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i wanted a little amp for jamming in the living room. i tried quite a few:
VOX nighttrain - loved but only one tone
Blackstar HT5 - thought it was awful
Egnater Rebel 20 - really liked the tube blend option, but it left me wanting more
Egnater Rebel 30 - gave me everything i would want if i were gonna gig with one of these little heads
Mesa trans-atlantic - eh, too complicated and pricey for playing along with TV commericals
Egnater tweaker - PERFECT!!!!!
the tweaker sounds good with every guitar i have...i set up a good sound, grab a guitar and the good sound is still there AND the natural characteristic of the guitar is there!!! a strat sounds like a strat, a tele like a tele, EMG loaded guitars sound metal....
i have not been able to get a horrible sound yet. the tone shaping options are stunning!!! aside from the normal controls like master, treb, mid, bass, gain, there is a vintage/modern switch. there is also a 3 position switch that changes the "channels," USA, AC, and Brit. there is another switch that changes from "clean" to "hot". there was a lot of gain varities available between the switch positions. it was not as cut and dry as it would seem. finally, there are 2 other tone shaping switches labeled "bright/normal" and "tight/deep".
the vintage/modern switch doesn't cut the output at the power section like a lot of these little heads, it changes the response OF the power section - like the pentode/triode switch on my rivera amps. i was able to coax some menacing sounds from this little head just by playing with that switch. i could go from a tweed-type sound to a boogie MK-type setting on the "USA" channel in vintage mode. the "Brit" channel would go from plexi to JCM800. of course, a lot of it has to do with how the other switches were set - but my settings for all of these comments was:
vintage/modern - vintage
master - 9:00
USA/AC/Brit - varied
treble - 11:00
mid - 3:00
bass - 11:00
hot/clean - varied
gain - 2:00
bright/normal - bright
tight/deep - tight
the guitars i played with tonight were my '62 strat, epi LP, PRS and EMG jackson. like i said - i could NOT get a bad sound out of this little 15 watter. when i grabbed the EMG jackson, flipped to to the "AC" channel, put it on modern, hot, bright then deep - i got a sound VERY related to the orange channel of a boogie triple rec in the raw mode.
took the same sound, plugged the PRS in and i sound like every screamo band that used a PRS/boogie combo. the strat? i had to roll back a little gain, but it was a tight modern blues tone. the epi LP? crunchy rock-n-roll. all of that without changing anything.
not bad for a $399 head. i am digging the 6V6 power tubes, and the effects loop works geat. i fooled around with putting the fender tube reverb in the loop and my zoom 507 pedal.
anyway, on to the pictures....
my living room rig....
VOX nighttrain - loved but only one tone
Blackstar HT5 - thought it was awful
Egnater Rebel 20 - really liked the tube blend option, but it left me wanting more
Egnater Rebel 30 - gave me everything i would want if i were gonna gig with one of these little heads
Mesa trans-atlantic - eh, too complicated and pricey for playing along with TV commericals
Egnater tweaker - PERFECT!!!!!
the tweaker sounds good with every guitar i have...i set up a good sound, grab a guitar and the good sound is still there AND the natural characteristic of the guitar is there!!! a strat sounds like a strat, a tele like a tele, EMG loaded guitars sound metal....
i have not been able to get a horrible sound yet. the tone shaping options are stunning!!! aside from the normal controls like master, treb, mid, bass, gain, there is a vintage/modern switch. there is also a 3 position switch that changes the "channels," USA, AC, and Brit. there is another switch that changes from "clean" to "hot". there was a lot of gain varities available between the switch positions. it was not as cut and dry as it would seem. finally, there are 2 other tone shaping switches labeled "bright/normal" and "tight/deep".
the vintage/modern switch doesn't cut the output at the power section like a lot of these little heads, it changes the response OF the power section - like the pentode/triode switch on my rivera amps. i was able to coax some menacing sounds from this little head just by playing with that switch. i could go from a tweed-type sound to a boogie MK-type setting on the "USA" channel in vintage mode. the "Brit" channel would go from plexi to JCM800. of course, a lot of it has to do with how the other switches were set - but my settings for all of these comments was:
vintage/modern - vintage
master - 9:00
USA/AC/Brit - varied
treble - 11:00
mid - 3:00
bass - 11:00
hot/clean - varied
gain - 2:00
bright/normal - bright
tight/deep - tight
the guitars i played with tonight were my '62 strat, epi LP, PRS and EMG jackson. like i said - i could NOT get a bad sound out of this little 15 watter. when i grabbed the EMG jackson, flipped to to the "AC" channel, put it on modern, hot, bright then deep - i got a sound VERY related to the orange channel of a boogie triple rec in the raw mode.
took the same sound, plugged the PRS in and i sound like every screamo band that used a PRS/boogie combo. the strat? i had to roll back a little gain, but it was a tight modern blues tone. the epi LP? crunchy rock-n-roll. all of that without changing anything.
not bad for a $399 head. i am digging the 6V6 power tubes, and the effects loop works geat. i fooled around with putting the fender tube reverb in the loop and my zoom 507 pedal.
anyway, on to the pictures....
my living room rig....
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