"just get this amazing little amp, best for the price."
Sound:
Absolutely amazing tone. I'm a pro bassist for 23 years, session work, live gigging, solo performance bass work, and this amp has a tone that I wish my $12,000 stereo twin cab 8x8" plus 2x15" concert amp had. Absolutely great tone. Excellent tone controls, very versatile, even does justice to the low b string on my 5-string (but not as well as a big amp would).
I simply love the tone of my basses through this amp - it's made me want to play more often just for fun again. I play an alembic series I ($10,000 bass anybody?), a squire p-j 5 string (nice bass), and occasional custom made fretless basses. Also an 8 string once in a while. All sound great, but the squire (same as fender) sounds great through it with nickel plated strings.
only problem (and strange considering it's not supposed to do this) is that in the high range on my bass's lower strings, when playing hard (for solos etc), it can suddenly break into really REALLY nasty distortion from hell, evil sound. I think it's the speaker breaking up. NOT kewl, and this amp's limited is supposed to prevent that. But it has to be pretty loud for that to happen.
Feature:
some nice features for a budget amp - the effects loop is very unusual in a cheap amp, and great for sending the signal out to the big pa for gigs (using amp as loud monitor). headphone jack is great, aux in is unusual and very handy for practicing (connect my ipod to it), plus a dedicated active bass pickup input jack with corrected impedence and input levels. Just great design.
Quality:
seems really good... except for the sound artifact listed above.
Value:
unbelievable - amps this price sounded crap years ago, and amps this size were just crap too. This is a pro level amp.
The Wow Factor:
I think it's kewl - and that red light that changes as you play is sooooooooooooooooo nice.
Overall:
buy it. won't go wrong. best amp for the money and size, period. better than amps that cost twice as much but are the same small size.
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