A cross between a laser gun and a duck?? Hmmmmm. Sounds to me as though you might be onto something good there. You just might become the next teen-idol.
And while I'm thinking of it, you don't actually have a "crummy" Fernandes. You have "A" Fernandes. It's probably a pretty cool piece and nobody said that you have to have the "coolest" or most expensive bass or guitar in order to enjoy making music, right? One of my favorite basses is my very first one. It doesn't have any name on it, cost me $79 NEW,..... and the thing has been through the wringer........but I still enjoy playing it.
Headroom: There seem to be a large number of Concert bass users in here. I, personally, am addicted to the 200S and the 2000S. I think that they were THE coolest bass amps ever created and so I'm a bit biased. I'd recommend that you pick up/borrow a Concert bass for a couple of gigs and see if it delivers the sound that you really enjoy. Remember, cranking up the "low/bass" control knob all the way tends to cut down on the perceived output of the amp because it has to work harder to reproduce frequencies that are so far down,........so try to run the amp fairly flat and let the sound of your bass do the talkin'. I'm sure that we'll all be interested to hear how you make out.
Bass-ically Yours,
RB
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