Review Demo - David Nordschow Amplification DNA-800
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When David Nordschow has produced bass gear, the results have historically been significant. The design veteran’s credits include stints with SWR and Eden Electronics-both hugely respected names in the bass universe. Now manufacturing under his DNA brand, each chapter of Nordschow’s bass-amp legacy and 40-plus years of developer knowledge are built into each one of his meticulously crafted amps and cabinets. We recently looked at the class-D DNA-800, a small but mighty 800-watt head with loads of personality and taste.
The DNA of It All
The DNA-800 is a small bass head, but it’s not in the micro family. I’d say it’s more like a micro amp’s beefy cousin, since it maintains some size yet only weighs a hair under 5 pounds. I appreciate that the DNA-800 is rackmountable, since I like to properly protect an investment as well as keep my load light.
The front panel of the DNA-800 is straightforward: gain, shape, a 4-band EQ, a 2-knob compressor section, and master volume-with pull switches controlling even more under the hood. The gain control doubles as an input pad, the shape control can be activated to post-DI when pulled, and pulling the threshold control disengages the compressor. The knobs are tight and precise, and the six LED indicators tucked under the knobs are super bright, which we like for the dark stages.
The back panel is a lot busier than the front. The DNA-800 sports two Speakon speaker connections and a 1/4" speaker out. There is a DI with level control as well as an auxiliary input with level control. (I was a little baffled that the DNA-800 sports RCA connectors for the auxiliary, since I suspect most folks have a lot more 1/8" cables lying around than RCA cables.)
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I would have thought the RCA out was outdated as well, but I've found it pretty useful on my TC Electronic RH450, and bought some new speakers that connect to my computer via RCA.
Damn that heads very crisp sounding very clean to. I'm not normally impressed by solid state amps but this impressive.
I love your reviews & you're a great player~
I own an Eden bass amplifier, I heard David Nordschow was founder of Eden bass amplification.
Although some folks are experimenting with running it at 2 ohms, David built it to operate with a 4 ohm minimum load. Yeah he builds a lot of redundancy into his gear, but he doesn't recommend running it with a two ohm load. So don't count on running two 4 ohm cabs off this. One 4 ohm cab or two 8 ohm cabs. Even when he designed the Eden WT amps that could handle 2 ohms, he was of the opinion that they sounded better with a 4 ohm load than a 2 ohm one and he gave them the ability to go down to 2 ohms because that was the marked demand at the time.