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Hey guys! I'm the owner of the Meathead that you have seen in the vids from FAL Studios. Jocke and I have put the Natas through its paces this last week. Here're some thoughts after those encounters:
The Natas has surprised me in many ways. When I first heard the description of it and the clips of the Hulk mod. I was expecting a fire breather. That it is, but what I didn't expect was how versatile it turned out to be. The Girth and Grind knobs are what takes this amp from being a great amp to one of the best I've played. Now you never have to walk away thinking: hmmm this guitar usually sounds good, but in this amp... With these controls you can tailor the guitars bass and treble response when going into the preamp. Every guitar from my PAF loaded Les Paul to Fredrik in Meshuggah's 8-string sounded great.
The high gain is ridiculously good, but that is no surprise, but the thing that really is, is that it also has a GREAT clean AND crunch. The midrange is fat, earthy and open. I was really expecting the Natas to be bright, tight and not very warm sounding when not in uber metal mode, but it wasn't- very cool! When diming the clean channel and playing some Black Crowes riff, it was as good sounding as many so called Marshall boutique amps out there. It will not out Marshall a good Marshall or put Fortin's Cali mod or Friedman's stuff out of business, but it's very impressing never the less!
When setting it for high gain we could get my sissy sounding PAF equiped LP to sound like a Metal Monster with just setting the tone controls on noon an tailoring the tone with the G and G knobs. When playing with regular "metal" guitars with EMG's, detuned etc... it sounded fantastic.
I've played Engl's, Diezels, Boogies etc.... but no amp I've played have had that combination of attack, string separation and pure evilness while still being extremely musical as the Natas. The chunk factor is off the scale!!!
/Ulf
The Natas has surprised me in many ways. When I first heard the description of it and the clips of the Hulk mod. I was expecting a fire breather. That it is, but what I didn't expect was how versatile it turned out to be. The Girth and Grind knobs are what takes this amp from being a great amp to one of the best I've played. Now you never have to walk away thinking: hmmm this guitar usually sounds good, but in this amp... With these controls you can tailor the guitars bass and treble response when going into the preamp. Every guitar from my PAF loaded Les Paul to Fredrik in Meshuggah's 8-string sounded great.
The high gain is ridiculously good, but that is no surprise, but the thing that really is, is that it also has a GREAT clean AND crunch. The midrange is fat, earthy and open. I was really expecting the Natas to be bright, tight and not very warm sounding when not in uber metal mode, but it wasn't- very cool! When diming the clean channel and playing some Black Crowes riff, it was as good sounding as many so called Marshall boutique amps out there. It will not out Marshall a good Marshall or put Fortin's Cali mod or Friedman's stuff out of business, but it's very impressing never the less!
When setting it for high gain we could get my sissy sounding PAF equiped LP to sound like a Metal Monster with just setting the tone controls on noon an tailoring the tone with the G and G knobs. When playing with regular "metal" guitars with EMG's, detuned etc... it sounded fantastic.
I've played Engl's, Diezels, Boogies etc.... but no amp I've played have had that combination of attack, string separation and pure evilness while still being extremely musical as the Natas. The chunk factor is off the scale!!!
/Ulf
It doesn't have the 6rind and 6irth controls, but it has the contour knob that does a whole lot of goodies with the character, and lights and two more channels, and three different voicings on the clean channel, and... Look at the back. You could say that the Forza is the old man, young at heart but experienced enough to be able to make a lot of sounds by a flick of a switch, while the Natas is a young punk who says "fuck you 
