g'day guys,
there's been a bit of interest in the new Pro series Fender amplification. For those who don't know, the 215 Pro is a ported 2x15" + horn cab (with tweeter attenuation), 800 Watts RMS / 4 ohms.
I'm increasingly becoming a fan of old-school tone, so I ordered one on April 1st. It came in the next day, so far I've only had about 20 minutes instore with it, so here are my initial thoughts.
Although I'll eventually be getting a TB-600 head, all we had in the shop was the current Bassman 250 head to test it with. I dialled the tweeter totally off, plugged in a USA Standard P & let it rip.
In a word: beautiful. Plenty of highs even without the tweeter, and bottom end to die for. Like a bass should sound, if you listened to any music from the 70s. Rolling off the P's tone knob all the way gave a monstrous woolly dub sound, something I'm looking forward to doing at gigging volumes!
Dialling the tweeter to half way, and hitting the P's S1 switch gave me a nice slap tone - not razor sharp, but definitely slap. Not what I got it for, but I just figured I'd make the point that these are nowhere near as one-dimensional as many people would make out. A little bit of hiss came out of the tweeter (I was sitting right in front of it), but my Goliath Jr II was much worse for that before I disconnected the sorry thing.
So, the big test: getting it out of a suburban shopping centre, into my car (a compact Toyota Corolla station wagon) & out again into the garage at home. No worries: the tilt back casters run nice and smooth, and the handles are at just about the right height in transit. I was able to wheel the cab down a long ramp without much effort and no sense that it was about to get away from me.
Getting it into the car was MUCH easier than my old Trace Elliot 1248H due to the slide rails on the back. Just edge the cab up to the back of the car, crouch down and lift/tip (with a straight back!) and it'll go over nice and easy. There's handles on the bottom that make it a piece of cake to maneuver. If I turn mine sideways when I put it in, it fits perfectly behind the rear seats. Getting it back out was even easier.
10/10 for designing this thing to compensate for the weight - moving that old Trace around was absolutely terrible in comparison. I am SO looking forward to getting this into a jam room, or better yet, out on a gig - further reviews when I do!
Can't wait to get my hands on a TB-600 head, for that matter
c-
there's been a bit of interest in the new Pro series Fender amplification. For those who don't know, the 215 Pro is a ported 2x15" + horn cab (with tweeter attenuation), 800 Watts RMS / 4 ohms.
I'm increasingly becoming a fan of old-school tone, so I ordered one on April 1st. It came in the next day, so far I've only had about 20 minutes instore with it, so here are my initial thoughts.
Although I'll eventually be getting a TB-600 head, all we had in the shop was the current Bassman 250 head to test it with. I dialled the tweeter totally off, plugged in a USA Standard P & let it rip.
In a word: beautiful. Plenty of highs even without the tweeter, and bottom end to die for. Like a bass should sound, if you listened to any music from the 70s. Rolling off the P's tone knob all the way gave a monstrous woolly dub sound, something I'm looking forward to doing at gigging volumes!
Dialling the tweeter to half way, and hitting the P's S1 switch gave me a nice slap tone - not razor sharp, but definitely slap. Not what I got it for, but I just figured I'd make the point that these are nowhere near as one-dimensional as many people would make out. A little bit of hiss came out of the tweeter (I was sitting right in front of it), but my Goliath Jr II was much worse for that before I disconnected the sorry thing.
So, the big test: getting it out of a suburban shopping centre, into my car (a compact Toyota Corolla station wagon) & out again into the garage at home. No worries: the tilt back casters run nice and smooth, and the handles are at just about the right height in transit. I was able to wheel the cab down a long ramp without much effort and no sense that it was about to get away from me.
Getting it into the car was MUCH easier than my old Trace Elliot 1248H due to the slide rails on the back. Just edge the cab up to the back of the car, crouch down and lift/tip (with a straight back!) and it'll go over nice and easy. There's handles on the bottom that make it a piece of cake to maneuver. If I turn mine sideways when I put it in, it fits perfectly behind the rear seats. Getting it back out was even easier.
10/10 for designing this thing to compensate for the weight - moving that old Trace around was absolutely terrible in comparison. I am SO looking forward to getting this into a jam room, or better yet, out on a gig - further reviews when I do!
Can't wait to get my hands on a TB-600 head, for that matter
c-
