cakes wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 11:59 am

Kniferide wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 10:21 am

ChudFusk wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 5:08 am https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... -bass-head

Is there any reason why I can't use this as a guitar head to power a 100W 8 Ohm 2x12?

I had one of those on my pedal board for a while to power a 8 ohm single 15" cab. worked fine. Sounded fine. nothing great, just fine. you could literally just velcro it to the back of a cab. It's crazy little and light and cheap. kinda useful to have around just incase.

I've been looking for a clean class D head for bass, curious if this would be just fine with a modeler? I am used to a GK800 pumping my 1x15 cab... 200w class D just seems...a little underwhelming? Maybe I'm wrong.

I use mine with both a rusty box and a TC electronics Deluxe Reverb thing. It's fine but I don't play crazy loud. It's easily as loud as my Peavy 50 watt tube power amp, which has never not been loud enough. just turn off the speaker sim. It's a pretty neutral sounding little amp. the eq can be set to be doing pretty much nothing. It's great for taking over to dudes house for Jamz cause it fits in a gig bag. It probably even fits in the inside compartment of certain guitar cases. It's not going to be GK800 loud, but that is probably a good thing at the end of the day. People need to turn down... get off my lawn.

cakes wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 11:59 am

Kniferide wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 10:21 am

ChudFusk wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 5:08 am https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... -bass-head

Is there any reason why I can't use this as a guitar head to power a 100W 8 Ohm 2x12?

I had one of those on my pedal board for a while to power a 8 ohm single 15" cab. worked fine. Sounded fine. nothing great, just fine. you could literally just velcro it to the back of a cab. It's crazy little and light and cheap. kinda useful to have around just incase.

I've been looking for a clean class D head for bass, curious if this would be just fine with a modeler? I am used to a GK800 pumping my 1x15 cab... 200w class D just seems...a little underwhelming? Maybe I'm wrong.

Yeah I'd hate to rely on something that miniscule for bass, but then again I have a Hartke Kickback combo (the older version) which is supposedly just 120 W at 8 Ohms and it's super loud. I assume it's Class D because the current version is. I swear the older a solid state amp is, the more "real" the watts are, but that's probably just psychological.

Kniferide wrote:I use mine with both a rusty box and a TC electronics Deluxe Reverb thing. It's fine but I don't play crazy loud. It's easily as loud as my Peavy 50 watt tube power amp, which has never not been loud enough. just turn off the speaker sim. It's a pretty neutral sounding little amp. the eq can be set to be doing pretty much nothing. It's great for taking over to dudes house for Jamz cause it fits in a gig bag. It probably even fits in the inside compartment of certain guitar cases. It's not going to be GK800 loud, but that is probably a good thing at the end of the day. People need to turn down... get off my lawn.

Are you using it for guitar or bass?

ChudFusk wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 3:02 pm

cakes wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 11:59 am

Kniferide wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 10:21 am

I had one of those on my pedal board for a while to power a 8 ohm single 15" cab. worked fine. Sounded fine. nothing great, just fine. you could literally just velcro it to the back of a cab. It's crazy little and light and cheap. kinda useful to have around just incase.

I've been looking for a clean class D head for bass, curious if this would be just fine with a modeler? I am used to a GK800 pumping my 1x15 cab... 200w class D just seems...a little underwhelming? Maybe I'm wrong.

Yeah I'd hate to rely on something that miniscule for bass, but then again I have a Hartke Kickback combo (the older version) which is supposedly just 120 W at 8 Ohms and it's super loud. I assume it's Class D because the current version is. I swear the older a solid state amp is, the more "real" the watts are, but that's probably just psychological.

Kniferide wrote:I use mine with both a rusty box and a TC electronics Deluxe Reverb thing. It's fine but I don't play crazy loud. It's easily as loud as my Peavy 50 watt tube power amp, which has never not been loud enough. just turn off the speaker sim. It's a pretty neutral sounding little amp. the eq can be set to be doing pretty much nothing. It's great for taking over to dudes house for Jamz cause it fits in a gig bag. It probably even fits in the inside compartment of certain guitar cases. It's not going to be GK800 loud, but that is probably a good thing at the end of the day. People need to turn down... get off my lawn.

Are you using it for guitar or bass?

I've used it for both, but I don't ask a lot of my Bass volume since it almost never leaves my basement anymore, and I play pretty midrangey bass tone. For a stage show, you could get by but it wouldn't seem "big" sounding. Tonally they don't really sound like much. It's a basic EQ on a small D Amp. As far as D watts not being as impressive as Class A/B watts or whatever, yeah... I get that vibe too. I think this little 200 watt TC amp feels like a 50, maybe 100 watt solid state head from the 80's/90' era in power. You see it in PA poweramps too. Seems like you need amps rated twice what they say on the tin to get the guts of what old school amps were rated. I think it is because a lot of the marketing around amps these days are publishing the PEAK wattage as opposed to the RMS wattage. Like an amp called the BALLBUZTER 2800 might deliver 2800 watts peak power, but like realistically like 1200 watts RMS Bridged Mono. Big numbers are cool. Marketing is cool.

FWIW the size/price, I think the little Class D things are stupid impressive in a boring way.