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The new Genzler Acoustic Array
Hey guys, Genzler gave me an amp to do a video demo on.
Hope you check it out! It's one of my favorite acoustic amps! I in fact sold my AER after I got my first Genz Benz |
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Nice job on the review, Lance. Looks like a quality amp.
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What about the UK!
This looks great. But it's frustrating because I've never been able to buy any acoustic Genz amps in the UK. And I've just checked at www.gollihurmusic.com and they are not allowed to ship the array to the UK. Lots of musicans over here would be interested!
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Gotta love stuff Jeff makes... I have had a few Genz Benz amps over the years. This design is a little like my Bose Compact when extensions are not installed.. I like it
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Excellent review/demo. Would you describe your whole signal chain?
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Great demo. I wonder how keyboards would sound through that.
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How does it handle vocals?
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A valid question. I'm gonna take a wild guess the XLR is a lot better suited for dual mic guitar systems than vocals. If you sort of care about your vocals it won't matter, but if you care about your vocal sound as much as your guitar sound, well amps optimized for guitars may not be the ideal solution ...
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I heard about these a few months ago, was wondering when they'd show up on the market. A local store in my town is going to start carrying these, I think...
For what it's worth, I believe the unit is designed for both guitar and vocal... it's not cheap, but I'm guessing it sounds terrific. My issue with most of the "acoustic amps" that I've tried has been dealing with "the proximity effect" when you start raising the volume levels... at that point, if I'm anywhere near the sound source, all sorts of craziness starts to happen with my acoustic guitar's sound. I own (and love!) an AER Compact 60; I feel it is an absolute MARVEL of engineering... but if you turn that hummer up a bit, you had better give yourself some distance from it or you will be HOWLING!
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Fair point and the promos emphasize guitar--but it has phantom power for its mic/XLR inputs, which at least shows some attention was paid. But sure, who wouldn't want to hear it.
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Cause they're a fingerstyle guitarist and that's their thing. And maybe they just want to talk to the audience between songs, so the provision's there for it. I mean fingerstyle acoustic is really growing once people realized that as great as someone like Tommy Emmanuel is, they can do it, too. Amps like this and the Mesa Rosette cater to people who primarily play guitar or have advanced far enough in their careers that they can afford to have a great sounding amp go into a PA while a sound man takes care of their vocals, if they sing, via the same PA.
All that said, I've still never heard the Genzler so I could be way off. If it has a 10" speaker, the odds of my suspicion being wrong are greater. |
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FWIW, the earlier Genz Benz Shenandoah amps handled vocals very well. I've been using a ProLT for years, and the way its speaker (12" and a tweeter) handles vocals was one of the reasons I bought it. This is a different design, but I'm sure they took vocals into account. At least it's worth giving Genzler the benefit of the doubt until you can audition the amp in person. You can't tell much about how an amp reproduces guitar or vocals from a youtube video anyway.
Louis |
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