I'm thinking of getting a RedSub BP150 150W. To be honest the price and the specs look too good to be true.
Anyone had any experience with a RedSub amp?
Anyone had any experience with a RedSub amp?
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Anyone played a RedSub amp?
- Thread starter JoeBbass
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Never even heard of RedSub and that is saying something as I am on this bloody site all the time.
Lots of good reviews online and they look like cool amps!
Lots of good reviews online and they look like cool amps!
The info I found on these amps is sketchy at best. A lot of the same stuff repeated on different sites in various languages. No site for the company itself. Too many red flags for me, I'd pass on this amp.
These have come up before, best I can figure out they are a "house brand". House brand means someone builds then under contract for a specific owner (Like Bain Capital partner's Guitar Center/ Musician's Friend etals "Acoustic" house brand).
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These amps are, IMO, very good for their price. Build quality is excellent, and the sound they can produce for the price is phenomenal. I tried one at a friends house a year ago, and when compared to my Laney amp at home, it made me want to buy one. As weird as it could be, I'm GASing for a house-brand combo from a website based company......weird huh?
These amps are, IMO, very good for their price. Build quality is excellent, and the sound they can produce for the price is phenomenal. I tried one at a friends house a year ago, and when compared to my Laney amp at home, it made me want to buy one. As weird as it could be, I'm GASing for a house-brand combo from a website based company......weird huh?
I don't think it is weird at all. I like hearing about a "sleeper" brand. If they play and are as well built as you say it's something I can point people to on the east side of the pond
I don't think it is weird at all. I like hearing about a "sleeper" brand. If they play and are as well built as you say it's something I can point people to on the east side of the pond
I know, I just meant most people are looking for £2000 amps and everything, and I can't wait to get a £200 amp haha. I might try 2 BP150's and a Lehle P-Split Splitter to run both combos at once. This will mean 300w coming from 2x15 (essentially), with a safe high impedance split for £500 ($825). Not bad I think...
I think they're made by Beta Aivin (who also did the Ibanez Prometheans) and badged with the distributors brand.
This thread is from long ago now, but for anyone looking at a used RedSub in the 2020s, I have to say tha my RedSub BP30 practice amp is one of the best amps I’ve ever had. I have no experience of any larger amps they do, but I was previously using a Hartke Kickback 10 ad my practice amp, and that was a decent amp, but I spotted the RedSub in the corner of my musioc stor, used, VERY cheap, and out of curiosity tried it. I was so happy with the tone and performance of it that I took it home, sold the Hartke, and have not looked back. It’s 5 years later now, and this is still my practice amp in daily use. I love it. Beautifull warm tone, punchy, and surprisingly versatile. When I made enquiries about the brand, it had already gone. It was, as people have said, a house brand. Either of Thomann or Gera4Music - cant remember which.
Thread is from long ago, but I’ve picked up the 35W RedSub today for a meagre £10 on FB marketplace. Cleaned it up, it now looks new and it plays really well. I love the sound. I’m a guitar player, only got a bass to lay some tracks so didn’t want anything more than a practice amp, but this is way above some of the other offerings in the cheap price bracket. It was a Gear4Music offering according to YouTube videos.
