***This is a re-post from the Harmony-Central Amp Forum, but I'm sure some people over here will enjoy this, too.***
Alright, I was at Messe today, as I do every year, but this year was a bit different. I was with a blind guy, walking around "showing" him stuff. It was a very cool experience, but it was of course totally different from the last few years, had less time to check stuff out, had consider the other guys interests etc. I might go back on saturday, but I am not sure, depends on my money-situation and how hungover I will be from fridays party.....but anyways, here is some of the new stuff.
Shitty pic of the new Fireball 100 and the new matching cab in matte black finish. From the brochure: "....compared to the E625 60 Watts version, the new Fireball 100 features a darker, lower midrange focused ton."
Other new features: separate gain controls for clead and lead channel, footswitchable mid boost (for clean and lead channel), bottom switch (clean & lead) that adds low end punch, noise gate.
Brave amps - made in Italy. The Raptor comes in three different versions, 25 watt (6v6), 50 watt (6L6 or EL34) and 100 watt (kt88 or 6550). I liked the small footprint of those amps, the clean sound was nice with single coils but a bit dull with humbuckers, the lead channel sounds very American, sorta of a Mesa-flavour going on there (at least on the 50watt 6L6 version I heard).
Elmwood had some rack stuff on the display one is a rack version of their Modena 60, the bottom one is a new product, unfortunately I have no info on that.
Bolt amps - apparently a new company, have never heard of them before. They introduced a new all tube 3 channel head. Every channel has three different sound modes, plus a switch called "active tone" but I did not get what this thing is supposed to do. The mids on the gain channels are parametric which I think is a nice feature. There is also a large VU-meter that is supposed to indicate the tube saturation - not sure how usefull it is, but nonetheless a fairly unique feature.
Alright, I was at Messe today, as I do every year, but this year was a bit different. I was with a blind guy, walking around "showing" him stuff. It was a very cool experience, but it was of course totally different from the last few years, had less time to check stuff out, had consider the other guys interests etc. I might go back on saturday, but I am not sure, depends on my money-situation and how hungover I will be from fridays party.....but anyways, here is some of the new stuff.
Shitty pic of the new Fireball 100 and the new matching cab in matte black finish. From the brochure: "....compared to the E625 60 Watts version, the new Fireball 100 features a darker, lower midrange focused ton."
Other new features: separate gain controls for clead and lead channel, footswitchable mid boost (for clean and lead channel), bottom switch (clean & lead) that adds low end punch, noise gate.
Brave amps - made in Italy. The Raptor comes in three different versions, 25 watt (6v6), 50 watt (6L6 or EL34) and 100 watt (kt88 or 6550). I liked the small footprint of those amps, the clean sound was nice with single coils but a bit dull with humbuckers, the lead channel sounds very American, sorta of a Mesa-flavour going on there (at least on the 50watt 6L6 version I heard).
Elmwood had some rack stuff on the display one is a rack version of their Modena 60, the bottom one is a new product, unfortunately I have no info on that.
Bolt amps - apparently a new company, have never heard of them before. They introduced a new all tube 3 channel head. Every channel has three different sound modes, plus a switch called "active tone" but I did not get what this thing is supposed to do. The mids on the gain channels are parametric which I think is a nice feature. There is also a large VU-meter that is supposed to indicate the tube saturation - not sure how usefull it is, but nonetheless a fairly unique feature.
