scottosan
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I placed the order on 3/30 and it landed at my door this morning. After listening to all of Sam Vilos demos with this amp, I had to try it. That said, I was skeptical because aside from his great playing, he’s uses a universal audio amp top box for his recording. Sometimes this does not translate to what the amp really feels like inside the room. Additionally, most of the videos I saw had the volume to turned pretty well up usually around 11 o’clock. I was afraid that I was going to have to play pretty loud to get the gain levels I typically like.
None of these concerns were valid immediately turn the amp on plugged in set the volume just below 9 o’clock and gain probably at about 2 o’clock, and the good tones and plenty of gain were instant any pretty low volumes. Plenty of gain easily in the same levels as my José amps. I then tried rolling down the volume and playing some of the cleaner runs as were done on many of the demos that really showcase the amp. At this volume, it felt like the amp needed a little bit more volume to let the clean tones breathe in some of the top end show through. This is where the amp really surprised me. Where most amps go from quiet to stupid loud really quickly. I was able to turn the amp up to say 10 or 11 o’clock and found a really great taper to where the amp really opened up, but was not ridiculously loud or ear piercing, I played many amps to where you had a very narrow sweet spot. This amp seemed much more smooth and controllable.
Setting the game between noon and 2 o’clock would the volume up and the volume down on the guitar yields some great clean and chimey tones with a thick and percussive bottom and a great touch and rolling the volume up and going to the bridge pick up you’re back into high gain heaven. This app easily cleans up better than any I’ve owned.
It is a single channel amp. It has a silicon or tube rectifier and a full power or 10 W single ended switch. It comes with a four channel foot switch the first button being high for high gain the second button being brown. This button adds some low mids and some grind. The third button is called edgy this adds just a little bit of sparkle and the fourth switch is for your loop.
You can easily give him a little bit of volume turn your gain to between noon and 2 o’clock and between your guitar volume, and the four switches get pretty much any tone you ever needed
None of these concerns were valid immediately turn the amp on plugged in set the volume just below 9 o’clock and gain probably at about 2 o’clock, and the good tones and plenty of gain were instant any pretty low volumes. Plenty of gain easily in the same levels as my José amps. I then tried rolling down the volume and playing some of the cleaner runs as were done on many of the demos that really showcase the amp. At this volume, it felt like the amp needed a little bit more volume to let the clean tones breathe in some of the top end show through. This is where the amp really surprised me. Where most amps go from quiet to stupid loud really quickly. I was able to turn the amp up to say 10 or 11 o’clock and found a really great taper to where the amp really opened up, but was not ridiculously loud or ear piercing, I played many amps to where you had a very narrow sweet spot. This amp seemed much more smooth and controllable.
Setting the game between noon and 2 o’clock would the volume up and the volume down on the guitar yields some great clean and chimey tones with a thick and percussive bottom and a great touch and rolling the volume up and going to the bridge pick up you’re back into high gain heaven. This app easily cleans up better than any I’ve owned.
It is a single channel amp. It has a silicon or tube rectifier and a full power or 10 W single ended switch. It comes with a four channel foot switch the first button being high for high gain the second button being brown. This button adds some low mids and some grind. The third button is called edgy this adds just a little bit of sparkle and the fourth switch is for your loop.
You can easily give him a little bit of volume turn your gain to between noon and 2 o’clock and between your guitar volume, and the four switches get pretty much any tone you ever needed
