Very Belated New Amp Day
Very very belated - it's been one year now :? :lol: - but just to let you know:
Got it custom made by a friend (Arnaud from Awaï Custom Amps), basically it's a diode rectified (with switchable tube rectifier simulation) Deluxe Reverb + a kind of a vintage Orange-ish crunch "semi-channel" (shared EQ with the BF channel) + a switch to bypass the EQ on the BF/crunch channel + a SLO channel with two switchable gain/volume settings, all this with a very usable PPIMV. The Blackface channel is, well, quite close to a Deluxe Reverb, the "crunch" channel gives a fat, low-gain, bluesy crunch and works wonder with boosts and/or ODs for 70s style overdrive, and the SLO channel go from a rich yet detailed overdrive to a massive - yet still very defined (and unforgiving) - wall of sound. Been using it for one year now, my previous band mates were blown off when they first heard it (and they are not the kind of guys to give a sh*t about gear) and my new band's mate love it too, and I've only had compliments on my tone (from the audience and sound ops) on our previous band's last gigs.
It's still not "the perfect amp", as Arnaud had to make some compromises to make all this work in a single amp - if I could afford it I'd ask him to build me two distinct amps out of it - but despite the almost four channels and various switching options and the effective EQ it's very easy to use and just SoundsGood(tm) whatever the settings (or almost - I really had a hard time trying to make it sound bad :lol:).
