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Originally Posted by Gitterbug
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08-24-2020 08:50 PM
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Oops, no response from the factory - not unusual with Italians - and I forgot to follow up on this one - not unusual with me. Thanks!
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Their website explains for all their series how they are named. I just picked a C8R on eBay(yahoo!) and reread their website. R stands for 25W power rating. But the mods spell out the specs in numbers. Last year I spent hours listening to their online samples....
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Originally Posted by Eck
Thanks,
Markku
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Originally Posted by christianm77
I would LOVE to see a picture of that scene.
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Hey everyone! My Toob Metro 6.5 GP+ arrived today in the mail. This cabinet is really something else! It weighs about 3.7 lbs which is about half the weight of the 7 lbs ZT lunchbox cabinet I was using before getting this. I really like the small little features to this Toob cabinet. It has a small platform build onto the cabinet with velcro on it so you can attach your amp head to it (it comes with some velcro straps to put on the bottom of amp heads). I'm using my Quilter Microblock 45 with it and the whole setup weighs 4 lbs maximum. It comes with stainless steel legs so you can hear yourself better when it's seated on the floor. It also comes with a nice short, and very sturdily built speaker cable so when you mount a head on this cabinet, it in effect becomes a combo amp. Although the cabinet is closed back it's not anywhere nearly as directional as you'd think for it's size.
I prefer a brighter tone than most jazz guys, so the GP+ made the most sense for me (thanks to Markku for helping me choose which one would be right for me). With the Quilter 45 Microblock alone there's plenty of brightness on tap that I can dial back and control with the tone knob on my guitar and the biggest thing for me is the bass is nice and tight. In addition to the bass not being overly muddy like with most guitar amps I've used, this little cabinet can handle low notes with ease. I don't have to run my Joyo American Sound into the signal chain to dial back the bass and turn up the treble like I did with my old cabinet. The ZT cabinet I was using before would rattle like crazy at higher volumes on low notes. Most of the amps I've had before would rattle on low notes (just about every Fender amp I've owned with the exception of my Vintage Sound 35sc). The Toob Metro 6.5 GP+ is very very well built. It's amazing that this little cab doesn't give out on low notes and still weighs under 4 pounds.
I'm excited to try out new amp heads with this cabinet and also see how this cabinet sounds as an extension with my Vintage Sound 35sc once I'm back home in the US. This cabinet gets 5 stars IMO. I'm glad to have purchased this cabinet to replace the ZT lunchbox cabinet I was using before. No more cabinet rattle, no more boomy bass and muddy tone, and more clarity, all at about half the weight. I usually don't write glowing reviews of gear, but this cabinet might be the last one I buy for a very long time.
Here's a video demo of me playing through this cabinet. It's plenty loud, you might be able to hear my neighbour living above pounding on his floor for me to turn it down. This was recorded using the microphone and camera on my iPhone, unfortunately I don't have a Zoom or a good condenser mic yet. I had the Q knob on the Quilter 45 MB turned up all the way, and the tone knob on my guitar at around 65%.
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Nice-sounding rig! Congratulations, and play it in good health!
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Sounds really good. Nice playing, too. Thanks for posting this!
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Jesse, thanks for the comments and video, much appreciated. Just to point out that the leg is upside down. There's holes on the cab's sides where the ends of the "M" go.
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The Toob Metro is being featured on the Quilter site in conjunction with the SuperBlock US. Really good video too. That's the sort of promo that will go a long way.
SuperBlock US Quilter Labs
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Thanks, Jim! A lot of buzz and action lately, thanks to the SuperBlocks and gigs resuming here & there. I'm writing this from a jazz camp where there's several units in action. Hope my video material will contain something presentable.
Cheers,
Markku
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Great news and the indirect support from Quilter is more than well deserved. Whilst I love my 175 through the ToneMaster Deluxe, I now turn to my Toob Metro 6.5BG with a BAM200 amp as my main jazz sound - life is full of happy surprises!
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All of those videos sound great, and it's great to see the Toob getting some attention. But I do find these demo videos more frustrating than helpful because there's no real context or sense of how loud they are. I would love to see this Quilter-Toob combination demoed with a real band (i.e., live drums and bass) playing a variety of tunes and settings to see how much real-world headroom there is and how well it sits in a band sound.
Last edited by John A.; 07-28-2021 at 11:32 AM.
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With gigs so rare these days, it's difficult to produce quality videos from live situations. You have to trust testimonials. Mine is of course not objective but still: I've spent all week at a jazz camp where several Toobs have been in action. Last night we held a public concert in a ballroom seating 260 people. I played my Emperor Regent through a Quilter SuperBlock US and a Metro 6.5BG, with plenty of headroom to spare. Vocalist, alto sax, second guitarist, electric bass and a heavy-handed drummer in the ensemble. I chose the brighter-sounding guitar on purpose for contrast against my buddy's ES-175/DLR rig. Some cellphone video was taken but I haven't seen it yet.
Last edited by Gitterbug; 07-30-2021 at 01:01 AM.
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Greg Ruggiero is playing at Mezzrow now, livestream of Michael Kanan trio. He's using the Toob 6.5" and some micro head, the video isn't good enough to tell exactly which one. He sounds very good.
Edit: I think he's using a Quilter. The low resolution video doesn't show me for sure, but it looks like it. There is no doubt he's using a Toob.Last edited by sgosnell; 08-01-2021 at 08:38 PM.
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If not a SuperBlock, Greg may be have used a prototype amp built in Eastern Europe to his specs. Tube preamp, on-board reverb, 80W class D, internal power unit. He says the sound is fine but there are other issues and I think the project is at a standstill. I tried to join it with slightly different specs for a Toob combo (external power unit to allow battery operation for buskers) but pulled out when nothing happened for months and the SuperBlocks showed up. Getting Class D amps FCC certified in the US is an expensive process. Not possible for a one-man micro enterprise.
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Originally Posted by Gitterbug
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I'll ask Greg.
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I don't think that thingie was what he was using last night. I'm pretty sure it was a Superblock, but I can't swear to it. Whatever it was, it sounded very good.
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Yup. The stream in Chris's post must be an older one. The amp on that one is the one-off prototype. Greg still uses it occasionally when he needs more power, but the maker has not responded to our e-mails for months and months. Last night Greg used a SuperBlock US and Metro 6.5GP+ with the 130W SICA speaker. He's also been to studio with that rig and says it gave his best studio tone ever, and far superior to the resident Blues Junior. Greg's main guitar is a 1940s Epiphone with a DeArmond PU. As I understand, he likes quite bright, period perfect tones, which also cut through better given that he plays with his fingers exclusively. BTW, Greg bought his SuperBlock straight from the factory more or less on the day of the release and wasted no time to make the demo video featured on Quilterlabs' FB pages.
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He wasn't playing an Epi last night. I didn't recognize the headstock from the crappy video, poor lighting and angles, but from the soundholes it appears to be some boutique model. I really wish Spike would spring for some better cameras, but it's probably not worth the money when the viewers are in the low twenties.
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The guitar is a McKerrihan - Never heard.
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Originally Posted by sgosnell
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Look at that lovely clear footage even on tour
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TBF, Mezzrow is a bar, and the lighting is generally very low, which makes things more difficult. Just more light would help. The camera angles are rather poor, too. The sound is so-so, not great but acceptable most of the time. But sometimes I just give up and turn it off. I'm not about to pay with the current state.
Another way to look at the fingerboard
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