VintageKustom.com: Comment Board

Re: New 3x15! [message #5573 is a reply to message #5570]

Mon, 07 March 2005 23:06

BC
Messages: 583
Registered: March 2000
Location: Kentucky

Senior Member

Actually....my Kustom inventory is still down. 28 if I counted right....26 amps and two PA's. I even sold one last week before I bought the 3x15 from Shadow. Most of my amps see use during the year. I only have a couple of Museum status amps that never leave the house. I had 30+ a couple of years ago. The inventory keeps changing on amps that do not get used much. I am enjoying the player grade rigs a lot....because we play so much. I also experiment quite a bit with different combinations. Lately I have been impressed with a 100-1 bass head on a 2x15 CTS cabinet. You can really crank the 100 to the sweet spot of the tone and the 2x15s give enough volume to make it a great small club amp. Six years ago I would have told you that you HAVE to have 250 watts to play bass effectively......boy was I ever wrong! We played a place last Sat with two other bands....the second bass player used a rack mount Mesa Boogie with a 4x10 cabinet. Nice and clean but very flat and dead sounding like so many of the other bass amps you hear today. Just not my tone. I used the 3x15 I got from Shadow....the third bass player asked to use my amp.....I was very happy to oblige. I encourage all of you to buy all the Kustoms you can.....cause " they don't make 'em like that anymore!" Besides....I bet your wife has more pairs of shoes than you have amps.....and she can only wear one pair at a time.

Report message to a moderator