Ampeg SVT-400T

Amplifier Ampeg SVT 400T is an amp. entirely on transistors, it has 2 amps 200watts can be "bridged" giving birth to a mono amp 400Watts. When the amplifiers are separate adjustable active crossover is used to assign each amp to two different speakers. Such a forum for the treble and midrange, one for bass. Connecting the speakers is not the most practical, jack or terminals on conductors. This is a very good matéreil, cautaud and very practical, you can do anything, it has two effects loops, one line of output quality (like the sound engineers), a passive instrument input, one for active, two equalizers ( a graph and a parametric) gain, sustain, volume and foot-switch to control the equalizer, bass and treble buttons can be "learned" to "boost" sounds.

UTILIZATION

Operation is simple because "at each setting its button." It is easy to make a sound but you have to spend a little time to find his own given the number of possibilities.
The sound is excellent, powerful, round, deep in mountain streams and clean, the midrange and treble bright felted.

SOUNDS

We can make frettless or slap, basically all styles, from metal to jazz to rock.
Personally I use it with an SWR 2X10T enclosure and an enclosure with a Crate hp 15p, two 6-string basses Leduc a fretless and a fretted, the sound is fantastic ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a good fifteen years and I am very happy, but I will make three minor complaints, however, one can a noisy ventilation, a little "hum" in the silence and too heavy.
He no longer produced but still a ampeg amp worthy of the name ...
I tried other amps to replace the intant but I keep it because it will "seriously put his hand to the door monaie" to find an equivalent ...