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04-25-2010, 06:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Waterford, Ireland. | | | GB Shuttle 6.0 vs. Orange Bass Terror vs. GK MB 500
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I need a lightweight head that I can carry around easily as I'm in a few bands and have to travel to practise for a couple of them. I play mainly down tuned metal, any advice on which one of these would be best for that? |
04-25-2010, 06:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Montreal | | | Orange would be my pick. Very rock tone.
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04-25-2010, 06:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Bel Air, MD 21014 | | | I've not used the GK but out of the GB and the Orange, I'd choose the Orange by a mile. Very rock sounding and sounds like a tube amp in the mix. I also think it has a much darker sound which I like. |
04-26-2010, 06:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Waterford, Ireland. | | Cheers for the advice guys  |
04-26-2010, 07:41 PM
| | | | This question is like , " Which is better? Blondes, Brunettes, or Redheads? Maybe shaved?"
My vote is GK.
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04-27-2010, 01:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Maine | | | Definitely not shaved!
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04-27-2010, 02:25 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Genz Benz would not be my choice for a rock tone given your other two candidates.
If you're looking for a darker, more overdriven type rock tone, go with the Orange.
If you're looking for a brighter, cleaner, but grittier type rock tone, go with the GK.
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04-27-2010, 07:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Waterford, Ireland. | | | I had the chance to play a friend's GK 700rb today and I liked it quite a lot. Would the MB 500 have a similar tone? Could I get the same kind of lows as the 700rb? |
04-27-2010, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Murph_Orpheus  I had the chance to play a friend's GK 700rb today and I liked it quite a lot. Would the MB 500 have a similar tone? Could I get the same kind of lows as the 700rb? | I had a 700rbII for a couple years and it was great. I sold it (bad G.A.S) to get an MB500. The MB500 is every bit as good as the 700rbII and weighs almost 13 lbs. less, with all the same bells and whistles. In fact My GAS has returned and i just ordered an MB115 to leave at the practice room .
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04-28-2010, 09:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Waterford, Ireland. | | I ordered the Bass Terror at my local retailer today and they should have it next wednesday for me, excited is an understatement! Now if only time could go faster for the next week  |
04-28-2010, 05:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: valparaiso, in. | | | The Orange Bass Terror is a great sounding amp, I use mine with an Orange OBC115 and an Orange SP212 and it kicks butt. |
04-28-2010, 09:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Waterford, Ireland. | | I'll report back with my experience of it when I get it. Gonna be running it through a GK Neo 212, can't wait! |
05-30-2010, 08:51 AM
|  | GOLD Supporting Member | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: New Orleans LA | | | I had a chance to try out the Orange stuff. The Terror into the SP212 was just pumping out some fat sound! I had the store bring over an MB500, and it was not nearly as fat and warm. However, I do find the MB500 very similar in tone to my 1001RBII, so I think if you like the 700 you'll like the MB.
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05-30-2010, 10:46 AM
|  | Dr. Jim | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denton TX, Kailua HI, New York | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Murph_Orpheus I need a lightweight head that I can carry around easily as I'm in a few bands and have to travel to practise for a couple of them. I play mainly down tuned metal, any advice on which one of these would be best for that? | Just played a gig in Dallas using a Shuttle 6.0 driving two Epifani 8 ohm 210 cabs (one UL S1 and one NYC). It was a somewhat loud trio. The Shuttle kicked "behinder" very fiercely. Played an active P/J and a RW Jazz. 
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