Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: headtheball on April 07, 2007, 07:09:49 PM
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Music Galleria in Lisburn have a S/hand Matamp 15 watter. Not sure of the model, although, clearly they aren't either, as it's on for 200 quid. Sounds fantastic, by the way....
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awesome.
thank you very much. I'll be on my way. they don't open at 10.30pm on saturday, do they?
:lol: :drink:
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I wont be home till Monday week (and I bloody well live in Lisburn), tis a good job I'm in remission with my GAS
Hey Dave you are gonna have to wait till Tuesday :twisted:
Rob...
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hmmm, if we all arrive at the same time, will we have to fight over it? i better try to beat y'all to it! (unlikely, me and mornings have an uneasy relationship...)
it'll probably be gone anyway :( let us know if anyone here has a go.
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hehe, there are mornings now?
yeah, i'm guessing they're closed on monday (easter monday and all), they might be closed every monday though, i remember one monday i was there, and they were closed for some reason. I was a bit annoyed. I have a knack of going to guitar shops on their day off...
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hmmm, if we all arrive at the same time, will we have to fight over it? i better try to beat y'all to it! (unlikely, me and mornings have an uneasy relationship...)
it'll probably be gone anyway :( let us know if anyone here has a go.
Not unless you want to hold off for a week as it's the 16th (or 17th) that I will be back.
Enjoy your fight on Tuesday afternoon :)
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ah, i tried it today. very nice, and great for £200. I couldn't recognise what speaker was in it, though. very nice edge of breakup tones, and to my ears, was kind of a half-way house between warm british type of tone, and fender tone.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, if you're my bank account) it doesn't really do anything that I can't already get with my current setup. So it's still there for any of you guys who haven't tried it yet.
Thanks again for the heads up, headtheball, much appreciated!
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well, i didn't make it up today, was at a party last night, so not really in the best of shape :roll:
anyway, sounds good, with a bit of luck i might get up to try it tomorrow.
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hehe, i tried to get up early to go, what with it being the easter holidays and all. i made it out of the house about midday, lol.
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yay!!! im from lisburn aswell! check out the band im in lol! at http://www.myspace.com/just70 we are alright at minuit but will have new recordins up soon! marcus in belfast is the best guitar shop around belfast/lisburn area! love them guys! haha
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ah, i can't stand marcus!
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well folks, sorry to disappoint anyone, but i am now the proud owner of the Matamp! i tried it out with a Les Paul and a Vintage (the company, not the age) strat, and with the strat in particular it gave the kind of sounds i'm looking for that my El Diablo :twisted: just doesn't do. the clincher was when i looked at the Epiphone valve junior beside it, with it's 8" speaker, single volume control and need for upgrades and thought "this things not much dearer and it's a hell of a lot more amp!"
oh, i think the 15 watts thing might be conservative. don't matamp rate according to clean output? this thing breaks up pretty early and seems almost as loud as my 60 watt Genz Benz! although i haven't had a chance to really crank it yet. but Colin, the owner, says he gigged it in a band with two drummers, and it was fine.
he's also selling his Mesa/Boogie F50 if anyone's interested. it's got a tag saying £750 on it. tried it too, that lead channel's a real fire breather!
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How's the El Diablo? - Allways wanted to play one :D
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How's the El Diablo? - Allways wanted to play one :D
it's an excellent amp! very much a modern rock amp though, vintage type tones are not it's forte. it does sparkling clean, crunchy rhythm, crunchier rhythm and screaming lead with the best of them. you can actually get a total of nine tones from the footswitch, and then the amp can be switched between 60 and 30 watts, which isn't really quieter but sounds....um..darker. the sounds are in the same ballpark as the Mesa F50, but it has more options.
bit of a contrast with the single channel, no reverb, no effects loop, low gain matamp, but it's a more transparent amp, letting more of the guitar's character through. that's precisely what was missing, which was why i bought it.
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Congrats on the Matamp dude, on the first read I thought you said "Sorry to say I'm not the new owner of a Matamp" thus I didn't congratulate :D
Nice buy I bet the tone's phenomenal :D
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Had me on tenterhooks- glad to see a forum bro has scored-great stuff Blue.
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well folks, sorry to disappoint anyone, but i am now the proud owner of the Matamp!!
Congratulations & thankyou. Good to see it go to a good home! :D
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nice score. 'twas very nice, just not what I need right at the moment (i could have justified it, just not really unless i ran out and bought another 10 amps first, lol).
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Nice one BLUE! What model was it?
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Congrats on the amp, it's a shame that it didn't end up in public violence though ;)
Rob...
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indeed Rob, i had my nun-chuks with me and all!
Steve, it's a bit of an oddity i think. it doesn't actually say Matamp on it anywhere! there's a wee sticker under the chassis with the name Paul Tribe and an address and phone number. Colin said it's a shop near to Matamp who commissions small numbers of amps from the factory. there's a plate with specs, serial number and model, which says it's an AB15. so it's seems to be similar to a Vox AC15, just with a full set of tone controls and a master volume.
i'm not bothered about the lack of branding, fact is the amp sounds good, and anyway, it maintains an air of mystery around it! 8)
hoping to get it cranked up this evening, i reckon my Mississippi Queen Les Paul will sound great through it, and my Gibson Blueshawk.
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well folks, sorry to disappoint anyone, but i am now the proud owner of the Matamp!!
Congratulations & thankyou. Good to see it go to a good home! :D
and this appears to be the seller himself! thanks Colin. i would recommend your wee shop to anyone, any of you lads are in the vicinity you should drop in, they have a nice looking Gibson SG with P90's that i'm trying not to think about...
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and this appears to be the seller himself! thanks Colin. i would recommend your wee shop to anyone, any of you lads are in the vicinity you should drop in, they have a nice looking Gibson SG with P90's that i'm trying not to think about...
and as if by magic the shopkeeper appeared :)
Personally I'm letching over the DC Jr that is (or was) hanging up on the wall
Unfortunitely my son fancies a BC Rich <shudder>
Rob...
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^ was still there when I was in.
I agree, it's a nice shop, they've been friendly to me the few times I've been in, and I got my valve junior head there.
what valves does the matamp have, out of interest?
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Good work sir.
Now I can spend that 200 quid on beer and ladies of questionable morality. Best all round I think.
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^ make it very questionable, and you can spend it all on beer...
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We might have a tasty WEM Dominator for sale soon if anyone is interested?? 8)