Played a Splawn Quickrod

[Wayniac3]

I had some time to kill while I was waiting to pick up an order yesterday, so I wandered into the local GC. They had a Fortin, a couple of Freidman JJ's, and a Splawn quickrod.

I grabbed a Gibson studio LP, plugged into the Fortin... it was OK, but I wasn't blown away. Didn't really get to spend a ton of time with it, so I probably didn't hit the full potential of it.

Next was the Splawn.. holy crap it sounded & felt great under the fingers. I tried one a few years back (Nitro I think?), and it was stiff as a board - lifeless, fought every note.. This thing - nope! Very good clean (not Fender, but clean), decent gain (AC/DC) and the lead stuff was a nice VH-ish sustain without a lot of hair. Then you could also dial in some hair.

I think it was an older one, footswitchable clean, OD1/OD2 and solo boost, full/half power. - no gears. I had to walk away to keep my "no new gear" promise. I looked online last night and it had sold.
Was a pleasant surprise from my prior experience with Splawn, but aligned with some Kemper profiles I have played.

 

[grimmchaos]

I've always wanted to try out a Splawn, this isn't helping!

 

[SoooRad]

Quickrod's rock. One of the easiest amps to get a great sound out of I've used.

 

[Fusionbear]

Love the Quickrod. I just sold mine, but have, and will keep my Streetrod. It's the little brother to the Quickrod. In my FM9T, it's the model I use most for OD and Lead tones.

 

[sandman]

I’ve owned two Quickrods. Loved them. Should have kept one. Lol

 

[Rackman]

I've had two of them at various times - one with a gear switch and one without.

They sounded OK but nothing special IMO. The features were OK but again nothing special. Just a 2-channel amp without enough options to play a full cover set without pedals.

Totally generic nothing-special amp.

 

[311boogieman]

Gear 2 / OD2 / Treble on '0' baby

 

[hellzington]

Plate driven amps are sooooo fun to play. You should check out the Bogner Snorkler 50 too.