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100+ watt 6550-powered Fuchs Viper!

If the Quick Rod was the hotrodded version of the Plexi tone, this prestigious,fan-cooled beast is the hotrodded version of the Dumble tone. Seriously. It's kinda nuts.

Imagine Robben Ford in corpsepaint and you'll get the idea.

Pretty excited to get it over to the rehearsal space and really open it up.
 
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Cool! I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about it. I never pegged you as a guy that would be into the "D*mble" thing - did Tag put you up to this? :D
 
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Wow very cool, I remember hearing Joel from KsE had one for a while just before he was trying out Nitro's a few years ago.
 
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I just watched a demo of that amp and thought the first channel sounded great. Is the second channel as scooped sounding as it is in videos on youtube?
 
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I heard Fuch's version of a Trainwreck and since I've never heard a real Trainwreck I have no frame of reference ... but it was an awesome sounding amp. I heard Bonamassa play one live and it kicked butt.

I hope the Viper sounds as good to you as the only Fuchs amp I've ever heard sounded to me.
 
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siiik!! I think it fits your music well :):

 
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Cool amp...not really Dumble like, which is fine...there are more than enough D clones out there even Fuchs makes a few.

The Viper is based on the Frost amp but I think both amps are not discontinued correct??
 
the guy who invented fire said:
Cool amp...not really Dumble like, which is fine...there are more than enough D clones out there even Fuchs makes a few.

The Viper is based on the Frost amp but I think both amps are not discontinued correct??
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Its mostly the same amp. Fuchs has updated the circuit a few times. They sell it now as the Mantis, but only because Peavey asked them to change the name from Viper because it was too much like their Vypyr line.
 
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everdrone said:
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I can honestly say there was nothing about that demo that would persuade me that amp was worth trying out. I don't think it was the amp that was at fault though, I'm sure it was just badly miced. If I didn't know any different, I have thought that both the commentary and the amp were being recorded through the lav on his lapel; his voice was OK, but the amp just sounded muffled.

Just my 2C worth...
 
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ya sometimes we have a tone in our heads that is really from studio magic too! and fingers have a big deal to do with tone. studios spend tens of thousands of dollars designing the perfect room to record an amp in, and then put a couple mics at different angles and distances on the same amp, and blend amps etc etc ;)
 
Chris of Arabia said:
I can honestly say there was nothing about that demo that would persuade me that amp was worth trying out. I don't think it was the amp that was at fault though, I'm sure it was just badly miced. If I didn't know any different, I have thought that both the commentary and the amp were being recorded through the lav on his lapel; his voice was OK, but the amp just sounded muffled.

Just my 2C worth...
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That guy has never done a good amp demo in his life. He uses too much gain and always dials in a muffled tone. The amp doesn't sound like that when I play it, rest assured.
 
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Congratulations on a great sounding an sleek looking amp. The Guitar World videos are hit and miss, but that sounded really good. I have heard Fuchs cleans and overdriven sounds before and for a high gain amp, that sure does have a nice clean tone.
 
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Thank you.

The crazy thing about the clean channel is that, if you turn up the gain knob, it basically sounds like a hot-rod British kind of tone. Not dissimilar to the Splawn I traded away.

The Metal channel is going to be a little weirder to dial in, I think, but it's almost a bonus after the versatility and power of the clean channel.
 
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