Who has used Ampeg svt-350 and what were your thoughts..

[Arnie]

I have found a few fairly inexpensive listed on craigslist.. Does inexpensive say it all?

IS any one happy with it?

[thedudebrah]

I used to have one years ago. I was always kinda "meh" about it. I remember it clipping a lot in a loud band situation and having a hard time finding a usable sound for me, though ymmv. I also experimented with using two of them into a split 810, and it didn't yield the results I had hoped for.



I was much happier once I got a CL.

[VanillaThundah]

It certainly wasn't an SVT-CL or VR...if that answers your question lol

[OneWayPunk]

People here hate on them a lot, I'm not sure why as my experience with mine was always good. I ran the head with an SVT15 and SVT210 stack or a Peavey 215D-BW cab. I always got props on my bass tone and had more than enough volume for a very loud band.
The trick to these heads is understanding how to set the gain knob and how the clipping light works. You need to set the gain to where the clipping LED is on pretty much all the time you play. Then adjust the volume to taste. Also they sound best running at 4 Ohms for some reason.
I would still be using mine if I had not switched to vintage tube Sunn heads. I gigged with it several times a week and toured with it all over the country playing very loud punk and rock.

Exact same head a a B2R just in an SVT headbox.

[fontez5]

I ran one for a loooooooooong time and my set up on it was simple: gain knob on full, limiter on, graphic eq off and adjust the remaining tone knobs and volume per taste. I ran it through an old 70's era 810. It was never super loud, but more than loud enough for the vast majority of the gigs I played. The only times I got drowned out were hardcore gigs where there was no PA support and I'm competing against guitarists running Mesa Triple Rectifier heads. Stupid. Other than that, I never had an issue with it and it sounded great for the music I was playing at the time, which was hardcore and indie rock.

[Sartori]

I was happy with mine for years, just my tastes changed a bit.

They're usually said to be underpowered here, but my experience was that it was always loud enough if I ignored the gain light.

I ran mine through an Ampeg 1x15 and Ashdown 2x10.

[Gearhead17]

A cold, but edgy sounding solid state Ampeg head. I think you are better off with something else. Not tube alike at all and little to no warmth from that head. It's a big amp head for not much output. Of course it will work, but I owned the B2R long enough to know this unit stinks....

[humble1]

Yeah, not a big fan here either.