170 - Our favorite amps & cabs in 2024

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

You might have an expensive custom shop bass and all the boutique stompboxes in the world, but you’ll still need a great bass amp to achieve your dream tone. In this video, we’re looking at some of the greatest amps, pedals and cabinets of 2024, handpicked by the SBL team – including tube, solid-state and preamp pedals! Here’s what we think are the best bass guitar amps on the market right now.

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0:00.0	Dude, do before we get into the bass amps and all of those shenanigans we're going to be talking about, tell me about this bass because it looks outrageous.
0:07.2	It's so cool. This is a Seric Grand. He does these in small batches. I got this one from the most recent batch. It's pink. I love it. And it's so simple. TV Jones pickup, volume knob, short scale, but the switch, dude, okay, straight up,
0:24.7	like tone on. I think they use 250K pots too, so it's sort of like a dark vintage sound.
0:33.2	Yeah. You can go tone off. Just switch it right off, though, with that.
0:38.5	So it's like, you know, going from having a tone knob full up to full off.
0:43.4	Just flip of a switch.
0:46.2	But if you flip it forward...
0:48.3	Oh!
0:52.2	It has like a built-in fuzz capacitor.
0:59.1	He's doing some great stuff.
1:01.8	How cool is that?
1:02.8	Shout to Jake at Seric.
1:04.6	Beautiful faces.
1:06.0	Yeah.
1:06.4	And they just went through a really hard time.
1:08.3	I mean, they're still recovering from it.
1:10.6	Hurricane Helene that rolled through. he just moved his shop from Chicago to Georgia,
1:16.7	and they just went through it.
1:19.1	And so, or no, I'm sorry, maybe North Carolina.
1:21.8	I feel like I'm miss speaking.
1:24.1	Somewhere where I believe outside of Asheville.
1:25.9	Big ass hurricanes.
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