Product: Aguilar GS112NT
Price Paid: 300
Submitted
12/21/2008
at
04:50am
by
Tim
Features
:
10
Single 12 inch conventional bass driver, two tuned front ports, single spring loaded handle, tough steel grille, hard wearing felt covered cabinet with interlocking corner protectors. Very nicely finished cabinet and easy to carry at 39 pounds. Some seem to wish it had two handles but I find one to be plenty as it is easily carried in one hand.
Sound Quality
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10
Currently using a custom built Warmoth bass with Duncan Quarter Pounder high output P style p/up (you can view it on Warmoth's site in the customers basses gallery under Tim Sweet). I switched from using an EBS 2x12 neo cab and was concerned that these (I use two) would not match the sound quality. My fears were quickly overcome at my first rehearsal with these cabs. The sound was deeper, punchier and generally cut through the mix far better than the EBS cab (which, incidentally is a ??900 GBP cab!)The band members also noticed the improvement (and the two guitarists rigs are big & powerful!) I play mainly rock from country to heavy and I think these cabs will suit most styles of music very well. I never have liked bass cabs with tweeters, preferring a more authentic, vintage style tone and I dont miss the tweeter that my EBS had one little bit. To be brutally honest and I dont like to say this but these two cabs make the EBS neo sound quite weedy in the low end department (maybe the lightweight neo drivers just dont deliver the goods!!)
Reliability
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10
Only owned for a month or so, but I'm totally confident in these as they seem extremely well built and I'm sure they will prove reliable and hard wearing. I cant really see a single driver ply cab giving too many problems.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Not used but other reviewers say they are very helpful.
Overall Rating
:
10
Playing bass for 15 or more years and been looking for the perfect 'mini rig' for the last 5 years and believe I have found it. I drive these with a Markbass Little Mark II head and the combination is superb. The big, big sound that comes out of this little stack defies belief (it really does)
Product: Aguilar GS112NT
Price Paid: USD 400
Submitted
02/08/2008
at
12:09am
by
Mitch
Features
:
10
Aguilar 1x12" speaker, with 2 front ports and NO TWEETER. Basically, the highly acclaimed GS112 minus the tweeter and a few pounds. One speakon input and two quarter inch inputs. Handles 300 watts at 8 ohms, but I'm currently running 1000 watts through it and it can't get enough! The cab is also astoundingly light and compact, weighing in at 38 lbs. and has an extremely useful side handle that turns the cab into an easy to carry briefcase.
Sound Quality
:
10
Old-school fatness. If you want to sound like Victor Wooten, this may not be the cab for you. This cab made me realize that the sound I so much have hated all these years is the tweeter. No more harsh, brittle, snappy highs, just warm, smooth tone. I was also surprised at how smooth and articulate I sounded through the single 12" speaker, but that would make sense since no crossover is required. If you haven't heard this cab before, my best description of how this cab sounds would be a 12" subwoofer that you'd have in your trunk. Just keep giving it juice, and it just wants more without any distortion at all! I've played with this thing at all different volume levels in all different types of playing situations and it never ceases to cut through the mix and fill everything up with fat, warm bass tone.
Reliability
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10
Well, four days after I bought this cab, my roommate puked on it at a gig and it's still going strong!
Customer Support
:
10
I have personally met Dave Boonshoft, the CEO of Aguilar here in NYC, and after receiving a tour of the shop, I have full confidence in Aguilar's customer support
Overall Rating
:
10
This cabinet redefined everything I thought I knew about bass enclosures and what my sound possibilities were live. Up until this point, I have been on a search for the best sounding, most portable cab out there. I've gone from a full GK stack, to an Epifani UL-310, to an Accugroove Tri110L, and I can proudly say that my journey has ended with the Aguilar. A/B'd with my Accugroove, the Aguilar is fatter, louder, and far more responsive. Mind you, the Accugroove is intended to accurately reproduce the sound of your bass and amp, which it does, I just happen to prefer the warmer, fatter sound the GS112NT provides. I play a '69 Fender P-bass with VERY OLD Fender flatwounds through a mid-90's Trace Elliot V-type tube preamp/Carvin DCM1500 and the tone I aim for is what some would probably refer to as "modern vintage". In other words, fat, warm, bass with lots of headroom and the GS112NT has helped me come closer to that than ever before. I can't wait to get another one of these and take them on tour!