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I recently received my Invaders 950 Bad'As. In case you've never heard of Invaders, it's a boutique amp builder from Belgium. They make some cool amps and the 950 Bad'As is basically their flagship.
Tonally I think it's inspired by the SLO circuitry but I definitely think it does it's own thing. It's a 50w amp with EL34s and it can be scaled down to 35 watts as well. There is a normal and a drive channel, both with a bright switch. The normal channel can do clean and crunch to the range is wide. The drive channel can do crunch to high gain. There is a shared eq, a presence control and a depth control on the back of the amp.
The voicing switches are what really make this amp unique. The drive channel has a deep switch, that basically makes the amp sound very filthy and doomy, kind of like a fuzz. On the eq section we have a notch, sweep and balls switch. The notch switch makes the amp sound and feel more American instead of British. It changes the character of the gain and how the frequencies respond. It feels more scooped without scooping all the mids, a bit hard to explain.
The sweep switch adds a lot of mids which is great for solos and the balls switch adds a layer of saturation, so for more gain and compression.
They also allow you to heavily customize your amp if you want so you can make yours look really unique. Mine is black, nice and stealthy!
I really dig how the amp sounds! The cleans are sweet and the crunch tones are awesome. The drive tones are fat and wild, this thing sounds really huge! I haven't played an SLO in years but it kinda does that thing but it's also unique.
Here's an in-depth look at the amp with various tones and guitars as well as a raw "dialing in" clip at the end. This should give you a good idea of what the amp has to offer:
Tonally I think it's inspired by the SLO circuitry but I definitely think it does it's own thing. It's a 50w amp with EL34s and it can be scaled down to 35 watts as well. There is a normal and a drive channel, both with a bright switch. The normal channel can do clean and crunch to the range is wide. The drive channel can do crunch to high gain. There is a shared eq, a presence control and a depth control on the back of the amp.
The voicing switches are what really make this amp unique. The drive channel has a deep switch, that basically makes the amp sound very filthy and doomy, kind of like a fuzz. On the eq section we have a notch, sweep and balls switch. The notch switch makes the amp sound and feel more American instead of British. It changes the character of the gain and how the frequencies respond. It feels more scooped without scooping all the mids, a bit hard to explain.
The sweep switch adds a lot of mids which is great for solos and the balls switch adds a layer of saturation, so for more gain and compression.
They also allow you to heavily customize your amp if you want so you can make yours look really unique. Mine is black, nice and stealthy!
I really dig how the amp sounds! The cleans are sweet and the crunch tones are awesome. The drive tones are fat and wild, this thing sounds really huge! I haven't played an SLO in years but it kinda does that thing but it's also unique.
Here's an in-depth look at the amp with various tones and guitars as well as a raw "dialing in" clip at the end. This should give you a good idea of what the amp has to offer: