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[novosibir]

Ooh, can I please be the middle finger?

 

[shredi knight]

Is that a yes? If so, your thumbs up technique needs work.

 

[novosibir]

Is that a yes? If so, your thumbs up technique needs work.

You can rest assured, because you're not on my five-fingers persona-non-grata list.
I don't think you're malicious, just sometimes a bit coarse with your jokes.

 

[Smash]

You can rest assured, because you're not on my five-fingers persona-non-grata list.
I don't think you're malicious, just sometimes a bit coarse with your jokes.

I can guess two of them

The game and s blue. I dont know the other three...you should tell me

 

[harddriver]

8K views.................Larry... your threads always deliver................

 

[Eazy-ESP]

It's the Fortin NATAS

This amp's circuit is a 100% rip-off of the DINO 939's circuit and Mike Fortin received this amp from me in July 2007, so at a time as a company named Fortin Amplification still didn't exist.

But it's a stripped down version of the DINO 939 with the channels California & Scream, minus the Dino's British channel, which is actually the most popular channel among metal players, because it is only with this channel that it is possible to realize the famous "Jon Schaffer rhythm sound".

Then there are some striking differences in quality compared to the level of a real Larry amp:

The circuits of the Larry amps are without exception built on solid fiber eyelet boards.
The Fortin NATAS is built on PCB with all the disadvantages of this design, especially the parasitic transverse capacitances, which in particular noticeably impair the liveliness and dynamics of the amp's sound.

In addition, different component brands are used in the NATAS than in the DINO. Especially not my sound-deciding Beyschlag metal film resistors and Cornell Dubilier 170 polypropylene caps, as well as not the LCR filter can caps, which contribute remarkable to the amp's behaviour & feel.

And perhaps most importantly - he didn't install my transformers, especially not my extremely sound-influencing OT, where NOS sheet metal from the 80's is used.

There are certainly enough people who say that the NATAS sounds fantastic. Just like there are people who say that a Peavey 5150 or an Engl sounds fantastic and are/would be happy with the sounds of these amps until the end of their lives.

However, if you have the opportunity to compare a NATAS side-by-side with a DINO, you will turn the NATAS off within the first minute.

I know it because I had already the opportunity to try it myself

I honestly don’t get the deal with Fortin. Strange company. But yeah, I was joking for sure. Most interesting is that we have a guy here that clearly knows a metric shit tonne about electronics, and he is anti PCB.

I’m only a player, but I have 1 hand wired amp and have owned many PCB. There is definitely something more Magic about hand wired. That said, for a certain abrasive metal tone like Recto, it seems to me PCB amps are the only ones that get there. Wish I had more understanding, so I’m going to start learning. Give me a few years lol.

 

[novosibir]

I’m only a player, but I have 1 hand wired amp and have owned many PCB. There is definitely something more Magic about hand wired. That said, for a certain abrasive metal tone like Recto, it seems to me PCB amps are the only ones that get there.

Everything that a PCB based amp gives you soundwise can also be achieved with a PTP hand wired tube amp. It's just not possible the other way around, because taking something out of the sound is much easier than adding something that wasn't originally there.