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Not really. The form factor would not be pedal board friendly. As for using the Kinetix for recording, you can run the amp without speakers connected. We had that question asked a few times already.
My brother visited last week and brought his svt classic. He’s getting tired of hauling it in a road case up stairs, etc for gigs. To ally the Magellan stacks up just fine with the svt but, no amp will have that low end girth that a 300 watt power section provides. That is also the section that provides the really nice grind when pushed. I ran the Magellan preamp and Sansamp Paradriver v2 as preamps into the svt power section and preferred that sound. My brother is as pretty shocked. Ive told him these things for years but, sometimes you have to witness it for yourself. I have no doubt the kinetix amp is the next evolution but, it won’t have that girth. But, you may not even want that big sound. I can tell you, after moving that svt head again, I won’t ever gig with one again, I’d rather move the 810 any day.
. Yesterday I spent several hours comparing it to the other two amps I still own, a Mesa D-350 and an Aguilar TH-350. I've had several other amps I've parted with because they lost out to these two, so the Kinetix had some respectable competition. Long story made even longer, when I first hooked it up I was rather disappointed because it sounded rather boomy to me and the volume level I was getting didn't seem to match up with the levels I had set on the amp, even with the boost switch on. Then when I was getting ready to connect one of the other amps for my comparison I discovered that I had both speaker cables coming out from the back of the amp plugged into the same cab on the bottom of the stack. When I reconnected everything correctly it sounded like a beast! I'm still at the experimental stage with tone settings but I'll say that it's very easy to get a great tone without a lot of knob fiddling or switch flicking. The Stingray Special sounds wonderful through it, but then again it sounds great with the other two amps also. I am super impressed with how it makes my P bass sound, jaw dropping good! It sounds so organic and earthy, best it's ever sounded. It will really push these little 10" arrays and is capable of getting mighty loud. I can imagine 3 of these array cabs with the Kinetix would be a mini monster stack of doom. Not much to complain about with this amp I absolutely love it, but if I had to nitpick I wish the 3 tubes were visible through some sort of grill just for the coolness effect. Also, I wish it had a green or blue boost indicator light above the red mute light so that I wouldn't accidentally try to force the switch up when it was already on. I love that the fan noise is not too obtrusive and that the amp has a bit of heft to it so it sits pretty solidly on top of the speaker cab. This has now become my favorite amp. True, it's still in the honeymoon stage but I think this is one marriage that's going to last. Great job Jeff!
@BassTheory --- thanks for the question, and I believe that you've made the purchase in Australia. I think you'll find that the Kinetix will bring your MG-12T-V cabs to life and there certainly is an SVT flavor within this amp design. They can certainly handle the power of thiis amp. The FAT and LEAN settings might be something to experiment with, along with a little EQ as needed. Perhaps a little GAIN boost alng wiht a push in the Upper Mids to get some of the SVT growl.
Yiew!
Shouldn’t be any problem, the impedance the amp sees is simply the impedance of the single cabinet.
