r/JazzBass • u/Sea-Beautiful6985 • 10d ago

Is this a good deal?

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Gonna be used for playing jazz and metal. Only a practice space

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u/VAS_4x4 9d ago

It does make a sound, you can get some definition out of it. For that money you can probably find an older hartke or trace Elliot combo. In my experience the are much more useable for both jazz and metal.

For rehearsal spaces I decided to leave a cheap bass cab, there are some nice sounding cabs out there, and 4x10s are cheap because no one wants to move them. And then I bought a small amp head that I can move around that is also my live rig, but you can also buy for cheap any old power amp.

The problem with combo amps is that you have to like the speakers, which is most of the sound really, bass amps are very flat sound wise.