I bought this Thunderbird bass about 2 years ago and it's spend most of its time on a stand and when I do play it it's only been acoustically. I've now got to the point where I'd like to amplify it but a bit wary of pushing it through a guitar amp and damaging it. What would be a good home bass amp, or will I be OK using a normal guitar amp. I know, for example, that an acoustic doesn't sound that good through a guitar amp and I have a Marshall something or other for that.
Ian
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Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
No more than £100 used. It’s a remarkably good sounding thing even if a bit heavy by today’s standards. It has about 6 bass amp sounds of the classic bass amps, a compressor, and a couple of other effects. And a line in for iPod use.
Even though I’ve got a stupid money Barefaced / Ashdown / Markbass rig I will never sell my little Roland. It’s brilliant.
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Also, I heartily reccomend treating yourself to a decent bass DI pedal. You can plug it into pretty much anything, PA, guitar amp, keyboard amp, small practice combo, interface for recording and for adding flavour and growl as a pedal in front of a full on bass rig. These days I have a Gallien-Krueger/Bareface rig, but tomorrow I'll be playing on an outdoor festival stage with my trusty Sansamp Bass Driver DI straight into the PA.
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The only reason I didn't buy the 25 is because it's almost exactly the same size and only 1Kg lighter than my - admittedly far more expensive, and fitted with a neodymium speaker which brought the weight down a lot - Ibanez Promethean 5110, which is 500W and a really sophisticated amp. (But still doesn't have an overdrive setting!)
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