Kustom Cabs

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Kustom is a name ive always associated with catalogue starter packs etc but ive come across this on Thomann...

[url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/kustom_de610h.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/kustom_de610h.htm[/url]


Just wonering if anyone had tried any of the new 'more upmarket' Kustom stuff. Not really in the market for a new cab but always fancied a 6x10 (ideally if Marshall made one to pair with the few of the dirt cheap VBA400's ive seen around!)

[waynepunkdude]

I got this yesterday



Fu*king great amp, remember they made great amps before the catalogue stuff.

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Starters pack... well, James Jamerson used one of those tuck'n'roll rigs.

I've had a Kustom Groove 210 combo - google image search brought my own pic that was included in my review on a Polish bassists' forum few years ago:
http://basoofka.net/files/KustomGroove210c1.jpg
Hadn't even heard about the company before, but one of the German online sellers had an awesome offer on those - something like 250 quid (rrp was closed to 850) with free shipping to the EU. It was crazy loud, and a bit generic sounding. Nothing wrong, just very clean, very wide frequency response. I liked the EQ very much, both the graphic (with my favourite choice of freqs: 100Hz, 200, 400, 800 etc) and the bass/mid/treble knobs with switchable freq centers.
Some time later I upgraded to Groove 1200 head and matching 410 cab. I was planning to add a 215 cab as well, but it wasn't really needed, the 410 was more than loud enough. Very heavy, too, heaviest 410 cab I've ever encountered. The Groove series is sadly discontinued.
I've tried the DE300 head with matching 410 and 115 cabs later, we got them for a two week trial when they first appeared on the market (2009 I think). I compared them with an Ashdown MAG rig that I was using at the moment, and liked the Kustom better. Both heads sounded better through Kustom cabs than through MAGs.