Product: Matamp Custom 4x10 Cabinet
Price Paid: GBP 450
Submitted
09/10/2009
at
05:32am
by
King Kananga Rob
Features
:
10
Built in 2009
4 10inch Neodymium speakers
Rear ported
Rated as 1000w at 8ohms
can be built with speakon or jack
Light as a feather
Very well built
This is a 410 bass cab with neodymium speakers (I believe Matamp produce all their bass cabs now with neo speakers, but they are a custom shop so ask for others).
Very well built, can be customised to whatever coverings and front grill design wanted. This particular cab was built for me with black snakeskin tolex covering, white tram lines, chrome corner pieces and black handles. I have two front speaker covers, one customsied with band logo black with white trim, other is salt and pepper weave with white trim.
I gave this a 10 as I believe there is no better cab available and because it is customised to your needs and is built for a professional.
Sound Quality
:
10
Oh lord this is good!
Rear ported in most venues small mid and large sounds absolutely awesome, the neodymium speakers are very responsive. Let me expand on this as this is a professional cabinet, custom built and made to last. The Neo speakers will respond to your every touch, I sat in the workshop with this cab and was astonished, I thought my ampeg svt410 was great, this is better. if you play light feathery notes it will stay nice and quiet and you can build the volume purely with playing harder to an incredible level.
Warning this may not be to everyones tastes, if you need to have a lot of compression when you play or are lacking in control on your playing people will notice this.
however the flipside to this is that you can change volume without a pedal, building tone, building response making live performance a dream and studio work a breeze.
awesome sound quality!
Reliability
:
10
not failed once, cant see anything going wrong with it.
Customer Support
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10
Matamp are praised for their service and support. They are a custom shop that invented devloped and buil orange amps and cabinets when they first came to the fore.
They are a wealth of information and stories and they are extremely helpful. If you have a question you will get an honest real answer and they will respect you for asking. This is the only place I have ever been to buy equipment and had such good service. You can speak over the phone but if you live in the UK i would say its worth whatever trip it is to go and see tehm and try out teh gear, its amazing.
They will fix any problems, they will re-jig things to your specs and they are real people not a faceless company that know exactly what they are doing.
Faultless
Overall Rating
:
10
It costs slightly less than a brand new ampeg svt 410, the 810 is even cheaper.
I have owned a few other cabs, ampeg laney and played on alot of cabs from all major manufacturers. This is hands down the best.
I would definately own another one.
Matamp are great, I cant afford an amp from them yet, but I will get one, people need to check them out and hear what they can do for you.
