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01-06-2013, 06:32 AM
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01-06-2013, 09:45 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JxBass Just ordered a Puma 500  | Great! You'll have to let us know how you like it. If you like it half as much as me then you'll love it!  | 
01-06-2013, 11:04 AM
| | | I have bought Puma 500 about a month ago,and I am very happy I did.
I was buying without trying but I was lucky  I'm using it with GK 212 and this match very well,tone is clear,precise,punchy and tight quite modern sounding rig,and not to forget very loud!Sometimes I warm it up with Taste pot,but usually on every gig everything is Flat! | 
01-07-2013, 06:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Stephent28 Nice Virgil.....
I really think my GAS from a power amp standpoint is over. | Same here. The Puma 500 is working for me.
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01-07-2013, 08:53 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: C470, CO | | | Yes, sometimes I wish I would have gone with the 500 because I have never needed to turn up the 900 past 10 on the gain/volume but I knew the extra headroom would be nice and it was only a couple hundred more.
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01-07-2013, 09:35 AM
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01-07-2013, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by monsterthompson better to have it and not need it . . . | Very true. I didn't have the extra cash as I also bought a new bass at the same time I bought the 500.
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01-07-2013, 12:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Hollywood | | | right. you do need to have it (cash) to have it (watts).
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01-07-2013, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by monsterthompson right. you do need to have it (cash) to have it (watts). | Hey that's a song title....You need to have it to have it. LOL!!!
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01-07-2013, 01:26 PM
|  | Registered User Gear Reviewer - Bass Musician Magazine | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Asheville, NC | | | The puma 900 was more expensive than I wanted to pay. Now that I have it, I think of all the money I spent buying and selling amps looking for my sound. These days, finding an amp that can do it all with grace and balls seems priceless | 
01-07-2013, 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by phillybass101 Hey that's a song title....You need to have it to have it. LOL!!! |  I want partial writing credit.
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01-07-2013, 09:05 PM
|  | Registered User Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs, Jule Amps | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | | I have both 500 and 900. Not much difference actually. I've mostly gigged the 500 and have never had it run out of headroom.
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Originally Posted by R Baer Regardless of what you see in the magazines, you just can't argue toast physics. | | 
01-08-2013, 06:40 AM
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Originally Posted by nostatic I have both 500 and 900. Not much difference actually. I've mostly gigged the 500 and have never had it run out of headroom. | If you are using relatively small, relatively efficient cabs, +1, you won't notice a difference. Tonally, identical into the typical 2 x 112 at 4ohms or 410. However, if you are pushing a large 8ohm cab, or a very large 4 ohm rig at high volumes (like 2 x 212 or whatever), that extra oomph can make a pretty bid difference in handling peaks, etc.
+1 though, for the vast majority of players, the Puma500 is the thing! | 
01-08-2013, 07:24 AM
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Originally Posted by monsterthompson  I want partial writing credit. | Consider it done. who's wriritng the lyrics?
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01-08-2013, 10:22 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany | | | Exactly why I got the 900. While the 500 has been more than enough for my funk, neo soul, and dance bands, there's always that possibility that I'll start up another European-style brutal metal band and could use the extra wattage! <~ Sounds like a joke, but it's actually true. ;P | 
01-08-2013, 10:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Netherlands | | I am using this rig for several years now: 
Tecamp blackcat and two M212. Nothing can beat this or comes even near it in sound and quality
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01-08-2013, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by pushifier I am using this rig for several years now: 
Tecamp blackcat and two M212. Nothing can beat this or comes even near it in sound and quality | Schwing!!...I just got a semi!!!!LOL
Nice rig!!...by chance...can a Puma 900 handle two M212??
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01-08-2013, 10:56 AM
|  | Registered User Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs, Jule Amps | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Randyt Schwing!!...I just got a semi!!!!LOL
Nice rig!!...by chance...can a Puma 900 handle two M212?? | If they are 8 ohm cabs, yes. If they are 4 ohm, no.
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01-08-2013, 11:12 AM
|  | Registered User Gear Reviewer - Bass Musician Magazine | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Asheville, NC | | | That is sick randy.. You are evil! I bet that new bn6 sounds ridiculous with that setup | 
01-08-2013, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by J.Wolf That is sick randy.. You are evil! I bet that new bn6 sounds ridiculous with that setup | LOL...actually its a fretted AC6 in the shoot(kinda like Tom's)... the BN6 is next, when I win the the $7K...I just put a call into FBass (marcel) too see if they have any P900 in stock...they were sold out the last time we talked...the M212 will have to come later..I have to drop some gear first.
But ..you are right...It would be completley ridiculous sounding!!!
But when the P900 arrives Im going to gig through my Ampeg Heritage 8x10(4ohm) first (shrugs shoulders..dunno what that would sound like..but gotta try as its in the stable)...but gotta say the M212 is first on my list ...but the L215's keep calling me!!!!!could be better???LOL
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