I don’t see myself lugging the T3 around too much, but there will be times I will be playing it in a band setting of some kind or another. In the old days I ran the Taurus thru a Traynor head into a Fender Bassman 4x12 cab (the weird angled one) and my bass thru a another rig. It was a lot of gear to move. I’m hoping my current small bass rig works a bit better:
Kern or A.R.T. preamps
Carvin DCM1500 poweramp
Acoustic Image Contra EX cabs
(If you’re laughing because I said “small rig”, my big rig is a pair of Music Man 900 watt stacks. Yes, I wont grow up.)
Anyway, what are you going to use in a live situation?
Well this is one of the reasons the case is a bit expensive for me - i need to buy an amp. i was wondering about getting an SWR WorkingPro 15 combo - i need something portable (well as portable as bass amps get).
I’ve been running my Roland PK-5/JP-8000 “digi-taurus” through an old Peavey Mark IV bass head, driving a single 15" Electrovoice speaker in a Sonic cab. The cab sits next to my bass guitar rig on stage, and I run a line out from the head to the PA. At rehearsals, they just go straight to the PA. With my new Taurus coming soon, I think they deserve a bit more power, so I plan on buying a new Peavey Tour TNT-115 600-watt combo - its slightly smaller & lighter than my current setup, is more portable and has 3x the power. Its also reasonably priced at $499.00.
I am a keyboardist / vocalist and I’ll be running mine thru 2 Roland KC550’s and a Mackie 808s into Yamaha S115iv’s. I’m not sure about what effects I’ll be using. Roland amps have never let me down. I’ve used them for many years, I still have my first KC500 from at least 12 years ago. I’ve taken it to hundreds of gigs and countless rehearsals. My 550’s are a few years old and holding up just as well under the same use. These amps are rock solid, throw all frequencies well, sound great and have wheels so you can ride them around the parking lot after the gig. I mean, um… I guess you could do that. C’mon bring two and race a friend!
I’ve played (bass) through an older version, and it sounds very good. Peavey gear has always been very reliable, and their audio quality has improved vastly in the past 8 years or so. If you buy it from Guitar Center or Musicians Friend (both the same company), you would have a month to put it to the test & could return it if it didn’t make the grade. I like it because it has more than enough juice for a practice amp or stage monitor, and its small enough (barely) to fit in the back of my Ford Escape along with 4 basses, a fairly large PJB bass rig, a pedalboard, and assorted odds & ends.
I have 2 Bag End 4X10 cabinets and a huge Aguilar rig (power and pre-amp separates) that sounds incredible, but is also a huge pain to cart around. I’ve been looking at some of the newer lightweight combos, but the Peavey is much cheaper. And yes, it does seem like their reputation has gone way up.
Aye, seems to be the price you have to pay to get a killer bass sound at club volumes. My PJB is the best sounding rig I’ve ever played through, but the 16x5" cab alone is almost as heavy as an SVT 8x10" - I don’t know what I’d do if I ever had to move it by myself…
Just last week I blew out a nice set of Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headphones playing bass thru the Akai Deep Impact. Makes me wonder which phones would survive me playing the T3…
I might have to make a road trip to see you guys in New York and New Jersey who are lucky enough to be playing thru PA’s. I saw Asia and Yes at the Tower this past summer and Wetton and Squire looked to be using Pk5’s- it was a small pedal set- but who knows what they were driving. BTW, Asia owned Yes that night.
i saw Yes/Asia in Fort Worth in July and i agree completely - Asia ‘pwned’ Yes that evening without a doubt. Steve Howe was much more animated in that set, too. John Wetton was indeed stomping on the PK5s which were triggering a very deep rumbling through the PA system. JW has mentioned he purchased a set of T3s so maybe his T3s will appear on the next Asia tour following release of new CD.
For the time being, I will probably just be recording with it. But on the off-chance I get to play out with it, I will probably use my Phil Jones Suitcase.
As soon as i rip open the box, I’ll plug it into my Carvin bass stack with 4X10 and a 1X18 (for the kind of bass that makes you change your pants) and then probably after I recover from that I’ll try it through and Ampeg V4 and a Marshall cab with various fuzz pedals and phasers.
