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[DWBass]

Just picked up a mint, never used or gigged TC Electronic K210 for a really good deal. The guy bought it for a project that never happened so it sat around unused for several years. Mainly going to use it for rehearsals and small gigs. Sounded really good through my GK MB200 amp.

 

[Wicked G]

Nice score. I still have and use my K212's. I've used an RH750, RH450, BH800, GK 700rb II, Orange Terror Bass and Orange 4 Stroke with them and all have sounded great. Congratulations.

 

[MarkA]

Just picked up a mint, never used or gigged TC Electronic K210 for a really good deal. The guy bought it for a project that never happened so it sat around unused for several years. Mainly going to use it for rehearsals and small gigs. Sounded really good through my GK MB200 amp.

Coolio -- don't know much about the cab, but it's got a racing stripe, so I am automatically intrigued.

Nice score. I still have and use my K212's. I've used an RH750, RH450, BH800, GK 700rb II, Orange Terror Bass and Orange 4 Stroke with them and all have sounded great. Congratulations.

I've got a 4-Stroke -- just a little quirky, in some ways, but a solid, underrated amp, I think.

 

[Nebadon2000]

Nice score. I still have and use my K212's. I've used an RH750, RH450, BH800, GK 700rb II, Orange Terror Bass and Orange 4 Stroke with them and all have sounded great. Congratulations.

Seems your a 'Gigalo' when it comes to Amps but not alone on TB

 

[MegaSwing]

Looks like the perfect tool for the task, giggable in a pinch, and cheap to keep, which are ideal circumstances for rehearsal gear. Congrats!

 

[6thplanet]

Yeah, cool looking cab! Dig the stripe.

 

[Wicked G]

Coolio -- don't know much about the cab, but it's got a racing stripe, so I am automatically intrigued.

I've got a 4-Stroke -- just a little quirky, in some ways, but a solid, underrated amp, I think.

Quirky? How so?

 

[4Mal]

IME the MB-200 sounds good through just about anything. It's an easy amp to love...

 

[60bass]

I bought one of these once it was the 212 and I had to return it because it just had some kind of a weird sympathetic vibration coming out of it. I actually think it had a loose brace inside or something to that effect but I definitely returned it. I didn't like the overall sound of it either. I much preferred the sound of the RS series cabinets that I already owned. I ran two of the RS112 single 12 cabinets off of my RH 450 and I really liked that tone. It's a shame TC had to quit making those. I absolutely loved the tube drive circuit that was in those RH heads. I regret selling mine because I have yet to find a pedal that can duplicate that sound as well as the built in one in the RH.

 

[MarkA]

Quirky? How so?

Hmm... for me, a few little things:

• You can only turn the compressor fully off with a footswitch (though it is barely on with the knob fully counter-clockwise -- and the sound is a little more full, that way, than with the compressor truly disengaged, so it's actually kinda nice).
• The funky stepped knobs on everything -- I get that this makes settings more quickly and easily reproducible, but sometimes (with the volume knob when practicing at home, with the EQ when sweeping to find a frequency I want) I want to set it somewhere in-between those (IMO, widely-spaced) clicks -- I'd rather the knobs weren't stepped (as on my Thunderfunk 550B) or that the steps were more finely-grained (as on my old Genz head).
• I'd rather that the Q on the lower two semi-parametric bands was a little wider -- for my taste, this would make their response a little more musical -- but this is partly a matter of personal taste and there are times when the narrower Q (it's not that narrow) might be preferable.
• The D.I. is post master-volume (it was on the old Mesa Walkabout, too -- Mesa had their reasons for doing it, and said that the DI would lose a little mojo when configured pre-master volume and perhaps Orange do, as well). Hasn't been a big deal for me (and wasn't with the WA) in practice (lots of tube preamps -- and any mic-ed guitar cab -- are that way), but a thing, nonetheless.

All that said, I actually really dig the amp -- tried it at the mom-n-pop music store (sadly gone now) in the town north and came back a few days later with my Eich T-900 (which I liked) and my cab and played them back-and-forth. I took the 4-Stroke home that day and (even though it fit in my gigbag) sold the Eich. The 4-Stroke was more articulate than the Eich (which is an articulate amp), has a lovely, even, and un-hyped voicing with knobs at noon, is more open (top and bottom) and less compressed (at bottom) than the TFunk (though the TFunk has a better EQ and a certain vibe), and, despite my quibbles with the EQ, I think four semi-para bands are a brillliant choice and it's useful live.

(Apologies, everyone, for the derail!)

BTW, I just looked at some images of the K-series cabs. I didn't know (or forgot) that they all had that racing stripe -- I thought yours was a custom job, @DWBass!

 

[Wicked G]

Hmm... for me, a few little things:

• You can only turn the compressor fully off with a footswitch (though it is barely on with the knob fully counter-clockwise -- and the sound is a little more full, that way, than with the compressor truly disengaged, so it's actually kinda nice).
• The funky stepped knobs on everything -- I get that this makes settings more quickly and easily reproducible, but sometimes (with the volume knob when practicing at home, with the EQ when sweeping to find a frequency I want) I want to set it somewhere in-between those (IMO, widely-spaced) clicks -- I'd rather the knobs weren't stepped (as on my Thunderfunk 550B) or that the steps were more finely-grained (as on my old Genz head).
• I'd rather that the Q on the lower two semi-parametric bands was a little wider -- for my taste, this would make their response a little more musical -- but this is partly a matter of personal taste and there are times when the narrower Q (it's not that narrow) might be preferable.
• The D.I. is post master-volume (it was on the old Mesa Walkabout, too -- Mesa had their reasons for doing it, and said that the DI would lose a little mojo when configured pre-master volume and perhaps Orange do, as well). Hasn't been a big deal for me (and wasn't with the WA) in practice (lots of tube preamps -- and any mic-ed guitar cab -- are that way), but a thing, nonetheless.

All that said, I actually really dig the amp -- tried it at the mom-n-pop music store (sadly gone now) in the town north and came back a few days later with my Eich T-900 (which I liked) and my cab and played them back-and-forth. I took the 4-Stroke home that day and (even though it fit in my gigbag) sold the Eich. The 4-Stroke was more articulate than the Eich (which is an articulate amp), has a lovely, even, and un-hyped voicing with knobs at noon, is more open (top and bottom) and less compressed (at bottom) than the TFunk (though the TFunk has a better EQ and a certain vibe), and, despite my quibbles with the EQ, I think four semi-para bands are a brillliant choice and it's useful live.

(Apologies, everyone, for the derail!)

BTW, I just looked at some images of the K-series cabs. I didn't know (or forgot) that they all had that racing stripe -- I thought yours was a custom job, @DWBass!

Ok now that you pointed all that out, yeah it is kinda quirly . I think for me the biggest annoyances are the detents on the volume knob and the DI being post master volume. I like raising the compressor past 12:00 as it goes from thumpy to a bit gritty. As for the K210 TC Electronic added the racing stripe to make those cabs perform faster .

 

[Wicked G]

I bought one of these once it was the 212 and I had to return it because it just had some kind of a weird sympathetic vibration coming out of it. I actually think it had a loose brace inside or something to that effect but I definitely returned it. I didn't like the overall sound of it either. I much preferred the sound of the RS series cabinets that I already owned. I ran two of the RS112 single 12 cabinets off of my RH 450 and I really liked that tone. It's a shame TC had to quit making those. I absolutely loved the tube drive circuit that was in those RH heads. I regret selling mine because I have yet to find a pedal that can duplicate that sound as well as the built in one in the RH.

Yeah I agree, I also own two RS210's and I like those better that the K212's. The RS210's are more midrangy while the K212 sounds deeper. but both are still good which is why I still own them. And the RH450 and RH750 are also keepers. I've owned both now for 12 years and they are still not going anywhere.

 

[60bass]

Yeah I agree, I also own two RS210's and I like those better that the K212's. The RS210's are more midrangy while the K212 sounds deeper. but both are still good which is why I still own them. And the RH450 and RH750 are also keepers. I've owned both now for 12 years and they are still not going anywhere.

Yeah I honestly regret selling my 450 even though the guy that bought it was doing a praise and worship gig and definitely needed an amp. So I was glad to be able to give him a fair price on it. I thought about picking up another one but since TC's pretty much bit the dust as far as that series is concerned I was worried about getting parts down the road. I mentioned that to the guy that bought it and he said that he was unconcerned about that and it was going to be a stepping stone amp for him till he was ready to move up to something different. I told him if he ever wanted to sell it to let me know.

 

[MarkA]

...TC Electronic added the racing stripe to make those cabs perform faster...

I'm contemplating secretly adding discretely-placed racing stripes to all the clocks at work. Perhaps there's a way to make them work for Zoom meetings, too.

(Okay, I"ll stop now. I've always liked the vertical 2x form-factor. Congrats, @DWBass, on your find!)

 

[DWBass]

Had 2 gigs this weekend and I used the cab with my GK MB200 which pumps only 140w @8ohms. Sounded great and did an awesome job. I may search for another one but it needs to be in similar condition. Maybe the 2x12 version. These bring the boom.