Diego
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Maybe it's because it has... TUBES!? :eyecrazy:
Yessir. After more than ten years as a guitar player, I finally got my first tube amp ever. And it's pretty damn good.
It's an Egnater Tweaker 15 head.
(WARNING: This next bit is quite boring)
As you may know, the Tweaker 15 is a single channel amp with two 6V6 power tubes, loaded with lots of mini-toggles that let you tailor the sound and response:
Vintage/Modern voicing at the power section, Tight/Deep for the bass response, Bright/Normal explains itself, Hot/Clean engages a whole different amp altogether, and the Fender/Vox/Marshall voicing at the pre section.
It has a buffered - is that line level? It has that too, if it isn't - FX loop that probably won't work with my EHX Memory Toy, which is a shame.
It can operate with 6V6, 6L6, EL34, 5881 and KT66 power tubes too.
So in short, the palette of tones is huge.
The Fender sounds are spectacular. Detailed in the highs and deep as a bell in the lows, it made my drummer's kit vibrate like crazy with just a 1x12 cab.
With my SSS Strat it's pure Mark Knopfler.
The dirty sounds here are pummeling! Very dynamic and in your face.
The British cleans were of course a bit darker and more middy. Very reminiscent of Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple/Rainbow.
Taking the Master Volume well past 7 while on the Clean setting delivers some nice early Aerosmith and AC/DC tones with humbuckers.
On the Hot channel it's pure JCM800 and it's pretty convincing at that, more compressed and real chunky.
The Vox voicing is nothing like any classic Vox tone I can remember. It's more scooped than the Fender model and it has more bite in the upper mids.
Distorted it's more of a 5150/Rectifier voicing if you ask me. It loves humbuckers, got some seriously heavy tones here.
Overall it's extremely versatile and goddamn loud too.
And it manages to keep some usable headroom even while loud as hell.
The only bad thing is that in stock form, the high gain sounds are slightly muffled/muddy. But from what I've read here, changing the preamp tubes fixes it.
So no big deal.
My poor old Cube 60 has nothing that can compete with the Tweaker, except for high gain definition and clean headroom.
What can I say? I always knew I would eventually get a tube amp, but I never expected it to be this good for such a low price.
I'll take some proper pictures with a real camera and not my crappy Blackberry, and I'll put them here.
Tubes rock.
Yessir. After more than ten years as a guitar player, I finally got my first tube amp ever. And it's pretty damn good.
It's an Egnater Tweaker 15 head.
(WARNING: This next bit is quite boring)
As you may know, the Tweaker 15 is a single channel amp with two 6V6 power tubes, loaded with lots of mini-toggles that let you tailor the sound and response:
Vintage/Modern voicing at the power section, Tight/Deep for the bass response, Bright/Normal explains itself, Hot/Clean engages a whole different amp altogether, and the Fender/Vox/Marshall voicing at the pre section.
It has a buffered - is that line level? It has that too, if it isn't - FX loop that probably won't work with my EHX Memory Toy, which is a shame.
It can operate with 6V6, 6L6, EL34, 5881 and KT66 power tubes too.
So in short, the palette of tones is huge.
The Fender sounds are spectacular. Detailed in the highs and deep as a bell in the lows, it made my drummer's kit vibrate like crazy with just a 1x12 cab.
With my SSS Strat it's pure Mark Knopfler.
The dirty sounds here are pummeling! Very dynamic and in your face.
The British cleans were of course a bit darker and more middy. Very reminiscent of Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple/Rainbow.
Taking the Master Volume well past 7 while on the Clean setting delivers some nice early Aerosmith and AC/DC tones with humbuckers.
On the Hot channel it's pure JCM800 and it's pretty convincing at that, more compressed and real chunky.
The Vox voicing is nothing like any classic Vox tone I can remember. It's more scooped than the Fender model and it has more bite in the upper mids.
Distorted it's more of a 5150/Rectifier voicing if you ask me. It loves humbuckers, got some seriously heavy tones here.
Overall it's extremely versatile and goddamn loud too.
And it manages to keep some usable headroom even while loud as hell.
The only bad thing is that in stock form, the high gain sounds are slightly muffled/muddy. But from what I've read here, changing the preamp tubes fixes it.
So no big deal.
My poor old Cube 60 has nothing that can compete with the Tweaker, except for high gain definition and clean headroom.
What can I say? I always knew I would eventually get a tube amp, but I never expected it to be this good for such a low price.
I'll take some proper pictures with a real camera and not my crappy Blackberry, and I'll put them here.
Tubes rock.
