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A crazy weekend of gigs!!

Friday night with the house band at The Quiet Woman in Corona Del Mar and played the Wilkins all Roasted WRTJ4 with the Audere Preamp. This 4 string bass has so much soul and personality. I plugged directly into the house amp and it just thumped. The Audere preamp gave me enough control to get a killer sound without messing with the amps settings. 

Saturday night was an all 90’s themed wedding with the incredible Replicas Band!!! Basically played all 90’s music for a wedding!! No Funky-Brick-Brown!!! Haha!! I played my Roger 5 string Jazz bass through a GK MB800 head and a Schroeder 1512L cabinet. The sound was HUGE!!! The Roger is all pasisve and has a great organic woody tone. 

Then Sunday a killer Jazz Trio gig with the Dean Grech Trio, Dean Grech on guitar, Tony Torres on drums and me on double Bass. I used my GK MB800 amp and an ISI 110 cabinet. It was perfect. The ISI cabinet is a coaxial design that has a killer warm sound. 

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Gig Rig 2/10/17

Played a duet gig in Laguna Beach. Used the LoPhat 1-10 3-way cab for the first time and couldn’t believe the low end acheived by a 1-10 cabinet. I powered it with my Form Factor Bi1000 amp head. 

Paul Tidwell of LoPhat is making great cabs and I love the fact that he’s not afraid to make a cabinet that is a little bigger and weighs a bit more to acheive actual BOTTOM END!!! Now when I say a little bigger I really mean just a little bigger, the 1-10 LoPhat cabinet is slightly larger than my Aguilar GS112, so it’s still super portable and relatively lightweight, I’ll sacrifice a little heft in the weight department to get some REAL bottom end from a cabinet. 

I also used my trusty Wilkins Road Tested WRTPJ5 which always sounds great and huge. 

The other thing I should mention about the LoPhat cabinets is that they’re 3-way cabs. So you’ll get the low end driver, a mid range driver and a horn/high end driver. The mid and high drivers always have an attenuator which looking at them as a boost and cut, like on an EQ or Preamp, dial in a killer tone. I was able to dial out just a bit of mids without using the EQ on my amp and it was perfect. 

So far the LoPhat Cabs live up to their name. 

Also I have to mention that my trusty Form Factor Bi1000 is the perfect amp to test with, big power and huge tone. One of the best and powerful heads out there.