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Published on 10/23/11 at 08:28This is an all-tube amp head with four lamps mounted preamp (3 and 1 ECC83 12AT7) and four 6550 power tubes. This amp was made 100km from my hand, and designed by Fred, Sir Chillbass, which is really a great guy. In addition, the unit to a wild look! It is also inspired by the patterns of Hiwatt, but beware, this is by no means a copy!
The settings are simple and effective, and I am fully satisfied: bass, mid, treble and presence (the latter proving to be dominant when I use my fuzz and my distortion). Honestly, this configuration seems to me the best, compared to my old head Hartke HA3500 with this horrible graphic equalizer. There are also two connectors jacks (each with a connection active and passive) normal and bright, allowing a broader pallette of sound. I alternate and to have a more round on the normal input, and his "slamming over" the bright, pretty nice with my distortion. It therefore has a volume for each entry, and a master volume.
The power output is 200watts (tube ladies and gentlemen!) And was in the back of the beast two connectors to select 4, 8 or 16 ohms.
UTILIZATION
You want a simple setup? It's here folks. The manual, I see no bein utility. If not for my part, I Fred also made a baffle chillbass 2 * 12 New series, ie a cabinet equipped with Celestion neodymium.
I ship still head and his little sister with me, the amp has a very reasonable weight for mashed it sends, 20kg, as the speaker. After it sure is not the weight of a markbass, but frankly my back does not suffer martyrdom when I wear it, on the contrary, I am totally delighted!
And it is not the same use: in a bar, it is often a short may be able to find a place to kind of amp, but on stage it's amazing.
And it's the mega-class to hear anyone tell you at the end of a concert "Hua What is that sound sick, it's an ampeg right? Hein said it I'm sure it? " Hey no friends, is a Cillbass done all by hand =)
SOUNDS
Is this amp suits my style of music?! I play rock and roll hardcore, tends Henrix and The Who, through the dirty blues of Johnny Winter and Rory Gallagher, and Hard Rock Led Zep.
I have a heated probe (boiling!), Round, strong, fleshy, with the growl spoken, chubby, makes you shake in low and you cry in the treble, is the kind of sound that takes you by the pass, you cares a great kick in the c **, let you down and that makes you want to return.
I play with a precision (fantastic) in '78, I tell you, it's a killer! It's simple with this amp, and with this bass, I was never as crazy and happy.
Then there is the time when you will tell me "it is 20 times too that guy" so let me explain: yes I'm 17 but I play as a group for 5 years, and I still played several times (and when I say that is more that I just returned from a tour in Portugal, I played two years in a row at Rip Curl Music Festival which hosted 20,000 people each year, two years ago j 'did 18 concerts each day on the Atlantic coast between Bidart and Brest) and that they are all concerts both in pubs bayonne / hossegor as scenes, all spread over the year.
As for my knowledge of other tube amps, I have a little: I had the opportunity to test the series legacy in ampeg, the terror of Orange, the Blue Line, the markbass, of Ashdown in concert and also the SVT PRO, SVT classic on which I enrgistr & e in the studio, and all this again with my accuracy. Verdict: the B200 Chillbass from home and the best I've ever had. It's not the Ampeg, which can sometimes offend, it's nothing, it's a mix between a thick sound without drooling everywhere as the ampeg, which wants a versatile amp but remains in the mind vintage I like rock so much. To get an idea is almost the sound of bass master John Entwistle on Who's Next.
I also have two effects:
- El Grande Bass Fuzz MXR home that I find is a fuzz over couillue the big muff I had tried to Ocassion but had not as it pleased;
- The tech 21 vt bass that I think needs no introduction, and that gives me one distortion fleshy and bluntly always in the spirit of John Entwistle sound but this time in live, or Lemmy.
This amp satisfies me a lot, but it is obviously also due to the baffle which is also fantastic, and I can devote myself to a more funky style flip-top, or a sound and aggressive in line the bass sounds punks like The Bouncing Souls and Rancid (thanks to the tech 21 too).
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for 2 months, and compared to my old Hartke, there is no comparison. And the same for an ampeg. What I like most is his monstrous look, sound, simplicity in mind, the fact that Fred is manufactured by hand in Pau, the price is super accessible in view of the it is, and that if I ever have a problem with, bein I not have to wait a long time as if I had ordered online, but an hour car manufacturer that is me repairs or other'm ready with a smile.
This choice I would do without hesitation, so I'm satisfied Chillbass (either the amp or speaker).
In view of the breathtaking final XV this morning (thank you for the arbitration of a house three levels of government in which the team plays in my town), I want to say: VIVE LA FRANCE (yes I know c is done on purpose if I cry ...)
The settings are simple and effective, and I am fully satisfied: bass, mid, treble and presence (the latter proving to be dominant when I use my fuzz and my distortion). Honestly, this configuration seems to me the best, compared to my old head Hartke HA3500 with this horrible graphic equalizer. There are also two connectors jacks (each with a connection active and passive) normal and bright, allowing a broader pallette of sound. I alternate and to have a more round on the normal input, and his "slamming over" the bright, pretty nice with my distortion. It therefore has a volume for each entry, and a master volume.
The power output is 200watts (tube ladies and gentlemen!) And was in the back of the beast two connectors to select 4, 8 or 16 ohms.
UTILIZATION
You want a simple setup? It's here folks. The manual, I see no bein utility. If not for my part, I Fred also made a baffle chillbass 2 * 12 New series, ie a cabinet equipped with Celestion neodymium.
I ship still head and his little sister with me, the amp has a very reasonable weight for mashed it sends, 20kg, as the speaker. After it sure is not the weight of a markbass, but frankly my back does not suffer martyrdom when I wear it, on the contrary, I am totally delighted!
And it is not the same use: in a bar, it is often a short may be able to find a place to kind of amp, but on stage it's amazing.
And it's the mega-class to hear anyone tell you at the end of a concert "Hua What is that sound sick, it's an ampeg right? Hein said it I'm sure it? " Hey no friends, is a Cillbass done all by hand =)
SOUNDS
Is this amp suits my style of music?! I play rock and roll hardcore, tends Henrix and The Who, through the dirty blues of Johnny Winter and Rory Gallagher, and Hard Rock Led Zep.
I have a heated probe (boiling!), Round, strong, fleshy, with the growl spoken, chubby, makes you shake in low and you cry in the treble, is the kind of sound that takes you by the pass, you cares a great kick in the c **, let you down and that makes you want to return.
I play with a precision (fantastic) in '78, I tell you, it's a killer! It's simple with this amp, and with this bass, I was never as crazy and happy.
Then there is the time when you will tell me "it is 20 times too that guy" so let me explain: yes I'm 17 but I play as a group for 5 years, and I still played several times (and when I say that is more that I just returned from a tour in Portugal, I played two years in a row at Rip Curl Music Festival which hosted 20,000 people each year, two years ago j 'did 18 concerts each day on the Atlantic coast between Bidart and Brest) and that they are all concerts both in pubs bayonne / hossegor as scenes, all spread over the year.
As for my knowledge of other tube amps, I have a little: I had the opportunity to test the series legacy in ampeg, the terror of Orange, the Blue Line, the markbass, of Ashdown in concert and also the SVT PRO, SVT classic on which I enrgistr & e in the studio, and all this again with my accuracy. Verdict: the B200 Chillbass from home and the best I've ever had. It's not the Ampeg, which can sometimes offend, it's nothing, it's a mix between a thick sound without drooling everywhere as the ampeg, which wants a versatile amp but remains in the mind vintage I like rock so much. To get an idea is almost the sound of bass master John Entwistle on Who's Next.
I also have two effects:
- El Grande Bass Fuzz MXR home that I find is a fuzz over couillue the big muff I had tried to Ocassion but had not as it pleased;
- The tech 21 vt bass that I think needs no introduction, and that gives me one distortion fleshy and bluntly always in the spirit of John Entwistle sound but this time in live, or Lemmy.
This amp satisfies me a lot, but it is obviously also due to the baffle which is also fantastic, and I can devote myself to a more funky style flip-top, or a sound and aggressive in line the bass sounds punks like The Bouncing Souls and Rancid (thanks to the tech 21 too).
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for 2 months, and compared to my old Hartke, there is no comparison. And the same for an ampeg. What I like most is his monstrous look, sound, simplicity in mind, the fact that Fred is manufactured by hand in Pau, the price is super accessible in view of the it is, and that if I ever have a problem with, bein I not have to wait a long time as if I had ordered online, but an hour car manufacturer that is me repairs or other'm ready with a smile.
This choice I would do without hesitation, so I'm satisfied Chillbass (either the amp or speaker).
In view of the breathtaking final XV this morning (thank you for the arbitration of a house three levels of government in which the team plays in my town), I want to say: VIVE LA FRANCE (yes I know c is done on purpose if I cry ...)