ratter
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Picked up a Goldfinger 45 and matching 2x12 yesterday. Excuse the shitty phone vid.
I'm still honeymooning but HOLY SHIT what an amp.
My favorite tones are plexi-based. Clean up through crunch, dabbling in JCM800 and beyond territory now and then. This amp really brings it home for me. There's so much control over the tone and feel and volume but it maintains an "old" tone and has the feel of an old amp that's really wound up. I've been watching all the vids for a couple years now...Reinhold always called it "rubbery" and that's exactly it. It has that easy old feel to it yet retains that bark and kerrang that most "marshall-type" amps lack.
And the cleans are just glorious icing on the cake.
It won't appeal to those who live in modded-marshall territory, I don't think. Doesn't really excel at the upper end of the gain spectrum. But anything from clean through vintage gain...I've yet to hear anything better. Sometimes I'll miss amps that I've sold. 1959HW, '72 Super Bass, OD-100 Classic, Badger, Naylor, Budda.
I don't miss ANY of them anymore. This thing wiped the slate of regret totally clean...