Fab Amp Mtealhead review

[fabamp]

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[Twisteramps]

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Your amps are looking a lot better Rob. I plan on taking the Fab Fox I recently purchased and posting pics and clips. It should be fun...

Pete

[fabamp]

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[Twisteramps]

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You oughta post some of these pics on Harmony Central, if you aren't banned from there. They would enjoy this.

Pete

[El_Kabong]

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That's my Metalhead. I stand behind my review. Thanks, Rob for posting the pics.

[fabamp]

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I just bought his first amp... but I wouldn't buy anything from him.

Pete

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That's funny, you sound pretty mixed up concerning me as usual Pete/Stratotone or what ever you call yourself this week.
First you say you did, then you say you would never.
FYI neither you or GusS who claims the same thing on this thread- http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/i...opic=731&st=15
have the first Fab.
My first guitar amp was/is this-



I hope someday that you may sell enough amps to have people claiming all over to have the first. I also hope you get over calling down other builders someday, really makes you look bad. i.e., The trafo used in the mini Metalhead is an oversized SE, any larger it would not fit in his cab, but how would you know that, having never laid eyes on it? Also Scott Lehman and I have had a great relationship, so why would I be banned from Harmony Central? FYI they stopped mass production of true PTP amps years ago because of a shortage of trained labor, not because turrets were better. It was found that anyone could populate a turret board, and today many, like you, are still are copying those 50 year old layouts. I guess Matchless, Badcat, TopHat and Star amps all use true PTP because your turrets are better, NOT. You have come a long way since being the second worst Fab Flamer on HCAF but you still have a long way to go before you get over your foot in mouth habit. Have fun with your new/old Fab. I doubt Richard sent you the GEC tubes it came with. Try to keep in mind that at one time I tried to make the cheapest tube amps in History. At 130US they were and people got what they paid for. All the ones I know about still work, like Richard's old Fox. Now I make some of most advanced hand wired amps on the planet, look around and tell me who has more features or can build any tube feature asked for, truly custom is really rare. Most tube amps don't even have a headphone jack yet mine have a one of a kind tube buffer for the slave out and come with a seperate tube just for headphones, also one of a kind. Get a life man so you can quit making up stories like I need bigger trafo, you have the first ever or I am banned from any where. I quit posting(for the most part) on HCAF because of attitudes like yours, and I sure get a lot more work done now. Which reminds me I have people waiting in Holland, England, Dallas, even Vancouver...so I must go. It was nice to point out how you misrepresent things as usual. Just like the good old days, right Brainchild? Oh sorry, you're Twister dude now. Funny the #1 Fab Flamer is in Tulsa too. The sun must be too hot on the head for you guys or something.
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[fabamp]

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That's my Metalhead. I stand behind my review. Thanks, Rob for posting the pics.

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No Prob, thanks for trying Fabamps.
One more pic of the Mini Metalhead, just 17" across, and 13 lbs., glad you're lovin it

Rock on...

[nor]

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Yo, Fab-dude. Pete (Twisteramps) just gave ya a compliment - right before you went off on your little-girl-tantrum. Pete is held in rather high regard 'round these parts. You, as yet, are not.

So before you return to hitting everyone with your purse - calm the **** down before the admins' realize your entire post count is advertising and assault.

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[Twisteramps]

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I just bought his first amp... but I wouldn't buy anything from him.

Pete

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That's funny, you sound pretty mixed up concerning me as usual Pete/Stratotone or what ever you call yourself this week.
First you say you did, then you say you would never.
FYI neither you or GusS who claims the same thing on this thread- http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/i...opic=731&st=15
have the first Fab.
My first guitar amp was/is this-

I also hope you get over calling down other builders someday, really makes you look bad. i.e., The trafo used in the mini Metalhead is an oversized SE, any larger it would not fit in his cab, but how would you know that, having never laid eyes on it? FYI they stopped mass production of true PTP amps years ago because of a shortage of trained labor, not because turrets were better. It was found that anyone could populate a turret board, and today many, like you, are still are copying those 50 year old layouts. I guess Matchless, Badcat, TopHat and Star amps all use true PTP because your turrets are better, NOT. I doubt Richard sent you the GEC tubes it came with.

Now I make some of most advanced hand wired amps on the planet, look around and tell me who has more features or can build any tube feature asked for, truly custom is really rare. Most tube amps don't even have a headphone jack yet mine have a one of a kind tube buffer for the slave out and come with a seperate tube just for headphones, also one of a kind. Get a life man so you can quit making up stories like I need bigger trafo, you have the first ever or I am banned from any where. I quit posting(for the most part) on HCAF because of attitudes like yours, and I sure get a lot more work done now. Which reminds me I have people waiting in Holland, England, Dallas, even Vancouver...so I must go. It was nice to point out how you misrepresent things as usual. Just like the good old days, right Brainchild? Oh sorry, you're Twister dude now. Funny the #1 Fab Flamer is in Tulsa too. The sun must be too hot on the head for you guys or something.
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I bought whatever amp you built Richard Scott - in an email with me, he called it the first one. I forgot about Gus's amp, so maybe it's the 2nd or 3rd? I should be getting it this week. I look very forward to having a look at it. When you were selling those amps on HC, you went on and on about how people were getting ripped off if they paid more for an amp. Since you are raising prices, are you ripping folks off now?

BTW, you build one of the MOST ADVANCED TUBE AMPS ON THE PLANET? Adding a line out and a headphone jack might give your amp a few interesting features, but to call them advanced is pushing it, don't you think?

Regarding builders, I get along well with several real builders... James Peters and Trace Allen (Voodoo Amps) especially. Those are great guys who have never jumped to the levels of absolute mind-numbing hyperbole like you did in the past and have started to today.

BTW, you build point to point because if you used turrets each amp would have to be planned and it would cost you more time and money to construct it. And calling turret construction '50 year old' technology like it's a bad thing is really funny, since PTP is older than turrets. All I can say is "good enough for vintage Marshall and HiWatt, plenty good enough for me".

Plus you mention Matchless construction like it's a good thing... well, they somehow can make a great sounding line out for their amps that don't need an extra tube.

A bigger output transformer does give a bigger sound - the 15w transformer would be a marked improvement on that amps bottom end and tightness. Maybe you should have had your cabinet maker build a little larger enclosure.

Pete

[fabamp]

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You oughta post some of these pics on Harmony Central, if you aren't banned from there.
Pete

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I was trying hard to ignore your false accusations, misrepresentations, and other general distortions of fact until this. I am not banned from HCAF, never have been and prolly never will be. Scott is the boss on his BB, and I respect that. I know he respects me enough to give me warning before he deletes threads. I doubt he does that for too many others.
As usual you come back with more and more rhetoric, most certainly lacking sincerity or any meaningful content. I do hope someday you have people debating over who has your first amp, but as you said earlier in this thread it's more likely that “ hell will have frozen twice over”.
The FQ bandwidth of the OP transformer I use is the same as the one you suggested. How could you know otherwise, never having even seen it? Unless you know better about my amps than I do, sure you do. Sorry if your OPT has no place in my mini amp, weight is also a factor, but I guess you would not really know my any of my design considerations, just like to talk like you do.
I think most people would agree that most amps are over priced, so what's your point with that? I just agree with most players, AMPs generally do cost too much? All of my new clients all agree that the worst thing about my amps today is they cost too little!
I have designed and build a tube driven headphone and a tube buffered line out, not just added a jack, sorry huge difference. No one else does it yet, because of cost, don’t you get it? Maybe you don’t know how much better a tube can match impedance than the bare resistor network used in Matchless or Hiwatt.
I was the first to use high voltage regulators in guitaramps, now the Powerball has a simple one, as do most new Traynors.
I was the first to make a totally full featured combo in a very small package, many have now followed.
I am the first to make a mini Metalhead this small with this many features, I am sure many will follow, like they always do, but they will never match my prices, cause I would rather build more amps than hold out for more money.
I don’t use turrets for many reasons, a big one being every amp I make is different than the last. Unlike you and most others I do not copy existing layouts over and over but create new prototypes and innovations every week or so. True PTP is quieter simply because there is less wiring to PU noise. You just can't change the laws of physics.
I doubt you even read the above review. You just wanted to stir up shit for me like you always managed to in the past.
Have fun living in my past. I am done with you.

[Twisteramps]

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No, I wanted to warn people about a half crazy amp builder who was shunned from one of the largest music boards on the internet. You came into harmony central, slammed other builders, edited your posts so your threads were always on top and attacks you made on members could be toned down after you went off on them.

You also said the same thing about your amps that you do above - when they were very cheap (you know, how you say now "you get what you pay for"). And you told everyone how Peters, Roccaforte and others were ripping off customers price-wise because YOU could build a professional quality amp for under $200. You also told people that your amps were better than matchless, a fab fox could get plexi tones, and so much bullshit that I can't even remember it all.

Folks, if you're going to deal with Fab - even the new, shiny, cleaned up version... you might want to just place ONE tiny post on harmony central amp forum and ask for people's experiences. He does have a few good ones, but most are bad... and it reminds me of another member who used to post on here and sold guitars to folks, and burned bridges here and on harmony central. I'm not going to name names, but "sweep kick to the head" should ID him. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I hope you've changed Fab, but this is looking like HC all over again. If you can actually produce the amps on time and they are as nice as the cosmetics that someone else did for you, then great!

Pete

[Twisteramps]

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You oughta post some of these pics on Harmony Central, if you aren't banned from there.
Pete

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I was the first to use high voltage regulators in guitaramps, now the Powerball has a simple one, as do most new Traynors.
I was the first to make a totally full featured combo in a very small package, many have now followed.
I am the first to make a mini Metalhead this small with this many features, I am sure many will follow, like they always do, but they will never match my prices, cause I would rather build more amps than hold out for more money.

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Ok, this is a great example. I have to go to work, but a few things...

1) I need to look this up, but I doubt you were the FIRST EVER to do that. C'mon, there is very little new under the sun. Just because you stole some stuff from a HiFi handbook doesn't mean you're an Amp God.

2)A company called HiMu built 3-5 watt recording heads and combos in the 80s. Even if they didn't have headphone outs, they also made THREE CHANNEL amps with real effects loops. I'd rather have a 3 channel amp than an attenuated out (headphone jack) personally.
3)The HiMu had many more useful features than the MetalHead, and was small too. Torres Engineering and your old friend Gary Gerhart built tiny amps too. Gary has a 1/2 watt amp that actually DOES sound like a plexi with Mercury Magnetics custom transformers.

I shudder to think someday there will be a 'fab amp' clone. I need to post this on HC, I think some people would get a real kick out of it. Your meds are kicking in again.

If I spent all my time correcting you, I'd be too damn busy for my own good. The three above should suffice... where there's smoke, there's fire.

Have a Fab Day!

Pete

[Matt Crooks]

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Is Rob related to Vince S?

[MBreinin]

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Damn, what a shitstorm. All I care about it how this little fucker sounds.

It looks pretty cool.

How about a soundclip, El Kabong?

My next purchase is definitely an amp as I have been without a tube amp for way too long. I don't have the cash for a big purchase, so this new wave of inexpensive home built specials is very interesting to me.

Of course, I saw Blues Saraceno make an old little Silvertone absolutely scream with S.D.'s new pedal....but I ain't Blues Saraceno!!

Mike

[Twisteramps]

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Is Rob related to Vince S?

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Not by blood, but possibly by method.

Pete