Posted by Raphael on Aug 3, 2011 in Music, Personal | 2 comments

I received this Gallien-Krueger MB200 bass amp in the mail yesterday. I haven’t been excited about playing music in a while…the feeling reminds me of the “old day”. (God, did I just say “old days”?) I guess I shouldn’t make pretend anymore – my best friend once said we are now “old guys with expensive stuff” as opposed to being “gigging musicians”.

Why so excited about this amp? The sucker is 2LBS! The Hartke amp I’ve used for the past 10-15 years is close to 50lbs. While it didn’t bother me when I was younger…now hundreds of live shows and practice sessions later, I’m SO over carrying heavy stuff.

So far, it’s sounding great. It has that really punchy typical GK sound. Good solid casing and nice, solid knobs. The text print on the casing is a little weak sauce, but that’s the designer in me talking. (they should have chosen a lighter typeface; the letters “G” ended printing unclearly.) Being so small, the knobs are cramped up a bit close, but I figure once it’s set, I wouldn’t be toying with them too much anyway.

It has direct-out for those club or recording sessions. Aux in for late night practicing with the MP3 player. Oh an a pretty blue light that pulses red when the sound clips.

Did I mention this was 2lbs! This is the best (only) music equipment buy I’ve made in the last 10 years. Happy happy joy joy.

UPDATE: turns out the tiny cooling fan on the side of the unit wasn’t spinning. The product itself was pretty awesome. I’ve sent it back for a replacement. We’ll see if the next one is ok? I hope so because it’s otherwise pretty cool.

UPDATE: found out the cooling fan was temperature triggered. DUH. RTFM Raph.