Gallien-Krueger MB800 800-Watt Ultra Light Micro Bass Head
Just when you thought bass heads couldn’t get any smaller and more powerful – along comes the Gallien-Krueger MB800. GK’s really done it this time – packing massive firepower and full pro functionality into an affordable featherweight head. Wielding its massive 800 watts, the MB800 handily deals with stadium gigs – and at 4.9 lbs., 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.
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 growl
• 4-band active EQ with variable contour lets you sculpt your signature sound
• Effects loop gives you sonic versatility
• Stay in tune effortlessly with the MB800’s mutable tuner
• Go straight into the board (pre- or post-EQ) from MB800’s XLR DI out
• Defeatable limiter keeps your dynamics in check
Specs:
• Type – Solid State
• Number of Channels – 1
• Total Power – 800W (4 ohms), 500W (8 ohms)
• Compression – Limiter (Defeatable)
• EQ – 4-band (Active EQ with Variable Contour)
• Inputs – 1 x Instrument
• Outputs – 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
• Height – 1.75″
• Width – 10.75″
• Depth – 8.5″
• Weight – 4.9 lbs.