kbithecrowing wrote:Jealous. that looks like fun. How flexible is the eqing on those amps? how dirty does it get on its own?
The EQ options are surprisingly effective. I have only had the amp for a few days, but so far I have been able to dial in sparkly highs on my Jazzmaster and serious thump on my bass. The controls are kinda interactive and affect eachother in different ways from how you set them. It also has a "Normal/Bright"-switch, a "Bass/Lead"-switch and a second foot switchable volume knob. The amp is all headroom and no breakup but it has a distortion knob. It sounds like shit on guitar but wonderful on bass. Really dirty but with no bottom end crapping out, kinda like Motorhead but with more thump. For corksniffer tones on clean guitar this amp will sound a bit meh, but as a pedal platform it's amazingly versatile.
imJonWain wrote:woah, what is it? (besides the obvi)
It's a Univox 1561, which is basically a 150 watt Marshall Superbass that uses 6550 tubes and beefier transformers. From what I understand, Unichord owned Univox and brought Marshall amps to the united states in the late 60s and 70s, so they built clones of them under the univox name, cause that shit flew at the time.
Rad. I like the way my Model T sounds, but I've been disappointed with it's volume since getting it. I would of thought it would be louder than my Sound City 100, but in comparison the Sound City makes the Sunn sound like a 50w. Granted, I run into this problem every single time I compare any amp I have with my Sound City... I just really thought the Model T would smoke it. So far the only amp that is clearly louder than my Sound City is my SVT.
