Describe Your Dream Custom Made Amp

[Mewmender]

Re: Describe Your Dream Custom Made Amp

Channel 1 : Fender Twin
Channel 2 : Marshall JCM800
Channel 3 : Mesa Boogie Dual Reticifier

A built-in power attenuator and a true bypass FX loop would be a must.
Tweed Covering with Dragon Head-shaped Knobs and wheels and white tolex.

 

[ParameterMan]

Re: Describe Your Dream Custom Made Amp

Four channels, two american and two british. Each with a switchable booster stage.

#1. American rich, thick cleans + thick, juicy blues drive. Fender, Dr. Z, etc.

#2. British chimy semi-clean + thick midrange distortion. Matchless, Orange, Matamp, etc.

#3. British gritty sparkle and crunch + extra-rich hotrod Marshall sound. Early Marshall, Bogner, etc.

#4. American deep crunch and thick distortion + really thick modern molten lava. Boogie MKII slash Trainwreck, Dumble etc. with switchable extra cathode follower Soldano/Recto hard clipper stage.

Each stage paired up with it's own respective power tube setup, driving a dummy load, feeding a 4 x KT-88 power stage.

Possibly administered by a complex midi to analog control converter for every parameter, coupled with a bunch of gutted vintage analog effects controlled the same way, so I could boil it all down to midi patches and have my entire analog signal chain tweak itself with the stomp of ONE button.

 

[34029324079]

Re: Describe Your Dream Custom Made Amp

Channel 1 : Fender Twin
Channel 2 : Marshall JCM800
Channel 3 : Mesa Boogie Dual Reticifier

A built-in power attenuator and a true bypass FX loop would be a must.
Tweed Covering with Dragon Head-shaped Knobs and wheels and white tolex.

I am down with that!

 

[kmcguitars]

Re: Describe Your Dream Custom Made Amp

1 input jack, 1 output jack, 1 volume knob. You just plug in and it sounds great! It breaks up just right when you hit it hard Nice and crunchy,Back off it and you have plenty of clean sparkley headroom. (We are talking about dreams...Right?)

 

[babybatter]

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Im ready for a next generation of versatility from a guitar amp.


I want a dynamic auto-response amplifier. With some kind of odd transformer that responds to room sound and incorporates reverberation from the room, the player, the audience and the the guitar. It functions like a mood ring somehow. It detects my nervousness and compresses my guitar signal. It responds to pick attack and swells the volume slightly.


And it has a glory hole if I go home from a gig solo. :crazy:

 

[Bludave]

Re: Describe Your Dream Custom Made Amp

The Ultimate for me would be:

Channel 1

40 or 50 Watts of 6L6 Power. Basically a Super Reverb with the Abilty to cut the power for smaller venues. (go fro 40 watts to 25). A very basic setup Volume, Treble, Middle, Bass and Reverb.

Channel 2

50 Watts of EL34 Power
Same EQ as above except with a Gain and Master or maybe a master Volume in each channel and an overall master to control overall output.

Absolutely no effects loop!!

It would be nice to have this as both a Combo with choices of speaker configurations and as a head with seperate speaker cabs also.

 

[zionstrat]

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glad this thread came back to life! I love tubes and I love modeling and know i am one of the 6 people in the world that can say this-

My dream amp would have all the flexibilty of my modeling amps for routing effects and patches but really only needs 3 great sounds-
1. Incredible headroom fender twang (twin meets bassman) and ability to tubescream this channel
2. plexi with master vol
3. ideal heavy crunch that I have never found in real world tubes

But before we take this a lot farther, I dont need any of this at all- Live or recording, within the mix, I woudl challange anyone to tell when I'm on tubes vs models- Within the mix, they have already converged IMHO-

 

[Diego]

Re: Describe Your Dream Custom Made Amp

My Roland Cube 60 with an FX loop and a Bogner Ubershall 4x12 cab that weighs 10 pounds. :fingersx:

The tone is already there for me.

Oh... and 3 channel selection, with MIDI controllable on-board effects. Now that's OK.

 

[ratherdashing]

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I'd basically want Atomic to make a stereo power amp head with switchable power levels: 9:9, 18:18, 30:30, and 60:60. It would have the usual modeller bracket, plus stereo sends and returns, and stereo XLR outs. They'd probably have to make matching 2x12 and 4x12 cabs too.