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Genz Benz ShuttleMAX 9.0 Now A Reality

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I've got several MAX 9.2's in stock now. Yesterday, I sat down and A/B'd the Shuttle 9.0, the Shuttle MAX 9.2 and the Streamliner 900. The Shuttle 9.0 and the MAX 9.2 were quite similar tonally. The MAX 9.2 might be a little smoother down low, but I could also be imagining that. Whatever tonal differences are there are subtle at best. The main thing to me would be the addition of the FET preamp channel and the included footswitch. I imagine some of the power supply changes might also make a bigger difference at higher volume, but I wasn't cranking really loudly when I was doing my testing.

The Streamliners are clearly a different animal than the other two. I think of the Shuttle series as a modern, edgy tone, and the Streamliner is more on an old-school, round, fat, warm tone. You can warm up the Shuttle tone to some degree, and you can bring quite a bit of edge & drive/dirt to the Streamliner. But the two have very different starting points.
 
#176
RocketMusic said:
I've got several MAX 9.2's in stock now. Yesterday, I sat down and A/B'd the Shuttle 9.0, the Shuttle MAX 9.2 and the Streamliner 900. The Shuttle 9.0 and the MAX 9.2 were quite similar tonally. The MAX 9.2 might be a little smoother down low, but I could also be imagining that. Whatever tonal differences are there are subtle at best. The main thing to me would be the addition of the FET preamp channel and the included footswitch. I imagine some of the power supply changes might also make a bigger difference at higher volume, but I wasn't cranking really loudly when I was doing my testing.

The Streamliners are clearly a different animal than the other two. I think of the Shuttle series as a modern, edgy tone, and the Streamliner is more on an old-school, round, fat, warm tone. You can warm up the Shuttle tone to some degree, and you can bring quite a bit of edge & drive/dirt to the Streamliner. But the two have very different starting points.
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Set flat, I'd expect the tube channel of the 9.2 to be extremely close to the sound of the 9.0 (on a gig, probably indistinguishable). So yeah, the FET channel and, for the tweakers out there, the EQ options will be what set it apart from the 9.0.

From Ed Friedland's youtube clips, the ShuttleMax sounds quite a bit quicker across the spectrum than the Streamliner and of course, cleaner.

I need to get out and check the SMax 9.2 out, I suspect that by adding a little bit of lows and a touch of low mids that I would love it.
 

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