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Because I just got a brand new Gallien-Krueger MB210!
2x10 350w combo weighs under 40 lb and has lots of features - can take an extension cab to bring it up to 500w 4 ohm, huge range of tone controls, defeatable tweeter and defeatable limiter. Haven't had a chance to crank it yet, but Sunday is a big band practice day so we'll see.
For some reason I can't post pics, but you can google almost as well as I can.
 
Oh yeah Louie, you were gone a while. Been playing the low notes with some local folks, it's been a blast. Musically, not sure if we're really compatible but they're great people, lots of fun and no drama.
 
Switchmode power + neodymium speakers = The Future. Of course everyone with 2-ton amps has to say "the old ones are better", they wouldn't be human otherwise.
Look for great deals on 2-ton amps, coming soon to your neighborhood. :hello2:
 
stubhead said:
Switchmode power + neodymium speakers = The Future. Of course everyone with 2-ton amps has to say "the old ones are better", they wouldn't be human otherwise.
Look for great deals on 2-ton amps, coming soon to your neighborhood. :hello2:
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I concur!  It's the way of the future for the low end!

Nice amp  :icon_thumright:
 
Well, I was messing around this morning with it. It is really, really versatile - I messed around with one at GC, and also the 200w 1x15 little brother, but hadn't really got a chance to play with the tone too much. It will go from Marley-esque rolled off tones to very high harmonic-rich funky stuff with zero hassle. I haven't had any amp with this much versatility in tone control.

As for gigging volume, I think I'll be fine without an extension, for now - we've got only one guitarist, who'll be using a Fender Deville, it is darn loud but it's not a mesa stack or anything. It has a line out to PA as well. We'll find out in practice, the rehearsal space has an ampeg svt 450 with 8x10, so it'll be a really good head to head comparison.
 
stubhead said:
Switchmode power + neodymium speakers = The Future. Of course everyone with 2-ton amps has to say "the old ones are better", they wouldn't be human otherwise.
Look for great deals on 2-ton amps, coming soon to your neighborhood. :hello2:
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Aren't you one of those guys.  The SWR workingman ain't exactly easy on the back.
 
Actually I have a SM500 two-rack-space head, in a 4U SKB rack with a fan, and a Furman power supply in back - it's less than 30 lbs. And then two to four separate speakers, usually two 12" Black Widows in their own cabs. I recently hooked it up in full 500-watt quadrophonic 4-speaker, dual-stereo dual-delay glory....
You can play a note, go get a cup of coffee, come back and the note's still there... doing things.  :o

My current fave setting is to feed a 350ms delay into a 700ms d-d-delay, then a separate 940ms delay, then the 4th one is... well it hardly matters what the 4th one is!  :party07:
Roll over David Gilmour.  :headbang:

(it's a good bass amp too)
 
Report from practice:
Well it sounds great, and is plenty plenty loud for a bar gig all by its lonesome. I would like a 1x15 markbass cab for christmas though (hint, hint guys!)
Cranked fully up with the limiter off, it did get a bit fizzy / speaker distorted but that was a lot louder than I needed. Compared to the svt 450 8x10, it's a lot clearer and cuts through far better, less mud and boom and more clear big bottom despite having 6 fewer speakers. It doesn't have quite as much overall volume as the 300 lb gorilla, of course.
I much preferred the limiter on & tweeter off for most of what we played, with a pretty flat EQ on the amp and scoop from the eq pedal. If you like that trebly high-harmonic tone it can do that very well, it's just not the sound I'm after.
Very very pleased.
 
That's the difference betwen the Ampeg "round sound" and GK.  GK is very articulate.  It takes a lot of knob tweaking to get an Ampeg not sound like an Ampeg.
 
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