Genzler megallan 350 combo new rig

[soulstar89]

I wanted to upgrade my setup. I originally wanted a tone hammer with a barefaced one 10 but I couldn’t find a barefaced near me to play and see how I like it. I LOVE the tone of the ashdown abm evo IV heads but for home and jamming its over kill. 
 

The genzler combo with carry bag came up and decided to give it a try. It’s surprised me with how it’s shown me how articulate my p bass is (Bart pickups & chrome flats). The setup is transparent, responsive and articulate even up the neck, something I haven’t heard before. This is the first amp head and speaker where even with my tone knob on bass turned down I get a really full articulate sound, not muddy boomy sound with no note definition. The EQ is near always at noon “flat”
 

I play fingerstyle funk, r&b, fusion kinda jazz lol (melodic phrasing). This setup makes me want to play more jazz melodic music. The sound is amazing.
 

Still trying to see how to get a tad more warmth from this amp and cab.  It’s also near impossible to clip the gain light so figuring out configurations. The contour circuit is very useful. The blue circuit to my ears smooths things out where the amber boosts the mids and compresses bass and treble. 
 

anyone which a Magellan head or similar setup, what’s your settings like for the genre for funk, r&b, Motown stuff? 
 

cheers 
 

 

Edited 16 hours ago by soulstar89

[BassAdder60]

I had the Magellan 800 head and it’s an awesome amp for sure 

Build quality, quiet fan, EQ that works and mine had drive too but I rarely used it. 
This and the Eich T900 were amongst my favourite amps for allowing your bass to sound like your bass ! 

Edited 16 hours ago by BassAdder60

[soulstar89]

24 minutes ago, BassAdder60 said:

I had the Magellan 800 head and it’s an awesome amp for sure 

Build quality, quiet fan, EQ that works and mine had drive too but I rarely used it. 
This and the Eich T900 were amongst my favourite amps for allowing your bass to sound like your bass ! 

Mate I was amazed how articulate my bass was. I put in a @KiOgon loom kit in and some Bart’s. Ive still the original pickups and some roundwounds so I’ll be interested to see how the sound changes. 
 

How did you go about achieving more warmth? I notice the treble doesn’t help much with my pbass with flats. It adds or takes away clank noise. 

[BassAdder60]

17 minutes ago, soulstar89 said:

Mate I was amazed how articulate my bass was. I put in a @KiOgon loom kit in and some Bart’s. Ive still the original pickups and some roundwounds so I’ll be interested to see how the sound changes. 
 

How did you go about achieving more warmth? I notice the treble doesn’t help much with my pbass with flats. It adds or takes away clank noise. 

I recall I used the contour control to make it less modern sounding. The thing is compared to the ABM600 which has a very warm slightly woolly tone anything else seems too bright at times ! The clarity you are now hearing helps a lot in a band situation 

[soulstar89]

14 minutes ago, BassAdder60 said:

I recall I used the contour control to make it less modern sounding. The thing is compared to the ABM600 which has a very warm slightly woolly tone anything else seems too bright at times ! The clarity you are now hearing helps a lot in a band situation 

That’s a very good point. The abm evo has a warm woolly tone but is articulate. They are extremely different. 
 

I can definitely see this amp would help in a band situation. 
 

Need more time to play with it. What did you move on to after the Magellan? 

[chris_b]

Jeff Genzler makes some great bass gear.

[soulstar89]

34 minutes ago, chris_b said:

Jeff Genzler makes some great bass gear.

He does. He even replied to me on talk bass. You sold me on the sound tone hammer and barefaced one10. Just couldn’t find a place to hear it. 

[BassAdder60]

1 hour ago, soulstar89 said:

That’s a very good point. The abm evo has a warm woolly tone but is articulate. They are extremely different. 
 

I can definitely see this amp would help in a band situation. 
 

Need more time to play with it. What did you move on to after the Magellan? 

EICH T900 ! 

[soulstar89]

5 minutes ago, BassAdder60 said:

EICH T900 ! 

Lol oh. I played the eich t500 at the bass gallery last year. Sounded nice. If I remember correctly the eich has a similar feature of genzler contour. 

[BassAdder60]

Yes they are similar sounding amps 

[DF Shortscale]

I use a Magellan 350 with a 10-2 cab or two Genz Benz 12’s depending on where I’m playing. Warmth is very dependent on context, for boomy stages with the bigger cabs there is often too much of that warmth and I have to dial the lows back and use a high pass filter. The 10-2 cab tends to sound great in any context, the older cabs need a little more attention. Either way I have the mids on the blue setting most of the time at around 11 o’clock, treble is rolled off a tiny bit, and the rest depends on the acoustics in the venue. For context I mostly play jazz either on a P, a PJ or short scales.

[soulstar89]

22 minutes ago, DF Shortscale said:

I use a Magellan 350 with a 10-2 cab or two Genz Benz 12’s depending on where I’m playing. Warmth is very dependent on context, for boomy stages with the bigger cabs there is often too much of that warmth and I have to dial the lows back and use a high pass filter. The 10-2 cab tends to sound great in any context, the older cabs need a little more attention. Either way I have the mids on the blue setting most of the time at around 11 o’clock, treble is rolled off a tiny bit, and the rest depends on the acoustics in the venue. For context I mostly play jazz either on a P, a PJ or short scales.

 

hey bud. Cheers for responding and the advise. 
 

have been playing it all day. I found ways to hear that warmth in either blue contour or amber. With amber I had contour at around 2 o’clock, bass boosted a tad and treble rolled off at 11 o’clock. 
 

blue (which I really like in my place) contour around 10’clock, boost the mids a tad with sweep at 2 o’clock and reduce the treble a tad.

 

my tone knob on bass is nearly closed. 

more to learn. My ocd would like to know where 250,500 and 800hz is in the mids sweepable frequency lol. 

def let me know when you are next playing and I’ll come support. 

Edited 5 hours ago by soulstar89