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Joe's
Stuff
I
have a lot of people asking me what I'm using for equipment, so here it
is. The bass is a
Dean Edge 5 string fretless
which was actually a gift from Shelby. It's a great bass, and I'm frankly
amazed at the quality of it, as Dean's aren't exactly considered super
duper top of the line. I would recommend them to anyone though. They make
a 6 string fretless too, and someday I may just have to get one. I currently
have 6 basses, but this is the only one I use in this band. I sometimes
take the Fender with me as a back-up, but I find it a pain to switch back
and forth between 4 and 5 strings. Along with the Dean and the Fender,
I also have a Gibson Victory Artist, a Washburn AB-20 Acoustic fretless,
an Ibanez SR-506 6-string, and a Peavey T-40, which was my very first
"real" bass when I was starting out.
The amp is a Hartke 5000
bi-amped into an Ampeg 1528HE
cabinet which has 1 15" that fires downwards and 2 8" mid drivers
and an HF horn slanted upwards. The low side and high side are completely
seperate so I can bi-amp without using 2 cabinets. To give an idea of
the level of power this system puts out, the master volume on the Hartke
goes to 10 or so, but it has literally never been higher than .5 (yes,
point five). I also have an Ampeg 4-12 cabinet and an old Peavey Mark
III that I've had for well over 20 years.
I'm also using a Zoom B2.1u multi effects pedal and a Korg DTR-2000 rack
tuner that are not shown in this photo.
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