A thread for things we've played around with or discovered at practice or casual jams, I'll start.
...So I had to close my studio/venue (new kid coming, lease was up, not enough time to run it with the day job) a while back and so the band has been jamming at an hourly place until I/we find a new spot to call home. This place stocks each room with modern solid state heads (GK, Ampeg, and at least one Markbass) and 4x10s (occasional 8x10). This is the antithesis of what I typically use (I have an 8x10, but don't use it often due to huge/overkill for practice) which is a medium wattage tube (PA/Vocal) head and a Musicman 115RH.
I have learned a few things jamming at the hourly with their rigs:
1) I am just not a fan of solid state Ampeg stuff (actually haven't used the tube stuff), or 4x10s (at least modernish ones). I dig the Markbass, and I already knew that GKs were alright too.
2) After a few jams of not liking my tone, or just taking too long to dial it in (diff amp/cab in every room) it occurred to me that the exact things about the amp/cab combos in there that weren't working for the Triumph (hyped midrange mostly) would probably work really really well with a mudbucker (in addition to solid state preamps generally being more robust when it comes to handling that 30K output). So I took the EB3 to jam yesterday and, sure enough, that was a much better match (full mud; choked was not so great, I prefer that setting into tube amps). Even though the EB3 was not ideal for every song, I was surprised at the number it really worked well on. I did have to dispense with the fx a lot though (exacerbated speaker cab resonances). I think I still would have preferred a 1x15 to the W ported GK 4x10, but the GK head was a good match.
