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Got an GK Fusion 112 Combo few days ago, and here is the Sound test I made 🙂.

Hope You will enjoy the video and found it interesting. 

Since the video is audio-oriented, these are my short non sound impressions:

Firts thing that I noticed while unpacking is the new ultra-tough cabinet coating which I really liked.
Different then the lining on the models before, as plastic and kind of a glittering. It really feels durable.
Strange notice - ''stby'' led lamp lights always while amp is plugged in to the power and turned off. Led shuts down when You turn on the amp. Similar to a red/green TV led, but not common for amps.
I would realy love that Turn on/off switch is located at some more accessible place. It's hard to reach at the lower back of the combo, next to a bunch of other switches while You are holding Your instrument or the amp is on the floor etc.
The control buttons are easy to access and nicely designed, but some of them feels a bit loose.
Front metal grill looks cool and it's firmly leaning on three rubber pads, but still shaking hardly and gives humming noices on louder volume (more then 12 o'clock on Normal and Master or more bass EQ added).
Slight touch on the grill eliminates those noises which are not coming from the speaker!
IMO the amp have to much power, but not enough largeness to deliver it without the extension box (as the manual say - optimum power when using external cabinets). However it is loud enough by itself to play next to a loud drummer - proofs at the end of the video.

A brief review of the footswitch:
Precise workmanship and briliant simple appearance.
Robust and durable and at the same time elegant. I love it!
Surprisingly not branded anywhere.

At the end, there is no lighter, more compact and more powerful Combo amp on the market as I am concerned, with multiple great tonal capabilities. GK strikes again!

Here are three different Pbasses I recorded just yesterday.

Hope You will enjoy the sound 😊.

22 hours ago, Steve Soar said:

 

This is one of the most beautiful Sunburst colors I have ever seen

Here is my pedalboard with the latest updates.

Thanks for watching!

On 02/12/2021 at 13:36, eneade said:

@Duarte I have had a Sterling 5 in HS.

Good bass but the volume drop on the single coil neck pickup (position 5) was not convenient. The HH has all positions with the same output.

 

 

The HH Ray (Standard or Special) is very nice as well, but the Sterling with the series routing adds extra bief to the sound.

 

 

Which one You prefer, standard or Special Ray and why ?

P bass Shootout | Blind Test Reveal

Thanks to everyone who watched, shared, commented and enjoyed this video.

1 hour ago, Ricky Rioli said:

........... but the Steve Harris line was a bit too frenetic for that  😅 )

You are absolutely right about that, but it wasn't more time for me to record a different line

18 minutes ago, danbowskill said:

Sunburst f sure 👌.

What was your fave playing them though??

All of them was fun to play. They all have P bass sound, but fell a little bit different.

However, 1968 has something unexplainable in it, maybe the years has something with it, but the feel of 1968 is different then the others. 

8 minutes ago, howdenspur said:

Sunburst for me (please!). Great comparison btw👍

Thank You, and all the others who thinks the same ☺️

I just had a chance to have all of these beautiful basses at the same time in my studio for a weekend.

I used it to make a sound comparison video of 6 Precision type bass guitars, 5 Fender and an alien - Maruszczyk.
Always wanted to test different eras and different price range P basses.

All the info about the basses and the recording is under the video at YT.
Hope You will enjoy and let me know what You think about it ☺️.

4 hours ago, Chiliwailer said:

I’m feeling a bit guilty/dirty tbh… experimented with a John East preamp and Aguilar pickup and it sounds blooming amazing 😁

What did you do with your original pickup? 

Hi
In a past week I got these two beautiful short scale basses in my hands, and immediately made a sound comparison video.

I hope it will be as interesting to someone as it was to me while I was recording and playing them.

It's gorgeous! Approved by The Prince! 

On 06/09/2021 at 13:27, fretmeister said:

I didn't realise that was you.

 

I've been sub'd for a while. Great videos!

Thanks a lot! Here is the new one from today ☺️

2 minutes ago, Stingray5 said:

That's a nice comparison of the old and the new. Shows that the fundamental Stingray sound is right there in both models.  

I'm curious to know how you recorded them. I'm assuming DI into interface? Or was it an amp/combo setup (DI or mic-ed)? Were external EQ's flat?

Thanks and nice You like the video.

All the info about the video is just under it in on YouTube. Just click - Show more 😉

Hey! 

This is what I was looking for while shopping for a Special, and couldn't found anything similar at the time. Now I had a chance to made one which can maybe help someone decide between ''old'' Ray or Special. No talk, no procrastination just a sound test.  I hope you enjoy it 😉.

Here is another new one

On 10/08/2021 at 10:43, Kev said:

The Adam, along with the Boss ES-5 and midi, is the heart of my pedalboard now.  I use all 6 presets for different basses, different EQs for certain pedals, different distortion modes etc.  
 

My only issue at the moment is the noise gate.  Being last in line with no key input,  I’m finding it needs to be at different levels for clean and distorted to be tight, and at present it’s only a global plugin.  Hopefully it will be updated to be assignable per preset on the next update, as its hard to use as it is.

I understand You completely. For that reason I do not use Noise gate at all, although the heart of my board is also Adam. 

For now, I am ok with just a three Adam presets, because having some more drives at the board.

My problem is turning Adam on and off by pressing A+B together.

For example, if I play preset A, and turn Adam off, and latter I need preset B, by pressing B from off, Adam will turn on latest used and that is A in this case. Then I need to actually press B twice very fast, and sometimes I forget that. I wrote to DG about this, and they response that this is just the way Machine is built. 

It would be nice to add some possibilities in new Suite update. Digital pedals gives more and more new software options for user to adjust by themselves. I like it

On 08/08/2021 at 08:40, krispn said:

So with the software update and the changes implemented to the signal chain how are folks enjoying the ADAM?

As is the way with gigs returning I’d really like to get an ADAM and give it a blast. Now there’s nothing wrong with my stomp nor my ‘full’ pedal board set up which has comp, drive and eq/blend control so I can use either to give a very pleasing live tone. For most of my gigs all Ireally need/use is a simple signal

chain of eq/drive/comp (and cab sim for IEM’s). 

The signal chain in the ADAM and it’s features are pretty cool and having the software update/flexibility (Neural software) leads me to believe that the pedal will continue to have some practical updates which will outpace the amps down the line - the new selectable eq points looks interesting and we could see different eq profiles to mimic various amps in the future as part of that Neural software lineage. I’m picturing a B15 eq profile in conjunction with the low gain, SVT profile etc. 
 

Anyhow future developments aside how are folks enjoying the pedal and @Obradid you manage to resolve your issues with the pedal? 
 

Thanks for asking

Yes, after a while, my pedal traveled back to the store in Germany, then to the service area in Holland, and all the way back to me. The headphones pot now is working as it should be. And more, all three of my presets stayed intact as I make them while trying the pedal. 

Happy with the sound and service ☺️

Finally recorded all four in one video 

That can't possibly happen to Sandberg

Today I made a new video where I compared Sandberg California TM4 II sound with Fender Jazz bass 1977.
I made this video after the other one previously this week, where I compared Sandberg (only in active mode) and Music Man StingRay Special. In first video I wanted to compare sound of humbuckers, and to try to mimic sound of StingRay as close as I can at Sandberg.

However, this one was with different idea, and that was to compare Sandberg in only passive mode and only using single pickups - no humbucker was used although humbucker sound will come much closer to the 1977 Jazz Bass regarding the position of bridge pickup at Fender.

Thank You all for listening, and hope someone will found it helpful