Emperor-TK
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Just got back from the 2009 NY amp show yesterday. Some quick thoughts:
This was by far the most interesting amp there:
http://www.attitubeamps.com/products/g20/
Sounded different than anything else on the floor. Very clear and punchy, no bog or wool at all. NOT a vintage sounding amp. Definitely NOT another "I got the schematics from the Pitman book and started an amp company" amp. They also roll their own transformers. $1000 street price for the head, cabinet, and variable attenuator pedal.
Saw a company with a Dumble clone. The guy brought it into a room that had a real Dumble to hear them side by side. The guy manufacturing the Dumble clone had never heard a Dumble before and wanted to see how they compare :
Both amps sounded pretty lame and ordinary IMHO, but the clone was actually slightly better. Dumble, $30,000, REALLY?
A guy was selling a device called a Tone Bra, which was a foam disk in a plastic ring that mounted over a speaker, with the foam disk centered in front of the voice coil. Does a nice job taking the ice pick out of a loud Marshall. I bought two for $10 each. I can't seem to find it on the web though. Easy to DIY though.
I was shocked how awful the Metro Amps and Metropolis amps sounded. I've played in bands with a lot of plexis and owned many early 70's Marshalls. These amps are NOT plexis. Sounds like a Marshall Lead 12 at 120 dB.
The new Vox semihollow guitar is very cool and lives up to the marketing spiel. Light as a feather too.
I didn't win anything in the raffle.
This was by far the most interesting amp there:
http://www.attitubeamps.com/products/g20/
Sounded different than anything else on the floor. Very clear and punchy, no bog or wool at all. NOT a vintage sounding amp. Definitely NOT another "I got the schematics from the Pitman book and started an amp company" amp. They also roll their own transformers. $1000 street price for the head, cabinet, and variable attenuator pedal.
Saw a company with a Dumble clone. The guy brought it into a room that had a real Dumble to hear them side by side. The guy manufacturing the Dumble clone had never heard a Dumble before and wanted to see how they compare :
Both amps sounded pretty lame and ordinary IMHO, but the clone was actually slightly better. Dumble, $30,000, REALLY?A guy was selling a device called a Tone Bra, which was a foam disk in a plastic ring that mounted over a speaker, with the foam disk centered in front of the voice coil. Does a nice job taking the ice pick out of a loud Marshall. I bought two for $10 each. I can't seem to find it on the web though. Easy to DIY though.
I was shocked how awful the Metro Amps and Metropolis amps sounded. I've played in bands with a lot of plexis and owned many early 70's Marshalls. These amps are NOT plexis. Sounds like a Marshall Lead 12 at 120 dB.
The new Vox semihollow guitar is very cool and lives up to the marketing spiel. Light as a feather too.
I didn't win anything in the raffle.
