Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Lew on October 30, 2008, 05:55:53 PM
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New Martamp day!! ... well, I'll be picking it up tommorow morning actually but Martin sent me some teaser shots this evening so had to share ;)
I know he will be gutted to see it go because the colour scheme matches his carpet, skirting and door so perfectly.
(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/398/v620025up0.jpg)
(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/2557/v620030nz5.jpg)
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Milky Milky! 8)
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I do like the white.
How come custom builders don't build metal amps? Or at least, I haven't seen any. And by metal I mean the br00talz!!!(etc.)
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^ i don't want to put words in anyone's mouth, but i'm guessing because they're generally a much more complicated circuit, which'd take a lot more time (and hence money) to make. Most of the high-gainers aren't handwired... (bar stuff like cornford)
that's a really nice amp, by the way, white is awesome.
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Me too! I just need to wire in the speakers.
Mine's just a cab though.
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Me too! I just need to wire in the speakers.
Mine's just a cab though.
ancient alnico goodmans going in there for the vintage tone will?
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Lovely amp! Love the colour. :)
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Nice one Will, thanks for the comments. Martin was a bit concerned that the white will not age gracefully and will look grubby fast but I bullied him :lol:
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Wear gloves when touching it. That'll stop it getting grubby :lol:
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ancient alnico goodmans going in there for the vintage tone will?
Oh, and it took aaages to find the 10 inch variety ;)
Martin's backgrounds for his pics are matched to the colour scheme :lol:
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I do like the white.
How come custom builders don't build metal amps? Or at least, I haven't seen any. And by metal I mean the br00talz!!!(etc.)
The trouble with very high gain amps is noise and having to be so very careful with signal paths to keep noise etc to a minimum
It is very hard to do with a hand-wired amp - so much easier to control with a PCB and that usually lends itself to larger makers.
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I do like the white.
How come custom builders don't build metal amps? Or at least, I haven't seen any. And by metal I mean the br00talz!!!(etc.)
The trouble with very high gain amps is noise and having to be so very careful with signal paths to keep noise etc to a minimum
It is very hard to do with a hand-wired amp - so much easier to control with a PCB and that usually lends itself to larger makers.
Well that's lame :(
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S'true though.
The other reason I wouldn't do a metal amp, is that when you have that much gain, the subtle nuances of a hand wired amp get overwhelmed by the sonic carnage.
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I do like the white.
How come custom builders don't build metal amps? Or at least, I haven't seen any. And by metal I mean the br00talz!!!(etc.)
because metal doesnt require good tone, obviously! :P
Seriously though, that amp looks great :D I really want a martamp build of some kind, a Ceriatone Bassman is currently on my gas list after listening to a lot of Social Distortion :)
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Wear gloves when touching it. That'll stop it getting grubby :lol:
hahaha
Interesting reading about high gain amps, I know it's not exactly 'handmade' or maybe even not a high end bit of kit in some people's opinion but I LOVE the 5150 high gain tones.
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That amp is GORGEOUS!
And Cornford lead tones are incredible, and pretty high gain, and also hand wired?
Are Diezel etc, also Point to point or?
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I've never seen an appealling Cornford amp, and the Herbert/VH4/Einstein are all pretty "Gimme your wallet, oh wait, you wanted change? Sorry"
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I do like the white.
How come custom builders don't build metal amps? Or at least, I haven't seen any. And by metal I mean the br00talz!!!(etc.)
Egnater and Peters custom build high gain stuff.
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I do like the white.
How come custom builders don't build metal amps? Or at least, I haven't seen any. And by metal I mean the br00talz!!!(etc.)
Egnater and Peters custom build high gain stuff.
Most amp makers in Brazil make it if you ask (soldano, jcm 800, mesa boogies clones...)
But here it's like: "do what appears in the shop or die starving" as I understand...
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Nice amp...prefer it in green *L*..they do sound great
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Had it cranked for a couple of hours before the neighbour came home, I wont try and describe how happy I am because I will sound like a raving loony but I cant stop grinning. The picture does the amp no justice, it's the cutest looking halfstack ever.
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Have the v6-20 and is such a great amp.....even better now I have a decent cab
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I do like the white.
How come custom builders don't build metal amps? Or at least, I haven't seen any. And by metal I mean the br00talz!!!(etc.)
I've seen them man - over on the Andy Sneap forum someone had a $3,000 metal amp custom built for them, sounded very, very nice too. No idea who it is or what it was called though!
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The trouble with very high gain amps is noise and having to be so very careful with signal paths to keep noise etc to a minimum
It is very hard to do with a hand-wired amp - so much easier to control with a PCB and that usually lends itself to larger makers.
that too. :)