eyvind_eidesen's Reviews

this is an amp in a box type pedal so its meant to go into a straight clean platform... its meant to be like a supro thunderbost, which if you're unaware is a mid-wattage 50s/60s bass combo that in tis most revered form utilized 2 6L6 tubes run very low power, tube rectified and with a primitive grid leak bias dual triode preamp and high cut tone control (like a guitat tone control, no joke, that's the supro tone control from their golden age, all the original amps just have that). It has a simple, square pine cab with a 15" and the amp bolted to the bottom and controls accessible via the rear because there is no back panel (like on most old supro amps I've owned). From the front it looks like an old extension cabinet. Its become a colelctors item for 3 reasons. 1) there's a photo of a young Hendrix inf ront of one in a band photo and tis presumably his ampligfier (I think he may have mentioned liking the amp in an interview somewhere but I've enver seen the interview), 2) for a while it was rumored to be the LZ1 amp but based on pagey's comments this mdoel has been sunk as a contender form the supro line and 3) when turned all the way up it produces a righteous power tube distortion that has a marshally quality but is also way raunchier not unlike the silvertone amps but far more responsive to playing then any but the tube rectified ones. The thunderbolt has been 'reissued' in a somewhat bastardized form built cheaply on a PCB by the new supro which is apparently a collaboration between pigtronix effects and bruce zinky of fender custom shop amps fame. The new ones sound pretty decent compared to well serviced old ones but I've actually seen some in stores BROKEN, marked not for sale, so they have some QC issues at the new supro. To be fair, the old ones were budget amps and likely had QC issues. They're a nightmare to service, rat's nest of wire in most of them I've had. To the best of my knowledge every other supro amp in a box pedal on the market goes after the smaller 6V6 or 6973 power tubes since those are the hot ticket these days with the Page association. Hope thatw asn't boring, but you definitely got me thinking sicne you didn't mention this as an amp in a box tone-a-like of an old obscure amp known for its overdrive and not much else.

a lot of the problem with cloudy delay is related to phase in 1 amp rigs.... your delay signal is sharing a speaker with dry and even the speaker isn't working very hard often when the speaker is trying to reproduce the dry signal by 'pushing' it is being told to pull at the same time to produce one of the delays and this conflict causes phase distortion issues between the 2 notes the speaker is struggling to reproduce. It seems more noticeable with more hifi delays with no modulation. It doesn't really bother most of us, but tis there. The people it bothers follow o in the foot steps of brian may and build elaborate wet/dry/wet types of setups (this is helpful with modulation clarity as well)