Tone Master Deluxe

[Benjy_26]

Solo'd back to back with the real thing, I'm sure one can tell the difference. Once you're in a band mix with drums, bass, vocals, and other guitars or keys...probably not.

 

[Mincer]

You mean drive to a store a whole hour away and go in and find a guitar and a cable and a tuner and a pick just so I can try out an amp that I could stay home and watch questionable videos of for free? Thats a big ask, Dave.

Haha, well, just buy one then! I gigged with my TMDR this weekend and it sounded glorious onstage and through the PA. And it is so easy to get a good sound through the PA!

 

[jeremy]

Did it have a power scaling option?
One of the nicest sounding amps that I ever heard was a VHT head, 13 watts I think, through a 2x12. It was in a medium open air room with one guy playing aTele going to the VHT and another guy playing an acoustic intro a Fishman.

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oh, this was before power scaling was a thing. it did have a cool feature for the impedance switch, just labeled low, medium, high. the tranny was built so it could handle a significant mismatch without issue so you could run things mismatched to get a earlier breakup or spongier feel if you wanted. it was designed as a big boy gigging amp and carried the price tag to go with it.

 

[Mincer]

Well, will you need the features that the TM Twin does so well? The XLR out, the light weight for gigging, the power scaling? If you don't need all 3, then the choice is a little harder to make.

 

[Mincer]

I think I would take advantage of all three. I am not selling my HRD, but I want that Tone Master Twin Reverb.

Yeah, it really does make sense, especially when the Twin is just over 30lbs, right? That's a huge difference.

 

[GuitarStv]

Ugh. This does not look good. I could tell which one was which by listening on my phone speaker. I found a store not too far from me, that has some of the Tone Master amps. I could make the trip and try it myself.

They're in the same ballpark, but there's a different thing going on in the mids between both amps in that video (twin seems to have more low mids going on, tone master seemed to be maybe a bit more even?). I preferred the regular twin in the comparison, but that's just a matter of preference - not a 'purely better' judgement.

 

[Mincer]

About 33 lbs.

That's a seriously considerable difference.

 

[IMENATOR]

Last week I tried the blond one, it has a Celestion G12 Neo, it sounded very very good with a Friedman BE-OD in front of it. I agree it is too pricy, but sound it sounds great, this one is about the overdrive tones, the speaker really helped I guess. I did not try its own overdrive sound, I was there to try guitars

 

[Mincer]

The Blonde Deluxe has more mids overall. I didn't like it as much as the blackface one with a TS-style pedal (which naturally has a lot of mids). If I was relying on turning it up for overdrive, I could see how I might luck the blonde one.

 

[Wattage]

I dig it and I really dig the Tone Master Twin

 

[jeremy]

the only difference between the blonde and black is the speaker and no bright cap right?

 

[Mincer]

the only difference between the blonde and black is the speaker and no bright cap right?

Yeah, but you can install a firmware update on the black one that takes the bright cap off and fixes the way-too-deep reverb issue. So it comes down to the speaker and the IR that is installed on the XLR out.

 

[jeremy]

ah, didnt know the ir was different. i think the blonde is a 57 and 421?

 

[Mincer]

ah, didnt know the ir was different. i think the blonde is a 57 and 421?

The IRs were created with the speaker for that specific model. I think the microphones used were the same, but I'd have to check.

 

[Mincer]

BTW, I still use it for every gig. Soundpeople love it, and I love how light it is.