Badlander and the EVM 12L

[rarebitusa]

Curious who has run their Badlanders with an EVM 1x12? Just spent a weekend tweaking in a BAD 50W with a Thiele EVM and dang if that wasn't floating my boat big time. Have always been a bigtime Mark - EVM fanboy and this Thiele is most excellent with either the V:90 or the IIC+, but find the EVM doesn't jive with every amp by itself. I was a pleasantly surprised as it's pretty excellent with the BAD and allows running a compact physical rig.

 

[bandit2013]

I have an EV loaded cab but do not remember if I tried the BAD100 through it as the only cab. I did try to pair it with one of the boogie 410 cabs though. Made the EV sound very bright after raising it off of the floor but could have been the combined character with that and the 410 cab. I will have to run the bad with just the EV cab and see how it compares to the V212. The Boogie 410 was ok, sounded much better with the JP2C than any of the other amps I tried with it.

 

[rarebitusa]

I have an EV loaded cab but do not remember if I tried the BAD100 through it as the only cab. I did try to pair it with one of the boogie 410 cabs though. Made the EV sound very bright after raising it off of the floor but could have been the combined character with that and the 410 cab. I will have to run the bad with just the EV cab and see how it compares to the V212. The Boogie 410 was ok, sounded much better with the JP2C than any of the other amps I tried with it.

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Yea I'd be interested in that BAD take with just an EVM. Mine was on the floor, apologize for the crappy pic but you get the idea 🫣

 

[spawnofthesith2]

I have a badlander arriving Sunday, and I got a thiele with an EVM last week... although I left it at my drummers so the two items won't converge until Thursday. Will report back

 

[rarebitusa]

I have a badlander arriving Sunday

Sweet... which model?

 

[spawnofthesith2]

Sweet... which model?

Got the 50 watt head. Pretty stoked. They've been on my radar for a bit... pretty excited. Should be a nice compliment to my marks!

 

[rarebitusa]

Excellent, totally dig my 50W, pretty much been running it live on 20W cause the Triode has a feel that works for me, but the Pentode mode is pretty kick butt. I love my Marks but man this is a great amp, so easy to get a good tone out of.

While I think the EVM Thiele is most excellent, recently have switched over to this WB 1x12 with G12-65 for now as it fits on top and sounds pretty good with the Celestion vibe. Running the EVM Thiele as an extension with the WB, well that is even more goodness but my band mates would give me the evil eye if I hauled both of them in for rehearsal. LOL

Looking forward to hearing your take...

 

[spawnofthesith2]

Excellent, totally dig my 50W, pretty much been running it live on 20W cause the Triode has a feel that works for me, but the Pentode mode is pretty kick butt. I love my Marks but man this is a great amp, so easy to get a good tone out of.

While I think the EVM Thiele is most excellent, recently have switched over to this WB 1x12 with G12-65 for now as it fits on top and sounds pretty good with the Celestion vibe. Running the EVM Thiele as an extension with the WB, well that is even more goodness but my band mates would give me the evil eye if I hauled both of them in for rehearsal. LOL

Looking forward to hearing your take...

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Awesome!! Really looking forward to getting my hands on it. Dig the specs and the clips I've heard. Peoples views seem kind of all over the place either love or hate. But most of the complaints are people mad because it doesn't sound like a multi watt or it doesn't sound like a jcm 800... well no duh. Its a badlander not either of those

Have a few cabs to try it out with, have a widebody 1x12 with a C90, I know that a lot of people don't care for that speaker but personally I love them in a closed back, and that cab is probably my favorite (thiele might rise up, its awesome just haven't played it a ton yet. Bought while at an out of town gig and used it for that show with my 5153, than had one practice with it last week with my Mark IV)

also have an EVH 2x12 with H30s.

Have a front loaded madison 2x12 as well... its ugly and that brands reputation kind of tanked before they fizzled out. But its a well made cab as far as I can tell. I sort of tried to sell it for only the cost of the speakers (celestion T75s) and no one seemed interested (I was trying to justify buying a mesa 2x12 possibly lol)

But I decided to unlist that and think I'm just gonna put new speakers in and keep using it. I don't really care much for t75s. Theyre fine bust just kind of meh for me. I'm entertaining the idea of putting a 75 watt creamback and a redback in there. Just recently had my first experience with a creamback, I put a 65 watt in my '76 deluxe reverb and it was such a huge improvement over the crappy jensen that was in there


Mark IV with the thiele