Dale B
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For starters... I can't make clips, so we can get that out of the way. 
Anyway, I got the amp on Friday. If you didn't check out the thread I posted the other day, I picked this amp up from Chris Poland. He got it from Dean DeLeo. James Demeter made two amps like this for Dean. I haven't owned a regular TGA 2 Inverter, but this one is a bit different. It has separate Channel EQ's for the Clean and Dirty channels. It has some other stuff on the back that lets you swap between the Demeter tone and a tone that sounds more like a Marshall.
Cleans - This amp has awesome cleans! It has the Fender clean down very well. The cleans have a nice amount of sustain to them with plenty of "air" and character. It has that jangly overtone happening that you get from a Twin. VERY NICE!
Edge Channel (Crunch) - This channel takes you from where the clean leaves off to a considerable amount of high gain. It covers the Plexi and JCM 800 area. It's not a darker kind of vibe or anything remotely close that nature. It has plenty of bite and teeth with the right amount of thickness where it's needed. It's a fine tone and has plenty of flexibility. It can got from a Bluesy vibe to a fairly decent amount of gain. The high end of the gain spectrum is up there with say "Plush" by STP.
The Solo Channel - This channel kind of overlaps the Edge channel, but picks up and leaves it in the dust. The gain is useable up to about 8 if you're playing rhythm on it. I haven't turned it up past that. The difference between this channel is that the Low end and Mids thicken up considerably. It's very round and huge sounding. It sounds pretty much spot on with the Stone Temple Pilots real high gain stuff. It just has a lot of girth in the mids and it pushes some air with aggression and authority.
Lastly, I can switch between all 3 channels on the amp. I've had no problems at all balancing out the volumes of each channel. It's even across the board. If I had to describe the character of the amp, it's a lot like the Cameron HG Jose I had in some ways. It reminds me of the Bogner XTC in other ways. It's just a lot more aggressive than the Bogner.
Hope you enjoyed reading this.
Dale
Anyway, I got the amp on Friday. If you didn't check out the thread I posted the other day, I picked this amp up from Chris Poland. He got it from Dean DeLeo. James Demeter made two amps like this for Dean. I haven't owned a regular TGA 2 Inverter, but this one is a bit different. It has separate Channel EQ's for the Clean and Dirty channels. It has some other stuff on the back that lets you swap between the Demeter tone and a tone that sounds more like a Marshall.
Cleans - This amp has awesome cleans! It has the Fender clean down very well. The cleans have a nice amount of sustain to them with plenty of "air" and character. It has that jangly overtone happening that you get from a Twin. VERY NICE!
Edge Channel (Crunch) - This channel takes you from where the clean leaves off to a considerable amount of high gain. It covers the Plexi and JCM 800 area. It's not a darker kind of vibe or anything remotely close that nature. It has plenty of bite and teeth with the right amount of thickness where it's needed. It's a fine tone and has plenty of flexibility. It can got from a Bluesy vibe to a fairly decent amount of gain. The high end of the gain spectrum is up there with say "Plush" by STP.
The Solo Channel - This channel kind of overlaps the Edge channel, but picks up and leaves it in the dust. The gain is useable up to about 8 if you're playing rhythm on it. I haven't turned it up past that. The difference between this channel is that the Low end and Mids thicken up considerably. It's very round and huge sounding. It sounds pretty much spot on with the Stone Temple Pilots real high gain stuff. It just has a lot of girth in the mids and it pushes some air with aggression and authority.
Lastly, I can switch between all 3 channels on the amp. I've had no problems at all balancing out the volumes of each channel. It's even across the board. If I had to describe the character of the amp, it's a lot like the Cameron HG Jose I had in some ways. It reminds me of the Bogner XTC in other ways. It's just a lot more aggressive than the Bogner.
Hope you enjoyed reading this.
Dale
