So while i’m waiting for my Taurus 3 to show up i thought i’d ask if anyone had any ideas about a good bass combo amp for it. i am thinking that i would need a keyboard amp rather than a bass guitar amp so as not to colour the Taurus tone. Wattage not sure about yet but it needs to be fairly portable - maybe 100W? - and needs to be comparable volume-wise to my 50W Marshall combo.
i was thinking something like a Laney - i like their amps for keyboards and they’re British which may help keep the price down (in the old days buying British was the expensive option).
When we play a club with a good house PA, I run my digital Taurus setup straight into the board. If we have to bring our own PA, then I play through a 200 watt Peavey 1x15 combo, and it is not quite enough. If you play small to medium venues with a fairly loud rock band using 50 - 100 watt guitar amps & 300 - 500 watts of bass & PA, then you probably need at least 300 - 400 watts of power driving 1 or 2 good 15" speakers (if you want to FEEL your Taurus as well as hear them). Back when I owned my Taurus 1s & 2s, I played them through an Ampeg SVT amp and it’s matching 8X10" cab - now that was some thunder! These days, we play too many gigs & I’m too old to haul around all of that extra stuff. The twin SVT stacks are gone, and a much lighter & smaller (but equally devastating) Phil Jones Bass setup covers the bass amp bass duties. When my Taurus 3s arrive, I’ll sell the digi-taurus setup and Peavey amp for a 600-watt Ampeg 1x15" combo. That amp should knock their socks off & still be fairly easy to haul around. Bass amps make the best Taurus amps, and the modern ones are fairly tonally transparent when you need them to be.
