Cheap-ish portable practice rig that doesn't require a computer?

[Blille]

Hello. Haven't been active here for awhile.

Just was planning to spend my gift card in coming weeks for a cheap bass amp to practice and noodle in the living room and home office. This thread seems right up for asking about that. Currently I only have massive GK head and 60's Dynacord set for recording.

There's lot of good suggestions for headphone amps phone connectivity, but what about old fashioned plug and play? I was looking at Ampeg RB-108 as it would be available locally, and seems very reasonably priced.

The small Ampegs are great for home practice.

[donaldr]

I use an HX stomp right now and I’m happy with it but having a better powered option is great.

I'm now using my HX Effects with the BDDI model as my main ampless rig (with also an Ampeg Classic preamp in the effect loop for another flavour) but it's not battery powered.

[Jacew]

The small Ampegs are great for home practice.

It's really good

I'm kind of dumbfounded that you can get such good sounding bass for just 160 eur (175$).

I'm not kidding, I could record with this amp and no one would be wiser.

[Demanic]

The little Tascam GB-10 Guitar/Bass recorder/trainer covers a lot of this for a fairly reasonable price. You can simply use it as a G/B headphone amp, (with a few effects). You can record and loop back. You can play along with a backing track, or song, that you load on a memory card. You can select, loop, and adjust the speed, of just a segment of the song. It runs on battery or external power, AND, it has a built in metronome.

The headphone out also doubles as a line out if you want to run into an external amp. I have one and love it.

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/det...--tascam-gb-10

Funny, you mentioning this reminded me that my old Zoom H4 can do most of this. I don't think that I can shift speeds of the playback. But I can use it in 4 track mode and monitor myself through headphones. And it has several different amp models with different cab options available.

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[ArtieToo]

Funny, you mentioning this reminded me that my old Zoom H4 can do most of this. I don't think that I can shift speeds of the playback. But I can use it in 4 track mode and monitor myself through headphones. And it has several different amp models with different cab options available.

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A customer just gave me, yesterday, a Tascam DP-004 that he doesn't use anymore. Cute little 4-track version of the GB-10.

[ginormous]

The small Ampegs are great for home practice.

Co-sign. I had a first-gen BA-112 for practice, recording, and even direct out to PA for outdoor gigs.
I replaced the stock speaker with a 12" that had a "whizzer cone" (a small tweeter cone where the dust cap would normally be).
It brightened up the sound, and it was an alternative to a coaxial that would have been out of my price range.
I covered (almost) every kind of music on that thing -- funk, fusion, top 40/covers, show tunes, you name it.
Everything except country. I don't do country.

[ehdwuld]

I have a $99 ZOOM B1 for this

A combo would bwoa used Peavey VIP2
selection of guitar, bass, acoustic.
moodels for each
1/8 input for backing tracks
12 inch speaker
40 watts

For guitar i travel with a Mooer PE100 headphone amp with drum loops

Always practice with a Rythm track

[hamerfan]

I have a VOX headphone amp when I am not using it with the headphones, I plug it into my JBL Charge Bluetooth speaker via a cable, and it cranks and sounds fantastic. I do the same with my iRig setup and my iPad. FWIW, bootleg iRig connectors are $5 on Aliexpresss.

That's indeed a great idea. I try that with my 1.Gen Rockman X-100.

[donaldr]

Just pulled the trigger on this for $129: https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/axeioone/
For MacOS/Windows but suppose to be class compliant/USB-C and found some people had the original Axe I/O working with iPad Pro. Maybe it can work with a powered usb hub.

[d1dsj]

You won’t go far wrong with a Phil Jones big Head and some good headphones.

[donaldr]

Here's another solution: https://www.boss.info/global/products/gigcaster_5/

[treyhaislip]

Bass PODs is what I would recommend.

[ehdwuld]

Positive Grid GO

uses you phone to set up four presets

Mine has one clean guitar
one distorted guitar
one bass preset
one super clean flat for acoustic or feeding another modeler into