Eden Novatone range

[Russ]

Seems Gear4Music have actually done something with the Eden brand. There's a whole new range of amps and cabs called the Novatone series. They look good, and they're very keenly priced. I particularly like the cabs - the rounded corners are very reminiscent of the old Nemesis stuff. 

 

No idea how they might compare to the old World Tour heads or D-series cabs, but it's nice to see that they've actually been given some attention. This is more than Marshall ever did with the brand!

 

https://www.gear4music.com/Bass_Amps/Eden?page=1

 

[Lozz196]

Good to see them making a return, never understood the Marshall buying them thing, they did pretty much nothing with them.

[snorkie635]

Loved my Eden rigs. I hope these are as good as the WTs, but I'm not holding my breath.

[Russ]

26 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

Loved my Eden rigs. I hope these are as good as the WTs, but I'm not holding my breath.

They do come across as very inexpensive - I'm just wondering what they cheaped out on. It says they use Eminence speakers, so it's not there, and solid state amp PCBs are kinda much of a muchness these days, especially for Chinese-produced class D amps (it doesn't mention that they're class D, but they probably are). Based on the controls, inputs, etc, the PCB design for the head itself is probably still the solid state David Nordschow design that goes back to the old Nemesis heads. The Terra Nova range used this too. 

 

My concern is that the biggest head is only 500W, and that's really not all that much these days. Those cabs are going to need to be pretty efficient to get much volume from a 500W head. I'd be more enthusiastic if they had an 800W head. 

[Russ]

1 hour ago, snorkie635 said:

Loved my Eden rigs. I hope these are as good as the WTs, but I'm not holding my breath.

It's basically going to be an updated version of the Nemesis heads, not the WT design. They don't have valve preamps, for a start. 

 

The Nemesis stuff was great though, and was probably the first ever proper lightweight range of bass gear. The FET preamp sounded reasonably "valve-y" too. The Nemesis 8x10" combo (yes, combo) was one of the coolest bass rigs I ever tried, and it sounded massive. 

[Lozz196]

I had a Nemesis 410, very loud, good sound, plus nice & light. 

[Jack]

Very nice to see them back. Love the slick convertible combo thing.

 

The heads say 4ohm minimum, but they sell a pre-done stack with the 115 and 210 (4ohm each, 2ohm total). How odd.

Edited September 30 by Jack

[Russ]

11 hours ago, Jack said:

Very nice to see them back. Love the slick convertible combo thing.

 

The heads say 4ohm minimum, but they sell a pre-done stack with the 115 and 210 (4ohm each, 2ohm total). How odd.

I'm looking forward to trying them out. 

 

I'm just hoping they're not otherwise generic (and not very good) bass amps dressed up with a badge with some historical brand cachet, like Guitar Center did in the US when they brought back the Acoustic brand about 10 years ago. 

[lozkerr]

On 30/09/2025 at 21:01, Russ said:

I'm just hoping they're not otherwise generic (and not very good) bass amps dressed up with a badge with some historical brand cachet

Me too. I'd have thought bringing back the WTP heads would have been more in keeping with the Eden brand. Looks like they're aiming at lower price points. I'll be interested to see what you think.

 

I doubt if I'll be trying one just yet, though, as I've just had this fully refurbished. Jeezo, I thought my Metro had some grunt but this thing's a bloody monster!