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Bergantino B/Amp at NAMM

#83
I played it as well.
Spent a good chunk of time talking shop with the guys about their cabs as well ( neo vs ceramic). They confirmed what my ears and wallet told me fwiw.
That amp sounds very clean, very fast, and yes, kind of similar to a gk. Moved right up to the top of my gas list.
Class act all the way around at bergantino. Right at the top of my namm faves this year.
 
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husky123 said:
Yes I played Jim's new amp too. The feature set is amazing. Really liked his both and the fact you could instantly A/B all is cabs. For me, the 412T was the shiznit.
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BSD will have that capability to switch between all cabs.They're taking home pretty much
chadds said:
Cracks me up. :)

Doesn't matter what it is.

A designer comes out with a wifi/Bluetooth/USB/FireWire/HDMI/CAT9 footswitch and do you know what people want on it?

A footswitch. ;)
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It turns out that there will be a Bluetooth footswitch.
 
#85
chuck3 said:
Ohms and watts on both, also dimensions in inches. Potentially looking to put together a modular stack with a 410 and a 210. The weights on these are certainly attractive.
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The CN410 is 800 watts at 4 ohms, the CN210 is 400 watts at 8 ohms. The dimensions are identical to those of the HD series cabs which are listed on the Bergantino website.
 
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Luke the Fluke said:
:) more info would be amazing - I'm intrigued what the filter button/knob does too.... Wondering if the stock sound is the clean pristine sound you would expect and the filters add more "amp colour" in if needed.
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The filters adjust the amp to optimize the sound from each of his current cabs, so they don't add colour, they actually remove colour in a manner of speaking. By pushing the "Prog" button, you scroll through each cab name and put it on the one that corresponds to the cab you're using. Then you can tweak the sound with the EQ if you think you need to. Jim also has filters for each cab in circumstances where you might have to place it against a wall or in a corner. They will be available when the production models hit the street in 2 or 3 months. The ones at the show are prototypes. I asked him again about the possibility of doing filters for discontinued cabs and he said he may do them at a later time - he doesn't keep older models around, so he'd have to borrow some.
 
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MrLenny1 said:
Thanks Munji.
Nice to see amp design coming into the 21 century.
TC was the only one it seems that did something new with the RH series.
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What's cool about the B/Amp is that you can actually see what frequency you're setting on the little screen. On the TCE RH series, you had to use a chart to figure out how many clicks corresponded to a given frequency when setting the EQ midpoints. Jim showed the amp to Joey Lauricella today, and it took about a minute to run through the feature set. It's very intuitive with a flat learning curve. Tom Bowlus also dropped by to check it out.
 
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Munjibunga said:
BSD will have that capability to switch between all cabs.They're taking home pretty much

It turns out that there will be a Bluetooth footswitch.
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Oh I'm a fan!

Just making a funny that over the years on TB that's the immediate wish, a footswitch. Folks haven't even heard the new unit, they want a footswitch. It has one channel, they want a footswitch. Just had me chuckling.

Anyway, this unit is way up on my gas radar!
 
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Mike Arnopol said:
The amp looks pretty nifty. So 4 programmable bands? Anyone know if the Q is variable? I assume frequency centers are.
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from what I saw the Q is not variable. When I asked about it possibly being fully or semi parametric, the answer I got was "Sure, we could probably program that at some point, but we're still somewhat working on the Amp settings and other programming tasks we need to complete to get this to market".

IMHO, semi or fully para EQ would be a PITA to dial in at a gig on the fly given using the 4 front dials. If at some point it had a touchscreen editor/librarian capability (or some kind of floorboard interface) then I could see that being very gig worthy. Otherwise I can only see variable Q being useful as a stored program that you could dial in when in a familiar room.
 
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Munjibunga said:
Actually, Jim's in Hall E, which is notably quieter than the cacophonous upper halls, so you can actually hear what's being played. It's difficult to describe sound in words. I'll give it a shot after Sunday. The amp is clean and versatile. It's more akin to GK than Aguilar (but really has its own voice, which is to say not very much inherent coloration with everything at noon). I didn't spend much time dialing in different frequency centers, but I should have a chance to do that next week. I'll add more info in the next couple days. Clean and pristine would be appropriate adjectives.
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Yeah, but you can't hear it anywhere near gig volume (unless you play really low volume gigs). The db police at NAMM are pretty quick on the draw to shut people down. Given Jim's history, I have no doubt it will be a killer clean/big headroom amp.
 
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Hadn't seriously been in the market for a new amp till I got the email last week. Will have to retire my HD312 (212+112) as this only goes to 4ohms but now that have pa w/ sub for most my bigger gigs I'm using it less anyway.

With the cab presets I'd imagine this will be a very efficient set up. It will be interesting to hear how much I can get out of my HD212 with this thing!
 

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