Ditto!
It's all about a balance that works both on stage & in the marketplace.
Usually, in today's market, no compromise means non-competitive, but as usual, I could be wrong.
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Genzler Amplification ! New Genz Benz ?
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Ditto!
It's all about a balance that works both on stage & in the marketplace.
Usually, in today's market, no compromise means non-competitive, but as usual, I could be wrong.
As I am not afraid of too many knobs to tweak I would love to see the ShuttleMAX x.2 (or an evolution of them) back in production. There's nothing like these incredible amps on the market anymore.
Fender puts their Schematics online. I would expect that any company, including Fender, that is designing a product first looks at intellectual property they already own. And listens to their own line of amps to know what sounds and works good. The Fender schematics do have resemblance to the GB patent mentioned in this thread. Enough so, that I think they would have filed an infringement lawsuit if some other company had created so close a resemblance to the GB patent.
Fender is doing a 5-year transferable warranty. I don't think they could do that if they ignored any IP they already owned and had a track record.
Not once you are used to the thing.
Here is a photo of Cole Weston (one of Edward Weston's well know sons) in front of his somewhat different model than my old one. These are Saltzman photographic enlargers, built in the mid 20th century, done so with amazing craftsmanship, too, something not seen so much these days, unfortunately.
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Glad to hear you're back in the game, Jeff - it's good news for the bass world!
If you do requests, a well-built, fairly-compact solid-state (i.e. not Class D) head along the lines of a Walkabout for the 2010's would be marvellous.
Then again, if you have access to a class-D module that's a cut above what's general available these days, I'd be interested in that too
Good luck with the venture.
If you do requests, a well-built, fairly-compact solid-state (i.e. not Class D) head along the lines of a Walkabout for the 2010's would be marvellous.
Then again, if you have access to a class-D module that's a cut above what's general available these days, I'd be interested in that too
Good luck with the venture.
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I had a nice talk with Jeff at the Summer NAMM Show, and I am certainly very excited to see what he has coming down the pike! 
This right here. Why retread the past when so much of that gear is still floating around the used market? I love the thought process that went into the initial Genz products and am very excited to see the twists and turns it has taken over the past few years. I'm sure it will be a very new kind of beast in a very good way.
+1000
I love my Shuttle 3.0. It is the warmest sounding upright bass amp I have ever owned. I don't know what they used in this thing, fairy dust, Jazz flavored kryptonite, or Super hallucinogenic crack, but they freakin nailed it for the upright tone I love. Nice for electric too mind you, but without peer on upright IMHO.
I sometimes wish for a little more "warmth" on electric (maybe should have kept my 6.0-12T) but it's amazing none the less...especially for the size/weight.
I certainly understand when a designer doesn't want to redesign the same thing again,
but
For a bass amp, the Max has 95% of the possible features ever made:
The Great:
Light & small
Plenty powerful
Great inherent baked in EQ when set flat
Ability to be studio clean or add a little bit of tube warmth or grit
Separate tube and FET front ends
Quasi parametric EQ on both the tube and FET front ends
Effects send/returns for tube, FET, or both
Channel switching
Channel stacking
Mute switch
Global bass, mid, treble controls
Foot switchable for all the EQ and input stage functions
Tuner out
Reliable
Possible items to add:
A second tube as a driver like the Walkabout
Built in tuner
Other new designs:
All tube
A masterpiece is hard to top but I'm open minded; I will be anxious to see new ideas or designs
Never had the pleasure of using GB cabs so this could be a new avenue I'm not aware of
I'll put my wishlist item. My only experience with GB products was with the GBE 1200 which I thought was astounding. My one and only complaint, however, was that all of the EQ knobs used detents. Very nitpicky but I did find myself wanting to change to settings between detents. I don't know if the other GB amps used this same style but it would be nice to either have more resolution (3x-4x?) or non-detented knobs.
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I love the detents! Just goes to show we all have different tastes
I love the detents! Just goes to show we all have different tastes
I actually think I would prefer detents just more of them. Being able to index a setting to a known position would be very helpful indeed.
I know it's kind of contrary to their whole history with small, SS and tube preamp configurations, but do you wonder what a small, all tube Genz combo (a modern take on the B-15) might sound like?
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