Hey Evan!!!!!
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Evan Skopp
SDUGF Founder
Re: Hey Evan!!!!!
Good question!
I’ve been holding off writing a full review on the Evan-Rude until after I used it on some Seymour Duncan Band gigs. Through some weird scheduling things on our side and on some club owners’ sides, we haven’t played a gig in a few months, which is unusual for us.
So, I’ve really only played it in my (condo) living room, save for the first day when I was blasting it full-tilt in the Seymour Duncan sound room.
One of the design criteria was to design and construct a dual living room / gigging amp with separate channels for each purpose. So, there are two channels. A tweed channel called “Twister” and a blackface channel called “Mudslide.” (Get it? Texas tweed and California blackface).
The Mudslide channel is intended to be the gigging channel with clean headroom to use with my SFX-03 Twin Tube Classic. It has reverb, tremolo, bass, mid, treble and an interesting two-position EQ switch that kind of acts like a pre-set presence control. To be honest, I haven’t used this channel that much, which is why I’ve been holding off writing.
Interestingly, when my son’s guitar teacher comes over to give him his weekly lesson, I notice the he always bypasses my pedal board, unplugs my cable from the Twister channel, and plugs into Mudslide. Maybe he knows something I don’t.
The Twister channel has been getting a lot of use lately. In fact, it’s all I’ve played, pretty much, since I got the amp. It’s a real simple channel with just volume, tone and gain. No reverb. No tremolo. But tone like there’s no tomorrow. It marries perfectly with the SFX-03 Twin Tube Classic (another design criteria) and my Maxon OD-808. It doesn’t get super loud, but it’s perfect for my condo. It’ll get the neighbors ringing my doorbell (and has). I have to say, Scott nailed the tweed sound.
This amp is a head. Currently I’m using it along with an old ported close back Seymour Duncan cab loaded with two ceramic magnet Eminence 10” speakers. I’m not sure if I’m going to stick with this cabinet. Again, I need to play it live to make my final determination. But I may go to an open back 2x12. We’ll see.
The cabinetry is really gorgeous. It’s all beautifully figured cherry wood. The front is one piece solid and has almost a water-like pattern on it. I replaced the cream chicken head knobs with cream barrel knobs. I’m waiting for Scott to send me the Celtic Amps logo to stick on the amp before I photograph it. But trust me when I say, you ain’t never seen cherry wood like this.
Scott is coming out in a few weeks to listen to it through my rig. He might make a tweak here and there. Or not.
What else do you want to know about it?
Good question!
I’ve been holding off writing a full review on the Evan-Rude until after I used it on some Seymour Duncan Band gigs. Through some weird scheduling things on our side and on some club owners’ sides, we haven’t played a gig in a few months, which is unusual for us.
So, I’ve really only played it in my (condo) living room, save for the first day when I was blasting it full-tilt in the Seymour Duncan sound room.
One of the design criteria was to design and construct a dual living room / gigging amp with separate channels for each purpose. So, there are two channels. A tweed channel called “Twister” and a blackface channel called “Mudslide.” (Get it? Texas tweed and California blackface).
The Mudslide channel is intended to be the gigging channel with clean headroom to use with my SFX-03 Twin Tube Classic. It has reverb, tremolo, bass, mid, treble and an interesting two-position EQ switch that kind of acts like a pre-set presence control. To be honest, I haven’t used this channel that much, which is why I’ve been holding off writing.
Interestingly, when my son’s guitar teacher comes over to give him his weekly lesson, I notice the he always bypasses my pedal board, unplugs my cable from the Twister channel, and plugs into Mudslide. Maybe he knows something I don’t.
The Twister channel has been getting a lot of use lately. In fact, it’s all I’ve played, pretty much, since I got the amp. It’s a real simple channel with just volume, tone and gain. No reverb. No tremolo. But tone like there’s no tomorrow. It marries perfectly with the SFX-03 Twin Tube Classic (another design criteria) and my Maxon OD-808. It doesn’t get super loud, but it’s perfect for my condo. It’ll get the neighbors ringing my doorbell (and has). I have to say, Scott nailed the tweed sound.
This amp is a head. Currently I’m using it along with an old ported close back Seymour Duncan cab loaded with two ceramic magnet Eminence 10” speakers. I’m not sure if I’m going to stick with this cabinet. Again, I need to play it live to make my final determination. But I may go to an open back 2x12. We’ll see.
The cabinetry is really gorgeous. It’s all beautifully figured cherry wood. The front is one piece solid and has almost a water-like pattern on it. I replaced the cream chicken head knobs with cream barrel knobs. I’m waiting for Scott to send me the Celtic Amps logo to stick on the amp before I photograph it. But trust me when I say, you ain’t never seen cherry wood like this.
Scott is coming out in a few weeks to listen to it through my rig. He might make a tweak here and there. Or not.
What else do you want to know about it?
JacksonMIA
Lemur-buckerologist
Re: Hey Evan!!!!!
Wow! Sounds like an amazing amp! Can't wait for a full review.
Wow! Sounds like an amazing amp! Can't wait for a full review.
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Lewguitar
Guest
Re: Hey Evan!!!!!
Sounds cool! My blackface Fenders are set up with a similar scheme in mind.
I put reverb/vibrato on the normal channel and that bumps up the gain and makes it usable for hotter tones...but I tweak it to make it overdrive more easily than the vibrato channel.
I tend to use the normal channel (which is tweaked for easier overdrive) as the single coil channel and the vibrato channel as the humbucker channel...cuz it distorts less and stays cleaner with HB pickups.
Sounds like Scott_F had something similar in mind.
Lew
Sounds cool! My blackface Fenders are set up with a similar scheme in mind.
I put reverb/vibrato on the normal channel and that bumps up the gain and makes it usable for hotter tones...but I tweak it to make it overdrive more easily than the vibrato channel.
I tend to use the normal channel (which is tweaked for easier overdrive) as the single coil channel and the vibrato channel as the humbucker channel...cuz it distorts less and stays cleaner with HB pickups.
Sounds like Scott_F had something similar in mind.
Lew
Re: Hey Evan!!!!!
I actually wired up the normal channel as a tweed deluxe tone stack, including the high voltage running to V1. I have it as gain, vol and a single tone control. I also changed hte caps in the power section so that they more closely resemble tweed values.
When I had it hooked up to the reverb, the master seemed to influence that channel as well. I'm going to rehook it up when I see Evan in a few weeks and see if he likes the tone or not. It'll be a lot easier to tweak with him there.
Evan does have dog ears ya know...
I actually wired up the normal channel as a tweed deluxe tone stack, including the high voltage running to V1. I have it as gain, vol and a single tone control. I also changed hte caps in the power section so that they more closely resemble tweed values.
When I had it hooked up to the reverb, the master seemed to influence that channel as well. I'm going to rehook it up when I see Evan in a few weeks and see if he likes the tone or not. It'll be a lot easier to tweak with him there.
Evan does have dog ears ya know...
