Lots of clean power and light weight. Modern bass amps are more hi-fi than guitar amps, and their frequency response is not limited to bass but goes all the way up. The two I’ve used have useful tone controls, and my current Elf weighs 1.6 lbs. and offers 200 watts. I use it for folk dances, sounds good with my Buchanan. The most important piece of kit is really the speaker, which can color your tone nicely or unpleasantly. I like woofers for their smoother high end and high power-handling capacity. Compare the curve for my favorite, the little Eminence Alphalite—
With this 12” Jensen guitar speaker—
Note that the woofer has a more extended high end as well as fewer bumps (resonances) in the curve. Those are nice for adding some character to electric guitar but aren’t good for my acoustic mandolin.
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