Eden VT-300

300Watts Tube, two inputs passive and active, 4 band Eq(60Hz,250Hz,800Hz,6KHz) along with Bass and Treble, Overdrive, Effects loop, Direct Output, Tuner Output, Compressor, and footswitch capable. Doesn't have a large slew of EQ's or effects but is able to get a large array of sounds, just enough features.

The sound quality this amp produces is great! Depending on which bass you happen to be playing you can get SVTesque, great funk, jazz, rock, and blues tones. If compared to Eden's other amps the tone isn't the characteristic "Eden" tone but rather a warmer fatter "Eden". This amp is able to get very loud and has a nice sound at higher volumes. It is a quite amp in regards to noise even at high volumes.

Have owned this amp for a few years now and have no issues beside tube replacement which is standard maintenance. When I had purchased this amp I had read about the footswitch causing problems in early model Vt's and have not personally had any problems with mine. It seems from what I've looked into, to be a few isolated cases and stories spread of the few cases.

This is the second Eden product I have owned and the second I have had no issue with. I have browsed their forums from time to time, and anyones questions or comments seem to be discussed in a timely manner. Though I personally have had no reason to deal with their customer support.

As stated earlier after owning this for a few years now I have grown to calling this my favorite amp. It gets the tones I desire, sounds great, looks great as well, and has always performed as it should. If I had any desire to purchase another I would just as I would any other Eden amp. Definitely worth the buy if you are able to acquire one!

Well its pretty basic. Which Kind of made me hesitant at first. then I learned it had a great onboard compressor, eq on/off, hi/lo dampering(makes it sound more vintage or more modern), and mute to tune functions via footswitch. the EQ is simple but it is very, very good. Actually the amp is so good it really doesn't need much EQ at all. 300 watts all tube. Don't be fooled. It will BLOW THE WT-800 AWAY!!!!!!!! 300 tube watts are very deceiving. Anyway, they are plenty. It also has an overdrive that is really nice. It doesn't really distort. It kid of just makes the amp growl. For me, less is more and this does it.

Ok, this is where I was blown away. i tour with a major label artist and we normally use in ear monitor setups, so I need an amp that I can really feel on stage. Well this does that and more! i ran it through 1 6x10 cab and it was plenty loud at just over half volume with gain at about 11 o'clock. i was immediately blown away(well almost immediately. Eden recommends a 5 minute warmup time and I agree) by the sound of this rig. The punch is amazing. I mean you will REALLY feel this amp when you turn it up. It just oozes gooey tube tone that only a real all-tube amp can. It stays tight at high volumes and would push the other 6x10 cab I am getting with no problem and I'm sure it will push more cabs than that.

It sounded great with my Fender Jaguar and my P Bass. when I popped and slapped my Jaguar the notes just jumped off the guitar. I was super punchy. And with my P Bass, it growled and vut through the mix like a hot knife through butter. I mean it. this is by far the best bass amp I have ever played through and that's saying a lot because I have played everything you can think of in search for my tone. GK, Ampeg, Trace-Elliot, Mark Bass, Aguilar and NONE of them have been able to touch this head. Not even the SVT Classic, which was my choice untill now. If you want real tube tone, don't buy an SVT Classic. By this head. The SVT sounds great don't get me wrong, but it cannot compare to this head. Its nowhere near as loud and it is not rackmountable, which was a big deal to me with as much travelling as I do.

Anyway, vintage or modern tube tone that will absolutely blow you away and get as loud as you want. Although, it also sounds great quiet.

I don't know about reliability yet, but If they build their heads as well as they serve their customers, I will have no problems at all.

It is tubed though, so it will require more maintenance thatn a non tubed head.

well this is as good as the tone of the head. As i have already said, i play for a major label artist and i am an Eden endorser. I must say that. All be it, i have just come on as an endorser. I have had nothing but the best experience so far. Jodi has been more than helpful and even got me a rig at the last minute to have for a video shoot. he even gave me his cell phone. are you kidding? The best customer service of any company I have ever worked with. they also provide free backline anywhere in the world for their endorsers. that is amazing!!!! thanks Jodi!!!

By far, the best thing that has happened to me as a bass player ever. Thanks so much again EDEN.

VT-300B - Same full lineup features as listed here by others. Excellent features!

Real, powerful, TUBE Tone! This baby is like your old favorite "A" amp out New Jersey on Steroids! It suits every style of bass playing, and even has an overdrive if you need it. The variety of great tones is just amazing. Plus, this amp is dead quiet when idling, so it's perfect in the studio.

Have been thumping it hard for months without a hickup.

I've dealt with Eden a few times over the years, and their customer service has been impeccable.

It's simply the best amp I've ever owned in 30+ years of playing. I've played them all - Ampegs, G-K, Ashdown... but this ones the best.

I'am the proud owner of two vt-300 amps. That will be the vt-300A/B en the VT-300 (first edition).
Both amps are simular except the VT-300B can use a footwitch to mute, compres, overdrive and fore the equalizer.
It's a pitty the amp does'nt have these features on the amp itselfe; if you want to use it you will need a footswitch.

The rearpannel has; two speakerconnectors (jack) and one speakon connector. A inpedance selector, a nice ajustible DI with ground/lift an d an pre/post selector.
The amp has a three-tube pre-amp and six powertubes to deliffer 300-600 watts.

The sound of the VT300 is just great, it was what a needed and searched for. After owning an Ampeg svt200, witch also was great, and playing on valvestate amps a few years I bigan to mis it. The growl of the tube.
The first time I heard an eden I knew it was the right amp for me.
Specialy the sound of a passive bass trough the VT-300 is just that vintagesound you search for!.
I also use a Warwick Streamer and an music man stingray at live gigging. Te DI is doing a good job. Don't use the DI on the stage where you play; use the eden.
If you expect a big loud distortion of the eden's overdive feature, i must warn you; don't.
It makes te sound GROWL more but if you want to switch in the middle of a song, the volumes are not matchable to make the effect a pedal distortion would have.

The VT-300 make your bas sound like its is build. You can ad a lot of "colour" to the sound. The eq is mutch better that an ampeg for example.

Well that's not easy for me to see, I play on it for almost 7 monds now. It still works........

I asked a few questions about the amps and got a helpfull answer.

Like I wrote above; the pedal features should be on the amp also.
Comparing with other amps, maby teh eden is a bit to expencive. That's the reaseon I bought it used.

300 watt 6x KT88 all-tube bass amp. has a switchable output impedance, 4 or 8 ohms. rackmount, and weighs only 40 pounds. nice front panel, has overdrive onboard. built in compressor, and some sort of damping feature. Can also use EL34 tubes, this should give you between 150 and 200 watts. pretty versatile without needing 10000 knobs to achieve it. speakon and 1/4" outputs, and built in DI are part of the deal.

very quiet, no hiss. also has a nice long standby period to warm the tubes up. once it's been on for about 5 minutes the sound really comes out and you get that warm, liquidy Eden sound...only now, it's tubified completely. gives it that awesome aural 3D effect that only tube amps like this one, the Fender Bassman 300, Marshall VBA400, Ampeg SVT, Mesa Bass 400+ and Orange AD200B can deliver. It really lets Jazz Basses shine, but it works very well with others too. the sound was real clean too, supposedly less that 0.2% THD. a little hard to believe but if it's true, more power to the Koch guys who designed it.

I don't own the amp, but it's been in the store i tried it at for a long time, never plugged in. well, today it was plugged in, and i hooked it up to an 8 ohm Trace Elliot 1x15 cabinet. Initially, it sounded really nice. i loved it and though Eden had a home run with this baby. Then the thing started making funny cracking and buzzing noises whenever you played, and they'd go away when you stopped. I know it wasn't the cabinet. also, there was a footswitch attached to the amp...i couldn't get the compressor to come on, nor switch the overdrive on an off(even the switch on the amp itself didn't work!) Footswitch itself seemed kind of cheaply built....very thin shell and cheapie switches. I also know a user on the HC Bass Forum who owned one....and the output transformer died on him. as you might imagine, blowing an output xformer is not cool, because the part is damn expensive!

Can't say i talked to Eden about this.

Great amp if it works. I thought about buying one...but this quality issue has me looking at a 400+ or a Bassman 300.

All tube circuitry,three preamp tubes,six poweramp tubes.
Two channels,or at least two modes,clean and drive.
One input,one preamp volume,one master volume.
Four-button footswitch,effects loop.two speaker outs,if I remember correctly.I don't have the amp anymore so I'm going by memory,which may not be entirely accurate.
The best part,only 50 lbs.

When I had this amp,I had only one bass,a 1976 Fender Jazz with S/D 1/4 lb'ers.I play Blues and Gospel.I grew up with tube amps and I have and old tube stereo that I plug the bass into just to hear that sound.That made me want an amp with the old feel,but with more power so I went looking for an all tube head.The Eden was lighter than the others like the SVT or the Sunn 300T.
The VT300's tone was nice,but modern tube amps dont seem to have that spongy feel that I remember.the tight feel is probably better musically anyway.I didn't like the distortion mode except for just goofing around,but the clean mode was great.Tubes have a way of making it hard for me to put the bass away,when practicing I always wanted to "taste that creamy tone"for just a few more minutes,even with the modern tightness.
The four EQ knobs were effective for boosting and cutting,but at the one gig I played with it,an outdoor gig,they weren't really necessary.I pretty much ran it flat.
If you want a super tight piano string slap sound,I'd say you dont want an all tube amp.Slap isn't my thing,although I did play some slap with this amp.It's just not it's specialty.

I had the amp for five months.When I bought it,the footswitch had one bad switch so I had Guitar Center specify that my thirty day trial period would begin when I recieved the repaired f/s in the mail.I drove about a hundred miles to buy the amp and didn't want to have to go back.Also,no one could find a serial no.anywhere on the amp.They almost wouldn't let me out of the store with it.
I don't gig out often,so after I had the amp for five months I played an outdoor gig where there was insufficient power.everything was being powered by long thin extention cords.It was a two day gig.At times the amp was barely audible even when both knobs were on five.
Meanwhile,G/C kept sending me the wrong footswitch,so I finally got the right one at the time of this gig.Then about three days later I was using the amp at a rehearsal and the amp went dead.No sound.
At this point,it had three strikes against it.no serial,no f/s,and now no sound.
I took it back to GC which had subseqently opened a store in my city and they refunded all my money without the slightest bit of trouble.I guess I got spooked by the whole thing.I later purchased a Sunn 1200s from a dealer who's about a mile from my home.

I called the company before making the purchase and they seemed helpful,but afterward,when I called back to enquire about the serial no.they called back one time,spoke to my wife and insisted it was there,and after that they haven't returned my calls.I work on appliances for a living and have to find the model and serial on everything I touch at work and I assure you that short of taking the amp apart,the serial no.is not visable from outside the amp.

I only gave it three because it broke.I think it's great that Eden tried to make a lightweight(compared to most)tube head(50 lbs).It had great tone and enough power,I'm not sure the average amp tech can get parts for it from the states without waiting for weeks.I think these are made in the Netherlands.Like I said,I'm spooked.Also,I could be wrong,but it looked like a bit of a hassle to work on,you can't just reach in and get at the tubes,the whole cover has to come off-after taking it out of the rack.
I also bought the 1x15 XLT cabinet.I'm used to 1x15 combos in the 100 watt range,so at 400 watts I expected the Eden 115 to kick out more power than it did but it seemed to bottom out when pushed hard.If I had kept it,I would have added a 2x10.

This is a wonderful amplifier !!!...It is a 300 watt all tube head made in the netherlands by Koch electronics and distributed by Eden, and it is the
quietist all tube amp i have ever owned !!!!! It is a very versitile haed, with good growl and crunch when using th overdive channel. preamp is
3-12AX7's and power tubes are switchable between EL83's or 6550's

I love it !!!....buy one

I have been using eden gear for over 5 years with no problems ever.

slow on email responses....best to call them direct

Awesome amp.....get one if u can, and forget about boogies forever