169 - Does Your Bass AMP Even Matter? With Scott & Ian

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🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

What a stupid question, right? As bass players, there are few things more satisfying than pulling the trigger on a new bass, but would we be better served expanding our amp collections instead? Will a new amp really make your bass sound any better? In today’s episode Ian and Scott talk you through a couple of different viewpoints that will help you determine how you might spend your hard-earned money. A new bass, or a better amp?

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0:00.0	Yeah, like I do have thoughts on amps, actually.
0:09.9	I think that my biggest takeaway, obviously the title of the podcast is, does your
0:17.1	amp matter?
0:18.4	All, if somebody asks me kind of like, if a pro asks me, what do I think about amps? What, asks me, kind of like,
0:21.0	if a pro asks me,
0:22.5	what do I think about amps,
0:23.7	what,
0:24.0	you know,
0:24.3	what I like and all of that,
0:25.9	I can't ever give them a real solid answer
0:28.7	because there's so many like.
0:30.9	Yeah.
0:31.4	But I will say that it,
0:33.4	for me,
0:34.7	it can affect everything.
0:37.4	Everything. Yeah. If it's not, okay. If it's not right. And it's, for me, it's something to do with the way it moves there. And it's absolutely nothing I can identify in a shop. I, I've played a bunch of cabs in the shop. it's and it's just and I can't identify it.
0:55.1	But then I get it in on a gig and I'm like, this isn't the thing.
0:59.3	It just feels weird.
1:00.4	How about you?
1:01.1	Like what's your, I guess sort of like 10,000 foot view on amps?
1:05.0	I'm so, oh man, I'm so curious about like what that actually means because I agree you have to have it in context.
1:13.5	Like there's a place in St. Paul called Willys that I bought a few things from.
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