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Published on 05/27/03 at 15:00I bought this amp brand new in a store in Sweden, where I live. The reason for this purchase was simply that I needed a new amp, my old one didn't sound good anymore.
The price was 6750 swedish kronor = about 850 dollars.
Great sound - nice and warm. The amp is quite easy to use, not to complicated. The eq has knobs for low, mid and high and contour. Of course you've also got a level and master volume control.
The amp has 125W in it which is enough for me. When we play at parties and such we always use a PA to run our sound through, but the amp makes enough noise to stand for itself at smaller places.
A good thing with the amp is that you can choose to go pre- or posteq when you use a PA.
Another fun thing (but unnecessary) is that it has two channels - the normal one and one for distortion. The dist channel is fun to play around with but I'll never use it when I play with the band. Maybe someone else can find use for it. But not me.
The amp has side handles which are great when carrying the amp. Nice move, GK!
The on/off button doesn't feel so reliable. Press in and it's on and then press it again and it's off. But somehow I get the feeling that the on/off button one day is going to stuck inside the amp. I hope not, though. But it could have been done better, why not a normal on/off swith - I/O? You know, the orange one.
The biggest thing I don't like is that I had to return to the store twice to change the amp to get one that worked alright. Quality problems, GK?
Well, as mentioned above I had to return twice to the store to change amps. The third one (brand new, all of them) sounded OK. Bad luck och bad quality? I don't know. The first one made a strange rattling sound, totally unplayable, like a screw was loose inside. The second one had a flat strange sound and had a distorted effect when played on low volumes. The third one, at last, sounded great. But my trust for GK is not so good anymore, sorry to say.
Anyway, the construction is beefy enough - no problems there. I already mentioned the on/off button and my feelings of bad quality there.
An amp that sounds great, no doubt - if you get one that works alright. I compared it with some other amps and the GK was no doubt the best sounding.
Except for some doubt about the quality I would recommend this amp for everyone.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
The price was 6750 swedish kronor = about 850 dollars.
Great sound - nice and warm. The amp is quite easy to use, not to complicated. The eq has knobs for low, mid and high and contour. Of course you've also got a level and master volume control.
The amp has 125W in it which is enough for me. When we play at parties and such we always use a PA to run our sound through, but the amp makes enough noise to stand for itself at smaller places.
A good thing with the amp is that you can choose to go pre- or posteq when you use a PA.
Another fun thing (but unnecessary) is that it has two channels - the normal one and one for distortion. The dist channel is fun to play around with but I'll never use it when I play with the band. Maybe someone else can find use for it. But not me.
The amp has side handles which are great when carrying the amp. Nice move, GK!
The on/off button doesn't feel so reliable. Press in and it's on and then press it again and it's off. But somehow I get the feeling that the on/off button one day is going to stuck inside the amp. I hope not, though. But it could have been done better, why not a normal on/off swith - I/O? You know, the orange one.
The biggest thing I don't like is that I had to return to the store twice to change the amp to get one that worked alright. Quality problems, GK?
Well, as mentioned above I had to return twice to the store to change amps. The third one (brand new, all of them) sounded OK. Bad luck och bad quality? I don't know. The first one made a strange rattling sound, totally unplayable, like a screw was loose inside. The second one had a flat strange sound and had a distorted effect when played on low volumes. The third one, at last, sounded great. But my trust for GK is not so good anymore, sorry to say.
Anyway, the construction is beefy enough - no problems there. I already mentioned the on/off button and my feelings of bad quality there.
An amp that sounds great, no doubt - if you get one that works alright. I compared it with some other amps and the GK was no doubt the best sounding.
Except for some doubt about the quality I would recommend this amp for everyone.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com