orty156's Reviews

Sound Machine

If you can't get the sound you want out of it, it might not be the amp's fault, but your hands. It's a tone machine! Even the compressor work really nice. You can sound like Fieldy, Mike Dirnt, Justin Chancellor, Entwistle, Geddy, Les Claypool, Paul Grey, Geezer, Krist Novoselic, YOU, me ;) and many others... There is no way to make this amp sound bad. And YES you can even run it at 2ohms safe but i would recommend additional cooling.

Cheap, but amazing piece of amp.

I wanted some bass amp for home practising and i saw this thing on marketplace. Recently i saw video on YT from Kohle Audio Kult where guy play trough it with bassguitar and it sounded great. So i bought it. I have never played trough tube amp before and i was really surprised how loud it is, even when it have for me "only" 150W. I normally play trough amps that have 600 or more Wats. After while i changed the preamp tubes for better ones becouse the originals had nice sound but had really awful hiss when i turned on the channel 1. Now it sound amazing and it have really full sound with more than enough bass. Of course for home practise i use homemade attenuator becouse its really loud. Only thing i don't really like is master volume control that is built in, becouse it affects the tone alot. That's all i want to say about this amp. One last thing, I am not english speaking person so please tolerate grammatical mistakes in what you just readed.

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Good for beginners.

It was my first bass and now after 10 years I'm writing a review. So the playability is simply great as usual with Ibanez. I wasn't a fan of used electronics from the beginning, and after 8 years the pickups stopped working almost completely. So I replaced them with humbuckers from the Czech brand RM pickups. So now the electronics is passive with the possibility to switch the connection of the pickups (serial/parallel). And now, even after 10 years, it's still perfectly playable and easy to adjustable like when it was new.

It's almost perfect

This bass is probably the best I’ve ever had. You can get a wide variety of tones, and even in passive mode it has a very full sound. If you’re looking for a bass guitar that’s rich in both low and high frequencies, this is exactly what you should try. The playability is absolutely amazing, but of course, that also depends on how the instrument is set up.

The only thing I would criticize, as with many other bass guitars, is the pickup construction. It’s not an issue with the A, D, and G strings, but it is a problem with the B and E strings, due to the exposed magnet poles. When playing harder, the strings hit the magnets, producing a very loud noise.

So the first thing I did with this bass was to disassemble the pickups and insert a piece of paper under the cover between the plastic and the pickup itself on the low string side, to make sure the magnets don’t protrude as much as before.

But this isn’t just an Ibanez issue—I’ve had the same problem with brands like Fender and many others. Fortunately, this kind of issue is usually easy and quick to fix. But I think it's not the fault of the guitar manufacturers, but of the pickup manufacturers. For me, they should design the pickups so that the magnets are below the level of the cover or at least at the same level. Of course, the problem can be solved by moving the pickups down, but we would lose the output volume.

It's perfect

Great tuner, it is accurate even when tuning very low tones. I use it with bass guitar, double bass and electric guitar. It works perfectly with everything!