Featuring a Class A tube preamp and Class D 800-Watt power amp, this high-powered, versatile amp is designed to offer dynamic tonal response.
With years of research, design, and manufacturing expertise in tube circuit designs, the company states this model has been developed utilizing stringent design parameters for form, function, fit, and finish. This latest design blends the warmth and harmonic content of a CLASS A, all-tube preamp -offering three 12AX7 tubes running at a full 300 Volt plate voltage - with a high-output, Class D, 800-Watt power amp module, delivering a professional, high-powered, touring-class bass guitar amplifier, that weighs just over 7 lbs!
Just as the name implies, the Kinetix 800 was designed to be that responsive, kinetic connection of interactive energy between the player’s expressiveness, their technique, and the tonal response coming back to them from the amplifier and speaker system – engaging with big, full notes, quickness, and snap when pushed, or slow harmonic bloom when sustained. It is a simple-to-use, very musical amplifier, and is what a high-voltage tube preamp brings to the player’s dynamic interaction with their instrument through a world-class bass amplifier.
Features Include
- SIX STAGE, CLASS A, TUBE PREAMP (3 x 12AX7 Tubes running at 300 Volts)
- CLASS D, 800-WATT POWER AMP
- MUTE / ON / BOOST GAIN SWITCH
- LEAN / FAT / THICK, TONAL FOUNDATION SWITCH
- 5 BAND FIXED EQUALIZATION NETWORK
- TUBE DRIVEN, XLR DIRECT OUTPUT, w/PRE or POST EQ SETTINGS
- AUX INPUT
- HEADPHONE OUTPUT
- TUNER OUTPUT• DUAL SPEAKON CONNECTORS
- POWER RATING: 400W @ 8 ohms, 800W @ 4 ohms and 2.67 ohms
- DIMENSIONS: 3.25”H x 11.25”W x 11.375”D• WEIGHT: 7.20 LBS
The Kinetix 800 is now available and shipping throughout the company’s global network of dealers as well as online. USA MAP $1,299.99.
For more information, please visit genzleramplification.com.
This pedal offers dual engines, extended IR capability, and a powerful tri-core CPU.
The original BigSky pedal was released in 2013, becoming an icon by redefining how guitariststhe world over thought about reverb, and the new BigSky MX expands on the original design inevery facet. With a super fast tri-core 800 MHz ARM processor, BigSky MX can run two reverbalgorithms at once and route or pan the audio in a number of different ways. The new advancedconvolution engine allows a huge ten seconds of stereo impulse response playback per instance, along with full IR editing and a suite of custom long captures of classic studio tools and oddballvintage gear. Many of the new reverb algorithms are brand-new from the ground up, and weretuned using a state-of-the-art gradient descent algorithm to remove any unwanted artifacts andringing. A crisp OLED display provides clear information about the currently loaded preset, whichmakes managing dual reverb patches a snap.
BigSky MX features stereo I/O and discrete ClassA JFET input preamps, EXP/TRS MIDI, DIN MIDI and USB-C for connection to Strymon’s Nixie 2software editor.“We’ve been working on this thing for the better part of four years”, said Gregg Stock, Strymon’sCEO and co-founder. “It’s been a labor of love, and we knew that the legions of original BigSkyfans were counting on us to get it right the first time. In the end it exceeded all of ourexpectations, and we’re really happy with how it turned out.” Stock continues, “The 12 enginesin BigSky MX produce the absolute best ambiences we’ve ever made, and the ability to run twoengines at once and the impulse stuff is a major step forward.”
Pete Celi, Strymon’s co-founder and DSP guru adds “playing around with BigSky MX duringdevelopment has been a blast. The new algorithms are bigger, wider and cleaner than anythingwe’ve been able to achieve in the past, and impulse response playback is a welcome addition.We’ve included our very own long captures of some classic studio devices and some oddballvintage units collected by one of our engineers too, so there is an entire world of creative reverbin there to explore”.
The BigSky MX was designed and is manufactured in Los Angeles in the USA, and is available now directly from Strymon and from dealers worldwide for $679 US.
Strymon BigSky MX: Next-gen Reverb & Celestial Space-shaping — A Worthy Heir?
More info at https://www.strymon.net.
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