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I recently bought a Baby Sumo. It’s fab. Small, light & powerful. Works a treat with my HX Stomp. I highly recommend these amps.

I would have gone for the more powerful Sumo but the whole point of me getting one was to be able to take it on public transport when I gig in central London at venues where a cab is supplied, so the lighter Baby Sumo made more sense for me. I use it to power a whole range of house cabs - 8x10s, 4x10s, 1x15s and my Berg HD112.  

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On 25/08/2019 at 18:20, ratman said:

I recently bought a Baby Sumo. It’s fab. Small, light & powerful. Works a treat with my HX Stomp. I highly recommend these amps.

I would have gone for the more powerful Sumo but the whole point of me getting one was to be able to take it on public transport when I gig in central London at venues where a cab is supplied, so the lighter Baby Sumo made more sense for me. I use it to power a whole range of house cabs - 8x10s, 4x10s, 1x15s and my Berg HD112.  

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I am looking to get a Baby Sumo to use with my HX stomp.

Is the baby Sumo small enough to fit in a gigbag pocket with the HX stomp and cables?

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1 hour ago, kevham said:

Is the baby Sumo small enough to fit in a gigbag pocket with the HX stomp and cables?

As small and portable as it is, I'd say it wouldn't fit in a gig bag pocket. It's 13 x 8 x 20cm and weighs 1.5Kg.

When I travel light to gigs I have a small backpack for my Sumo & leads, a bass in a gig bag in one hand, and my Metro16 Stomp board in a soft case in the other hand. Easy. If I'm driving it's the same, just with my cab too.

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It's not a Pascal module in the Sumo, but a proprietary one made by Didier Elchardus, the guy behind GSS. I've owned the Sumo coupled to a Warwick JH PR40 Hellborg preamp and an Audiokinesis 18134 cabinet and and it's really powerful and defined. I've also owned the little combo 06B400 running on a lithium battery and it was also great sounding. I'm now using an FRFR 12+6 with tweeter (12 kilos for 500 Watts) coupled to a MarkBass Alain Caron Ground Stereo Pre pedal preamp. It's just amazing how good and transparent it sounds.

Go on, you won't be disappointed by GSS products and Didier is always ready to help.

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On 17/12/2019 at 21:54, Hellzero said:

It's not a Pascal module in the Sumo, but a proprietary one made by Didier Elchardus, the guy behind GSS. I've owned the Sumo coupled to a Warwick JH PR40 Hellborg preamp and an Audiokinesis 18134 cabinet and and it's really powerful and defined. I've also owned the little combo 06B400 running on a lithium battery and it was also great sounding. I'm now using an FRFR 12+6 with tweeter (12 kilos for 500 Watts) coupled to a MarkBass Alain Caron Ground Stereo Pre pedal preamp. It's just amazing how good and transparent it sounds.

Go on, you won't be disappointed by GSS products and Didier is always ready to help.

I have a baby Sumo, and it is a great amp. Sound is great, loud, and background hiss is very low.

I also read somewhere that GSS uses a modified Pascal module. It is very difficult to develop your own Class D amp, certainly for a one-man company like GSS. Most of the bigger amp manufacturers use 3rd party ClassD power module from ICE.

On the german bassic.de forum there are some photos of the internals of the SUMO, and the PCB has the same kind of layout as the Pascal Modules:

https://www.bassic.de/threads/guitarsoundsystems-1000w-sumo-class-d-endstufe.14868284/page-2#post-16546691

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Like this one from the Pascal website:

https://www.pascal-audio.com/product/m-pro2/

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If that helps, here's what Didier answered when I asked about the module as, to me too, it was very close to a Pascal module. It's in French as it's his mother tongue.

 

Need to remove the email address first...

 

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On 17/12/2019 at 20:11, ratman said:

As small and portable as it is, I'd say it wouldn't fit in a gig bag pocket. It's 13 x 8 x 20cm and weighs 1.5Kg.

It’d fit in my mono tick though... 🤔 

... I need to get back to work to stop me browsing the internet all day looking at bass stuff to buy 🤦‍♂️ 

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21 hours ago, Dood said:

Not that I need one, but does anyone know of any small form factor units that are stereo? (Other than being forced to buy two monoblocs)

Carvin have a stereo pedal-sized power amp coming out, but at 50W per side it's probably more guitar territory than bass.
https://carvinaudio.com/products/mach100-100w-pedal-amplifier

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On 31/12/2019 at 14:43, Dood said:

Oooh! Very interesting! Thank you!

Currently reduced from $289 to $199.


I love spending other people's money... 😉

Edit: Hmmmmm, I've just seen it suggested that the Carvin is identical to this Harley Benton: https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_custom_line_thunder_99.htm  🤔

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Those pedals look awfully similar
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