Peter Diezel
Well-known member
Dear guys, dear customers.
Today I built the first Mk2 Herbert. Of course You want to know
what´s different or not different.
First let me say that I´m very happy about the performance I could
increase concerncing the small complaints I heard from a few customers.
I´m searching always for better design and development and the MK2
is the last step in the name of Herbert.
We have new transformers mounted in the old way standing on
the metal housing, no more lay down design. These transformers
have a bigger iron core and have more headroom while producing
less heat. I designed 12 different prototypes of the output transformer
to be sure that they sound very, very close to the original ones.
The bad news: You have to carry two more pounds
We had customers hammering with 30k pickups into the clean channel
and were complaining about distortion. On the MK2 we decreased the sensivity
of the input stage to avoid early distortion using high gain PU´s. This
don´t effects the distortion channels.
Now I´m pretty sure that the discussion will start which version sounds better.
But believe me, every amp is feed by Your own tone.
Today I built the first Mk2 Herbert. Of course You want to know
what´s different or not different.
First let me say that I´m very happy about the performance I could
increase concerncing the small complaints I heard from a few customers.
I´m searching always for better design and development and the MK2
is the last step in the name of Herbert.
We have new transformers mounted in the old way standing on
the metal housing, no more lay down design. These transformers
have a bigger iron core and have more headroom while producing
less heat. I designed 12 different prototypes of the output transformer
to be sure that they sound very, very close to the original ones.
The bad news: You have to carry two more pounds
We had customers hammering with 30k pickups into the clean channel
and were complaining about distortion. On the MK2 we decreased the sensivity
of the input stage to avoid early distortion using high gain PU´s. This
don´t effects the distortion channels.
Now I´m pretty sure that the discussion will start which version sounds better.
But believe me, every amp is feed by Your own tone.
