The Templo Nomad is a 50-watt battery-powered amp. If it weren't so terrible, I’d say it was brilliant. Basically, this is a quality-made solid state amp that functions exactly how it’s made to function. The 12 stands for 12 Watts, and it’s called a micro amp because they manage to pack a huge sound into a (relatively) small enclosure. The Marshall Lead 12 Micro Stack was released in the eighties. They created a solid state amp with a built-in grunge pedal, both of which sound amazing? Give me some credit here, I wasn’t born yesterday. Now, I know what you’re thinking: this sounds too good to be true. When I play through this amp, I like to crank the “grunge” knob all the way up and let my inner Kurt Cobain go wild. They combined arguably their most popular circuit ever, the DOD Grunge, with a real spring reverb, and put it all inside a tiny little package in the form of an amp. I’ve actually done an episode on Jason Lamb, but in this article I want to focus on his 1997 release: the DOD Grunge Amplifier with Reverb. In the 1990s, DOD started focusing more on their Digitech line (their digital line of pedals based out of Salt Lake City), and the company was basically handed over to a guy named Jason Lamb, who designed some of the strangest and most popular DOD pedals ever made. Honestly, if it weren’t for the fact that this was a solid state amp, I’d probably say it was fantastic. The Mike Matthews amp has a healthy amount of mid range, which I normally really like.
Now, I like to set the volume on this at about 80% and max out the tone. They accidentally created an amp that totally messes with the high-end frequencies, Mike loved it, and the rest is history. This amp was designed by Bob Meyer, who designed all the original Electro-Harmonix gear: the LPB-1, the Big Muff, the Memory Man, and Bob told me that this amp was literally a mistake. Mike Matthews named his first amp after himself. Their first amp was called the Electro-Harmonix Mike Matthews Freedom Amplifier. Let me repeat that for anyone who missed it the first time: Electro-Harmonix had only been in business for about five years, and they were already making a name for themselves in the amp sector. In 1972, the United States faced its biggest scandal to date, Watergate, and the same year Electro-Harmonix released their first amp. It’s a shame.Įlectro-Harmonix Mike Matthews Freedom Amp
I might even say that it has amazing spring reverb and is really touch responsive. If it weren’t a solid state amp- which we all know sucks -I’d say that this was a really quality amplifier that works especially well with the reverb maxed out and the gain knob set at halfway. The controls are on the top, and it has a really nice tremolo channel. It’s surprisingly small, and it also had the distinction of being used as a prop in a little production called Pedals: The Musical. This amp came out in the year 2000, the same year that I graduated high school and became a real man. 15 stands for 15 Watts and R stands for reverb. Let’s find out exactly how much.įirst up is the Vox Pathfinder 15R. Those vacuum tubes have been replaced with more modern transistor-style circuits which, frankly, suck. The difference between a solid state amp and a tube amp is that solid state amps don't have vacuum tubes. The very first amps were tube amplifiers and they sounded great. The guitar was first electrified in 1931. But in this article I want to look at a few different solid state amps and break down why they’re terrible- and maybe just break down personally, too, if there’s time. The lack of vacuum tubes and more up-to-date circuitry basically speaks for itself. Okay, we all know that solid state amps suck.
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