nope, it has no headroom, it's a growly chewy f****r. which is exactly what i love about it.
Not a fan of metalcore at all, but nice to see a 20W amp that can get to those kind of gain levels.
I love Cantrells early tones and that what this puts me in mind of, Kerry King too
Thinking it'd a nice counterpoint to the Soldano. Soldano's rely on preamp gain, they were designed that way, to almost have a Hifi power section.
Whilst correct the friedmans from what ive seen also rely heavily on preamp gain caused by jose style diode clipping.
I could be wrong thought but that is the general buzz around his line of amps.
Yep, the Jose mod (am I right thinking that's based off the S.I.R #39?) does increase preamp gain, however if you watch the second vid, he has the master up high and the gain down low, so there is a certain amount of poweramp breakup going on.
It looks and sounds like a Marshal yep, but i don't know any i know @22w. Not even the 1W manage that.
Guys you know me, I'll be the first to tell you to go buy Route 808 or Joyo instead of a current production TS9 or a keeley modded thing, And I'll be the first to call hype on some pseudo boutique scam, or tell you you get great value for money out of a Mexican or Squire Classic Vibe strat etc. I'm not dumb for over hyped stuff.
In my eyes this fills a niche i'd like to fill, and there's nothing else i know of that at that wattage, built like that, that sounds like that. And to me, to anyone infact, how it sounds is the most important thing. And i love how that sounds ;)
Show me a distortion pedal sounds like that and i'll have it.
