Slim Henderson wrote:that looks REALLY GOOD in black/white
mikepick wrote:So I got a chance to really turn it up yesterday and experiment.
It's not as loud as my DR, but I was playing with a drummer and had no problem keeping up. With the master all the way up and the gain to 1 o'clock it starts to break up. I hit it with a boost and was able to get more overdrive than I need.
Even with the gain all the way up and the master at 12 to 1 o'clock position if I played softly the amp clean up incredibly good. Just like one of my old Fender's if not better. This amp is very touch sensitive. The overdrive on it reminds me of my brownface. The distortion is smooth yet has some crunch to it. Kind of hard to explain, it just sounds really good.
As I stated before the amp has a pretty wide tone range especially due to the cut control.
There is something about the cabinet. It almost seems to have a slight echo when you play, which I find to be very pleasing. It sounded so much bigger and tighter than my DR. I tried some delay but once the amp starts to overdrive the delay just doesn't sound that great, even with the DBD.
It's not as pedal friendly as my Fenders, but all I really needed to do is crank it and use my volume knob, maybe a boost here and there for high gain and I had all my overdrive needs covered.
There is no rectifier tube in the amp. Bjorn said he left it out due to some unwanted side effects that rectifier tubes can produce.
I mostly played through my Tele with relatively low output Fred Stuart pickups. I used my buddies Grosh with p-90's and WOW. The amp screams with a higher output pickups, didn't even need a boost pedal.
I might try swapping the speaker with a Celestion Gold that I have in my brownface, but for now I will leave the one in there to break in.
I really love this amp.
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