Tec Puma Bass amps

[MrBEAR]

The M6 is more like aaaarghhhhh, and the Puma is more like aaaahhhhhhh

Excellent quip /analogy Ken.

Like people at a party, aaaahhhhhhh is the one you would like to take home but aaaarghhhhh is the one that everyone heard, took notice of and remembers hearing.

The M6 Carbine is a voice to be reckoned with.

Cheers,

Mr. BEAR

 

[vin*tone]

Excellent quip /analogy Ken.
The M6 Carbine is a voice to be reckoned with.

Curse their non-multitapped 110V power trannies!
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(Unit price in Australia......... $3995.00Au!)

 

[Honk'n_down-low]

OK this is a cool thread and the type of thread that makes this site so cool.

The down side is that they (threads like this) also make me GAS bad.

Tom and KJung you guys are such Gear Heads - it is cool.

Great perspectives on this gear from a lot people.

 

[KJung]

And speaking of being a gear head, the 40 pound S212 will be here tomorrow!

 

[Vic]

And speaking of being a gear head, the 40 pound S212 will be here tomorrow!

Actually, it should be well under that if the shipping weight is correct at only 41 pounds. Probably closer to 35 pounds or maybe even less.

 

[KJung]

Actually, it should be well under that if the shipping weight is correct at only 41 pounds. Probably closer to 35 pounds or maybe even less.

+1... that's what surprised me about that shipping weight.

 

[Tony G]

Actually, it should be well under that if the shipping weight is correct at only 41 pounds. Probably closer to 35 pounds or maybe even less.

How is that possible???

 

[Chef]

hi-tec(tm) alterna-gravity impregnated plywoods.

 

[KJung]

How is that possible???

I'll know tomorrow My guess is, the retailer just put the 'spec weight' on the UPS form, versus the actual, real, total package weight. That being said, the website says that the 210 and 212 are 'under 40 pounds'... so who knows!

 

[KJung]

hi-tec(tm) alterna-gravity impregnated plywoods.

That would explain the price

 

[KJung]

Nope, it's one of the the Powersoft (Digimod) ones according to a few different online vendors.

Guess what I'll likely be playing with in my next DIY bass head build?

As I posted a while back in this thread, the Puma500 has the best 'power amp limiting' I've ever heard. It stays totally even, and just 'stops getting louder' after a while when really pushed... no quashing, no clamping, no compressing of tone, nothing. It's wonderful. It almost sounded to me like there was some very specific, frequency specific limiting going on, like with the DSP circuitry in the Berg IP cabs.

Well, I just took the amp out of the TecAmp Rack Back, since I prefer a standard bag, etc., and noticed that there are a number of small, green LED's on the circuit board inside the amp (you can see them through the side air vent). I wonder if this is one of the Digimod class D amps that has the DSP capability that you mentioned (the PDF spec sheet on the Digimod power module lists optional DSP plug ins). Some are lit, and some aren't. Might this indicate a DSP setting?

It's one darn impressive amp, and I like it more and more as I get it in more playing situations. That creamy tone and low mid punch, combined with that uber clean, hi fi top end just makes my single coil Sadowsky J sound PERFECT It's almost like having a very high end studio compressor in the signal chain... very subtle, but the peaks just sound clean, balanced and beautiful when you are pushing the amp (slapping, etc.).

 

[Tony G]

This stuff just sounds killer. A year or two ago, I would have probably been all over this amp. Unfortunately, or foruntately (), this stuff is currently out of my price range.

 

[gruuv]

I love and hate this thread, all at the same time. . .

 

[fast slapper]

As I posted a while back in this thread, the Puma500 has the best 'power amp limiting' I've ever heard. It stays totally even, and just 'stops getting louder' after a while when really pushed... no quashing, no clamping, no compressing of tone, nothing. It's wonderful.

It's one darn impressive amp, and I like it more and more as I get it in more playing situations. That creamy tone and low mid punch, combined with that uber clean, hi fi top end just makes my single coil Sadowsky J sound PERFECT It's almost like having a very high end studio compressor in the signal chain... very subtle, but the peaks just sound clean, balanced and beautiful when you are pushing the amp (slapping, etc.).

Please stop...

 

[KJung]

Please stop...

Sorry I still love the MB heads, but it's all about the mix and match. This head and the Epi UL cabs with the Sadowsky bass is really speaking to me. It's a little bit too hi fi to really make the Alleva sing (the MB heads just LOVE that bass), but for my very aggressive Sadowsky MV5 with single coils, it's the bomb.

I can honestly say the Sadowsky/410UL(II)/Puma500 is the closest I've come (yet) to that 'perfect J bass through a studio board' sort of tone (that unique combination of grind and growl from the bass through a crystal clear, transparent amplification/speaker source) in various live settings.

 

[rok51]

Fascinating...but not in my budget.

 

[KJung]

Fascinating...but not in my budget.

I'll say again that this amp makes me even more amazed at the LMII. Half the price, and while a somewhat different tone, it's a tone that is 'just as good'.

I could die a happy man playing the gear you have listed in your profile

 

[Honk'n_down-low]

And speaking of being a gear head, the 40 pound S212 will be here tomorrow!

Can't wait to hear your thoughts (as I look around for what I can sell). And you have too many nice toys - you must of been a good boy in another life

I can't even tell you the Money I have spent since I joined this site.

 

[JimmyM]

I'll say again that this amp makes me even more amazed at the LMII. Half the price, and while a somewhat different tone, it's a tone that is 'just as good'.

I could die a happy man playing the gear you have listed in your profile

Yeah, but then you'd have to live in Crawfordville, which truly IS the armpit of Florida...sheesh, what a hick town! And coming from a guy who lives in Apopka, that's saying a lot!

 

[tombowlus]

FWIW, by my scale, that TechAmp 2x10 weighs 35.2 lbs. That is pretty darned light.