Bad Cat Lynx......

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It sounds good. Not a tone I tend to go for but I think this is the sound @napalmdeath was referring to. I have it in my amp too. Its like the lows are detached from the rest of the EQ spectrum and then youre left with scratchy mids and highs that are tough to dial in effectively. Ill post a clip that I recorded last year through a Mesa IR.
The lows are big and bouncy. Even boosted, I couldn't get them tight, (and with the absurd amount of gain), a boost, (I tried several), didn't really get along with it. The lows were either overbearing, or too thin - there was no middle ground. Terrible sweep, if you can call it that. I think it's an amp that needs a couple overhaul in the gain, and EQ section. Mids were "odd", and generally unpleasant. The $900 Indonesian Archon 50 sounds way better.
 
This was the best I could do on the Lynx for a mix. Granted I was mixing it with a SLO for science so it was dialed in with a little more mids, but it has this weird mid eq that I can't unhear. I'm including a random clip of a ground zero modded triple rec rev g for reference. Didn't have the amp pushed very hard from my reamp box and neither amp was boosted.






This last clip is the ground zero triple rec rev g mixed with a neural slo 100x plugin

 
Its hard to tell because phones cut out a lot of the frequencies. Its not a bad amp by any stretch it just isn't really a tone that is easily usable out of the box or that is overly exciting. Ola's video is probably rhe most accurate to what I hear in the room but he must've done post processing to edit out some of the weird mid sizzle
 
Its hard to tell because phones cut out a lot of the frequencies. Its not a bad amp by any stretch it just isn't really a tone that is easily usable out of the box or that is overly exciting. Ola's video is probably rhe most accurate to what I hear in the room but he must've done post processing to edit out some of the weird mid sizzle
Right on but edit or no edit it sounds badass in the clip.... and Ola was dead set on buying one too....... ahem ahem as said as well and nvm Tosin Abasi traded up to a Bad Cat Lynx 50 doing away with his AxeFx rig being able to afford anything really......


Idk hell I wasnt even set on buying a new amp and just tried it to be honest because it was the only other high gain amp in the room other than an EVH 5150 lll and a Mesa something.......


IMO the Gibson had a lot to do with it and it was a stock Standard 50s........ but otherwise the amp was pretty marvelous, plenty of thump, crunch and tight tracking, tracing and attack on its own...... no pedals needed with ample gain, plenty of headroom and a useful eq with plenty of range nvm the superb on board noise gate.


Things just a beast and pretty much a Lamborghini Huracan of an amp IMO.
 
Hard to explain but its different gain stages dont just offer great clean tones but they really take you to different ranges and levels and to new grounds when it comes to gain in general.......


If you havent tried one definitely worth checking out and I know what my next amp will be.......


MIA/Made in USA too ^_^


 
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