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I am currently using a TRACE ELLIOT BLX 80 as my main performance amp unless it is a real small job in which I also play guitars. Then I use a CARVIN AG100D which has three channels including a mic input for vocals or any instrument requiring a microphone or sub mixer. The Trace is Augmented by a TRACE ELLIOT dual compressor. Gives a nice tight sound in a small package.
I own six bases. Lately I have been using either an acoustic 4 string which is a DEAN Performer CE. It is wonderful for what it cost and easily comparable to instruments costing $1K more. The other currently in use is a 5 string fretless all koa CARVIN LB75 custom made. This one is also wired a ROLAND GK2B pickup to be used in conjunction with a Roland V-Bass Modeling System, a synthesizer.
In the SURF band I am using a GRETSCH Streamliner with cat's eye sound holes and a Bigsby whammy bar. It is cherry red. I am also regularly using a Jay Turser MOSRITE copy with a Bigsby bar and actually I am quite impressed with the thing. It is not a MOSRITE but it did not cost Mostite bux either. It is black with white binding and tuners that stay in tune. I am occasionally using a dreadnaught Alverez-Yari six banger and a 12 string GARRISON 40-12. On the song DON'T FEAR THE REVERB I am using Roger McGuinn edition Rickenbacker 12 string. I am currently rebuilding my U.S.A. Mockingbird Supreme B.C. Rich and building a few others, one of which is a strat model. The amps are either LINE 6 spider II or the BELAIRE CARVIN tweed dual channel. I occasionally use a Danelectro pedal board or a Line 6 POD or a Roland V10 WAH.