I just saw this on the back cover of BP Magazine! This is so cool!
200 watts at 28lbs 1x12 speaker! This could be the one for me.
200 watts at 28lbs 1x12 speaker! This could be the one for me.
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New GK MB112 combo
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I just saw this on the back cover of BP Magazine! This is so cool!
200 watts at 28lbs 1x12 speaker! This could be the one for me.
How often have you said this about a piece of music equipment?
I saw it on the back of BP too.
Anybody heard a price yet?
I just bought the MB115, I may have to have the 112 too to replace my old 200MB.
I like a single 12 for jazz gigs and a the extra oomph of a 15 for rock.
This new MB series is amazing for their price/performance ratio.
Anybody heard a price yet?
I just bought the MB115, I may have to have the 112 too to replace my old 200MB.
I like a single 12 for jazz gigs and a the extra oomph of a 15 for rock.
This new MB series is amazing for their price/performance ratio.
Quick google search, only found one place selling them at $300. Nothing about it on the GK website I can find. This has probably been posted but is the amp removable.
This whole series of new GK combo's seems like a winner to me, and I haven't used a GK amp since 1988.
I have the MB115 and it is great. I think I chose it over the 112 because it has a limiter switch and horn. If it is anything like the 115 its a winner.
these have been known for awhile now.....
and I believe the 112 has a DI XLR out.
Last time I checked, the ETA was in Jan for these.
And its a 112 combo that costs under 300 bucks. Lets put reasonable expectations on it.
and I believe the 112 has a DI XLR out.
Last time I checked, the ETA was in Jan for these.
And its a 112 combo that costs under 300 bucks. Lets put reasonable expectations on it.
I've asked everyone for GC gift Cards for Christmas, I'll also be selling my present amp and a few other things so I can get a MB115. 200 watts and easy on the back, it's a no-brainer, especially for us geezer bassists! 
I was going to buy the MB210 or MB115 - had tried them with both P and Jazz (I have vintage ones of both models) and the sound was honestly stunningly good - NO dead spots, and all my SWR's and every rack system (remember those? ;-) ) seemed to have a "D" or "F" that fell into a black hole somewhere.
Then I saw the 112 sitting in a corner (I was at a SA store - normally the place I go only for used effects pedals for 6-string, as they price them below cheap eBay prices - especially rare ones they can't figure out!) - I thought "WTH" and plugged in with a Jazz and was floored. I liked it *better* than the big brothers.
The limitations - few controls, no ext speaker out - didn't bother me. Gallien knows his tone from a true engineering standpoint (hence his "reverse" tone stack moving from treble to bass) and nowadays every large venue has a direct-inject line; smaller places this thing will bury. It's loud. REALLY loud. And the gain control (yes, "gain"...not volume. It controls what's going into the entire circuit, NOT what's coming OUT. Unique and it took me a few minutes to grasp the difference in how to work with the tone controls, which change bandwidth as the gain is increased) just keeps going - I could turn it up to a glass-shattering level with a clean but very warm sound. With no token tube.
Plus I have a bad back and just can't handle lugging my old gear around anymore. So I pulled out my iPhone, found an ad for $299, showed it to a sales guy and he matched it on the spot.
What really amazed me is when I got it home I plugged my old Fender pedal steel into it (highly modified, tons of effects...but still...) and it was better than my BF Vibroverb. So I tried it with a Tele - same results. Warm, greasy and it actually broke up with 6-string at reasonable levels like a 40-ish watt tube amp. But with bass - clean city no matter how loud.
As a die-hard tube amp guy when it comes to 6-string I *probably* won't use it that way...but if my back feels like cr*p I might give it a shot. I swear, it weighs FAR less than my pedalboard!
So I sold my Baby Blue. Kept my aged PB-200 just on principal, but away went the cab. I figure if I REALLY need more push I can borrow a cab for the PB-200 and run it and the MB112 in stereo.
I've played most of the combo and smaller head/cab setups in local stores (Mark Bass, Hartke, Ampeg, Fender, Behringer..ech...Line 6, SWR, Orange, Genz Benz trying to find a lightweight amp that wouldn't kill me physically - but I was not going to change if the one wasn't there. These ultralight GK combos, at least for me (I'm a "below the 7th fret" player who does not pop or slap) have the tone in spades and the weight's a lifesaver.
Then I saw the 112 sitting in a corner (I was at a SA store - normally the place I go only for used effects pedals for 6-string, as they price them below cheap eBay prices - especially rare ones they can't figure out!) - I thought "WTH" and plugged in with a Jazz and was floored. I liked it *better* than the big brothers.
The limitations - few controls, no ext speaker out - didn't bother me. Gallien knows his tone from a true engineering standpoint (hence his "reverse" tone stack moving from treble to bass) and nowadays every large venue has a direct-inject line; smaller places this thing will bury. It's loud. REALLY loud. And the gain control (yes, "gain"...not volume. It controls what's going into the entire circuit, NOT what's coming OUT. Unique and it took me a few minutes to grasp the difference in how to work with the tone controls, which change bandwidth as the gain is increased) just keeps going - I could turn it up to a glass-shattering level with a clean but very warm sound. With no token tube.
Plus I have a bad back and just can't handle lugging my old gear around anymore. So I pulled out my iPhone, found an ad for $299, showed it to a sales guy and he matched it on the spot.
What really amazed me is when I got it home I plugged my old Fender pedal steel into it (highly modified, tons of effects...but still...) and it was better than my BF Vibroverb. So I tried it with a Tele - same results. Warm, greasy and it actually broke up with 6-string at reasonable levels like a 40-ish watt tube amp. But with bass - clean city no matter how loud.
As a die-hard tube amp guy when it comes to 6-string I *probably* won't use it that way...but if my back feels like cr*p I might give it a shot. I swear, it weighs FAR less than my pedalboard!
So I sold my Baby Blue. Kept my aged PB-200 just on principal, but away went the cab. I figure if I REALLY need more push I can borrow a cab for the PB-200 and run it and the MB112 in stereo.
I've played most of the combo and smaller head/cab setups in local stores (Mark Bass, Hartke, Ampeg, Fender, Behringer..ech...Line 6, SWR, Orange, Genz Benz trying to find a lightweight amp that wouldn't kill me physically - but I was not going to change if the one wasn't there. These ultralight GK combos, at least for me (I'm a "below the 7th fret" player who does not pop or slap) have the tone in spades and the weight's a lifesaver.
