Rex Brown Tbird?

[ilan]

As long as the battery is full, an active bass is a safe bet in a live setting if you know neither the location where or the rig over which you will be playing. You can compensate for most deficiencies and also make a decent stand against a double bass drum.

This is my solution. It's attached to my strap.

[Basvarken]

My amp has a pre amp.
 

[gearHed289]

This is my solution. It's attached to my strap.

I've had a Sadowsky pre on my pedal board for over 15 years. I use it for a tiny bit of low and high boost. They're "boost only" BTW, no cut. Knobs turned all the way counterclockwise = flat. It's great for when I'm switching between passive and active basses.

[ilan]

I don't use a pedalboard, and when the Sadowsky is attached to the strap near the rear button I can adjust the knobs mid-song.

[uwe]

To this day, I've never used a preamp unless it was integrated in something. Not a dogma, it just never occurred to me.

I did bi-amping with two preamp rack components to a stereo power amp for a while in the 80ies and 90ies, if that counts, but never anything like the Sadowsky. I'm indiscriminate as regards amps - as long as it works and is loud enough, I don't care what rig I use (currently I use an Orange Little Terror and a Mark Bass combo side by side, since I have both in the rehearsal space, they might as well both run simultaneously when I play  ). That "I only sound like myself over my own amp" I've always regarded as a guitarist whiney thing.

[gearHed289]

That "I only sound like myself over my own amp" I've always regarded as a guitarist whiney thing.

I've found that an Ampeg is as important to my sound as whatever bass I might be playing. It is what it is...

[Ken]

My requisite reply to every new Thunderbird that comes out: I assume there will be no left-handed version.

[uwe]

Yes, an Ampeg is the great equalizer, all bassists sound alike over it, very convenient.

Discuss!

PS: Essentially, my bass sound is what you hear when I play an electric bass unplugged (a mix of light touch pick playing with a thin, but stiff pick, forceful left hand fretting and right hand palm muting, just with more volume). A guitarist actually once cracked that as a joke to me: "Uwe, no matter what bass and no matter what amp and speakers, you always sound like your playing unplugged in your living room, just louder." I took that as a compliment then, but perhaps I was mistaken? 

[uwe]

My requisite reply to every new Thunderbird that comes out: I assume there will be no left-handed version.

And that ain't right.

[Ken]

And that ain't right.

It's alright.

[uwe]

Yup, in the end that is all that's left.

[Ken]

The pickups, straight from the T-Rex's mouth: https://twitter.com/REJASFROMTEJAS/status/1541165498305351680

[Ken]

Yup, in the end that is all that's left.

It's all pretty sinister.

[uwe]

True, the end is nigh.

[uwe]

The pickups, straight from the T-Rex's mouth: https://twitter.com/REJASFROMTEJAS/status/1541165498305351680

Batteries included.