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The Kustom Club

#161
We recently got a new, very experienced drummer for our band, and he told me he really liked the sound of my band rig. That comes from a person with a lot of mileage and with a deep care about the synergy of drums and bass to form the hartbeat of the band.

The head is a EBS Reidmar, easy to carry, but a really powerful and punchy sound that is amazing considering the size and the specifications. (For band use this is an upgrade from my TC BH250 head. I love my BH250, but the Reidmar has more punch).
The cabs are a stack of the reasonably priced Kustom Deep End DE115H + D210H.
10" punch combined with 15" depth really works wonders, and even if I have to take a couple of trips to the car, this stack can be moved by a single person without breaking the back and fits in a normal family car.

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#163
Hello guys!

I asked, but noone answer.. So I hope maybe I got my answers here:

I need to buy some spare head, to use for rehearsal and jams with friends, so i find this little guy and with nice price..
It is Kustom KXB 200 HR and I need to know is it capable to cope with drums and one or two guitars? In terms of
rehearsals, jams and who knows, maybe some gig (as a "just in case" head, maybe it'll see some action sometimes).
And, can it run like 410 or 215/12..

thanks in advance
cheers
Marko
 
#164
parker 71 said:
Hello guys!

I asked, but noone answer.. So I hope maybe I got my answers here:

I need to buy some spare head, to use for rehearsal and jams with friends, so i find this little guy and with nice price..
It is Kustom KXB 200 HR and I need to know is it capable to cope with drums and one or two guitars? In terms of
rehearsals, jams and who knows, maybe some gig (as a "just in case" head, maybe it'll see some action sometimes).
And, can it run like 410 or 215/12..

thanks in advance
cheers
Marko
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The Invalid Link Removed indicates that this amp is rated 200 watts into 4 ohms. Be sure to run it at 4 ohms with as many speakers as you can (at least a 410 or a 2x15). In modern terms you're limited in power so you need speaker area to get the most out of this amp.
 
#165
cchorney said:
Can I get a number too please? I've got a Kustom 250 with 215 ported cab, all black Tuck-n-roll, all original. (yes that is a second identical Kustom 250 head in the photo, and no I don't run them both at the same time - I just couldn't resist the opportunity to pick up a second one when the opportunity presented itself!)

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I had a 250 like this with the maching cab I think it was a 79 but I had to sell it. That's why my name here is Kustom thunder it was the rig I had when I joined
 
#167
Paid a visit to my favorite local indie shop this evening. They had an Eden WT-400 with a matching 210 but it had no definition to it at all, just lows.

For grins I dusted off a lonely and forgotten K250 w/black TnR and ran it into the same cab. Violá, full-range tone began emanating from the rig. Aside from a small amount of hiss, it was a vast improvement over the Eden head. This was also with the tone controls set flat.

THEN I turned the volume up. The little 210 (rated at 500 watts) started to beg for mercy. It was unreal how much volume that underrated head was delivering - it was just killing that cabinet! The poor, little drivers were farting like crazy, helpless against my low B.

I'd love to hear what it would do through my GK fridge. It would probably level the building.

Raz
 
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Razman said:
Paid a visit to my favorite local indie shop this evening. They had an Eden WT-400 with a matching 210 but it had no definition to it at all, just lows.

For grins I dusted off a lonely and forgotten K250 w/black TnR and ran it into the same cab. Violá, full-range tone began emanating from the rig. Aside from a small amount of hiss, it was a vast improvement over the Eden head. This was also with the tone controls set flat.

THEN I turned the volume up. The little 210 (rated at 500 watts) started to beg for mercy. It was unreal how much volume that underrated head was delivering - it was just killing that cabinet! The poor, little drivers were farting like crazy, helpless against my low B....
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Depending on how you had the tone controls set, you were probably using a large amount of bass boost. The Kustom will probably have a passive tone stack which generally means that "flat" for the bass control is around 2 to 4. But yes, they're great sounding amps.
 
#172
I had a K250 215 stack awhile back and now the guy I sold it to wants to sell me the head back. I told him I wasn't that interested but think I may offer him a price on the cab and run it with my Ampeg V4B. I am thinking of putting in a set of JBL K 140s in it and running it at 4 ohms since the cab was nearly mint, I may pass it up if I cannot grab the cab.
 
#173
I just recently bought a vintage kustom k250 from my local music store. It's a late 70's model so it has the tolex no tuck and roll. Sounds amazing. It came with a vintage kustom 4-10 pa speaker the previous owner user for a cab. Funny story about when I bought it too. I was looking around the shop for a while. A guy was there talking to the shop owner for a while. Just as I was about to leave the guy asked if I even took a look at the kustom in the corner. He said he was the one selling it on consignment and he'd give it to me for $150 instead of $300(his original asking price). Before I could even answer he said $125. So I said I'd take a look at it. I fell in love with the thing and bought it. So the guy offers to help me load it and I told him I live a few blocks I walked so he offered to let me drive his car (a 76 nova) home to drop it off and back. My friend has a tube pre amp we are going to mount inside of it and make this thing a hybrid custom kustom.
 

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johnk_10 said:
last Christmas my GF said that her son was interested in playing bass, so i got him a MIM P bass and a Kustom KBA100 (15" speaker) for Christmas. i am really impressed (and surprised) at how good it sounds. it easily has enough power to play with a fairly loud rock band as it seems alot louder than a 100watt amp.

now me, being an old school guy, i really dig my old '69 K200, although i think that the KBA100 feels more powerful.
my first experience with Kustom was at the hollywood paladium at the '69 "teenage fair" , using a cascade K200 with two 2-15 JBL cabs, and i've loved them ever since.

my charcoal silver K200:

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Any beta on how to date these things? My uncle gave me his around 83-84? I still play through occasionally.
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I have a question, because my research hasn't yielded any real answers.

About 10 years ago I tried a small Kustom bass amp at a pawn shop. I can't remember the model number. It was compact, but unusual--to me--because it was quite deep (think rectangular box laying on it's side, not on it's end). The controls were the basic bass-mid-high. It was quite punchy and loud for it's size.

Does anyone have any idea what model Kustom it might have been? TIA!
 
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Tonedeaf Hack said:
I have a question, because my research hasn't yielded any real answers.

About 10 years ago I tried a small Kustom bass amp at a pawn shop. I can't remember the model number. It was compact, but unusual--to me--because it was quite deep (think rectangular box laying on it's side, not on it's end). The controls were the basic bass-mid-high. It was quite punchy and loud for it's size.

Does anyone have any idea what model Kustom it might have been? TIA!
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It might be worth doing a Google image search on "Kustom amp" or kustom amp head".
 

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