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I don't know as I have anything worthwhile to add really. I should love this in concept just for being fucking ridiculous...but If I had one? I'd sell it and buy as many amps Aen makes and build myself a Slayer style "wall 'o Dwarfcraft" to fuck up some peoples hearing.

The salesman (finest amp money can buy: REPEAT) is balding and has a ponytail...I mention this as a phenomenon in no way related to the hand stitched Italian leather covered amp he is verbally felating in the video. Did I mention the nice teutonic crosses so beloved of those fun loving fascists of WW2? WHAT KIND OF FASHION MASH UP IS GOING ON HERE?

So shartscale fess up - would you rock this for real?

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i can honestly say that, no, i would not rock this thing, i would buy it for 200 bucks, and then sell it and buy myself another bassman, or a love buzz.
i like clean amps, and simple controls, when he started pointing out, "boost this, boost that, extra this, extra that" i had to stop watching, and plus its pretty tacky looking, no class at all. and i don't remember seeing this at the namm show, and it looks like he was in the basement around where we were.

the leather makes me think of the necronomicon from the evil dead series

expensive often doesn't equal finest - especially in this context, it equals finest bedroom tone. i'm with rob, i'd sell it for a super reverb or brown bassman

Individual effects loops would be cool. I'd rather get a mesa road king.

This looks like the kinda thing that hair metal gods from the 80s will be using in their ill fated new superbands.

Berto wrote:the leather makes me think of the necronomicon from the evil dead series

I prefer this:

Necrotelicomicon

Black Cat Bone wrote: would you rock this for real?

I'd rock Rebecca Dirks, if that's what you mean.

BacchusPaul wrote:

Black Cat Bone wrote: would you rock this for real?

I'd rock Rebecca Dirks, if that's what you mean.

+12


I couldnt play an amp with that many knobs - It would make me look like a.. well a bit of a knob.

Wtf is wrong with Treble Mid Bass Presence Master and Gain? Screw everything else.

Firstly this amp looks ridiculous, that leather is rough.

I appreciate what you're saying Rhys, but I play a 3 channel Marshall, and it seriously matters to me to have a Clean and Overdrive channel on the amp with seperate 3 band EQs.



It's a 6100 30th Anniversary thing I bought at the age of 15 with my saved up £300 second hand from some metal guy who was replacing it with a bunch of Rack mounted stuff (like a JMP-1 etc). They can be got for less than £500 on ebay generally.

It's got a Clean Channel, Crunch Channel and a Lead Channel. I only rarely use the Lead Channel as I don't really play with a lot of gain in Sell Crazy.
The Clean Channel is bright and spanky, the Crunch channel is thick and ballsy like my 800 on Mode B. These two things in one amp is all I could want or ask for. I think I've pretty much decided that this is my life amp until I die. I've tried plenty of other amps but I keep coming back to this one.

BacchusPaul wrote:

Black Cat Bone wrote: would you rock this for real?

I'd rock Rebecca Dirks, if that's what you mean.

She is an attractive geek isn't she? Also has a surname that is amusing to my purile mind. I can't quite think of any but I'm sure there's some puns to be made with it.

My 50 Top has 4 valves and 4 knobs - treble, mid, bass and volume. What more could I want or need. I bet it sounds better than this piece of crap too.

Imagine if you turned up to a gig and you saw someone bringing one of these on to the stage, is there anyone on here that wouldn't immediately think - wanker?

Mike man, thats one smashing amp. Probably one of the only Marshalls that I've never been able to get my hands (not without trying).

The way i see it is that your arguement is very valid, theres a lot to be said for 2-3 channelled amps. I'm not down with the corksniffery that goes on with amp purists that love simple amps and Class A only, its not the reason I usually jones for a single channel amp - I usually find that one channel doesn't mean a superior tone at all, take the DSL series for example; they fucking rule. Channel switching is also a godsend and I can kinda dig amps that wanna be swiss army tools as well like some Mesa's where, you have a countrymans amp and a metallers beast all under one roof. Plus on multichannel amps nowadays MIDI switching, effects loop yadda yadda.. come as standard stuff that you'd never get with a single channel amp. Obviously MIDI switching is superfluous but when was the last time your saw a single channel head that had a footswitchable effect loop and didn't cost fuckloads?

That said, I do go for single channelled amp with basic controls because I find myself reacting to amps then more like a big pedals than amplifiers. I'd probably quantify it vaguely as a feel thing and I feel lots more natural when I know that the amp is gonna do one thing and one thing only and its up to me to create OD, Reverb, Q etc.
Plus I don't want a big learning curve (this is directed at guys like mesa) just to get some usuable tones i.e. some gigs I've been to and the guy has been playing mesa boogie gear and the tone has been fucking incredible and I've wanted to buy one BUT most gigs when I see people playing through them (including me) they sound like arse because either your borrowing the amp off another band for that gig or the person playing the amp is just not experience with the amp in question (I fall into this catagory - I generally stay the eff away from Mesa).

Its a struggle and there is no clear champion. It is just two ways of acheiving similiar results, either an amp with options or a simple amp and a larger pedalboard. It's food for though because whilst writing this, I nearly convinced myself that 3 channel amps are better than singles. W/e.

johnnyseven wrote:...I bet it sounds better than this piece of crap too.

Have you heard it? Admittedly it looks terrible but it could sound fantastic.

Also, there are a bagillion toobs in this booda.

Boo-ya.

It might sound totally amazing but that leather is coming off. Its not because its leather it's just because it looks like shit. Its a real mishmash of aesthetics that don't quite work as a whole to my jaded eyes. If it was amazing sounding and I didn't care about the money I'd strip the leather of and swap the knobs off for something less twatty.

the amp is gaudy as all fuck. There's no doubt about it. For me, it's definitely over-featured EXCEPT for the bias LED indicator thingie... That's just extraordinarily useful!

Rebecca Dirks approves of multiple knobs.


tee hee a tee hehehehehhehehehhehehehe

I think the amp is ugly. Mesa Boogie covers some of their amps in a much more attractive brown tolex. My personal dream amp is a marshall dsl, although i think they have been discontinued now

ohh hells no


Every time I moved it, it would mess up all the knob settings and I'd have to mess with the knobs for hours to get them back to the way they were before. Not worth it.

honestly, the amp probably sounds killer and is a great amp. the leather is not loose or falling off, but sewn leather will never have the same fit as tolex (which is alot thinner and does not have sewn seems) The choice of designs with the crosses seems kind of off and unattractive. I know from playing tham that Buddha amps sound great (to my ears) but are pretty expensive and with all the budget boutique amps I dont really see the point. BUT, it probably is a great piece of gear...

Also, I never would assume anything about anyone just based on what guitar/amp the brought in. I have seen people with squier/crate rock the fuck out, people with really interesting and uniques gear sound as bland as possible, and have seen the boutiques crowds both in awesome situations and cork snobbery/rich wankery.

prob sounds good- and i agree you cant judge looks of people or their eqpt choices

but man, that thing is my couch with speakers