x15 Cab the size of a Smeg fridge, Gibson EB2 Bass

Now Little Mark II, Mark Bass Traveller 2x10, Shuker/Kbass 5 string Super Jazz

[BigRedX]

First Rig:
Burns Sonic Bass
Korg VCF Pedal
Amdek Chorus Pedal
No name 100W transistor head
1x18" cab (from a reggae sound system)
2x12" cab (home made)

Current Rig:
Gus G3 5-string bass
Bass Pod XT Pro
Linn Adrenalinn
Tech Soundsystems Black Cat 1kW amp
EBS 2x10 and 4x10 cabs