#AMPKIT BASS WINDOWS#
You still see tubes marketed in a lot of bass products but candid talks with the companies will reveal the tubes are just there for the marketing which is why they often have windows to see them.
I have an older 500 watt Markbass that weighs a ghastly 7 pounds and it crushes giant megaton Ampegs and fits in a gig bag. The circuitry easily could (and I'm sure has been) encased in an Altoids tin, so the limiting factor on size would be the speaker you select and the cabinet you put it all in.Ĭlick to expand.There are bass players who love tube amps, in general they tend to be older folk or play aggressive music with an image.Įarly SS bass amps kinda sucked in the same way early piezo transducers did but today you can get 500 watt amps that weigh 3 pounds (literally) and sound awesome (always subjective). It was quite easy to build, components are readily available. I like it quite a bit, and it drives a 12" speaker surprisingly loudly. I have built a Noisy Cricket, very similar op-amp-based device to the Ruby. If so, this does open up a very wide range of possibilities. I realize that for circumstances in which the bass plays a solo, or other instances where it is more prominent, the tone is more important, but for just routine bass playing, are some of the characteristics we don't like for guitar, acceptable for the bass?
We typically talk about "smooth, creamy", and other tube break-up characteristics for guitars, but is a this a factor for bass guitars too? I've always thought bass sounds are very much the product of the artist playing the thing, but I guess basses have even and odd order harmonics and all that stuff, but are these qualities we like to hear from a bass, are they noticeable under normal bass usage (as an accompanying instrument, not a lead, or soloist instrument).
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