Friend in the audience snapped us at the SPCA fundraiser. MG 350 combo with BA 210 behind me. Man, it couldn't better if Warren Buffett was my uncle.
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Genzler Amplification Club
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Woof. What happened? One of the tubes get over-biased? Faulty local power? Nothing worse than a fire on stage....
Jeff Genzler
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- Feb 9, 2007
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- Currently GENZLER AMPLIFICATION / Formerly GENZ BENZ
Yes, descriptive comments about rigs "on fire" or my rig was "smokin", kind of makes me nervous.
Woof. What happened? One of the tubes get over-biased? Faulty local power? Nothing worse than a fire on stage....
Rest assured, it was 100% perfect in every way imaginable. It was just getting a “smoke bath” from the hazer sitting right next to it.Yes, descriptive comments about rigs "on fire" or my rig was "smokin", kind of makes me nervous.
Wanted to mention that I’m firmly in the Genzler camp now. I picked up a BA2-410-3 over the weekend to go with my Kinetix 800 and I’m loving it. Now I’m just patiently waiting for the 410-3 can cover to come back in stock so I can protect my investment.
After speaking with Jeff, I just ordered an MG350/BA10 combo. It'll do double duty as either the bottom end of my stereo keyboard setup (with my current Acoustic Array Pro on the top end) or as a stand-alone bass rig for the occasional bass gigs I play. Very excited! As I told Jeff, I have never had an amp or even full PA setup (including Yamaha, Hartke, SWR, Acoustic Image, Roland, Mackie, and other gear over the decades) that I could stand to play a sampled grand piano keyboard through. Compared to a real piano, it always sounded harsh and sterile, regardless of EQ and judicious use of great high quality outboard reverbs and delays. I had resigned myself to just sticking with Rhodes samples, which work much better live. Then... I tried my piano through the Acoustic Array Pro. Still not a real piano (and the samples will never be able to replace the acoustic interaction between real vibrating strings, nor the wide physical/acoustic footprint, of a real piano), but SO much better than anything else I've ever used or heard.
I'm excited to hear the fullness of the bottom end coupled with the smooth clarity of the top end of a the pair of Genzler combos on the keyboard rig!! Also, of course, am equally excited to have a truly great, small bass rig. Thanks, Jeff!
I'm excited to hear the fullness of the bottom end coupled with the smooth clarity of the top end of a the pair of Genzler combos on the keyboard rig!! Also, of course, am equally excited to have a truly great, small bass rig. Thanks, Jeff!
Did someone say BA 410????
Sorry….couldn’t help myself!
Sorry….couldn’t help myself!
Played an outdoor gig a couple weeks ago with the series 2 BA-410-3 and BA-115-3 powered by the Kinetix 800. Band is called Jive Machine and it’s a loud 8 piece funk/fusion band. On a particular song using octave (OC-5) and phaser (TC Helix; an amazingly wet and psychedelic phaser), and slapping hard, I turned around at the end of the gig and the rig BROKE A GLASS!!!
I had a beer in a glass about six or 8 inches directly in front of the line array of speakers on the wooden stage floor. There's no other explanation… It wasn't knocked over; there was still 2 inches
Of beer in the glass! And broken/shattered/splintered glass neatly piled 360 degrees around the glass. Check out this pic! Have you ever heard of this before? Amazing. I wish I took a picture of it before I moved it. Kicking myself for that. And yeah, I did drink the beer…Carefully poured into another glass. Rock n’ Roll!!!
I sent a picture to Jeff Genzler and this was his response:
“Wow, that is a first that I've heard of. Probably enough sound pressure at a specific frequency. That's crazy.
Thanks for sharing this.”
I had a beer in a glass about six or 8 inches directly in front of the line array of speakers on the wooden stage floor. There's no other explanation… It wasn't knocked over; there was still 2 inches
Of beer in the glass! And broken/shattered/splintered glass neatly piled 360 degrees around the glass. Check out this pic! Have you ever heard of this before? Amazing. I wish I took a picture of it before I moved it. Kicking myself for that. And yeah, I did drink the beer…Carefully poured into another glass. Rock n’ Roll!!!
I sent a picture to Jeff Genzler and this was his response:
“Wow, that is a first that I've heard of. Probably enough sound pressure at a specific frequency. That's crazy.
Thanks for sharing this.”
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Passive jazz into a Sadowsky preamp pedal to a Genzler rig...probably sounds alright.
There was a guy...I think on this very thread, but several years back, not long after the Genzler brand began, who had (IIRC) 3 stacks of MG800 on top of three BA12-3 cabs - that's right three amps and nine cabs, who blew the windows in his house out.
Anyone else remember that?
[Or am I still hallucinating?]
An interesting side note, I'm pretty sure he ended up mainly using an MG350-BA10-Combo with an extension BA10-2 cab.
