Everyone design your own "super amp"!

[PhilKing]

I have an all tube preamp being built by John McIntyre (in a very large foot pedal), which has the following:

Vox sound
Fender sound
Marshall JTM with a little crunch
Marshall with a lot of crunch
Boogie style OD

There is also an EL84 power amp to add power amp distortion to the last 3 sounds.  I saw the pedal about  10 years ago - it is a very slow job getting it working to John's standards and also it is now a hobby for him as he gave up amp design full time after the Lexicon Signature 284.

In the meantime I think I am getting a slightly modified Ceriatone Overtone - I love this sound that it gets http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hIDrq4E3hVo.  I have emailed Nik and I am just awaiting the pennies before I order it.

[hunter]

nice one indeed, the ceriatone

and your pedal thing sounds like an awesome project and a killer product were it released as a series production item...

[noodleplugerine]

From the Metatronix site - I laughed a little...

Vast ranges of tone are available from the G-1000. We cannot even begin to explain its flexibility. The G-1000 is NOT intended for middle-aged “tone questers”, who believe that they will be able to play like Eric Clapton by simply spending a lot of $$$ on equipment. We HATE those people. The G-1000 is intended for the intrepid experimenter, not the pathetic imitator. Tone questers are invited to DIE.

[Will]

I don't know about other amps and the fuses, but my JCM 900 has a fuse for each power stage or something, so if one of the valves dies, it can still run on half power. So if it cut out in a gig, all should be fine.

Other than that, erm, methinks a JCM 800 is what I am wanting, just with this fuse thing, and some kick ass power scaling or a good attenuating thang so its manageable

[HTH AMPS]

I don't know about other amps and the fuses, but my JCM 900 has a fuse for each power stage or something, so if one of the valves dies, it can still run on half power. So if it cut out in a gig, all should be fine.

Other than that, erm, methinks a JCM 800 is what I am wanting, just with this fuse thing, and some kick ass power scaling or a good attenuating thang so its manageable

the JCM900s have the cathodes of each pair of EL34s fused so that the fuse will pop if a valve starts drawing too much current.  With the standard non-fuses cathodes approach what ends up happening is the HT fuse blows and the amp goes silent.

I think the fused output stage in the JCM900s are a pretty nifty idea.

My main thing for a 'dream amp' is that it's lightweight - I'm sick of carrying 4x12s around.  If the amp could carry itself up a flight of stairs and set itself up, that would be even better.

[headtheball]

An AC-30 and a JCM 800 on KT-88's in one Head.

Separate outputs for each side.

Ability to mix/match the preamp/poweramp stages (AC-30 through kt's, Marshall through the wee EL's, or "properly")

Powerscaling on both poweramps.

A/B/A+B switching.

Sorry, I'm totally into the two-amps-at-once thing. It's pretty addictive.

[plastercaster]

I'd have a smokey amp, except plugging into it would automatically engage an audopsychoperception tool, and simply produce the exact tone I want, at the best volume. the 3" speker would have the same bass and projection as a 4x12.