I played it live, connected to a 800W Trace Elliot cabinet and linked to the mixer. Fender did it again! I see bass heads and combos featuring many controls that many bass players wouldn't need at all. This has essential features, but very effective ones. The BRIGHT, CONTOUR, VINTAGE controls shape the final sound and you can really hear that! Even the 4 EQ section makes the difference (mid-low/mid-high controls a bass or guitar amp has to have! In my opinion something without them is useless). It's portable, lightweight and very, but very powerful as Fender says. One the cleanest sounds I've ever heard. One only thing: It also features a distortion channel (very well made), but I don't see the thing on a bass amp which is meant to be simple. Distortion is something quite uncommon within bass players, it's more like an effect, like a phaser or chorus and if you want it you can buy a pedal. Anyway, when not connected to a cab I love I can easily play it in my bedroom and listen it from the headphones. I'd recommend this powerful beauty to anyone, after all it's a Fender product!