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Subway D800 is responsive as a spiderweb... mine is paired with Subway cabs which are super punchy.
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I use all sorts of crap when I play.
Current amps are Aguilar, Ampeg, GK. Current cabs are Aguilar, Ampeg, Eden, Epiphani, and Bergantino. I have a TC electronic and a fender combo. I'm regularly switching between active Stingrays, passive P-basses, other random things for fun. Sometimes I have a lot of effects. Sometimes its just a tuner.
Big rooms, small rooms, echo-y rooms, big outdoor spaces, I'll play them all.
No matter what I use, I always sound great with tight and punchy bass.
My secret? High Pass Filter. Try it. Its a lot cheaper than a new amp.
Current amps are Aguilar, Ampeg, GK. Current cabs are Aguilar, Ampeg, Eden, Epiphani, and Bergantino. I have a TC electronic and a fender combo. I'm regularly switching between active Stingrays, passive P-basses, other random things for fun. Sometimes I have a lot of effects. Sometimes its just a tuner.
Big rooms, small rooms, echo-y rooms, big outdoor spaces, I'll play them all.
No matter what I use, I always sound great with tight and punchy bass.
My secret? High Pass Filter. Try it. Its a lot cheaper than a new amp.
They're known for reaching their power ratings with LOW distortion. So in effect, they can seem more powerful than amps with higher power ratings because you can use more range on the volume knob. Might be the standard of which other brands aspire too but doesn't come cheap.
I knows what theys do! They're beautiful. I won't be super disappointed if I don't get to play through a Glockenlang rig, though I aspire to!
Head & shoulders above all else, Glockenklang Blue Rock & Reeves C225. With a HPF &
a sealed speaker cab. Look for slew rates & high Damping Factor. I haven't tried one
but I have read that the Crest CA9 is good, very high damping factor.
a sealed speaker cab. Look for slew rates & high Damping Factor. I haven't tried one
but I have read that the Crest CA9 is good, very high damping factor.
@Rickslick I have owned many amps and still own quite a few including TC, Mesa, GK and EBS. IMHO the EBS Reidmar 750 you are interested in has a fast and tight bass response, loaded with more slam than most other amps, capable of warmth and has a good built in compressor.
I ended up selling it eventually due to it's tone was not really what I was looking for, but it just might be the ticket for you. Good luck
I ended up selling it eventually due to it's tone was not really what I was looking for, but it just might be the ticket for you. Good luck
I have a Reidmar 502, and I like it for the clean, articulate, quick response it has. The onboard compressor is good, and the eq section is both useful and completely bypass-able. It definitely does not have the (intentionally) loose low end of the RH450.
It seems counterintuitive to “cut” the bass to get a big punchy bass sound but it really does work. I would have never tried it without reading TalkBass.
Tightest, most focused rig I've ever used - a Reeves Custom 225 with two Decibel Sound Implements 1x15 cabs. A properly made/tuned cabinet makes all the difference.
I'm a big fan of tight/punchy response with as little fluff/lag as possible. After many years of trying everything, I eventually landed on a GK MB212 (combo). Not only have I achieved that tight response I wanted, but people come up to me after gigs and tell me it sounds amazing, specifically how tight it sounds.
I often express my musical goal as a tonal extension of the drums so that my tone is tight enough that it starts and stops almost like a drum. I want it to sound like a tonal kick drum when I'm playing rhythmic parts. The GK gets me that effect without the extra costs, adjustments, and hassle of having a bunch of pedals or preamps.
I haven't tried the newer GK Legacy stuff, but I'd love to when I have the $$$ to try them. I would expect them to sound fairly similar and GK-y in that regard.
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I was just about to say "the cabinet is equally important if not more important depending on amp choice"....i guess i did say it lol
Hey @Rickslick, before you get rid of your TC, try this little bit with your EQ to see if it makes a difference for you. On your EQ, set the Bass at flat. With your semi-parametric, dial it to andywhere between 250Hz and 500Hz and then boost that up to about 1:30 or 2 o'clock. If you do any recordingn, use the 500Hz boost. If your sound honks at you, that's too much boost and you need to dial it back slowly until that disappears. Run your other EQ's flat and see what you think.
If you still get no love from your gear, I'd suggest a [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]. DNA is David Nordschow Amplification. It's the company he founded after he sold Eden and then finally left them in 2009. It's an 800-watt into 4Ω amp that can also go down to 2Ω if you need it. It doesn't have the semi-parametric controls that he used on his Eden amps but he's set up his EQ's with very musical frequency centers so it's easy to dial in a good sound. That bass is at 35Hz, the low-mids at 500Hz, the high-mids at 2KHz, and the treble is a shelving control boosting or cutting everything above the high-mids. It also has a Shape control that is adjustable over a very wide range and is far more usable than the Enhance control he used on his Eden amps.
One of the really nice things this amp has is an on-board compressor that has adjustable threshold and ratio controls. You can add a little bit of sustain with it all the way to really stomping the sound down with almost infinite sustain and no attack or decay. I actually use a fairly high setting on Cyndi Lauper's song Time After Time, but I don't squash it entirely flay. Anyhow you can get anything in between those with it. The sound is great and it's dead quiet because it doesn't use a fan. I love mine!
Here's a video of BassMusicianOnline.com going through it feature by feature. I've cued it up to the part where he first starts talking about the amp.
He's playing that demo through the [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] cab. I personally have both the DNS-210 and the [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]. I've yet to use them both at the same time although they make a good looking stack. I use the 210 cab for all inside venues because it will handle 700-watts rms and has a max SPL of 134db. I use it a lot of places where I needed to bring in a 410. I reserve my DNS-410 (1400-watts handling power with max SPL of 137db) for outside venues and Music Festivals. Both cabs have the same sonic qualities with incredibly clear sound as well as clean and articulate with very low and tight bottom end. The DNS-410 goes down to 37Hz frequency response and the 210 goes down to 34Hz.
Here's a shot of them stacked although only the DNS-210 was plugged in. It was the first time I used it and brought the 410 along for insurance. Wasn't needed. Still, looks cool! I was driving it with my 800-watt Eden amp bridged at 800-watts into the 210. Never got my master above 10 o'clock in this "almost larger" club.
I've been using a Mesa D800 for several years now and I haven't found a reason to change to something else for my primary amp unless a deal on the TT or WD model pops up. Even then I'd still think hard about switching because it's just so darn simple to dial in. I had an option for the gig I played on Halloween to use either it or my Ampeg V4BH, and the Mesa won hands down. Besides the 4 fold power difference at 8 ohms, the tightness factor you've described when played through the same sealed Ampeg 410HE cab made it a clear choice. The V4BH has that tube goodness, but not the raw oomph and tight feeling that the Mesa has. You really can't go wrong with anything from the Subway series!
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