Gallien-Krueger MB800 800 Watt Ultra Light Bass Amp Head

Gallien-Krueger MB800 800 Watt Ultra Light Bass Amp Head

Just when you thought bass heads couldn't get any smaller and more powerful - along comes the Gallien-Krueger MB800 800 Watt Ultra Light Bass Amp Head. GK's really done it this time - packing massive firepower and full pro functionality into an affordable micro-sized, featherweight head. Wielding its massive 800 watts, the MB800 handily deals with stadium gigs - and at 4.9 pounds, no one will believe you don't have a ginormous amp hidden in the wings.

About that pro functionality: GK's fitted this little beast with everything you need. The MB800's controls are illuminated to indicate operating status: input clip, tuning mute, Gain A, Gain B/Level-B, power amp clipping, limiter enable and EQ/Contour settings. Every stage of the MB800's discrete FET driven preamp features the same FET technology used to create the proprietary Boost circuit found in all GK amps. (That's GK's Gate Induced Valve Effect - G.I.V.E. for short.) Driving the MB800's 4-band active EQ, Contour, and Gain with FET devices allows the MB800 to migrate seamlessly from warm and clean, to a full-on growl with major attitude.

Key Features

• Beefy 800 watts gives you stadium firepower from a compact package
• discrete FET preamp seamlessly takes you from warm, clean tone to full-on frowl
• 4-band active EQ with variable contour lets you sculpt your signature sound
• Effects loop gives you sonic versatility
• stay in tune efforglessly with the MB800's mutalbe tuner
• Go straight into the board (pre or post EQ) from MB800"s XLR DI out
• Defeatable limiter keeps your dynamics in check

Technical Specs

Type
Solid State
Number of Channels
1
Power
800W (4 ohms), 599W (8 ohms)
Effects
none
Compression
Limiter (defeatable)
EQ
4-band active EQ with variable contour
Amp Modeling
No
Number of Models
0
Number of Tubes
0
Preamp Tubes
0
Power Tubes
0
Input
1 x Instrument
Output
1 x XLR (pre/post EQ), 2 x Speakon, 1 x 1/4" headphone/line
footswitch I/O
1 x 1/4"
Effects Loop
Yes
Dimensions (H x W x D)
1.75" x 10.75" x 8.5"
Shipping Weight
7 lbs.