Gems Benz Streamliner 600 vs Aguilar Tonehammer 500

SL 600's all tube preamp will be hard to beat. There's a thread on how great the class D section sounds when it's breaking up. I'll dig that up for you if you can't find it. On a stupid phone now, but it was recent.

 

Option 1. Buy your mate's SL off him.

Option 2. Buy another SL.

There's a lot of them traded around TB as they were once TB amp of the several months. I think that lasted until GB was disbanded.

 

Ran my Streamliner at 16 ohms tonight -- a revelation

I already did option 1 and 2, now what's option 3?

 

Sell one to the OP so you can try a Mesa Prodigy?

 

I could just keep it and try the prodigy.

 

IMHO, the Streamliner and Aggie GS112 cabs are NOT a good match.
Way too much low end going on there. The Tonehammer is a much better match for the GS cabs.

 

Can that not be dialed back?

 

Well, to some degree but both the amp and cabs are very bottom heavy. You'd have to do a lot of knob twiddling to tame the lows and find the mids. My friend had a Streamliner 900 and the GS112s. He struggled to get a balanced tone. I also have GS112s but with a Tonehammer 500 which has much more pronounced mids. With a Jazz Bass it's tone heaven for me.

 

Cool. I like dark/old school, so my perceptions may be different.

 

Wait... I just re-read the OP's OP. The aggy's are borrowed and he likes the tone of the SL. Back to Streamliner.

 

A too fat bottom can be put on a strict HPF diet and make the bass knob into a low mid bumper.