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Jonathan:
I played a real cool old solid-state SVT at my "practice
place" (a warehouse) when I lived in Northern California
back in the early 1990s. Sweet awesome space-filling tone.
re: "Though I play a little guitar, too, I'd imagine we
bassists are outnumbered 4-to-1 on this list?"
well, this list obviously reflects "the real world" quite
acurately then!
...in fact, one of the main reasons I took up bass way back
as a 14 year old lad was because all the music dudes i knew
played guitar...like 6 or 7 friends all playing guitar.
when i started lamely plunking "Batman" and "Louie Louie"
on my Hohner solid body six-string, i found i got no
invites to the neighborhood garage jams...there was already
three other guys there, and they already knew "smoke on the
water' and "paranoid"...and they had real guitars and amps
too.
so, i got a Sears short scale bass and my dad found a guy
at work who sold me a tube driven fender champ...next thing
you know,I was the only bass player in the ninth
grade...and i was hitting all the garages in the
neighborhood...
true story,
-dp
--- Jonathan Villegas <> wrote:
> DP,
>
> I always seem to be talking to you...not intentional
> of course, just that certain comments make me want to
> go out of lurk mode.
>
> I have to agree w/your comment about Ampeg SVT amps. I
> have used, for about a decade, an Ampeg SVT-15T combo
> with 15" EV speaker that despite being solid-state,
> sounds *very* tube-y.
>
> I played this at an *outdoor* gig with a concert band
> a couple years ago and it sounded surprisingly clear.
> The proof's in the pudding -- an MP3 of the mobile
> recording of one of the songs is here:
>
>
>
> Yeah, not "surf" I know, but we're talkin' gear. It's
> a nice lil unit with built-in limiter and a line-out
> that sound guys appreciate. Alas, it's no longer in
> production, but the lil sucker still works and sounds
> good....
>
> Though I play a little guitar, too, I'd imagine we
> bassists are outnumbered 4-to-1 on this list?
>
> ~ Jonathan
>
> --- wrote:
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:34:49 -0700 (PDT)
> From: DP <>
> Subject: RE: Surf Bass (Amp)
>
> [snip]
> The Ampeg SVT is a nice sounding and powerful amp, but
> it
> weighs a ton. Ampeg makes several amps besides the
> SVT, and
> they sound real nice and round and full.
>
>
>
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