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Gk tone.

#21
Rockman said:
Its not the head its the bass:hiding: Seriously though I see you are playing a schecter. I've been playing everything from a stringray to a lakland to a conklin through the gk into avatars epifanis and aguilars, and the only time I thought it was "tinny" was when I put on new strings. At least thats just been my experience.
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I play musicmans and Warwicks and my experience is the same as the op's.
 
#24
crustychef said:
I could be the cabs too. I've really never been impressed with GK cabs. Not enough thickness. They cut like chainsaws but just don't hit me like a my TC's or Aguilar's.
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This - I love my 700rb-II, but don't care much for G-K's cabs... I've been able to get a killer sound out of a 700rb-II out of these cabs:

Mesa PH 610, 810, 215
SWR Goliath Sr and Megoliath
Ampeg SVT-410HLF and 810e

...and a few others - basically, it's sounded great thru everything except G-K cabs...


- georgestrings
 
#29
From my experience GK1001 and 700RB heads are "edgy" in the treble region and the classic neo "hump" (peak around 1-2khz ) = "tinny"

I was never able to EQ that out of the head without getting dark real fast which I why I keep selling them after two weeks. I also found this to be true with the Mesa Powerhouse series Neo speakers. I just picked up a Bergantino AE212 and I noticed there seems to be zero "clack" in that upper frequency region and I think Aguilar is also engineering their cross-overs to filter or notch out this irritating peak.

Good luck.
 
#31
Rockman said:
Its not the head its the bass:hiding: Seriously though I see you are playing a schecter. I've been playing everything from a stringray to a lakland to a conklin through the gk into avatars epifanis and aguilars, and the only time I thought it was "tinny" was when I put on new strings. At least thats just been my experience.
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It is not his bass, I have a Schecter Elite 5 that I use as my back up bass, and it doesn't have a tinny, or thin sound. Everyone has him spending money when it could just be the way he has his amp set (EQ). K.I.S.S it could be a lot cheaper.:D
 
#33
I think you should try a different cab. I had a 700rbII with an Eden 410xlt and it sounded amazing. Got lots of punch, growl and I was able to get any sound out of it. I sold my Eden cab and bought a GK 410rhb... guess what? I sold it after a week. GK makes great amps but they need to work on their cabs.
 
#34
I have 2 700rbIIs and 2 800rbs and run them through Hartke 115 Hydrive, 410xl and Ampeg 210CL. In any combination, they never sound tinny to me. I run the EQ basically flat and dial in some low mid for punch if needed when I do a wireless walk for sound check. The environment I play in may dictate some EQ adjustments to kill boom or ad punch. The thing I do like is that with the EQ flat, the P-bass, Stinrays, and L1000s all have their own tone personality come through and no adjustments needed. I guess I could make them sound tinny if I turned on the horns and pumped up the high end on the EQ but why?

Very happy with the 700rbII and 800rb.
 
#35
Wes, i like your advice, and to the guy that said its my bass, its not because I own more than one bass (ESP, Fender Pbass deluxe, SR600, Just dont have them listed on TB) ,and i tried them all back to back, and over and over again. Its just not the sound I was hoping for. My band mates been trying to convince me to by a Ampeg SVT410HLF but I on the other hand want 2 112's so I won't have to depend on them to carry around for me while I recovering from my spinal fusion.
 
#36
Wow, alot of you all seem to have had the same outcome with the tinny sound that I discribed. It's not costing me that much money since I can still return the cab which I did today, so problem solved and lesson learned, I hope.
 
#38
georgestrings said:
This - I love my 700rb-II, but don't care much for G-K's cabs... I've been able to get a killer sound out of a 700rb-II out of these cabs:

Mesa PH 610, 810, 215
SWR Goliath Sr and Megoliath
Ampeg SVT-410HLF and 810e

...and a few others - basically, it's sounded great thru everything except G-K cabs...


- georgestrings
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Thanks man, I will try and try out some of your suggestions.
 
#39
Yeah, Schecter + GK head +Gk cab is like the perfect storm of midrange icepick tone.
I used to like how GK's could do that until I embraced the "bass" aspect of bassplaying. It certainly works for some of the bass slapping folks! I mean come on the Gk preamp has t high boost, low cut and mid cut? That is gonna make a tinny as hell tone if more than one of those is pushed in.
 

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