Warwick Take 12 112 Combo

Made in 2004. Sort of Generic Bass amp, no frills. Useful controls.
Bass, Mid, High Mid, treble. Another EQ control is actually the on off button of the pizeo tweeter which is very useful. No EFX loop, Headphone jack it has. Line Out also. Good for rehearsal pratice, project studio small jazz gigs, or acoustic combo. Has preamp gain and master volume clippign indicator, and a VERY useful mute button
on the front.

Very warm and round, the speaker moves when pushed with master volume. With treble tweeter it kicks a good funk, slap and pop sound and are reasonable in not choking or cracking it up. Even distortion can be used, rasing the gain button to light clip indicators. The distortion CAN be pretty ugly when driven full, but then you have to switch the tweeter off, and then it's nice. Not much variety in sound, but it can compete with any acoustic drum kit, not miked up.

The low B on 5 strings MAY disappear a little too much, and you just have to line it out to PA or external power amp and 15 inch speakers or subwoofers. I treid it with several basses, and one of the do or die tests is with active 18v pickups which can cause most preamps on other amps to ckip way before the clip indicator lits. This one can take it without that clipping. And with those the amp is extremly silent. Sharp attack, and can cut through a "busy and dense" timbre mix. Sort of neutral and generic bass sound. It doesn't hide anything it doesn't reveal anything that wasn't there before. Good generic sound.

Yes seems pretty reliable
The TILT stand at the back is very useful. Although it will slightly make back access more hard. You can lug it around without breaking your back. The "NEODYNE" series seems to be even more built like a tank, and can stand a few more watss, but to me 80w is powerful enough for regular 4 string rehearsal playing.

yes, the caveat emptor above, they changed it to a brand new one, got it within a week. Haven't bothered to deal with Warwick. My music store takes care of this

Been playing for too long. THis is the only bass amp I own at the moment. It it were lost, stolen, I would probably check it out again.

BUT CAVEAT EMPTOR: The first one I got, had some minor distortion in the background going on all of the time, due to some - making a qualified guess here - switching problems inside the power amp. It sounded like there was a signal distortion goign on in the background. THis was a faulty amp and was swapped in a minute. The second one I got had none of this. This distortion can be har detected in anoisy music store but should be carefullt listened to. It was the power amp, since the headphone and line out was clear. Yeah, I wish it had the on-off switch and turn on/odd tweeter switch at the front. I did choose this one, because it was on a sale, and I have not tried around for EVERY single on combo 112 bass amp there is. This was the price I was prepared to pay for a decent amp. I just needed a decent one that saved my day. Not a Rolls Royce, such as Epifani, Eden or the other ones. So, mind you readers, I have not tried anything else, save for the Roland Cube ones, which I didn't like. I wanted it to be fairly lightweight too - this was A MAJOR consideration which was favored by me over any amps sound and/or capabilities.

Bought new in 2004. Four band EQ (bass, low-mid, high-mid, treble), input gain, master vol, switchable tweeter, DI out (non-XLR). Good for practices, could probably cut a quiet gig, but only 80w RMS so you have to be realistic! Has enough features for me. Nice tilt back stand on the back so you can leave it on the ground but point it up to hear better.

I use this mainly as a practice amp - works well even against drummers who bang a bit, but if your band practices with guitards with Marshall stacks, obviously this won't compete. I use it when I can't be bothered lugging my Eden head/quad rig around. I've played everything from Music Man, G&L and Modulus through it. It has a fairly neutral sound but I would not say sterile at all. I personally love the sound of the 12" speaker, I think it is a much underused and underrated format for bass (though they seem to be coming into fashion slowly). I compared this to the bigger sibling, Sweet 15 - that amp is much louder, but also heavier, and has a 15" speaker. Tonally for me, the Take 12 was nicer. That, and the fact that it is a lot more compact and lighter swung it for me. Ideally, I'd love it to have the volume of the Sweet 15, but ya can't have everything!

No problems so far. It feels solid and instills confidence. The chrome knobs have a nice feel to them, the pots are the "clicky" switch types that feel quality. Basically this amp takes you out of the toy junk category to the next level. Has a very discrete fan that kicks in when you push it a bit, but doesn't intrude.

Hasn't been an issue so far.

As a practice amp this is great. It fills a void in my view. It falls between those toy amps that are fine for bedroom practice but not much else (eg Peavey Microbass - great little amp but will get lost next to a drum kit), and the big heavy pro combos. The appeal in this amp is it is a nice compromise of size, portablity, quality and volume. It is compact and light to carry, so doesn't piss you off. If I could turbo charge it to knock out more volume that would be great, but then it would probably need a bigger speaker to cope, more cabinet reinforcement, become heavier to lift.....etc. So for what it is, I think it is great. If you want a combo that does it all, look at something bigger, heavier, more expensive. Personally I went down the heavy combo route, and changed to separate heads and cabs for gigs. This is a nice little amp that will just cope with sensible rehearsals without crapping itself.