Well I'm loving this thing so far. Scored one for ~400 bucks used.
I'm wanted to get rid of my rack but retain its power....this thing seems to be just the ticket. Tried it at practice tonight.
Its got serious balls. The drive control works really well....its takes all my Spectors EMGs can give (which are very hot) and gives a really nice growl/crunch that cleans up extremely well.
This is not cheapie 'stuck on' tone suck fizzle like from a crappy overdrive pedal. I was not expecting such a use-able grind from the preamp. If my sansamp or muffn crapped out, then theres enough dirt to work with. At the moment I have a bit of brown-color from the BDDI, some tube dirt from the muffn and finally some solid state dirt from the B1500. Works very well.
EQ is smooth and musical and at very useful frequencies.
Its very loud - this is not a '1800watts for 2 miliseconds' type rating - its definitely up with the yorkville power amp its replacing. It can run at 2ohms and the 4 1/4 inch and 2 speakon connectors give some idea of the intended use of this thing...moving a lot of air!
With no high pass speaker protection the drivers really get thrown around. It survived my 'earthquake' pitchshifter test without overheating. Have not done a full performance/stress test though.
It was starting to be shaken off my carvin 1523 cab. Plenty of low end.
At 35 lbs its reasonably light considering its performance.
Fan is noisy.
I'm actually really relieved to be going back to a simple bass head... having to baby what is in effect an entire PA system on stage was just getting a bit silly. Some clipping or noise issue in the signal chain could result in concerned looks from band members while I fiddle in a rats nest of patch cables with a flashlight mumbling:
"the quantum bi-phase integrator is probably just clipping, I'll set the trans-neutrino fuzz inductor to 3 microwatts and that should do the trick. Or maybe not. Perhaps its the orgone transduction coil. Errrr....."
I'm hitting the 'down size' phase it seems. Except for speakers...I think you always need more of them
I'm not sure how it would stack up in my own personnal preference to other flagship highpower bass amps. The peavey pro 2000 looks like a very nice unit. The genz benz one has too many knobs IMO but I'm sure sounds great. Then theres traynor ampeg etc... be really curious to see how these all grind up with their tubes.
We'll see how long the honeymoon period lasts - but its such a well designed straightforward great sounding unit I can't see big issues unless it starts crapping out or otherwise misbehaving.
I'm wanted to get rid of my rack but retain its power....this thing seems to be just the ticket. Tried it at practice tonight.
Its got serious balls. The drive control works really well....its takes all my Spectors EMGs can give (which are very hot) and gives a really nice growl/crunch that cleans up extremely well.
This is not cheapie 'stuck on' tone suck fizzle like from a crappy overdrive pedal. I was not expecting such a use-able grind from the preamp. If my sansamp or muffn crapped out, then theres enough dirt to work with. At the moment I have a bit of brown-color from the BDDI, some tube dirt from the muffn and finally some solid state dirt from the B1500. Works very well.
EQ is smooth and musical and at very useful frequencies.
Its very loud - this is not a '1800watts for 2 miliseconds' type rating - its definitely up with the yorkville power amp its replacing. It can run at 2ohms and the 4 1/4 inch and 2 speakon connectors give some idea of the intended use of this thing...moving a lot of air!
With no high pass speaker protection the drivers really get thrown around. It survived my 'earthquake' pitchshifter test without overheating. Have not done a full performance/stress test though.
It was starting to be shaken off my carvin 1523 cab. Plenty of low end.
At 35 lbs its reasonably light considering its performance.
Fan is noisy.
I'm actually really relieved to be going back to a simple bass head... having to baby what is in effect an entire PA system on stage was just getting a bit silly. Some clipping or noise issue in the signal chain could result in concerned looks from band members while I fiddle in a rats nest of patch cables with a flashlight mumbling:
"the quantum bi-phase integrator is probably just clipping, I'll set the trans-neutrino fuzz inductor to 3 microwatts and that should do the trick. Or maybe not. Perhaps its the orgone transduction coil. Errrr....."
I'm hitting the 'down size' phase it seems. Except for speakers...I think you always need more of them
I'm not sure how it would stack up in my own personnal preference to other flagship highpower bass amps. The peavey pro 2000 looks like a very nice unit. The genz benz one has too many knobs IMO
but I'm sure sounds great. Then theres traynor ampeg etc... be really curious to see how these all grind up with their tubes. We'll see how long the honeymoon period lasts - but its such a well designed straightforward great sounding unit I can't see big issues unless it starts crapping out or otherwise misbehaving.
