well, I sold my old Peavey Valveking 100 for $350, and replaced it with a Carvin X100B Series IV for only $325+tax! surprisingly, guitar amps make AWESOME bass amps! ESPECIALLY this X100B! there is a TON of low end coming from this thing, and the overdrive channel just SCREAMS! this is the reissue of the amp that Frank Zappa himself used numerous times. I believe Steve Vai also used it before he developed the Carvin Legacy series.
about the amp, though. to start off, my only complaint is that you have to choose which channel you want to use the graphic EQ on. it's fine if you have time to run to your amp, i.e., between songs, but if you only use OD in the middle of a song, and clean the rest, or vice versa, your tone will change if you rely on the graphic EQ for shaping. everything else, though...amazing. you can choose between 25, 50, and 100 watts, it's got EL34 power tubes in it (BRITISH TONE FTW!!!), and of course choose the impedance. the footswitch lets you choose between channels, any effects you may have in the effects loop, reverb on or off, and the user set boost level. the amount of sounds I've gotten from this thing from fooling with it for 15 mins in GC, and 15 mins at my house is just astounding. the presence knob and three EQ knobs, plus the graphic EQ, plus the drive setting will get you many, many tones. I'll be picking with it for a while to setup a sound I really love (it's definitely in there!). you can do a subtle SVT growl, to a full on guitar like wail. for anyone that can try it, I'd more than recommend trying one of these as a bass amp! I'll try and get a video up in the next couple days. anyway, here are pics.
about the amp, though. to start off, my only complaint is that you have to choose which channel you want to use the graphic EQ on. it's fine if you have time to run to your amp, i.e., between songs, but if you only use OD in the middle of a song, and clean the rest, or vice versa, your tone will change if you rely on the graphic EQ for shaping. everything else, though...amazing. you can choose between 25, 50, and 100 watts, it's got EL34 power tubes in it (BRITISH TONE FTW!!!), and of course choose the impedance. the footswitch lets you choose between channels, any effects you may have in the effects loop, reverb on or off, and the user set boost level. the amount of sounds I've gotten from this thing from fooling with it for 15 mins in GC, and 15 mins at my house is just astounding. the presence knob and three EQ knobs, plus the graphic EQ, plus the drive setting will get you many, many tones. I'll be picking with it for a while to setup a sound I really love (it's definitely in there!). you can do a subtle SVT growl, to a full on guitar like wail. for anyone that can try it, I'd more than recommend trying one of these as a bass amp! I'll try and get a video up in the next couple days. anyway, here are pics.
