Mike Fortin Officially Back To Modding

[squank]

Wonder who's desicion it was to split? Fortin or Randall? Randall hasn't made a good desicion since Don Randall. They're always too little too late. $1200 solid state amps, horrible reliability, and just plain blah sounding amps have been their business model since US music took over.

Their Fortin-designed amps like the Thrasher and Diavlo series sound great. They are still on the Randall website, so I guess they are going to continue to sell them.

 

[Bloodrock]

Owned a Diavlo for a day. One of the most flubby muddy amps I've ever played. I do still own an RT503 and its much tighter and a lot better sounding than the Diavlo.

 

[crankyrayhanky]

Owned a Diavlo for a day. One of the most flubby muddy amps I've ever played.

I had a rd50- it was that first batch that was redisgned before they changed the cosmetics and went with "rd45". I heard it was the same amp, but my rd50 was the opposite of flubby- it was super tight and lethal. If anything, it was so tight that I thought I should get a depth mod added, I winded up flipping it for being too tight, lol.

 

[glip22]

Maybe Mike can come back around. He used to post and was a very active member here.

 

[JTyson]

I LOVE mine. Worth EVERY FUCKING PENNY.

Yep
Every penny
I'd send him another one in a heartbeat. How much is it worth to get the best modder in the buisness to work on your shit who is absolutely a standup, great guy and has developed mods that nobody has ever done before?
Whatever he tells you its worth

 

[bhuard75]

Mikes pricing is right in line with Gowers. Im already saving for another.

 

[metalmaniac93]

I LOVE mine. Worth EVERY FUCKING PENNY.

What mod is this? I assume Jose?

 

[metalmaniac93]

Mikes pricing is right in line with Gowers. Im already saving for another.

Yep!!! Gowers work is also killer!!!! Love my KK++!!!!

 

[metalmaniac93]

I LOVE mine. Worth EVERY FUCKING PENNY.

What mod is this? I assume Jose?

It's called the Knuckle Mod.
That's all I know

Thanks!!

 

[rottingcorpse]

I know a guy who got a ground-up build hulk that is crushing. IMO, stuff from Fortin and others are worth every penny when they are doing the work themselves. A Natas or Meathead is worth it for Mikes attention to detail, but the Randall ones are not. The number of returns to Randall bear out my hypothesis.

 

[glip22]

I know a guy who got a ground-up build hulk that is crushing. IMO, stuff from Fortin and others are worth every penny when they are doing the work themselves. A Natas or Meathead is worth it for Mikes attention to detail, but the Randall ones are not. The number of returns to Randall bear out my hypothesis.

If I am not mistaken Randall has their amps built by Smarvo Electronics in China. Egnater also I think and some others.

 

[psychodave]

I know a guy who got a ground-up build hulk that is crushing. IMO, stuff from Fortin and others are worth every penny when they are doing the work themselves. A Natas or Meathead is worth it for Mikes attention to detail, but the Randall ones are not. The number of returns to Randall bear out my hypothesis.

If I am not mistaken Randall has their amps built by Smarvo Electronics in China. Egnater also I think and some others.

I thought I read somewhere that Friedman amps have their circuit boards populated by them (or someone else) in China and final assembles here?

 

[glip22]

I know a guy who got a ground-up build hulk that is crushing. IMO, stuff from Fortin and others are worth every penny when they are doing the work themselves. A Natas or Meathead is worth it for Mikes attention to detail, but the Randall ones are not. The number of returns to Randall bear out my hypothesis.

If I am not mistaken Randall has their amps built by Smarvo Electronics in China. Egnater also I think and some others.

I thought I read somewhere that Friedman amps have their circuit boards populated by them (or someone else) in China and final assembles here?

 

[metalmaniac93]

I know a guy who got a ground-up build hulk that is crushing. IMO, stuff from Fortin and others are worth every penny when they are doing the work themselves. A Natas or Meathead is worth it for Mikes attention to detail, but the Randall ones are not. The number of returns to Randall bear out my hypothesis.

If I am not mistaken Randall has their amps built by Smarvo Electronics in China. Egnater also I think and some others.

I thought I read somewhere that Friedman amps have their circuit boards populated by them (or someone else) in China and final assembles here?

I heard this too from others!!!

 

[crankyrayhanky]

How much is it worth to get the best modder in the buisness to work on your shit who is absolutely a standup, great guy and has developed mods that nobody has ever done before?

 

[xXDaveyJonesXx]

Yep
Every penny
I'd send him another one in a heartbeat. How much is it worth to get the best modder in the buisness to work on your shit who is absolutely a standup, great guy and has developed mods that nobody has ever done before?
Whatever he tells you its worth

He's certainly something else entirely, man. So much respect to the guy.

 

[232cap]

I know a guy who got a ground-up build hulk that is crushing. IMO, stuff from Fortin and others are worth every penny when they are doing the work themselves. A Natas or Meathead is worth it for Mikes attention to detail, but the Randall ones are not. The number of returns to Randall bear out my hypothesis.

If I am not mistaken Randall has their amps built by Smarvo Electronics in China. Egnater also I think and some others.

I thought I read somewhere that Friedman amps have their circuit boards populated by them (or someone else) in China and final assembles here?

Whoa. It says made in the USA on them.

 

[Racerxrated]

I know a guy who got a ground-up build hulk that is crushing. IMO, stuff from Fortin and others are worth every penny when they are doing the work themselves. A Natas or Meathead is worth it for Mikes attention to detail, but the Randall ones are not. The number of returns to Randall bear out my hypothesis.

If I am not mistaken Randall has their amps built by Smarvo Electronics in China. Egnater also I think and some others.

I thought I read somewhere that Friedman amps have their circuit boards populated by them (or someone else) in China and final assembles here?

Whoa. It says made in the USA on them.

Uh oh.......

 

[Racerxrated]

Remember Rockstah mods? I think they were 500? And by all accounts that was an extremely easy mod for most techs to do. I had a Fortin Cali Ceriatone. Freaking work of art in there.....and no easy task. Lots of time/work involved. Not sure about the criticism? Just don't do it if you don't want to pay. Tim Caswell lives 40 minutes from me, his mod is 800 last I checked. None of these are cheap.

 

[Lord Toneking]

I heard of this guy Bill Blades that is doing mods too. Anyone hear of him? wonder how his mods compare to Fortin?