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Mesa Boogie Transatlantic TA15, tiny little head with "home made" cab
or, if more power needed :
Fryette Memphis 30 combo, with a Jensen neo to decrease weight
and, sometimes, for late hours practice :
Vox Amplug
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04-03-2016 04:59 PM
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Hi medblues,two micro bass amps (GK MB200 and Carvin BX250)
Would you mind share your take between the GK MB200 and Carvin BX250?
Thanks!
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Jim Soloway started this thread of comparing them in case you have not seen it.
Originally Posted by r_cc_c
I first bought the MB200 and liked it. I fried it by plugging in the wrong outlet, I had also heard about the BX250 which was on sale. I bought and found that it had a more versatile EQ and higher power than the MB200. But later on, I found another cheap MB200 and bought it as a backup. Nowadays, the BX250 is my mono PA system in my home gym (because the EQ settings are more refinable for played music).
BX250 has a built in compressor and a drive knob that MB200 does not have. It does not have a fan.
MB200 has an Aux in for backing tracks etc. and it has a fan but it never comes on when I use it. *The new models require a Neutrik speaker connection*
Both amps have a contour adjustment, MB200 uses a switch and BX250 has a knob.
I have not extensively A/B'ed them because I have them both and not planning to get rid of one. But they are very comparable.
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Mesa's Flux Five pedal works well with a Quilter for those time you miss a Mark I - Mark V. Originally Posted by jads57
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Good to know! I still kept my Mk3 Simul Class 1x12" EV12L Combo just cause I need a good Paper Weight,LOL!
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I have a Gallein Kreuger MB200 coming in about a week, after a long wait to get it back ordered from Thomann. For speakers I have a homemade 12" cab with a Eminence Tonker, and another with a 12" Eminence Beta.
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Mambo 10" and Session BluesBaby 22, but since I got the Atomic Amplifire I'm not using them anymore.
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I'm seriously considering a ss22 also... Waiting for a used one.... Originally Posted by Archtop Bill
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I use a Roland cube 60. The cleans are good and it takes pedals quite well also. Its best feature is the low price
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Quilter Aviator 2-10. Covers everything and no stinkin pedals.
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The Quilter MP200 is not safely played, for any length of time, if it be an 8 inch driver(closed back) by itself with the main volume past half up, tho it can be quite loud(that's subjective, I realize), by itself, but with another speaker, like the lightweight Mesa BlackShadow 90,(anything else, for that matter) now it's ready to really get into quite some power.
By the way, the 8 inch driver has a greater dispersion angle than either the 10 or the 12. Someone had mentioned dispersion problems. My QSC PA drivers also have 8 inch drivers, and have that benefit also.Last edited by guitarbard; 04-04-2016 at 08:10 AM.
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Quilter Micro Pro 8" Mach 2.
A lot of quilter love in this thread... for good reason.
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For jam sessions and rehearsals: Acoustic Lead 60.
For straight jazz gigs: Dr. Z Maz 18. (Think Princeton meets AC-15)
For fusion stuff: Fuchs ODS
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I have an old polytone mini brute that is my main jazz amp, but I also have a 65 Fender Deluxe Reverb that I used before I got the polytone around 12 years ago.
but last week I got one of the new Acoustic AV20 amps to record with and that thing sounds better than either of my two classic jazz amps.
best $158.74 I ever spent
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For some time, I have been practicing at home and playing out with my tweed 5e3 Deluxe amp. Recently, however, I have switched back to one of my Polytones. Currently, I am playing my MiniBrute PA60 head into my MiniBrute III cabinet:
This black diamond Tolex amp/cabinet (with 15" 4-ohm CTS speaker) sounds pretty doggone jazzy with my 17" laminated archtop and 18" carved body archtop.
FWIW, those MiniBrute PA amps are lightly used amplifiers that are electronically _identical_ to the MiniBrute of the same vintage, with these exceptions: (1) three preamp channels, (2) a switchable negative feedback loop. Switched in, the feedback loop gives you the standard MiniBrute circuit. Switched out, you get a punchier, less wide frequency response version of the MiniBrute. (Polytone used this as a PA feedback circuit--if you had microphone feedback, switch out the NFB to cut out some of the highs and lows.) A diamond Tolex MB PA head played into a Polytone cabinet, or into, say, a RE cabinet, provides the well known classic Polytone sound.Last edited by Greentone; 04-05-2016 at 07:02 AM.
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Why do you say this? It's a 200watt speaker and the amp will only deliver 100watts without an extension cabinet. The speaker is not gonna blow with those specs. Originally Posted by guitarbard
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For straight ahead - Acoustic Image amp through a RE 10, 12, or both. Carvin BX250 as a backup amp.
For other styles - a Halsey Deluxe Reverb or a PodXt through a pair of Altos 10's
I also have a Blues Jr that doesn't gig. It's more of a project amp and used for rehearsals when there's a full moon.
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Nate, Originally Posted by Nate Miller
I have an old polytone mini brute that is my main jazz amp, but I also have a 65 Fender Deluxe Reverb that I used before I got the polytone around 12 years ago.
but last week I got one of the new Acoustic AV20 amps to record with and that thing sounds better than either of my two classic jazz amps.
best $158.74 I ever spent
Do you mean the Acoustic (Amplification) A20?? or the Acoustic (bookshelf speaker) AV20??
If the Acoustic amp, does it get (clean) loud enough to play a small (really small) coffeehouse type gig???
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Funny. For many years my main amp was a Mesa/Boogie Quad with a light Randall 2-80 solid state stereo power amp. I was playing that since the 80s! With two 1-12 cabs. Originally Posted by henryrobinett
Before that I had the Seymour Duncan. I LOVED that amp. Has little tube or solid state modules circuit boards for the preamp. Very innovative design. Great, great amp. But it was discontinued. It became a recording amp and too precious to gig with much.
I had found the 1965 Deluxe Reverb in 1983 used. I tried to get it suped up like guys did with Princeton amps. I gigged with it some but I wanted a little boogie. Didn't like it even though it was converted by Wade Stewart, a Paul Reveria engineer, who had done a ton of these for Paul.
So I got the Boogie Quad as I was after a fusion and jazz amp. Kept the Duncan at home and the DR in the shed. I played the Quad for about 20 years. But I stopped doing much fusion or funk or larger venue jazz gigs. It took getting clobbered over the head, researching a small light jazz amp. People kept saying DR. I had completely forgotten I had one!! Where was it?? I was afraid to look. It was still in the shed. There it was, with a dead rat stuck on the spring reverb.
Took it to my repair guy. He begged me to sell it to him. He thought it was awesome. Who did this redesign??? He thought it was so hip. I felt bad. Wade had tried so much to do a good job. But I wouldn't have known a Boogie or great amp design in 1983. I refused to sell and played it for another year until I went Fractal with the Ultra in 2010. Never looked back. I sold that to get a Axe Fx II a year or so later and just added the AX8 to the arsenal. Still have the Randall 2-80. I used it with the Axe Fx II. But now that I have a pair of XiTone active wedges I won't need it.
I just thought it was funny tracing my boring amp adventurer. I wanted to save the Duncan because if it broke it was dead. Now both the DR and Duncan are in the studio. No more sheds for amps.Last edited by henryrobinett; 04-17-2016 at 07:50 PM.
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Polytone Mini Brute - 3 knobs, velvet cab, 15" speaker.
Polytone Mini Brute preamp mated to Polytone 150 power amp w/12" speaker
(very) slowly building a tweed vibrolux clone.
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I mostly play one of two Gries 35s. When I want clean and powerful, I play the one with a Cannibas Rex. When I want a little rasp, I play the one with a Legend GB128. I've got other amps which are great for various applications, but those Gries amps are like clean, buzz-free and low maintenance classic blackfaced Fenders.
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I'd really like to hear more about this amp. I like my Teles to sound like pedal steels, loud, fat clean. Always wondered how this amp would do. Originally Posted by ksargent
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Can the Bose L1 Compact give pure jazz tones with an archtop? Originally Posted by ronjazz
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Dependent of the nature of the gig:
For the louder souljazz& jazzfunk gigs) my Twin Reverb is favorite. When that is a bit too much but I can reach the venue close enough by car I take my (heavily modified) Fender Blues Deluxe. When taking the car is not an option I either take my Session Bluesbaby 22 or my AER Alpha. I can both strap them to my bike, for public transport it’s the Alpha because of it’s handy carrying bag.
I favor my tube-amps, but the Bluesbaby and the AER are the best and most tube-sounding solid state amps I have tried (never played a Mambo), the AER sounds more like a Polytone, the Bluesbaby much more Fendery à la Deluxe Reverb (although the small cabinet size limits the ‘oumph’).
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My apologies,,I believe I misread something in the amp's manual about ext. speakers, and drew the wrong conclusion. It's good to know the little 8 can handle that power. I have no qualms about the Mesa Black Shadow 90 as an ext. cabinet, either. Using it, as well, REALLY gets that amp sounding big. Originally Posted by D.G.
Last edited by guitarbard; 04-08-2016 at 11:02 PM. Reason: correction
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