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Peters Amps
« on: July 31, 2008, 08:12:41 PM »
Any good? Whats the story?

You know what its gonna be used for (if you dont, go see my soundclips!).

Cheers dudes.

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Re: Peters Amps
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2008, 08:43:10 AM »
Pretty heavy sounding. I tried a bunch of them when i met James at the toronto amp fest. We tried the chimera, gryphon, and the polaris preamps, which he ran into a 50watt EL34 poweramp thinger... kinda like those egnater module style, but in a big purple peters headbox.

Polaris was on the gain level of classic rock, but if you dug into your strings you could definately get some heavy tones out of it; not real chug chug, but you probably know what i mean. Very versatile, very responsive.

The gryphon was what we played most, and had oodles of gain. It also cleaned up quite nicely when you backed off the guitar volume. Went from clean to classic rock to chugging metal. Very tight response. The soundclips on the website are very true to the amp.

The chimera was... overkill hahahhaha. It hadd more gain than i'd ever need. Its just like the gryphon, but more gain. Definately coudl slay. We didnt spend much time with it, but from what i did hear, it was basically a gryphon where the gain knob started at 5, and went up to 20. It still cleaned up pretty decently, but not as well as the gryphon. Perfect for anything brutal. With the tight response, it could probably djent, and now that i think about it, i wish we tried it out hahaha.

In high gain situations, both the gryphon and chimera were Very tight and heavy sounding, i want to say almost like a vht, but nowhere near as sterile and dry. (there was a vht UL at the ampfest). The high end was blistering, but not ear piercing, nor was it fizzy at all, it was pretty sweet. Again, the soundclips are very true to the amps.

Since then, it looks like hes modified the polaris and gryphon, but i bet they just sound even more badass now.  I'd recommend you give him a call, he'd probably be happy to answer any questions. Real stand up guy, helped me figure out some stuff for my home projects :)
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Re: Peters Amps
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2008, 12:08:28 PM »
Thanks for the response!

Though I had just and so stamped out the gas for the chimera a couple of days ago!

No one seems to have a single bad thing to say about them. And I've dealt with james by email now and hes a very cool, helfpull and refreshingly bullshiteeless guy.

It needs to stay on the back burner for a while, cos its 1440 for a head (inc shipping), but I think the possibility of me getting one is getting stronger

Could you tell me what you think the differences between the chimera and a powerball are? (my current main amp)

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Re: Peters Amps
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2008, 06:44:48 PM »
I havent heard enough of the powerball to do a full comparison, but what i can tell you is that the peters has way more goign for it in the midrange, and is more tolerant of speakers. We had it on v30's and then on governors/manowars and it sounded amazing on both, the highs never became overbearing. If you ask james, he might now of somebody whos had both that you coudl talk to. I'm sure somebody on HCAF will have something to say if you dare to venture over there hahahah.
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Re: Peters Amps
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2008, 02:37:29 PM »
Alright, thanks pal.

I think payday after next I may have to chance it. Expensive chance, but the clips are great and no one is less than higly complementary about them.

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Re: Peters Amps
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2008, 09:59:43 PM »
First I've heard of these.
Sounds good in the clips.

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Re: Peters Amps
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2008, 10:15:16 PM »
http://www.netmusicians.org/files/78-gryphon_5.mp3

Sounds really good to me :) There are more clips on netmusicians.org

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Re: Peters Amps
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2008, 03:43:36 PM »
The more I think about it

The more I want it.

Got to wait a little though.

I need a fireface 800, sonar producer 7, a bang-for-buck laptop and THEN I'll get it. Or I'll get it provided the purchasing and shipping isnt too painfull (though james suggested ways that it can be made easier - but getting stuff to me by post is hard enough at the best of times. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, though!).