Product: Park PGB50 - 115 Combo
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
06/17/2007
at
02:41pm
by
NorreNebelSlim
Features
:
8
Korea-made bass amp, 15incher, 50watts as is, 75 with another 8ohm speaker. Line out, send-return, headphone out, and input jacks.
Level, bass, treble, compressor knobs. Then graphic eq and master vol.
Closed back bass reflex, 70x50x30 cms, 23kgs.
Great for practice, and experiments. The speaker is responsive and works well with a guitar amp too (better without the back).
The controls are efficient, the compressor is nice but is no limiter (it pumps when slap playing). The graphic eq I don't use since the normal knobs sounds warmer, I think of it as room eq.
No noise at all, and plenty of power for what it is. <The line out hums, 2points off.
Sound Quality
:
8
Am a fretless five player for years, passive instruments sounds better. The Park sounds quite nice, fresh in the midrange. Not much bass, unless you tweak the graphic eq. Always clean, and the compressor is made for my bass it seems.
The park is a slow amp, even with another speaker hooked. So if you play with three fingers it won't track that well. Compared to other bass amps this phenomenon is real, it is quite slow.
This said, no problem for normal bass playing in blues-rock-country styles. Slap players and fast moving gringos, please try something else.
Relaxed sounds and very musical fresh midrange are very enjoyable!
Reliability
:
10
Rock solid. Only tiny problem is to de-oxit the jacks from time to time (especially the send-return).
The speaker is rated at80, for a power of 50, no worries...
I have played it on a 115-410 cab for hours without overheating problems, and it was 75 real watts.
Customer Support
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No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
10
Great amp, blues-rock style.
Other bass stuff I use is a behringer bdi21 (tech21 clone)-power amp-115/410 hughesKettner cabs, and a fender bassman 150 (same cabs). The park is in between soundwise.
I also enjoyed it much as a clean amp for my dod fx7-pod-whatever.
I like this little amp, don't think i ever will to part with it.
If you can find one ( I paid 100 bucks for mine) used, have no worries...