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Jack

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  1. I love the Fusion, if you're anywhere near Newcastle feel free to come try it. I also really, really loved the Harley Benton but it's not quite in the same league as the rest listed here. What kind of sounds do you like? That's the most important question.
  2. Jack

    Moen MO-BA DI Box??

    There's a Thomann one too. Just food for thought.
  3. I hate this, went in to Guitar Guitar in Newcastle specifically to look at a MB Fusion (I asked for it by name), I was shown to the Aguilar Tone Hammers, because they're "much better than anything GK makes and much, much smaller than those massive GK heads". I also once fancied an Epifani cabinet, back when they were just starting to get noticed. So I went in and aksed if they could get any into Sounds Live, I knew they weren't a stockist but you never know. I was told that they're fairly sure Epifani don't do bass amps, and why would I downgrade from my Ashdown stack? This was actually a genuine mistake, he'd never heard of Epifani and just couldn't bare to tell me I'd mispronounced 'Epiphone'.
  4. Stephen bought my Harley Benton amp, great guy and very easy to deal with. Also gets my thumbs up!
  5. Recently purchased my GK Neo 112, arranged for pickup himself and everything went so smoothly, thanks again!
  6. Chris bought my GK Neo cab, was a very nice gentleman and I had a smooth transaction. Cheers mate!
  7. Actually most brands quote a (granted very fudged) RMS figure. It's just TC that are outright liars.
  8. I use a mixer with a DI from either my amp or an MXR DI box to get round the issue of it not sounding great.
  9. Thanks mate, couldn't have asked for a better starting post! I shall find your thread tonight and be almost as nice.
  10. I'm one of the people who found the Streamliner a bit ..... lacking? It's got volume for days but it just seemed a bit mushy in the lows and too tubey for my tastes. It does a very good SVT impression though. Very happy with my MB Fusion.
  11. Can't believe you weren't after this sooner, WoT, just sold all my GK stuff.
  12. As far as I'm aware they are yeah.
  13. I had one of the originals, and they were brilliant. By all accounts these are just as good, if a little different.
  14. A resigned 'I'm posting this on Monday regardless' bump. :-)
  15. Hey folks, Recently bought a HB BA500H as a temporary amp to use because I was waiting for the new GK Fusion. Just been told this won't be till Janurary at the earliest so I bought the current 500 today and the HB is no for sale! I bought this about 2 weeks ago from Thomann because of it's good reviews on here and because of it's price. It's still covered by the 30 day return policy, but as I'd get my £150 back minus quite a bit of postage I thought I'd offer it on here too. They're up to £170 now and a steal at that price. I'm offering you the head, in literally as-new condition, in the original packaging, for £140 plus post. I appreciate it's a niche market, and if it doesn't sell soon I'll just return it to Thomann but I thought I'd at least offer! Grab yourself a totally giggable head for an absolute steal! Harley Benton main thread [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/168416-another-promethean-clone/"]HERE[/url] My review and pictures [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/177376-harley-benton-ba500h-review/"]HERE[/url]
  16. [quote name='jaydentaku' timestamp='1338926897' post='1681307'] See, I want to get away from massive. I have a 4x12 which is huge and a total tonnage. There is so much to consider and so much advice, but I still don't feel informed enough to make the right decision. [/quote] I've just noticed you're in Newcastle, if you wanna grab a beer some time, hit a music shop or two?
  17. Yeah, in your situation mate I'd be looking for as much speaker area as you can afford and carry. Honestly, you'll thank me. I see 8x10s (particularly Marshall and Ashdown) going on ebay all the time for £100-200. That might be a place to start if you can handle the weight. Disclaimer: I'm a small-rig, neo, micro-head kinda guy. But I don't play in a detuned metal band. Anymore.
  18. If you're DI all the time then it seems to me what you want is the ideal-sounding amp but volume is irrelevant. I think that's a situation lots of us would kill for. Seems to me you've got your choice mate, you can just put it on a chair as long as you and the band can hear it.
  19. Like ANY other speaker use your noggin and if something sounds horrible then turn it down or stop.
  20. So a few more thoughts after a proper kicking at rehearsal and just some more use in general. I purposefully didn't say a great deal about the sound at first because these things can be very difficult to pin down properly until you're used to the amp. I do like this amp, a lot. As part of my temporary rig I picked up a Hartke Transporter 410 from the classifieds here. This rig has been to rehearsals a few times but no gigging I'm afraid. With the 8 ohm cabinet I'm getting around 300W and I certainly believe it. There's plenty of volume but the volume knob does hit the top volume pretty early in it's travel, a cheap trick to make the amp seem louder yes but hey, it IS cheap. The amp really roars with my P, the standard full-bodied Fender type sound. There's a full bottom which you don't get at lower volumes (I initially described the amp as bass-shy) but definitely makes itself heard the louder you go. It's not quite as powerful (sound, not volume) as I'd like with my Stingray, I'd like a bit more of the GK growl that I'm used to with that guitar. Whilst the amp isn't as refined as some of the brands I'm about to name, the sound is certainly in the ballpark of something like the Genz shuttle or EA type stuff. It's polite and fairly neutral. This took me a while to get used to after being a long-time GK user (and Ashdown before that). I fully admit I'm the kind of guy that likes an amp to really influence the sound of an instrument and this amp doesn't really. The eq options on the amp are a bit hit and miss. The bass boost button is fantastic for that bit of cushion that sometimes goes amiss at lower volumes but I'm not getting along with the graphic at all really. The sliders just seem to do whatever they feel like doing, I can't correlate the shape of them with what's actually going on in terms of the sound. They should be pretty powerful at +.-12dB but they seem ineffective and just a bit pants to be fair. The colour control, by contrast, is great. As I understand it it cuts off the highs as progressively lower points. In operation, I think of it as a passive tone control and for that it works very nicely. hifi to more old-school in one control. It's not noticeable in the first 1/4 of it's travel and that's either by design or more likely because I'm not really much for the upper echelons of treble, maybe this would be more noticeable if I had a tweeter in the cab. HB do seem to suggest using it to tame tweeter hiss on their cabinets, so it must start pretty high in ranges that I just don't produce. The contour is rubbish, but aren't they all? All the ins and outs are very high quality in terms of sound. There are a few that feel physically weak but the sound cannot be faulted. As an aside, I don't think that the internal preamp has a great deal of gain. I can get a fair bit more volume using my MXR M80 into the aux in than just using the amp itself. I wonder what a 'proper' pre like a Grace would do to it? In short, the amp is easily on a par with products such as the Ashdown MAG, GK Backline and the like. It's also the only one in that kind of range I can think of with a fairly 'new' sound and in such a small format. Don't be put off by the brand, and definitely be turned on by the value for money. Me personally, I'm debating whether or not just to swap it for the MB Fusion. Can't be bothered waiting till the 'late 2012' I was recently quoted by a GK rep.
  21. Pffffffffffft, those aren't practice schedules those are evil work regimes! Am I literally the only one that picks up my bass as and when to either learn something specific or just generally noodle?
  22. One cab off each side of the power amp and one from your proper amp?
  23. Meh, it's really not all that important. Tubes do not make a difference other than that they tend to sound awesome when running at full tilt whereas solid state does not so you can get away with a less powerful tube amp.Why are you asking?
  24. Oh really? I've heard 'Augustish' and Q3 2012. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Hamfist, it's a clean amp. Actually I've been meaning to append my review a bit. It's very polite, not bass-shy like I'd thought, just very very clean and quite.........well, bland really.
  25. Well I sold the GK to get cash for the Barefaceds and so in the meantime I have been ampless and just picked up a Hartke Transporter 4x10" for £65. Will the barefaceds be better? Undoubtedly! Almost 20 times better? Probably not!
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