From mark_maegdlin@yahoo.com Wed Jun 04 18:50:13 2003
Subject:Re: Getting the Barbetta "growl"

I agree with David Hagler! A little over a year ago I took his
advise and got the Mackie SRM450, yesterday I just got another
one! This cabinet can handle just about every signal I send
through it. Right now I working on a bunch of hard fusion music
for an outdoor show and the Mackie is handling the output from
the Motif 8, S-90 and PC-2 all tweeked with some weird wah's
and envelopes. We are playing "Black Market" by Weather
Report "Huhai" by Jan Garbarek, "4 A.M." by Herbie Hancock,
"Valdez In The Country" by Donnie Hathaway and some others.

For more info go to www.powellfest.com. Our concert is Sunday,
June 15th at the Maude Powell Music Festival in Laslle-Puru
Illinois.

Mark Maegdlin

--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, David Hagler
wrote:
> Sorry, but I have never heard a Barbetta that I like
> yet. Way too much hiss in the high end & they alter
> the sound too much. Keyboards have too much going on
> in their sound too be colored by the amp. If I spend
> hours fine tuning a patch to sound "just so", then the
> last thing I want is some amp to change that sound.
> For the money involved ($500 - $800) the Mackie SRM450
> is the cleanest amp out there in my opinion. I think
> the JBL is a lot cleaner than the Barbetta too. I
> can't speak to the reliability of the JBL, but my
> Mackie has taken a couple really nasty spills over
> time & it still runs perfectly. It's built like a tank
> but it sure doesn't sound like one.
> DDH
>
> --- SteinwayM wrote:
> > He may sound bitter, but he also is correct, they
> > simply are better.
>
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