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Old 01-18-2012, 01:52 PM
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Unhappy can the GK 210 hold a low B?

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I need some feedback please!
I really want to buy a MB210 so I went to the store (Andreasson Musik in Gothenburg Sweden) and tried one for quite a long time. the power it claims and the light weight are pretty good reasons to me to get one.

this is what happen:
I tried it with my 5 strings Spector Legend. it sounded pretty good, loud and with a crispy sound when the horn is active. when I try and amp I like to force it to the limit so I gradually was turning volume and master vol up.. when I was around 7 in vol the amp started distorting my low B.

I thought at first that the amp itself is maybe too powerful for the speakers so I connected it to a GK 210MBE cabinet and later to a 410MBE and even with that it distorted my low B but just in the combo.

then I played a beginners 4str Yamaha RBX and I couldn't force the amp to a higher vol because it distorted...
do you think the combo has a defect?

I had the limiter and contour on and no warning light overloading on, and besides that, these combos have a feature that if they are being misused(as I was attempting to), they indicate it by turning the power light from blue to red and gets muted until the condition or fault is corrected..

I never run an amp to 10 but I can't play my low B at 7! (in case I suddenly need more power) it's kind of disappointing

later that day I tried an Ampeg (can't remember which one) it was a light one and gave me a clean 10!... but it was only 100W ..
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