I'm spilling the beans on my custom amp!

sounds pretty sweet. to me, it has a bit of a 5150 meets marshall vibe goin on. Like others have said, I will reserve final judgement.

It would be cool if this guy would work with you on getting an amp to sound just how you want it ( a lolzgreg custom )
 
greg we need to hear this monster properly miced pleaasse!! :)
im very curious ! to me it sounds a lot like a combination between the EVH 5150 combined with rivera knucklehead, really looking forward to what you will do with this monster!
 
beyond dead said:
sounds pretty sweet. to me, it has a bit of a 5150 meets marshall vibe goin on. Like others have said, I will reserve final judgement.

It would be cool if this guy would work with you on getting an amp to sound just how you want it ( a lolzgreg custom )
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He will make me a custom design. I gotta see what direction his amps are going in first :saint:
 
lolzgreg said:
Details?
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As of now, I have one amp designed and have tested it out, just working on a proper layout for it. 2 channel(one clean, one lead that can go from jcm800 crunch to 5150 territory), with a bunch of bells and whistles. 100 watt or 50 watt customer choice, and the 100 watt will have a half power switch. Preamp was built from the ground up, not a copy of another amp at all (any similarities are just from the way the math worked out, great minds think alike I suppose). The power amp was also designed from the ground up, but it ended up looking exactly like any other iconic poweramp out there. Not much change you can do to a great power amp design. I'm going to offer 2 versions of the amp, one 'live' model with channel switching, and a 'studio' version with no channel switching but a blend control which will let you apply as little or as much of each channel as you like. My favorite feature right now is the inter-stage eq controls....

It's going to look sweet too(not that it matters).

If I get enough interest in them, I'll also add any features or take stuff away at the buyers request for a completely custom amp.
 
Wolfeman said:
As of now, I have one amp designed and have tested it out, just working on a proper layout for it. 2 channel(one clean, one lead that can go from jcm800 crunch to 5150 territory), with a bunch of bells and whistles. 100 watt or 50 watt customer choice, and the 100 watt will have a half power switch. Preamp was built from the ground up, not a copy of another amp at all (any similarities are just from the way the math worked out, great minds think alike I suppose). The power amp was also designed from the ground up, but it ended up looking exactly like any other iconic poweramp out there. Not much change you can do to a great power amp design. I'm going to offer 2 versions of the amp, one 'live' model with channel switching, and a 'studio' version with no channel switching but a blend control which will let you apply as little or as much of each channel as you like. My favorite feature right now is the inter-stage eq controls....

It's going to look sweet too(not that it matters).

If I get enough interest in them, I'll also add any features or take stuff away at the buyers request for a completely custom amp.
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i may well have to try and find some cash... :D
 
GarethSE said:
i may well have to try and find some cash... :D
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I'm going to be passing around the prototype to some forum members here, so they can give it the 5th degree and record some clips, etc... That way I'll get some professional feedback and be able to make any changes before I start selling these...

And I'm going to make them as affordable as I possibly can, I'm not really getting into it for the money, just something I like to do.
 
Sounds pretty good for youtub quality. Interesting how similar the settings are between the channels. With the Gain that High on the Clean Channel it is still very clean. Is Mid Cut just a pre-determined range and amount or are there Pots on the Back/Inside? An adjustable cut and sweep would be a Great feature. Nice tight Low end. Looking forward to hearing Mic'd clips.
 
Wolfeman said:
I'm going to be passing around the prototype to some forum members here, so they can give it the 5th degree and record some clips, etc... That way I'll get some professional feedback and be able to make any changes before I start selling these...

And I'm going to make them as affordable as I possibly can, I'm not really getting into it for the money, just something I like to do.
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i'm no pro, but i only live a few hours from cleveland if you wanna send one out my way for a week...










...just sayin' :heh:
 
Wolfeman said:
I'm going to be passing around the prototype to some forum members here, so they can give it the 5th degree and record some clips, etc... That way I'll get some professional feedback and be able to make any changes before I start selling these...

And I'm going to make them as affordable as I possibly can, I'm not really getting into it for the money, just something I like to do.
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I live less than an hour away from Cleveland :) I would LOVE to come by and check it out!.... tomorrow. haha. seriously though, I would be happy to make the trek.
 
BrettT said:
If the youtube clips are any indication, this thing is going to be incredible.
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This is what I was thinking. Sometimes you have to take a chance.

It's never easy to drop more money than I have on one single product on something that I couldn't even play before I bought it. I had a few very long discussions with the amp builder, and he was so incredibly knowledgable. The people who know tone best, in my opinion, are the discriminating guitarists who have purchased nearly every amp out there and STILL weren't crazy over the sound. This guy is a lot like me in the fact that he is obsessive over tone. In my hopes to establish a famous reamping service, I want to own a collection of 8 amplifiers that do everything you could imagine. I only need one more amp to get me there after this one. Hopefully, my dreams will come true.

Dave was telling me how he worked over two years tweaking and perfecting the high-gain channel on this sucker. It was designed from the ground up; it is NOT a marshall/fender/boogie/bogner/soldano clone like most amps are. Dave has even BUILT a Soldano SLO and told me how he can't understand why they would have installed that particular effects loop in the amp because it sucks tone like a vaccuum. No frills and no cutting corners are the way to go.

As an amp builder, he offers a 100% 3 day money back guarantee for PRODUCTION model amps (now what custom builder does this?), and a 5 year warranty on parts (minus tubes) and build. All the custom options I had done to the amp were no charge, and he uses premium tubes from the get go. I put down my deposit on October 24th and my amp will be here Friday. THAT is fucking turnaround time, guys.

And of course, clips or I'm full of shit. Clips Saturday or I'm a herb :Smokedev:
 
im really excited for you dude !
I feel silly getting excited over my 5150 now esp when you have this beast on the way ;)
you should get some clips, videos and maybe some form of wallpaper porn for everyones computers ;)
 
From what I can hear via Youtube quality camera mic, it sounds much like a hot-rodded Marshall/Soldano type thing. I hope you're happy with it when it finally arrives.

One thing I have to mention is that I really disagree with this:

The people who know tone best, in my opinion, are the discriminating guitarists who have purchased nearly every amp out there and STILL weren't crazy over the sound.
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That just makes someone indecisive. It's not a particularly desirable trait. Most guitarists like that I know are pedantic and childlike in their emotional attachment to pieces of gear. Once the fascination with their new toy wears off, they jump onto another one. It's not a particularly worldly, and certainly isn't desired in someone that needs to be holding the reigns behind a major recording project.

In my experience, a solid knowledge of the major amplifier types and the sounds they provide, along with a very well consolidated knowledge of mic'ing, acoustics and mix engineering is much more important from a recording POV than going through ~50 amps in one's lifetime.

Not to take away from your custom build though, I'm sure it'll be great.
 
lolzgreg said:
Dave has even BUILT a Soldano SLO and told me how he can't understand why they would have installed that particular effects loop in the amp because it sucks tone like a vaccuum.
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We have messed around with removing the loop or bypassing it, and when you end up doing it you get a tone that is not SLO anymore.... Most of the clone guys have deemed the odd ball loop and post loop eq as what makes the SLO sound like an SLO, and changing the design, to put it simply, removes the SLO mojo....

This is one of the reasons why SLO copies(recto, 5150, etc) don't sound quite the same, even though they follow a very similar preamp layout.
 
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