Well I'm not fishing one website of metal dudes for buyers. All Triptiks built sell immediately. Ironically it's an amp that has been taken up by the widest number of styles and genres of any amp to date I've built.
Trust me, I do know what heavy is........but I'm not building amps for guys that just crank the gain on full and scoop out the mids. They don't really need a boutique amp, they need to hear themselves from the other side. There's no benefit to spending $3500 on any amp for that.
So it really depends what your definition of crushed is ?
for extraordinary amounts of gain and compression, quite probably a number will 'crush' it, but as anyone experienced knows that in a live situation (and a recording one) that too much gain does nothing more than boost the players ego. As compression increases, dynamic range decreases, bad for ANY style of music. even the heaviest heavy shit. At a certain point it loses definition, loses dynamics, noise levels become obtrusive eating up even more dynamic range and the whole thing becomes mush, which is fine if thats the musical statement you are making. Too many players misunderstand the levels of gain on recordings and overcompensate with more dirt.
80's metal is about the original 'modded Marshall' and JCM-800 tones. The Triptik goes beyond those on the 'classic' setting. The 'Modern' setting kicks in another gain level with a really tight low end. Like I said, if you are a guy that immediately goes to am amp and cranks the gain on full, don't even bother trying the Triptik, it will kick your ass in a pretty bad way and make you look like a c***. However if you are an accurate competent rock player of any genre of rock/metal, you may find a friend in an amp that doesn't hide anything and holds itself together without causing an irritating bass trap on stage fucking up everybodys ability to pitch their vocals or even tell if their instrument is in tune or not.
I've used a different approach with this amp and would like some guys to give it a run out before assuming anything. Sure it's not a modified Marshall (yawn....lol), but as a tech I was bored with that by 1987. As I've said before, back in the UK I'd added more gain stages to Marshalls by 1985 than I'd had hot dinners I think. THat road is well beaten and worn out. I wanted to offer rock guys something thats maybe not the norm....i dunno. If it works and we can convert a few people then cool, if not...cool too. The clean channel is still as good as any Country amp.....and you can turn the gain down a get some pretty cool blues and classic rock too.
While this is a light hearted response, my philosophies are still contained within it.
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