Yorkville XM100C 115 Combo

Basic tone controls, good sounding DI out.

Victor Bailey jazz Bass, 65 precision, Romanian Upright. This is a very clean sounding amp, w/ a good speaker, and is not ported which contributes to it's pure tone. I play all styles of music. The amp doesn't do that I do...the amp merely facilitates your musical abilty. It will make any sound your fingers and bass can produce w/o distorting. I use the line out intot he PA for most gigs and adjust my stage volume to the monitor system so this has plenty of power. Although 100 watts w/ a good 15" speaker is all you need for most gigs unless your a pro touring band, and even then it might work.

No problems. Best warranty in the business.

Never needs repair. The strap was wearing out and I returned to the store. the owner called Yorkville and 3 days later I had a new strap at NO cost.

I own an Eden Traveler +, and 2-210 Neo Avatar cabs. Yes that is the greatest sound, but this little Yorkville is damn close and easier to schlep and set-up. I also own the Yorkville 50 watt w/ single 10 which I use for rehearsals and w/ my upright on jazz gigs. Great amps. Great price. Great warranty. You can buy 2 or 3 for the price of Ampeg,SWR, or Eden.....and it sounds better than most of them. BTW I have used the little XM50 in boomy rooms w/ my fenders and it was great. I like an amp w/ clean tone and good speakers.

i play bass and guitar and i currently use my bass amp as my guitar amp, because i don't see a point in buying a seperate guitar amp when i have an effects processor to mimic identicle guitar sounds. first of all, there's a lot of cleans you can get from this thing and the eq is actually useable and noticeable.

xlr line out (direct connecting to pa system so you can get more than 100watts), etc. the official website will have a better description with the specs, so i won't bother you with that.

enough effects for you to get started with and play for a long time.

for bass:
- nice warm cleans from a fender precision
- tone is unique when cranked and you get nice lows, mids, highs and everything inbetween.
- sometimes there is a slight noise like a hum, but that's temporary. a noise gate can sure help you.
- not much distortion, yorkville has nice cleans, so if you want heavy distortion, make sure you have a bass that has that tone. the amp itself won't give you the distortion, but also the bass.
- some effects would be nice, but playing at church or just jamming at home, this baby is plently enough.

someone tole me every year, yorkville throws there amps from a 4 storey building and sees what breaks. whatever breaks, they will improve on that. that may not be true, but regardless, this amp is really solid. you can throw is down and it will still work. throw this at a fender bassman and the bassman will tear. one problem is that the strap on top is beginning to tear, so that's pretty much the only mark off. regardless of the tear, you can still hold onto it. it's just the outside rubber that's degrading.

you won't need any back up since it's solid state and tube-replacing is unnecessary.

for a tight budget, buy a solid-state. for studio recording, upgrade to tube amps, but this solid state is surely a 9/10.

not bad. customer service is pretty much long and mcquade, who are also the manufactures of this amp.

9 shall do it.

$510 including tax. you might find something better you like, but for this price range, you won't be disappointed if you purchase this 100 watt solid state bass amp. sure you can spend an extra $50 and get the bassman, but i compared and i got the better bang for the buck with yorkville. if you travel a lot and you don't have your own car, then you might want to settle for something smaller like xm100c's little brother, the 50 watter. it's smaller and easier to carry around.

personally, 100 watts is a lot, and it can power a 600-700 audience. i practice at home and right now the volume is a little under 1 and near 0. i listen to loud music and at home and this thing is way too much. however, if you need 100 watts for frequent gigs, this thing will do it-but to make sure it is 51 lbs. the fender bassman is 25 lbs (approx), so if you want an economy-friendly amp, the fender may be a better choice. either way, travelling should not tell you which amp to buy, but the sound. fans don't care how you got to the stage, but what they listen to and the yorkville is clean and can get dirty if you want through a good bass.

whether you are beginner or professional, this is probably something you will use for very long. it has as good as sounds as ampegs and swrs, but more reliable. there will be better amps, but comparing amps with this price range, worth every penny, awesome deal, no need to steal.

3 band eq with a scoop
XLR out
Send and return loop can be used for daisy chaining 2 together (see below)

I bought the following Yorkville products in theis order:
XM200T (200watt 2x10)
XM200 (200 watt 15inch)
X400HS (400 watt head with tube preamp)
XM100 (100 Watt 15 inch)
I was looking for a nice size bass combo with good tone (not great tone just good tone). I ahve a hard time telling the difference between a $400 amp and a $1000 amp, and money is actually not a problem for me. I have seen many reviews about the durabilty of yorkville amps and i saw a local guy playing one and i thought \"what the hey! I will give it a try.\"
I bought the XM200T (200watt 2x10) on ebay and was sort of impressed except i heard sound flutter from the ports and I also noticed that it didn\'t sound deep enough (around a ~60hz 3db cut off). I then bought the XM200 (200watt 15inch), which gave me more of what i was looking for however, i didn\'t like the tweeter (i disconnected it) and it sounded a little boomy when up around 5 on volume (like the speaker was overloaded?). then I went crazy and bought the X400HS (400 watt head with tube preamp) and ran it through a bagend 2x10 cabinet. It sounded great but now I was lugging around 50Lb head (in an anvil case) and a 70Lb cabinet (not to mention a gear bag and 2 basses). I recently bought this massive PA system with subwoofers and what I wanted was a combo that sounded like a bass, and round enough that i could feel the music on stage. I decide to step back and get the XM100 (because of its portability) side by side it sounded better than the XM200 or the XM200T and was WAY more protable than the X400HS and the BagEnd. I bought another XM100 and sold everything else but the XM200 and the BagEnd (for drum machine). I use one XM100 for small gigs or stack them (to get the sound up) for a larger outdoor gig. I also can split the effects signals into only one of the amps (you can also daisy chain them with their sends and returns). Ultimately I am lugging a ~100lbs of amp for large gigs but can easily downsize and retain my tone for smaller ones (which I mostly do anyways). Hey...It works for me

BRICKSH*T HOUSE

who elses gives this warranty
2 if you break it 10 year

For the money for the sound

I don not like it when my speakers distort from working too hard (it seems like I am damaging them) this speaker/amp combination appears-sounds very balanced to me

Mine is a 2003 model XM100C. There are two models available: the XM100C in black ozite carpet, and the XM100 ($50-$60 more money) in black ultrathane rubberized paint. Otherwise they are identical: a 100 watt, single 15" speaker, single-channel, solid-state bass combo amplifier, with no tweeter. Basic, and it does the job.

The amp is very solid and well built, especially for the price, and includes a decent set of essential features: low-gain (passive pickup) and high-gain (active pickup) 1/4" phono plug inputs, dual RCA line inputs (for CD player/iPod input) bridged to mono, a master Volume control, Bass-Mid-Treble rotary controls with +/- 15 dB ranges, a Contour midrange-notch rotary control, XLR out with pre-EQ (DI)/post-EQ (line out) push switch, effects loop send and return, and a stereo 1/4" phono headphone jack (though it sends out sound only in mono). The power switch is a basic black plastic rocker, and the single power light is a funky blue LED.

The speaker is a 15" 200 watt Eminence (apparently), and is housed in a birch plywood closed-back cabinet with no port, and with a single top strap. There is no built-in compressor or limiter, nor any Presence or Aural Enhancer controls as on some other small combos, just the Contour knob. The knobs themselves are chromed and knurled, with a small chrome pointer. They turn smoothly and feel good, but do seem a bit slippery and are hard to read from any distance -- you won't be checking your amp settings from across the room very easily with them. (Then again, at least you can see them; many amps in this class mount the controls at the back of the top of the cabinet where they're invisible unless you're above the amp.)

All controls and ports except the power jack are on the front (even the XLR out and effects loop), on a reasonably attractive curved control panel above a very solid wide-mesh steel speaker grille. The power jack is a standard three-prong male connector, as you would find on a computer power supply and most other musical amplifiers these days. Nice touch: the amp includes a velcro strap to secure the included power cable to the back of the amp when you wrap it up. It's light enough to carry (22 kg/50 lbs, or lighter than my six-year-old daughter, who doesn't include a handle), but if you want to add casters any standard set will do, or Yorkville will be happy to sell you theirs.

I bought this amp to replace an old mongrel solid-state Ampeg G-410 monster (www.penmachine.com/amp) from 1974, which is also 100 watts with a (retro-fitted) single 15" speaker, but just isn't portable enough. I'm a drummer by trade, so I use the Yorkville XM100 mostly for practice at home, but it debuted at the New Year's Eve 2004/2005 gig my band (www.theneurotics.com) played at a large and high-end restaurant in Vancouver, with an audience of a couple of hundred people. There, my bass player used it straight off the floor, with no DI into the PA system, playing with my Precision Bass and a Boss Limiter/Enhancer pedal in the effects loop -- otherwise dry. He usually plays a Gallien-Krueger 400RB head into a JBL monitor speaker with horn, but he liked the Yorkville, and it was plenty loud enough even at 12 to 1 o'clock on the dial, competing with my drums and two electric guitars with smallish combo amps.

So, for a basic, intro-level 100 watt bass amp, it's got the goods, and works for real gigs, not just the basement or garage. If it had a built-in compressor or limiter and enhancer, a speaker-out jack, and maybe a tweeter, it would be nearly perfect, but if you want that, you have to spend a lot more money. It's a fine amp as it is, and the best choice in its category and price range -- I really checked around before I bought it. And it's made in Canada, eh, just like me!

It's only ever been used with my 1998 Squier Mexican Precision Bass, which is a workmanlike, proletarian bass if there ever was one. It sounds good. By itself, the P Bass with the XM100C can be a bit sloppy: peaky attack with some muddiness because of the lack of a tweeter in the amp. To fix that, I put a $60 Boss LMB-3 Limiter/Enhancer pedal in the loop, and it helps. The limiter reduces the attack and evens out the levels, while the enhancer (like the one built into SWR amps) boosts harmonic overtones to make the sound richer.

Otherwise, the amp is surprisingly diverse considering its sparse controls. The three EQ knobs have pronounced effects on the sound, so you can go from classic Stax tubby to Green Day growl to modern-rock gronk. The Contour knob scoops out the mids and enhances the bass and treble even further, for a hollow, funky sound you can use for slap (the limiter helps there too) or just to cut through guitars in a power trio. Okay, it's no high-end machine, so if you want distortion you'll need another effect (I actually use a Danelecto Daddy-O guitar overdrive pedal, though it cuts out some of the low end, and I don't need it much), but there's plenty of volume, low end, and quality bass tone in this small box, particularly for the price.

Keep note that the pre-EQ (DI) setting for the XLR out really is pre-everything. It's like a direct wire from the phono input jack to the XLR jack, with no effect from the onboard volume or EQ/Contour knobs, and no signal even from the RCA line input jacks. So if you want to route something from the RCA inputs to a mixing board, you'll have to use the post-EQ (line) setting on the XLR, or send via the headphone or Effects Send phono jacks instead.

Also, the RCA inputs, although marked for left and right, bridge to mono immediately afterward: even if you plug in a stereo source and listen with stereo headphones at the other end, you'll get a mono signal. Finally, the EQ knobs sit before the effects loop, but the Contour knob sits after it in the signal chain, even though the knobs are all side-by-side on the control panel. That's all fine, but you should know it.

Yorkville is legendary for building reliable bass amps, and their warranty proves it: two years free repairs even if YOU break it, and another eight (for a total of ten years) standard defects warranty. My particular amp has been a rental since mid-2003, and I got it in late 2004. It looks brand new, and it works like a charm, even though it's obviously taken some abuse from its history.

I'd use it without a backup, no problem, and we have already in the band. It's well designed and built, nothing sticks out to be snapped off in transport, it has the features we need, and it works and sounds good. I only give it a 9 because I haven't had it long enough to say how it lasts long term, but I've had enough Yorkville gear (PA speakers, monitors, stands, etc.) that I'm not worried.

Haven't had to deal with them directly, but their website is fabulous. Not only can you get all the specs and instructions you need, you can also download the service manual, which includes a block diagram, schematic, printed-circuit board layout, and a _complete_ parts list for the amp, so anyone with enough skill can repair it. (They also include manuals of all sorts for discontinued products, company history, a forum and Q&A section that Yorkville employees participate in, etc.).

One flaw: the instruction manual for the amp isn't very good. It tells you the basics, but nothing else, on one page. Specifically, the XLR instructions are confusing. The manual talks about pre- and post-EQ, while the amp itsef calls the same push-button DI and line. The manual doesn't make clear which is which (by the way, DI is pre-EQ, line is post-EQ). There are also no sample settings for particular sounds, nor any setup diagrams for how to wire up the effects loop, line out, line in, or headphones.

As I mentioned, the service manual is freely available and much more comprehensive -- I figured out a lot of things by looking at the block diagram, even though I can't read a schematic or wield a soldering iron with any accuracy. I wish the instruction manual could have told me that stuff in plainer language, though.

I'm a drummer, but I played classical guitar as a kid, and have been learning piano with my daughters over the past year and a half. On the kit, I've been a professional musician for over 15 years, and I'm in the union and everything.

I researched small bass combos for several months before deciding on the XM100, and considered Fender's Rumble and Bassman series, Ampeg's BA-112 and BA-115, SWR's LA-15 and Workingman's 12, Kustom's KBA-100, and models from Ibanez, Gallien-Krueger, and others. The Yorkville -- which another bass-playing friend of mine initially recommended, based on his purchase of the bigger XM200T -- won out, edging out the Ampeg BA-115 because the particular Yorkville I found was half the price (though it's normally about $150 cheaper anyway).

I'd buy another, certainly. I wish it had a limiter, a speaker out, and maybe a tweeter, but it doesn't _need_ any of those things. It even makes a decent keyboard amp in a pinch, and I may try it with my Strat just to see how it sounds. The new selling price is $430 Canadian, and it's a great deal at that. Only the Kustom came close to that price at similar quality, and I don't think that's made in North America. The Ampeg BA-112 (50 watts) is $500, and the BA-115 is $600, and they sound about the same as the Yorkville. If you don't need to pay for the name, this is a good way to go. For the difference in price you can get a few nice effects or other accessories, or trade up to a better bass, and you'll be happy.

2003 Yorkville XM100C bass combo amp. The "C" means carpet covered. Controls are volume, bass, middle, treble, scoop. 2 inputs. The low gain one is reccomended for active basses. High gain for passive basses. No significant tonal change between the two inputs. Just a diff volume. Useing both inputs at once results in both acting as regular or high gain nputs. Also has left & right rca in jacks for hooking up a cd player ect. Switchable line output, seperate effect send & return jacks. Headphone jack. Power switch & small blue power indicator. Metal front grill. Two smallish ports on the front of the cab. Black & silver color scheme. 100 solid, loud watts thru single 15" driver.
I use two of these amps as my main bass & synth rig amps. Their compact size & light weight makes em easy to transport & to stack one on top of the other. Each weight just 45 pounds.

So I have a solid 200 watt rig driving two 15"'s that can be stacked or done side to side.

Excellent features, sound, construction, & portability.

Had very good sound. Handles low E string on active basses thru either input without breaking up. Solid, clean, articulate tone without over emphasis on mids like some small 15" combos. Use whatever form of overdrive, distortion, or other effects pedal/s in front of it that you like for shaping your voice. The adjust amps 3 band eq & scoop control as desired for voices tonal charector. Handles high volme very well. Same for producing good full freq sound at lower volume too.

I play Warwick & ESP basses processed thru a Zoom Player 3000B. Along with Novation & Access Virus synths. Amp gives excellent results for both.

I hate peizo tweeters, unlike several more expensive amps, the Yorkville XM100C thankfully doesnt have one. Frequency responce of the single driver is plenty to give nice upper treble polish & overtones to both bass & keyboards. Could also serve as a guitar amp for those who like very heavy tone. Though 10" bass drivers work better for that imo.

Well built. No problems. Havent had em long, but sees no reason to think they wont last well.

Hasnt dealt directly with the company.

Got the pair on sale for $311.91 each. shipping included. Been playing bass & synths since early my teens Would replace with same kind, if lost or stolen. Compared to Peavey 15" combos but they weigh to much. Compared to SWR LA-15 & SWR Workingman-15. But didnt like their overly midrangey sound.

The XM100 is also available without carpet covering. But likes with carpet covering myself, so got the XM100C's.