5.3 Midget feedback
18/06/10 - Midget
My midget is here :Already love it , sounds great at home...I'll be gigging saturday , sunday and monday and will get a chance to use it both as main bass gear and monitor on a bigger stage , will give feedback afterwards Once again amazing customer service:)Best regards , Seb
Update: 21/06/10
I've been gigging twice with my midget already...
It's really amazing , fills all my expectations:)
I've played saturday in a mid-sized indoor venue and i decided to try it first with my G&L SB-2. For some reason i had a lot of tweaking to get a hold on my sound , but i managed and could enjoy the punch and power of my midget.
Yesterday i used it for an outdoor gig with the guys i play with the most. I took my Us jazz bass deluxe and my sound was great , but the most amazing was how full and big it got , outside. The other band members went from laughing at this tiny box when i took it out of the car to how amazing it was :p
It's also soooo small and light (i didn t realize it would be that small and light) that i m almost regretting i didn t get a compact , whitch i m already saving for ...
In other words , you kickass!!! I'll spread the word here in Marseille :)
I'd like to get a cover or even a flightcase for it. Are there any companies doing that ?
Seb
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08/06/10 - Midget T
I've now played a few gigs with the Midget T and I like it a lot. Thanks, you did a great job! Did a wedding gig with a 5 piece band last weekend and the cab as a standalone had no problems to keep up. I have to try it with upright bass and noodle around with valve amps, I'll get back to you after that.
Best regards,
Heikki (Finland)
Update: 10/06/10
I like the tweeter. I usually turn them off all the way but this is the first cab I've found the tweeter useful (haven't played many quality cabs w/ tweeter though...). The Midget's tweeter helps to cut through in a loud mix without sounding too sizzly. It adds a nice "bite" to the sound.
Update: 11/06/10
Had a quick valve session last night. I drove the midget with Carlsbro TOP100 and Ampeg V4b Classic (90's version). TOP100 sounded great as it always does. TOP100 + Midget would be great in studio, I really like that combination. V4b wasn't so good, it sounded too grindy (same thing with SVT3pro, btw). Both Ampeg heads worked much better with same brand BSE410H cabinet, classic Ampeg sound. Anyway, I think that a 100w valve amp + Midget would be loud enough for a small/middle sized gig. At least for me, I'm blessed to play with a drummer who has exceptional sense for balance and dynamics :)
A few weeks ago we tried Juuso's Big One with V4b and SVT II. The SVT sounded amazing, it was thick and thunderous. V4b was ok, but not loud enough.
Btw, my wife noticed also that the Midget sounds better than my previous small cabinets. How cool is that?
Best regards,
Heikki
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17/05/10 - Midget
I've been playing the Midget a lot so far, and I'm liking it more and more. It brings out the wood and the tone of my upright, and it's very articulate, so it's easier to intonate. The low end is very easy to control from the amp, so even in acoustically bad venues I can achieve a relative good sound. I bought an electric upright from NS Design a couple of weeks ago, that sounds deep (DEEP) even with just the Midget. I get a lot of compliments on that combination.
My electric basses (P and J) sound wonderfull, I just need to turn up a little bass on the amp, and that's it. I've been playing some large outdoor stages, where they reserved a large area for my bass rig. Everyone was shocked that the stuff I brought with me on the first walk was actually everything I had with me. It disappeared on stage, but soundwise I had a very good monitor. Easily loud enough!
When I play in my hometown I can now take my bike, or go by foot, fantastic!
Just for the larger venues without PA support it needs support to fill the room with enough low end. Great that I can use the two Midgets together. I have a gig this weekend to try them out. Looking forward to it.
Martin (Netherlands)
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24/03/10 - Midget
Thanks. Yes I have the cab. Small enough to take home on the motorbike!!!!
Not tried it out yet as I do not have a speakon lead!!! Will put that right very soon!
Andy :)
Update 09/04/10
Been living with the cab for a few weeks now and I thought I would write to say how brilliant it is. I cannot get over the bass response from something so small... it's very revealing and it made me switch the pickups in my Jazz to something better! It is quite something and the perfect match for my tiny Eden WTX500. Not gigged it yet but excited at the prospect.
Many thanks
Andy (UK)
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10/01/10 - Midget
Sorry for the delay in replying - the festive period is always a bit hectic.
Anyway, The cab is here (it turned up when you said it would), I didn't find any cables in the box so had to wait for a couple of days while I got my local shop to make me one up. We didn't have any rehearsals over Christmas so I didn't have any opportunities to try it out at a "decent" volume, but I was very impressed with it at a low volume around the house. Mind you, I am more impressed with the weight - it's amazing!!
We had our first practice this week so I was able to start pushing more power through it. I was a bit nervous to see if it would be loud enough and if it could handle the power from the Shuttle 9, but to be honest, when I switched it on in our studio and played that first note it sounded really good. I removed the pedal board from the chain and cranked the volume, but our guitarist asked me to turn down a bit as the roof was shaking :). We played for a couple of hours at gig volume, and I found it really hard to stop smiling. It didn't matter where I stood I could hear myself clearly and I could get the sound to be perfect for me (you also get a big thumbs up from our drummer). It also moves more air than I thought it would (which is why I had to keep moving around - it was cold air).
We've got a few festivals coming up during the summer so I may come back to you later for a Compact too, just for that nice big rig look more than the sound.
The sound is spot on for me, but I really can't get over the weight though: I live down some of these "untreated" side roads so had to walk for a bit to get a lift to rehearsal (I only fell over once), and it was a doddle - I now have the lightest set-up in the band, and probably the loudest!!
Anyway, good luck with the company, and I hope you had a decent break over Christmas.
Cheers,
AJ (UK)
Update, 19/03/10:
I hope you remember me, I got a Midget from you at the end of last year (and very happy I am with it too). I'm now looking to add a bit more volume, but I'm not sure whether to go with another Midget or a Compact. I'm running a Genz-Benz Shuttle 9 through the Midget at 8 ohms at the moment but it starts making odd/farty noises when I turn it up above a certain level (so I don't do that). Sometimes though I would like it to go a bit louder. if I add a 2nd Midget then to get any more volume then I will need to run both cabs (at 4ohms). If I add a Compact then would the Compact sound louder than the Midget, and are they compatible if I need monster levels of sound? The amp won't go below 4 ohms, and, according to the literature (and I believe everything that is written down - honest), puts out 900w at 4ohms. Does this all sound OK? I think I've now convinced myself to go for the Compact (if it fits well with the Midget), and use the Compact for small gigs and the both of them for larger gigs where I want to deafen everyone :). Is the lead time still about 1 month? If all this is OK please let me know how to pay you. Cheers, Alan
[Barefaced: Alan now has a Midget + Compact stack; click on the Midget/Compact review link on the left to see what he thinks of it!]
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Mr Barefaced brought my Midget up to Bass Bash, where a number of you played through it, or at least heard it being played.
I took it along to rehearsal last Tuesday having hammered it in the garage all Sunday. I was easily convinced that I didn't need to take the Big One as back-up so I just strolled up the stairs and along the corridor with my amp in my back pack, my bass in one hand, and the Midget in the other. Result.
I put it on the floor in the corner, with the WTX500 on top. Basically, it looks like someone's taken a full-sized rig and washed it on too hot a setting. laugh.gif Next time, I'll take a photo of it next to the Ampeg SVT 810 rig.
Plug and play, and the sound was astonishing. We rehearse at close to full gig-volume so we were playing pretty bloody loud, I was competing with a Vox AC30 (yes, a real vintage one) and a Marshall 410 stack, and I was cutting through just fine. I was nowhere near the limits of what that cab can do and most of the time I didn't bother with my IEM because I didn't need it.
Barefaced's description of the relative sounds of the two cabs made perfect sense. The Midget reaches its volume by sounding "angry" - there's a real snarl to it and the mid-range is great. I was playing a Fender Roscoe Beck V and I found that I was using it almost constantly on the "Jazz" setting, whereas I almost always play through the Big One on the "Precision" setting.
The low B wasn't quite as awesome as when I play through the Big One, exactly as you'd expect. What wasn't expected was how well it did handle the low B - no farting out worth mentioning.
There are two things I need to mention:
Firstly, most of my sound problems with this band connect to the keyboards, and the keyboard player wasn't at this rehearsal. I really need to hear it with him there.
Secondly, halfway through the session I indulged in some foolish knob-twiddling on my pedal board and somehow screwed up my sound. I need to make sure that I can get back, get back, get back to where I once belonged.
I'm now seriously tempted to try running the Midget on top of the Big One. After some negotiation, Alex has accepted that this doesn't necessarily contradict the pureness of his sound ( wink.gif ) so I'll certainly try this at my next gig. I suppose this will then segue into the Midget badge orientation thread ...
I don't normally post reviews until I've had a reasonable amount of time with a piece of kit but Alex is offering so much cash I'm away on holiday for the next week and I've got no gigs in the diary so I thought I'd give an early heads-up to anyone who's interested.
If you're based in or around West London, happy for Basschatters to come and try my Midget at sensible neighbour-friendly volumes. Best wait until I get back from Sicily though.
Jack (UK)