🎶 Elevate Your Sound Game with Terra Nova!
The Eden 225W Terra Nova Bass Head is a powerful amplifier designed for professional musicians, featuring a robust 225 Watt RMS output, versatile high and low instrument inputs, a sophisticated 4-band EQ with semi-parametric mid controls, and a compressor for dynamic sound management.
T**8
Clear, detailed, solid.
You'll find a nice review of this amp on Music Radar and some comments on TalkBass. I'll add a few observations here.I have the TN226 and the Eden TN210 cab. The cab is rated at 300 watts at 4 ohms and the amp at 225/4 ohms.The subject line is the summary; if that's your goal, this may be your amp. I heard this combination years ago and it stuck in my head. Clear, detailed, solid. High fidelity to these old audiophile ears. I play a Peavey Grind 5, Rob Allen MB-5 fretless and a Pedulla Pentabuzz, 5 string fretless. This amp does them justice in a way my Fender Rumble 100, good as it was, never did.This amp gives a very true, fairly uncolored sound when set flat. The Enhance knob adds a bit of mid-frequency cut that is nicely calibrated. Most of us scoop the mids a bit and Eden seems to have a good sense of what works. However, you can take that control out and set the low and high mids to suit yourself. I use just a bit of Enhance, back off the high mids and set low mids either flat or just a hair up. I like the bass flat or tweaked just a bit, but crank it if you like to rattle windows, this baby will go low with plenty of punch. The controls are extremely sensitive. Even the treble control is nicely celebrated to add or subtract just a bit of high end sparkle without impacting the mids or lows.The Terra Nova 2x10 cab designed specifically for this head includes a defeat switch for the tweeter (The Eden combo based on this same configuration does not) and to my surprise I leave the tweeter on. It adds clarity to the highs which I like. Your milage may very and it's nice to have the option to switch it off.Cons? Just one for the amp, the headphone jack dosen't cut the output to the cab! That's dumb.Is 225 watts enough? Plenty for church, small venues and probably midsized bar gigs too unless you have a noisy crowd or loud band mates. If you need more there is always the 500 watt big brother.About that 2x10 cab: 47lbs is a lot in this featherweight age. Eden designed the TN210 to pair with the TN series amps. The uncompromised construction buys you that Eden sound, the punch and clarity. But other cabs will work fine if weight is an issue and Eden also has a lighter, single 10 designed for this head.
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