169 - Is the Bass Amp FINALLY DEAD?! (In ear monitor takeover?)

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Let’s clear this up from the start – we LOVE bass amps, big stacks of speakers coupled with loud, monstrous amplifier heads. We want to feel the air move as we play! But when you’re a gigging bassist, one of the biggest struggles we face is the endless battle with the onstage sound. In this podcast, we’re asking if there’s a future for bass amplifiers? If you had to ditch anything from your signal chain, would you really wave goodbye to your bass amp?

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0:00.0	Okay, Sharon, we're here to answer.
0:03.0	The question on everybody's mind is the base amp dead.
0:12.0	What do you think?
0:14.0	I think it's dead for certain occasions.
0:16.0	Yes.
0:17.0	I love me a good amp, but do I love me an amp always?
0:20.0	That is the big question.
0:22.3	Right.
0:23.0	Not always, I suppose.
0:25.0	So many stages are going silent, whether you play in church or sometimes on pop gigs,
0:30.9	even wedding bands and stuff, right?
0:33.3	Like the IEM thing.
0:34.9	In-ear monitor, by the way, IEMs stands for in-ear monitors.
0:40.1	Sharon and I are both wearing them right now.
0:41.9	If you're watching the podcast, we have them in.
0:44.5	That's how we hear ourselves.
0:46.1	And we thought we would do an episode today talking about this, I don't know, kind of
0:51.6	like dichotomy.
0:53.0	This is sort of a binary between like amps or no amps. And obviously you can have gigs that do both. I do. Sharon, I think you do as well. Or maybe you're just, oh, okay. My main gig is no longer. No amps. No amps whatsoever. I haven't played an amp in forever on that.
1:11.8	Yeah.
1:12.2	So we're going to talk about it.
1:13.3	We're going to talk about the pros and cons of using amps on stage versus using IEMs on
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