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MGR/Scott Summers « Fender Bassman 200 »
Published on 02/04/04 at 15:00I went ahead and stayed with a local music store named Sound Stage here in Fresno, CA. They've always been friendly and very fair to me. I needed a quality combo amp for use at church and in practice and giging. I kinda played "price wars" between two stores until I was sick of it. I ended up getting her for $625 out the door (and they even threw in a set of strings).
This is an amazing sounding bass amp. The lows are stongly supported, the mids have great body, and the highs...The highs just glisten through the horn. The versitility of this amp can range from great jazz tone to a mean slap configuration all of the way to a quality punk tone. The tone is so versitile due to the great control fender gives to the user: Low, mid, mid freq. (offers drastic changes), high, room balance (compensates for acoustic extreems such as carpeted, crowded room to hard wood floor in a large gym - comes in handy 100% of the time), enhance botton (in - slap, out - finger picking, tap, ect..), compressor, and a limter (this saves you if your dumb enough to peak this equipment). I'm also quite content with it's passive/active botton which comes in handy when you use both. The back of this unit is very nice because it has another contol pannel just for the sound guy (this keeps them away from your settings, I hate that) that features an xlr line out for p.a. feed or recording, and their line out level. My last favorite thing about this amp would be the tuner out, it makes it a lot easier then unplugging or running through the tunner.
It's hard to really say something bad about the amp. If I have to pick on somthing, it would be the speaker. I'm not big on fender bass cabs (I'm more for ampeg) so I'm not to fond of the 15", but there's not much I can do about that. The bassman preamp makes up for it 100 times over. This repaces my peavy minx 110 (I strongly discourage you from buying peavy, they sound like cheap car stereo), so I feel bad complaning about such a small deal.
This amp is a brick. I'm not so sure that I could break it if I wanted to. Well, maybe, but I wouldn't try. It has a great metal grill to protect the speaker. Despite the strength of this unit, it is somehow a very bearable weight to gig around with. The thing has a 5 year waranty on it. Fender seems pretty confident in it's construction and quality. I've had it just under a year and tote it around everywhere I go, it still looks brand new.
All in all, this is my favorite combo amp, moderatly ranged of course, that I have played yet. It has met every need I have yet run into. I suggest you at least check one out.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
This is an amazing sounding bass amp. The lows are stongly supported, the mids have great body, and the highs...The highs just glisten through the horn. The versitility of this amp can range from great jazz tone to a mean slap configuration all of the way to a quality punk tone. The tone is so versitile due to the great control fender gives to the user: Low, mid, mid freq. (offers drastic changes), high, room balance (compensates for acoustic extreems such as carpeted, crowded room to hard wood floor in a large gym - comes in handy 100% of the time), enhance botton (in - slap, out - finger picking, tap, ect..), compressor, and a limter (this saves you if your dumb enough to peak this equipment). I'm also quite content with it's passive/active botton which comes in handy when you use both. The back of this unit is very nice because it has another contol pannel just for the sound guy (this keeps them away from your settings, I hate that) that features an xlr line out for p.a. feed or recording, and their line out level. My last favorite thing about this amp would be the tuner out, it makes it a lot easier then unplugging or running through the tunner.
It's hard to really say something bad about the amp. If I have to pick on somthing, it would be the speaker. I'm not big on fender bass cabs (I'm more for ampeg) so I'm not to fond of the 15", but there's not much I can do about that. The bassman preamp makes up for it 100 times over. This repaces my peavy minx 110 (I strongly discourage you from buying peavy, they sound like cheap car stereo), so I feel bad complaning about such a small deal.
This amp is a brick. I'm not so sure that I could break it if I wanted to. Well, maybe, but I wouldn't try. It has a great metal grill to protect the speaker. Despite the strength of this unit, it is somehow a very bearable weight to gig around with. The thing has a 5 year waranty on it. Fender seems pretty confident in it's construction and quality. I've had it just under a year and tote it around everywhere I go, it still looks brand new.
All in all, this is my favorite combo amp, moderatly ranged of course, that I have played yet. It has met every need I have yet run into. I suggest you at least check one out.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com