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OK, I built this thing from scratch, so I am a little bit shall we say... biased. Heheh, a tube joke. Seriously, see what you guys think.
I wanted a tube poweramp to run the fx send from my Egnater to a lower wattage amp. My egg is 100 watts, and to get the thing loud enough to get some power tube saturation would get the neighbors, cops, and national guard called out to my place. So I started looking at the low wattage power amps, and saw two: Mesa 20/20 and the Marshall one. Both have stuff on em I wouldn't need, and are still too damned loud. A friend of mine has one and gigs with it - giggable volume is call the cops volume around here.
So, I built an all tube power amp, with a minimum of parts/features to keep the tone as tube-laden as possible. I also set the voltage a little bit low so it 'browns out' the sound - think VH. It only does this when it's cranked. Eddie, according to legend, used a variac to reduce the voltage to his Marshall so it would distort easier. What the heck, I tried it with this amp. Instead of running the 6V6 at over 400 volts like Fender did with some Silverfaces, it's under 300. The amp gets a really cool vintage power-tube melting tone when cranked, but you still have enough volume for home practice and recording. Here are some clips:
CLEAN channel on the egnater, into a cranked power amp, with tons of controllable feedback:
http://members.cox.net/twisteramps/feedback.mp3
CLEAN channel on the egnater, playing single coils, and really SLAMMING the guitar hard on parts. You can hear the dynamics here... 2nd time around I cranked the power amp to full blast, first time was around '7':
http://members.cox.net/twisteramps/littlewing.mp3
btw, the amp DOES play cleaner than this... 7 is the edge of breakup, notice how the harmonics are really clean and crisp.
Clean channel on the egnater, cranked with a humbucker in the power amp. Check out the vintage 'amp on fire' tones here. Not for everyone (metal guys will HATE this tone) but it sure sounds cool for older rock:
http://members.cox.net/twisteramps/p...poverdrive.mp3
And finally, 3rd channel (think JCM800) on the egnater cranked into the poweramp set fairly low (on 3):
http://members.cox.net/twisteramps/powerampeggie3.mp3
One neat trick is to get say an overdriven sound like above, then dial in JUST enough power amp breakup to saturate the notes without losing definition.
Check the classifieds here for more info... I thought you guys might find the sounds/background interesting.
Pete
[ April 14, 2003, 12:44 AM: Message edited by: OklaStrat ]
I wanted a tube poweramp to run the fx send from my Egnater to a lower wattage amp. My egg is 100 watts, and to get the thing loud enough to get some power tube saturation would get the neighbors, cops, and national guard called out to my place. So I started looking at the low wattage power amps, and saw two: Mesa 20/20 and the Marshall one. Both have stuff on em I wouldn't need, and are still too damned loud. A friend of mine has one and gigs with it - giggable volume is call the cops volume around here.
So, I built an all tube power amp, with a minimum of parts/features to keep the tone as tube-laden as possible. I also set the voltage a little bit low so it 'browns out' the sound - think VH. It only does this when it's cranked. Eddie, according to legend, used a variac to reduce the voltage to his Marshall so it would distort easier. What the heck, I tried it with this amp. Instead of running the 6V6 at over 400 volts like Fender did with some Silverfaces, it's under 300. The amp gets a really cool vintage power-tube melting tone when cranked, but you still have enough volume for home practice and recording. Here are some clips:
CLEAN channel on the egnater, into a cranked power amp, with tons of controllable feedback:
http://members.cox.net/twisteramps/feedback.mp3
CLEAN channel on the egnater, playing single coils, and really SLAMMING the guitar hard on parts. You can hear the dynamics here... 2nd time around I cranked the power amp to full blast, first time was around '7':
http://members.cox.net/twisteramps/littlewing.mp3
btw, the amp DOES play cleaner than this... 7 is the edge of breakup, notice how the harmonics are really clean and crisp.
Clean channel on the egnater, cranked with a humbucker in the power amp. Check out the vintage 'amp on fire' tones here. Not for everyone (metal guys will HATE this tone) but it sure sounds cool for older rock:
http://members.cox.net/twisteramps/p...poverdrive.mp3
And finally, 3rd channel (think JCM800) on the egnater cranked into the poweramp set fairly low (on 3):
http://members.cox.net/twisteramps/powerampeggie3.mp3
One neat trick is to get say an overdriven sound like above, then dial in JUST enough power amp breakup to saturate the notes without losing definition.
Check the classifieds here for more info... I thought you guys might find the sounds/background interesting.
Pete
[ April 14, 2003, 12:44 AM: Message edited by: OklaStrat ]
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