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I'd never really used much GK stuff before and purely got it for rehearsals etc. it's beautifully made and sounds great with plenty of tonal versatility on tap. The volume isn't immense, although enough for on stage monitoring in most cases I'd say. The sheer low end grunt simply isn't the on the 112, and it's not in the same league as my main rig. But for the price, size and what it is, it's the best small combo I've come across. Much better than my old promethean p5110 too.

Beautiful bass, about the only one left on my bucket list, but that finishing is abysmal. Hope you get it sorted

I found them to have a soft, indistinct character and have always ended up taking them out after a few days to regain note definition, especially in the attack of the note. That said Ymmv IMHO IMHO etc etc etc etc everyone's ears and tone goals are different. They look so damn cool too.

Because of the nature of my band ( we play rocked versions of pop classics, think green day playing Bonnie Tyler/Katy Perry and you're about there) we get a lot of requests the two types of requests are generally those that 'get it' and those who get get their heads around what were doing and spend all night baying for Metallica or oasis. Despite the fact that that's clearly not what we do. I normally respond by saying something along the lines of 'no problem, this is a song by Metallica' before launching into a Kylie tune, or 'we don't do any oasis, but it's a little known fact that Liam Gallagher was an original member in this band' before playing Spice Girls or some such. That said I have a habit of claiming at least three songs a night are by the Vengaboys. I indulge my whimsy onstage

When I gig on bass I manage to fit everything I need (including amp head) in my igig gig bag and gator pedal board bag. When I'm going out with the band I front on vocals and guitar with my own pa etc we use a wheeled travelling bag from eBay for all the mains leads, signal cables and miscellaneous stuff which works a treat.

Yep. Makes me play faster and be more coolerer Also a big fan of pacers.

I've started playing the guitar in the last couple of years, and I guess transferred my taste in basses into guitars, I realised I've ended up with matching pairs, literally by accident! I never set out to do this. It's just, sort of, happened! [URL=http://s34.photobucket.com/user/gafbass02/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image-5.jpg.html][IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d115/gafbass02/Mobile%20Uploads/image-5.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Bassmaster Funk and richwood V [URL=http://s34.photobucket.com/user/gafbass02/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image-4.jpg.html][IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d115/gafbass02/Mobile%20Uploads/image-4.jpg[/IMG][/URL] My 1990 mij jazz and my marauder [URL=http://s34.photobucket.com/user/gafbass02/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image-3.jpg.html][IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d115/gafbass02/Mobile%20Uploads/image-3.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Another Japanese jazz and my v100 [URL=http://s34.photobucket.com/user/gafbass02/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image-2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d115/gafbass02/Mobile%20Uploads/image-2.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Harley Benton bass and James nelgian solid acoustic Love em all no more guitar or bass GAS really. Or indeed amp gas either for that matter!

I've got the 112. It's excellent, so imagine the 212 will be a brilliant buy.

I'm afraid to say I stopped a few months back too. Had every issue since number one without fail, and all but one issue of the old magazine 'bassist'. But sadly times have changed, and despite my previous levels of enthusiastic support I now found it simply not worth the money and I found little to interest or excite me. It just felt like the same stuff going round and round and round. I still haven't decided what to do with all the old mags.

I absolutely love mine, best head I've owned, and there's been a few! Used it without speakers in the studio too.

Last weekend my bass player arrived wobbling and blood splattered as we were loading the car. "Urrm gut beattn up lst night. Thnk urn cuncussssd still" Couldn't play a bloody note

Top, top job. Love that

I'm a vocalist in a band with a big repertoire, so I use mine on a K&M stand attached to the mic stand. I've found the onsong app to be perfect. Let's me import my lyrics from Dropbox, organise set lists etc and away I go. Down side is having to carry it round at gigs cause I won't leave it unattended.

Can't wait for pics, glad these are being discovered

I get to cover that track. It's my highlight of the evening (Soul with a capital S I mean)

To be read with a sense of whimsy. Not a rant. I generally avoid posting in BF threads, for a number of reasons. It's been getting more and more like the hysterical EBMM or R**K forums on here where this subject is concerned. My feeling on this fawning is that it's most likely, in most cases, unconsciously perhaps, seated in sycophancy. A subtle hope that Alex will note those who leap to defence in their deferential way, and maybe, just maybe, return the favour in some way. That and/or a sense of satisfaction of a 'fame by association' thing; being able to wax lyrical about how they are on first name terms with the Barefaced guy. That's one reason, people get weird over it. Another is that having watched closely from the idea, to the beginnings, to where Alex is today, I've nothing but support for him and what he's done/doing. It's a HUGE hats off from me, wether I like the product or not, and I don't want to damage that. But this one is the biggie, why I generally avoid BF threads...'cause if you criticise the cabs in anyway, you always get leapt on by one of the fanatical few insisting that its your playing, you must suck, you must have cloth ears, you must be used to crap gear, you don't know how to listen properly, you're playing it wrong, you're listening wrong, you've stacked it wrong, it's the wrong room/amp/bass/technique/settings, you dont know what you're doing!!! Etc Etc Etc That bugs me. Prior to buying, and owning, and gigging BF cabs (in a variety of venues, inside and outside, big and small, loud and quiet, with a range of basses, active and passive, with a range of musical styles. ) I'd owned a full trace stack, AH400 smx, bright box, the works, other stacks including a prototype laney beast, god knows how many heads,Warwick to H||H, peavey, Marshall, promethean, you name it. And that's just what I've owned, in a working capacity I've played through everything else I hadn't owned. Amped, GK, ashdown. Etc etc etc I was running a mark bass LM2 into a pair of mark bass 2x10's when I decided to change to BF. I bought a compact and a midget T and a Genz shuttle 9. To lighten my rig further. Loved the portability, I could carry a midget to gigs! Hated the looks, looked poorly made, grills badly cut, badly fitted, with sticky foam tape behind them looking awful. Not at all what I'd expected at the price point. The parts, fit and finish we're awful. Folks took the mickey!! I felt no pride in ownership, more a creeping sense I'd wasted my money. I missed my markbass cabs. Btw I quite liked the litte promethean combo and matching extension cab I had for a while, but it all broke The handle meant my head wouldn't sit, so I used soft feet. The cabs finish started to react with them! I tried hard feet, the amp slid about. Folks still laughed at my home made cabs, and asked why the badges were different ways around. And why I kept sticking my head and hand in the port. ...Because I needed to adjust the tweeter, constantly, because I just could NOT get a good, consistent sound, that sounded like me?! The midget sounded like an old school, boxy 12" driver in a small box, loud because it had a ton of mid, I tried it on the floor, on a table, in a corner, under the table, etc etc Still sounded like I'd expect a 12" in a small box to sound. The compact sounded like an old school, Woolley 15" speaker in a small box. Exactly like I'd expect one to. No bite, attack, no tonal 'complexity' or punch to speak of. Just a big, old fashioned woofy, retro bass sound. Together they sounded, well, like those two things stacked on top of each other. A bit more 'solid' perhaps. But still very 'twelvey'. Not the punch and response I'd grown to love when using tens. All the things that break the speaker configuration rules. Yes. I Know that you cant say a speaker size sounds like this or that etc, based on graphs and maths, but in use, I can. Maybe some cant, maybe some drivers i cant, but these, im sorry held no surprises in that department. It's at this point I can hear the frantic typing of outraged fingers, 'You were listening wrong! You are just used to hearing tens, you are used to hearing it wrong! It's the colour, you couldn't play without the colour!! Youre listening with your eyes!!! You suck!!' Go for it. I'm a very good player,in this company I don't say that lightly. But I am, and ive been gigging some 22 years ish. From the crappy local to the Hammersmith apollo/SECC/various apollo theaters, huge festivals etc etc I've worked as a sound engineer, as a bass player/musician, in hi-Fi and audio business' my whole life. I have good ears and know what I'm listening to and for. But you go ahead and tell me it's my untrained, inexperienced ears. Ymmv, each to their own etc, you hear/see what you do, i hear/see what I do. But please dont tell me I'm wrong because I'm not good enough to own them, which has been levelled at me on here before!! So I lived with em, I got other players to play them, I tried a range of heads and settings through them I contacted Alex, he was VERY helpful, and insightful. He knew his gear, and how they would react to different heads etc. he was always dead right. Trouble was, I just couldn't get away from the way they looked and sounded. Cheap, home made, impractical design issues, a middy, barky, boxy 12, and a big, flumpy 15. Id escaped those sounds way back. Even my markbass 15" had sounded fast, full ranged, and just more 'complete' than the compact. Loved the weight though. But pride in ownership escaped me. My bass playing friends also remained baffled by them. They simply didn't see the appeal... beyond the weight. Even though I DI often, (not always, not by a long shot) and the cab sound was for me, and the weight was a critical factor. Hugely so. I simply couldn't live with the tone. It took away my enjoyment, and with it my groove, my feel and my concentration, I started to find myself distracted by trying get a decent sound and RESPONSE out of them. I gave up trying. So I sold them, and bought Bergantino AE210's. Dear god!!! Best music money I've ever spent! Nothing I've EVER played through has made such a difference to my sound. I've no intention of moving them on till I can no longer lift them or make someone lift them for me. When that's the case, I'll go straight back to barefaced and give the new stuff a whirl, I know lots of these issues he's addressed already so hopefully by then Alex will have built them into a British juggernaut of manufacturing and export. Hopefully he'll have forgotten that I criticised his cabs online too. But for now the bergantinos are beautifully built in every tiny detail. They ooze class, prestige, care and attention. They are easy to get a stunning sound out of with any amp I've tried. I went back to markbass with the head, ditching the Genz for a MoMark. They are VERY loud, never distressed, always composed, punchy, detailed, with a 3D quality to them. I feel proud to set em up onstage, even though they are pretty innocuous from a distance. Especially after my glowing eight foot trace monster. But for just effortlessly sounding beautiful, in any venue, big or small, indoors or out, loud or quiet, with any head, or bass, active or passive, or tuned down to C with a huge synth sound. They just can't be beaten. And at 40lbs. They ain't too heavy either. For gigs where I used to use a midget, I now play a GK MB112 ii combo. At low volumes it sounds amazing, very very good, easy to get a fantastic sound from. At volume, it goes middy, and boxy, and starts to sound like a 12 in a small box, just like the midget T did at any volume. Its certainly not left me lacking in comparison to the midget T audible, appreciable volume with tone. IME IMHO ETC) But. The GK looks like a berg in its fit and finish, and I don't need to carry a head. A good buy I think. Incidentally, they all have a similar, 'painted' finish. So there you go. Flame away if you wish, deride if you wish, but maybe first, if its not what you want to read/think/hear/see. Then. Perhaps, instead of leaping to BF's defence, lance in hand, all wounded purchaser pride and hoping for a discount or free handle, or just a 'handshake' from the man himself, just give a shrug and move on to a more suitable post for you. These are my experiences and opinions, it's past and done, so I can't change them. So please don't have a pop at me all offended, I probably won't respond anyway. I just wanted to pass on my experiences as an actual owner of three BF cabs. (Yes, three, I even bought a midget AGAIN!!! Just to check!! Still didn't like it.) If you enjoy your barefaced cabs, then great. Enjoy them. Not for me, neither is the colour red or sopranos, or FIAT. Y'know. I'm so impressed with what you've achieved Alex. These days I think a lot less about my gear. It just does what I want it to do, when I want it to. Maybe It's why I post less, maybe it's the kids. Who knows. Peace. Gaf

I HAVE A SIMILAR PROBLEM WITH MY MOMARK 800/BERGANTINO RIG. ITS REALLY LOUD AND CAN BE A BIT TRICKY TO CONTROL WHEN THE BAND ARE QUIET. IT MAY HAVE AFFECTED MY HEARING. AM I SHOUTING AGAIN???

I've owned the line 6 (twice!) and regularly play through the TC combo. But I own, the GK MB112. Bought for home use/low volume rehearsals/on stage monitoring. I really rate it tbh, very nicely made, decent sound, reasonable volume. A good buy all round

I'm very lucky. We rehearse in my basement using a jamhub. The guitar and bass floor FX provide all the sounds, an electric drumkit, headphones for all and it's job done free and easy practice

I bought a zoom B2 and it was top notch from start to finish too job

Cheers guys. Just legged it to maplins and picked up one that seems to work. Fingers crossed for tonight's gig!! No battery option on the b9 sadly.

Just when ive a bunch of gigs coming up my zoom b9.1ut psu (AD-13) popped, gutted. I can't seem to find a replacement in the uk. Anyone got a lead on any? I'd much rather buy in the uk, I can only find them in the US online. Just hope to god it didn't damage the zoom when it went, I've hours and hours of programming the sounds tied up in it. Might buy a spare zoom when funds permit.