Matamp GT100 £1000 Harrow

[Happy Jack]

So here's a game I play roughly once a year. I list a whole bunch of gear for sale (really not wanting to sell any of it you understand) and once a few things have actually sold 😩 I let the remaining listings slide down below the radar. Until the next time.

 

I'm not selling because I'm desperate for the money, and if I was John Entwistle then I'd just keep the lot and have an ever-expanding collection, but the reality is that over half my gear gets used very little, if at all. Common sense says that at least some of this lovely kit should get back out in circulation.

 

I have no interest at all in trades. Replacing an amp or cab that doesn't get used with a different amp or cab that won't get used seems like a complete waste of time and effort.

 

On the other hand, much of my kit is pretty non-standard or left-field and therefore hard to price, so I'm not absolutely wedded to the figure stated.

 

I'm in Harrow HA1, close to Sudbury Hill on the Piccadilly Line, and I gig regularly throughout Beds, Bucks, Herts & Middx, with occasional forays into Surrey. Pickup in person is always preferable to despatch (from home, or a mutually-convenient pub, or at one one of my gigs), but I've had nothing but good experiences with DPD so if you live more than - say - 50 miles from Harrow then that's an option.

 

 

Made for me years ago by those lovely folk in Huddersfield, my bad back was at its worst when I ordered it so they undertook to build me the lightest GT100 in captivity.

 

 

When you're talking about old-school valve amps, "light" is a relative sort of word. This is absolutely not a disguised Class D.

 

 

 

 

Even in super-lightweight form, this beastie still weighs about 15Kg and is an awkward sod to manoevre in tight spaces - those grab handles at the front aren't there because they look good.

 

 

It's like stepping back 50/60 years, and there are settings that make my bassline sound like it's being filtered through melted chocolate to fill the room, any room.

 

 

 

I paired it with a Barefaced 2x12. I imagine it would sound even more majestic with an old-school rig to match its own status.

 

 

 

Comes with appropriate very heavy-duty Speakon cable.

 

 

And an honest-to-God, f***-off flight case built just for it.

 

 

Which weighs darn near as much as the amp, of course.

 

 

The price is very low, I know, but that's OK. I just want to see it back in action in the hands of a highly-qualified weight-lifter who also plays bass.

 

[silverfoxnik]

Brilliantly funny post, Jack.. 😂

 

For what looks like a really amazing amp! 

 

And this has got to be the best description of a bass amp's sound that I've seen on here for a long time:

 

"It's like stepping back 50/60 years, and there are settings that make my bassline sound like it's being filtered through melted chocolate to fill the room, any room." 

 

Instantly made me think of how I (very fondly) remember the sound of my old Ampeg V4BH rig... 

 

But I have too much gear myself these days and not enough gigs to use it all either...

 

But something like this Matamp amp is still sooooo tempting... 

 

So, what can I say other than 'get thee behind me Satan', and to wish you the best of luck with the sale! 👍😊