Matt42
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I've been on the search for my dream amp for about two or three years now. Last night, I found it. I've looked at everything from the Express + amps to a TA-15 head to silverface Deluxe Reverbs and an assortment of other vintage Fender stuff. None of them had all the features I really wanted; 1x12 combo, single channel, NMV, reverb, responsive to picking dynamics, mostly clean with a nice breakup when pushed, a bit of the tweed sag, 20ish watts. While looking at amps, I was chatting with a guy who works at one of the local shops and he mentioned that he and a friend had started building amps. I didn't think much about it at the time, but he offered to let me use their prototype at a gig. I kinda forgot about it for a month, but decided to take him up on it last night. I went over to their house/workshop and plugged into their 22 watt amp The Bayonet. 22 Watts, 6v6, spring reverb, single channel, fairly clean. It does have a Master control, but they said it's wired differently and I believe them as it didn't feel like a Master Volume amp to me, it was far more responsive. The also do something different with their presence knob, they said it was somewhere between a Vox Top Cut and a Fender presence knob. Whatever it was, I liked it.
I played the whole show on the prototype and place my order after the show. It responded well to all my pedals except the Dyna Comp (which is fine because I was plan on replaced that soon anyway, it's far to noisy). I used the Mooer Bluesbreaker V1 clone the Blues Crab for most of the show, alternating with my Soul Food and Joyo Sweet Baby. This was the first time in a long time that I've been perfectly happy with my tone. It's got a lot of that tweed sag to it that I like, and I had it set right on the edge of break up. Hitting my clean boost for a solo kicked it into just a touch of break up.
The best part, they are going to charge around $950 for them, which puts it right at what I was hoping to spend. Once they go into production in October, mine will be built and ready to go!
I'll be sure to post some clips once I've got it.
I played the whole show on the prototype and place my order after the show. It responded well to all my pedals except the Dyna Comp (which is fine because I was plan on replaced that soon anyway, it's far to noisy). I used the Mooer Bluesbreaker V1 clone the Blues Crab for most of the show, alternating with my Soul Food and Joyo Sweet Baby. This was the first time in a long time that I've been perfectly happy with my tone. It's got a lot of that tweed sag to it that I like, and I had it set right on the edge of break up. Hitting my clean boost for a solo kicked it into just a touch of break up.
The best part, they are going to charge around $950 for them, which puts it right at what I was hoping to spend. Once they go into production in October, mine will be built and ready to go!
I'll be sure to post some clips once I've got it.
