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Re: TRB400 [message #8447 is a reply to message #8446] |
Wed, 21 March 2007 07:00 |
stevem
Messages: 4772 Registered: June 2004 Location: NY
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Hi, I have one of the TRB400 heads along with the 4-10" and 2-15" Jensen speaker loaded cabinets.If you have a fax number I will fax you a copy of the owners manule if you like on thursday, but I will give you a quick review just for now.
The head has 2 inputs, one for active pickups, and one for non-active.It has 2 channels that are foot switchable, one tube(yes a real 12ax7) and one solid state(IC chip) The tube channel has some hiss for some reason, the other is dead quite.Both channels have a conture controls that acts like a overall tone control that sweeps thru the EQ range you set from the 7 band active EQ.
The head has built in foot switchable chours, and compression, the amp has a master volume.It has a built in adjustible crossover on the back with hi and low frequency outputs, it has effects patch in and out jacks on the back, and 2 speaker out jacks 1/4 inch style.The head is designed here and built in china so the cheassie is not quite as strong as the vintage stuff was made(this has screws holding sheet metal plates together so they may eventualy come loose) but its has a built in fan, nice size heat sink for the outputs, and a relayed startup circuit.It has a 8 amps fuse! for protection and should be able as stated to output 400 watts RMS into a 4 ohm load, but mine can only output 270 watts into 4 ohms, but still the amps sounds better than any of the vintage kustom gear and has a tonal palet that non of the vintage stuff can come close to, and the channel switching and built in effects and compression are just what I needed.I just wish it had a built in tuner, and even with only 270 watts I have never had to play it above 3 on the channel volume with the master wide open, in a LOUD band.
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Re: TRB400 [message #8868 is a reply to message #8867] |
Thu, 06 September 2007 17:21 |
C4ster
Messages: 686 Registered: June 2001 Location: Mukwonago, WI (Milwaukee...
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Hi,
My son bought a TRT100 amp and 2x15 cabinet. Not too bad overall but he had to send the cabinet back twice because of shipping damage to one and very poor T&R covering on the other. Kustom got beat up pretty bad on that attempt. To produce that level of amp in the US would have put the price way out of the market of the companies target customer. And the quality issues made it impossible to sell the remaining stuff. There are still unopened boxes of the stuff around and it shows up on eBay now and then.
Conrad
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Re: TRB400 [message #8869 is a reply to message #8446] |
Fri, 07 September 2007 06:30 |
stevem
Messages: 4772 Registered: June 2004 Location: NY
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Yes they made the TRB400, and yes it seems that show no arcives on the history of the TRB and TRT serise of amps.
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