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Actually, the official presentation of this amp took place exactly one year ago on my Facebook page.
Thanks to a "nice" meanwhile ex-moderator however I didn't feel like introducing the amp here first.
But anyway, now also here:
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
Guitarists have repeatedly asked me in the past whether I could build them a simple straight forward one-channel amp without all the frills of today's amps, but one that blows away everything that others otherwise put on stage.
Guitarists who are tired of tap dancing on pedals and foot switches during the show, but still have the 'old school' ability to use their little finger on the guitar's volume pot to get all the sound facets they need for their style - from crystal clean to various crunch settings to bone crushing riffing or soaring lead lines.
Their wish and idea became reality, here it is:
THOR'S HAMMER TUBE AMP by LARRY
Below some facts about my latest amp creation:
Use the British Input to bypass the built-in tube-based booster, giving you all the shades of classic rock & metal sounds of the late 70's and 80's, or...
... use the Wicked Input to activate the integrated booster and thus utilize all the resources of this amp and, among others, get the most brutal metal sounds ever.
The purpose of the 6*EL34 in the power section actually is not to increase the volume of the amp with the available 180 watts RMS, but rather among others, in conjunction with a targeted mismatch of the output transformer and using two driver tubes instead of usually only one, to cause such a brutal sound scenario, what on the stage feels like the beginning of an earthquake.
This amp doesn't have a particular clean channel and many won't miss it, as the sounds of this amp clears up so nicely and crystal clean when you turn back the volume control on the guitar, so that only purist Fender® enthusiasts would miss it - but for them if necessary, I have other amp models in my range.
Btw if you want to quickly switch back and forth between the two amp characters 'British' and 'Wicked' live on stage, then use the British input on the amp with your guitar and use a single footswitch in the Wicked input - that's it. A brilliant design idea from Larry
I don't really like explaining complex things virtually, but rather prefer to demonstrate it live on the amp.
But anyway - this amp has as many controls as necessary, but still as few as possible.
'British' is the gain control
'Wicked' is neither a 2nd gain control nor any kind of tone control, but a kind of ingenious character control, to tailor the sound from an extreme skinny scooped and ultra tight rhythm tone up to a thick and fat solo sound with all nuances in between.
This control is only active in Wicked mode and is therefore part of the integrated tube-based booster.
Of course it is also possible to achieve the legendary Jon Schaffer rhythm sound spot-on with this amp in Wicked mode and for which the Wicked control must be set between 4 and 6.
The first two controls Bite & Punch are also part of the integrated booster, active only in Wicked mode which allows you to precisely adjust the tightness in the lows and the bite or mildness in the highs in Wicked mode.
Then there are the two controls 'Volume' and 'Master', both volume controls and you might think that just one would be enough.
However, between 'Volume' and 'Master' there is another tube stage after the actual preamp circuit, which can now be overdriven with more 'Volume' and less 'Master' while maintaining the same loudness, which means that you have an integrated afterburner. Another booster, so to speak, which can be used to create either more dynamics or more compression of the sound.
I don't have to explain the Presence control, but I do have to explain the 'Thunder' control. This is a type of Depth control, but far more effective than the Depth controls in other amps you already know and I wouldn't recommend turning this control up more than 2-3 at higher volume, if you don't like to rearrange things that vibrate out of cabinets and if you don't like to throw away broken porcelain.
The mode switches allow to achieve your very specific sound preferences. But to be honest, I have all the switches off, altough others have different preferences than me. That's what these switches are for.
I hope I was able to explain clearly enough.
Currently I'm using both amps outside their head shells as my personal two-piece Christmas tree with a total of 24 'candles'
There are 12 large candles and 12 small candles - and moreover it is a great additional heater in the room now in the winter
The green lights that blink through between two power tubes of the left amp is my WLAN router and not a possibly lurking alien who wants to kidnap one of the amps into his home universe
This is what it looks like in daylight:
Ok, and here now for all my beloved masters of plagiarism a gut shot of the amp with my usual carefully conscientiously executed construction of the circuit:
Of course, I made sure that you can read all the values of the capacitors and also the color codes of the resistors from this photo, because I don't want to make it unnecessarily difficult for my beloved cloners
Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to order such an amp from me until further notice, just as it is currently not possible to order another model of my amp line, because I have an order stop for a period of at least one year, as already announced in another thread.
This presentation is only for those members of this board who are already on my waiting list with a DINO or with a PMM to take a closer look at this amp and then decide whether they want to change their order to this model, if maybe this amp meets their requirements and expectations of an amp better.
Thanks to a "nice" meanwhile ex-moderator however I didn't feel like introducing the amp here first.
But anyway, now also here:
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
Guitarists have repeatedly asked me in the past whether I could build them a simple straight forward one-channel amp without all the frills of today's amps, but one that blows away everything that others otherwise put on stage.
Guitarists who are tired of tap dancing on pedals and foot switches during the show, but still have the 'old school' ability to use their little finger on the guitar's volume pot to get all the sound facets they need for their style - from crystal clean to various crunch settings to bone crushing riffing or soaring lead lines.
Their wish and idea became reality, here it is:
THOR'S HAMMER TUBE AMP by LARRY
Below some facts about my latest amp creation:
Use the British Input to bypass the built-in tube-based booster, giving you all the shades of classic rock & metal sounds of the late 70's and 80's, or...
... use the Wicked Input to activate the integrated booster and thus utilize all the resources of this amp and, among others, get the most brutal metal sounds ever.
The purpose of the 6*EL34 in the power section actually is not to increase the volume of the amp with the available 180 watts RMS, but rather among others, in conjunction with a targeted mismatch of the output transformer and using two driver tubes instead of usually only one, to cause such a brutal sound scenario, what on the stage feels like the beginning of an earthquake.
This amp doesn't have a particular clean channel and many won't miss it, as the sounds of this amp clears up so nicely and crystal clean when you turn back the volume control on the guitar, so that only purist Fender® enthusiasts would miss it - but for them if necessary, I have other amp models in my range.
Btw if you want to quickly switch back and forth between the two amp characters 'British' and 'Wicked' live on stage, then use the British input on the amp with your guitar and use a single footswitch in the Wicked input - that's it. A brilliant design idea from Larry
I don't really like explaining complex things virtually, but rather prefer to demonstrate it live on the amp.
But anyway - this amp has as many controls as necessary, but still as few as possible.
'British' is the gain control
'Wicked' is neither a 2nd gain control nor any kind of tone control, but a kind of ingenious character control, to tailor the sound from an extreme skinny scooped and ultra tight rhythm tone up to a thick and fat solo sound with all nuances in between.
This control is only active in Wicked mode and is therefore part of the integrated tube-based booster.
Of course it is also possible to achieve the legendary Jon Schaffer rhythm sound spot-on with this amp in Wicked mode and for which the Wicked control must be set between 4 and 6.
The first two controls Bite & Punch are also part of the integrated booster, active only in Wicked mode which allows you to precisely adjust the tightness in the lows and the bite or mildness in the highs in Wicked mode.
Then there are the two controls 'Volume' and 'Master', both volume controls and you might think that just one would be enough.
However, between 'Volume' and 'Master' there is another tube stage after the actual preamp circuit, which can now be overdriven with more 'Volume' and less 'Master' while maintaining the same loudness, which means that you have an integrated afterburner. Another booster, so to speak, which can be used to create either more dynamics or more compression of the sound.
I don't have to explain the Presence control, but I do have to explain the 'Thunder' control. This is a type of Depth control, but far more effective than the Depth controls in other amps you already know and I wouldn't recommend turning this control up more than 2-3 at higher volume, if you don't like to rearrange things that vibrate out of cabinets and if you don't like to throw away broken porcelain.
The mode switches allow to achieve your very specific sound preferences. But to be honest, I have all the switches off, altough others have different preferences than me. That's what these switches are for.
I hope I was able to explain clearly enough.
Currently I'm using both amps outside their head shells as my personal two-piece Christmas tree with a total of 24 'candles'
There are 12 large candles and 12 small candles - and moreover it is a great additional heater in the room now in the winter
The green lights that blink through between two power tubes of the left amp is my WLAN router and not a possibly lurking alien who wants to kidnap one of the amps into his home universe
This is what it looks like in daylight:
Ok, and here now for all my beloved masters of plagiarism a gut shot of the amp with my usual carefully conscientiously executed construction of the circuit:
Of course, I made sure that you can read all the values of the capacitors and also the color codes of the resistors from this photo, because I don't want to make it unnecessarily difficult for my beloved cloners
Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to order such an amp from me until further notice, just as it is currently not possible to order another model of my amp line, because I have an order stop for a period of at least one year, as already announced in another thread.
This presentation is only for those members of this board who are already on my waiting list with a DINO or with a PMM to take a closer look at this amp and then decide whether they want to change their order to this model, if maybe this amp meets their requirements and expectations of an amp better.
