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Gigging musician Dave Press didn’t really mean to go to such extreme lengths to prove quite how reliable and robust his Kustom amp was... but he found out anyway. M y name’s Dave Press and I’m a semiprofessional musician doing sessions, gigs and other shows in London and the South East. An event occurred which you may find interesting and which is quite a testament to the ruggedness of a piece of kit that I regularly use... Let me explain. Back in November 2008, I was driving along on my way to pick up a cheque for a show. Before I knew it, my van had spun out of control for some reason, then went spiralling down a hill and - bang! - slammed into the barriers on the hilly side of the carriageway, on the left hand side. Then, very shaken by the experience and trying to get my thoughts together to decide what to do now, as I looked up, another large van was rapidly bearing down on me, also spinning along as I had. Bracing myself, the other van slammed into me...Ouch! However, we were both physically okay as it turns out, but both very shaken. The vans weren’t so good - my one was a total write-off, and the cause of our crashes turned out to be a diesel spill from a truck (Oh yes, we know about diesel spills - motorcycling Ed who came off on spilt diesel on a roundabout...). MISSING! Meantime, a lot of my equipment and gigging gear which was in the back of the van was thrown out as I’d spun along. Once I’d finally collected my thoughts after the crash, I walked around and collected it all up. It all seemed okay. So, this had all happened on a Thursday and there were weekend shows coming and band gigs, fortunately all went well. The next Thursday I was scheduled to do a sit-down acoustic gig, for which I’d planned to use my Kustom 100 watt PA. But I couldn’t find the PA amp... I thought it might be at the rehearsal studio, or at home, but no, it seemed to be missing. My girlfriend suggested it must still be ‘There had been six days of rain in the interim period during which my amp had lain out in the elements...’ somewhere around the crash site. I said I’d already checked the site after the crash, and anyway if it was still there it would be ruined as there had been six days of rain in the interim period during which my amp had lain out in the elements... But she convinced me to take another look the day before the gig, so we drove down. The crash site was a grass verge which bordered a forest and as we drove slowly along where the van had spun off the road I suddenly spotted the amp peeking through some nearby bramble bushes - you can imagine how hard to spot that was, no wonder I’d missed it! I pulled the amp out which wasn’t at all easy. It was a bit muddy and wet and the corners had taken a bashing but it looked intact. Anyway I took it home and put it in the airing cupboard to dry off overnight. Still thinking I’d need to organise a replacement unit for the gig, I took it out of the cupboard the next day, gingerly plugged it in and pressed the ‘On’ switch... It was totally fine! I ran through a test of all the functions, and everything worked as it should! Amazing. Even more amazing, I took it with me and used it for the gig that night where it was 100% and gave no trouble. RUGGED I thought that Kustom might like to hear about how rugged and robust the kit they produce actually is, especially having survived the not-often-used ‘thrown from a spinning van and left in the mud and rain for 6 days’ test! Mind you, I can’t quite see magazines incorporating this into their review testing schedules..but the amp is still working fine and I’ve been gigging it relentlessly since then - I don’t think anyone could expect more from a piece of kit, could they? Well done Kustom for performance levels surely above and beyond the call of duty! KPA80 PA System with 2 mics £299.00rrp SYS-KPA100 Profile One Complete PA System £599.00rrp SYS-KPA200 Profile Two Complete PA System £999.00rrp KPA80 43
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