New Atomic 50/50 Power Amp (and Website)

[Atomic Amps]

Yo Tom, nice work... Looks great, and look forward to the clips.

Mo

EDIT: Quick question Tom, knowing the marriage of your products with those of Fractal, would you say these power amps are neutral enough to keep the poweramp setting toggled ON with the Axe, or would you, as the manufacturer, recommend that any presets used through the Axe-II or an Ultra be toggled OFF to get the best, most accurate tones?

Hi MO, Thanks for the kind words.

We always recommend that you leave the power amp sim "on". This allows you take control the the kind of power amp effect you want at any volume. Naturally, whey you really crank the Reactor you're going to get some additional natural compression/break up. Most people find this desirable even with the power amp sim "on". There is no law, however, preventing you from turning it "off" and using the amp as a more conventional tube power amp.

The other advantage of keeping the power amp sims "on" is that depending on how you have your amps set up in direct/recording mode, the power amp settings can vary widely based on how much virtual "master" you're using. If you turn off the power amp sim, you may need to adjust your levels on a patch-by-patch basis to get back to unity gain or prevent clipping.

-TK

Thank you Sir King!!

Good explanation, and very relevant. As you know, I was always trying to grasp the relationship between the Atomic power sections to the Wedges/Cabs, versus more commonly used FRFR systems like the Mackie and so forth. Here's one more question for you - do you have any information as to sensitivity rating charts or the like? What's the volume like on this amp through 2 of your cabs compared to 2 self powered wedges or the like?

I'll definitely do some digging around, but this looks pretty promising; again, nice work and nice to see you here!!

Mo

The amp delivers a full 50w (actually a little more) per side. A single channel into one of Atomic's passive FR cabs won't sound that much louder that one of the powered FR cabs but that is more the result of the sensitively of the speaker system than amp's ability to get loud. A more sensitive system or one with more speakers can get significantly louder. A 4x12 loaded with Vintage 30s for example will be extremely loud - like get kicked out of the club loud.

-TK

 

[Spaceboy]

They need to work on a solid state amp and powered cab!

 

[Gainfreak]

Tom!! How the heck are you man?

Awesome job with the New Atomic stuff!! The 50/50 looks like a winner for sure!!

Hope all is well with you and yours!

Ralph

Hey Ralph! We need to pull the trigger on getting together. Everything is great here. Our first, Colton Thomas King, was just born on June 29th so things have been crazy but good. He and his mother are doing great! Talk soon.

-TK

Tom!!
Glad to hear that all is well and CONGRATS with the birth of your son!!! That's awesome!!
We Most definitely need to get together for a drink or 3 hahaha!! We must make some time to do this!!

All the best and I will most definitely talk to you soon!!

Ralph

 

[TTripp]

Can it be run one side only? (Just leave the other channel in Standby)?

 

[degenaro]

Can it be run one side only? (Just leave the other channel in Standby)?

Yup, just got mine and did exactly that.