Spinal Tap moment for BadCo

lowend1 · June 12, 2016, 09:36:52 PM

This was the backline for part of the set.

One word - "Stonehenge"

Highlander · June 13, 2016, 03:45:09 PM

I'll raise you some rust...

Basvarken · June 14, 2016, 10:46:14 AM

Do they go to eleven?

lowend1 · June 14, 2016, 02:05:30 PM

The part that tweaks me is that the bass amps are Ampeg Micro VRs, which stand less than 3ft tall. The images are scaled up so they appear the same size as the Marshall stacks. It would have been just as easy to source images of a full-size SVT to use, since the proportions are about the same.

Highlander · June 14, 2016, 03:08:11 PM

Quote from: Basvarken on June 14, 2016, 10:46:14 AM
Do they go to eleven?

Is that orl...?

gearHed289 · June 15, 2016, 09:08:16 AM

Quote from: lowend1 on June 14, 2016, 02:05:30 PM
The part that tweaks me is that the bass amps are Ampeg Micro VRs, which stand less than 3ft tall. The images are scaled up so they appear the same size as the Marshall stacks. It would have been just as easy to source images of a full-size SVT to use, since the proportions are about the same.

Yeah, I noticed that too. It's like... which way you wanna go? Giant sized mini amp?

mc2NY · June 17, 2016, 01:40:52 AM

Except Neil Young really does have an actual huge ass amp he uses on stage....

It has a Magnatone name across it (my first amp ever) but it isn't a real Magnatone. It is some sort of huge cab that holds various speakers and horns that Neil routes his real amps thru.

Chris P. · June 17, 2016, 03:45:09 AM

Reminds me of the Big cab or something which Tecamp made or used to make. It's a cab with something like 2x15, 2x12 and 2x10 in one. Or even more..

uwe · June 23, 2016, 05:57:32 PM

And it sold like lead. Unsurprisingly. The days of behemoth bass rigs are largely over, that thing was like a Buick with tailfins coming out in the mid-seventies.

Psycho Bass Guy · June 23, 2016, 09:27:47 PM

Quote from: Chris P. on June 17, 2016, 03:45:09 AM
Reminds me of the Big cab or something which Tecamp made or used to make. It's a cab with something like 2x15, 2x12 and 2x10 in one. Or even more..

I need two of those.

Alanko · June 25, 2016, 03:04:27 AM

Neil Young's big amp used to be a Baldwin Exterminator. Big, heavy, solid state and with mixed-diameter drivers. Don't tell Talkbass!

Basvarken · June 27, 2016, 02:57:39 AM

We've discussed this thing before too

Highlander · June 27, 2016, 03:01:02 PM

Suitably OTT

lowend1 · June 27, 2016, 07:33:19 PM

Quote from: Basvarken on June 27, 2016, 02:57:39 AM
We've discussed this thing before too

It still exists, now finished off to look like a VR. As I recall, it was a pair of SVT power sections squeezed into a single box and driven by a single SVT preamp. I think they built a couple of them for the Monsters Of Rock tour back in the 80s, but were never used.