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Divided By 13 TBL200 soundclips?

Hey guys, new to this forum, looks like this is the right place to ask about this.

Hopefully sometime next year i'm going to get a good bass amp. Right now i'm kinda in between the new Fender Bassman 100T and a Divided By 13 TBL 200.

I've never tried the TBL and i've only heard it once live in 2008 (Sean Hurley using them on the John Mayer tour) But i have two other Divided By 13 guitar amps which i love, so i'm sure it's badass too.

I'm just wondering if anybody here has some clips or a video of the TBL 200, i've searched every corner of the internet and can at most find some guys talk about it on this forum who really like it a lot.
I've read it kinda sounds like a mad Ampeg SVT from the 70's which i love.
The thing is, an Ampeg SVT stack will end up costing little over $5,200 in Denmark and i can get the TBL or Bassman 100T for around $3,000

The Bassman 100T sounds great and has some very cool features i really like, but i'm still very interested in the TBL
Has anybody tried it or have a sound clip/video/recording of it?
Can you tell me if i can get close to this Ben Kenney's tone with the TBL?
listen at 0:23, it's probably my favourite bass tone.

By the way, i use a Fender modern player Jaguar bass with Flats on, hopefully getting a MIJ Jazz bass next year too.
 
Thanks for your reply

I've seen the premier guitar rundown of his rig. I haven't tried the Walkabout scout myself, but correct me if i'm wrong, isn't it primarily a clean sounding amp? i think he uses the amp clean and uses the Fulltone Bassdrive (great pedal by the way) for gain
I really like when the amp is set so it doesn't need a pedal to get that kind of crunch.

Haven't heard the Traynor amps, will check it out.

Oh, forgot to mention, i'm a guitar player first, so please let me know if i'm off about something :)
 
Honestly, you could get that tone out of a variety of different rigs. The overdrive is pretty mild, and it sounds to me more like string buzz from digging in a bit more than overdrive, although there likely is some OD going on.

EDIT: I take that back. You do need some OD. I just tried it clean in the REDDI with my PJ and it wasn't quite the same.
 
@JimmyM
I've heard a little about the REDDI, is it a good thing to have if you record a lot? Right now i'm not gigging at all, but i record a lot of music for my band and i've only recently started micing the cab and recording the DI from the amp at the same time. I like that tone a lot more than just straight DI.
I'm using one of my friends EBS TD650 for tracking bass and it sounds great clean, but it just doesn't have the sound i like, i really like that slight breakup and that's really hard to get on the TD650.

@rodl2005
I'll have to try a walkabout scout if i can find one here in Denmark. I haven't tried that many bass amps. So far i like all tube amps the most, but i'm totally open to trying out many different amps, we just don't have that many interesting brands in Denmark.
So far i've liked the Bassman 100T and SVT-CL Heritage the most, but the Traynor looks interesting too.

Anybody know some other bands or players that use the TBL so i can search around some more and find some sound clips or anything?
 

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