for those on a budget,no shame with a redface

I had one this past year for awhile and thought it was actually quite nice. I paid next to nothing for it and the amp felt like a very high quality product. I liked the tube preamp and the simple but effective tone section.

I really hated the loud thump when the amp turned on and found it very easy to run out of headroom. To maximize headroom, I was keeping the low end flat, using no Enhance circuit and boosting only the mids a bit. The amp would still fart out fairly easily. I loved the tone but could get nowhere near the volume and punch that i could from my old 300 watt GK 800rb.

I sold off my Bass350 and bought a Shuttle 6.0. All I can say is, wow times are a changin! twice the power, much warmer tone, way louder and punchier, much better feature set and about twenty times lighter!

I dont miss the SWR at all but as you said, its a great amp at the used prices they are going for.

 

Well, maybe some people don't like those amps and they want something else. That could be one reason for not buying one.

 

i'll echo that last post.

ive found that most of the old GK stuff i have played blows the rest of the oldschool used market away, as far as solid state and hybrids are concerned....i wont even mention SVT's.

 

On the one hand, you have the 'amp du jour'. On the other, you have the amp that sounds good to you.

Pick accordingly.

 

What if they're one and the same? Or is that an impossibility?

 

that is entirely possible - but you may pay extra for marketing

 

I just sold an SWR Bass 350 for my church, and I have to admit that while I was testing it out, I considered keeping it and selling my TFB550. Of course, the TF sounds better, but $500 ($800 vs. $300) better? I dunno. But I had to keep the ThunderFunk, because a TFB550 can't be beat.