Originally Posted By: Sawmill Music
I picked up a cheap cart from Harbor Freight to haul my rack case (Bass Amp / Tuner / Wireless / Effects Processor), a 1X15 cabinet, a 4X10 cabinet and two bass guitars in cases. Can do it in one trip.

Harrbor Freight Hand Truck

I'm 62 though and seriously looking at changing this setup to something MUCH lighter and easier to get in and out of the truck . . .



Perhaps that is possible in today's market.

I still have a Gallien-Krueger 800RB 300 / 100-Watt Bi-Amp Bass Amp Head which is about the size of a loaf of bread. That amp is heavy as hell just by itself, must less a four-ten cab and a fifteen.

PA systems have definably have gotten better, and so have amp emulators, but nothing sounds like the real thing.

Playing live, the bass is more than just sound. It is also about moving air.

I have never heard anything that really sounded like a fifteen-inch speaker but a fifteen-inch speaker.

That is the issue with modern light equipment; it just does not sound like the real thing.

That is the compromise we have to accept to use lighter equipment. It may be the only solution when you get too old to move all that heavy stuff around.

Perhaps it does not matter as much in the world where music is being listened to on cell phones.

Billy

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