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wildebelor wrote:And I'm not sure if it does 230/240v?
wildebelor wrote:Basically I bought one and had it shipped to Australia. Arrived in 9 days and was excellent out of the box.
Here is the thing, after playing for a while I realised that I should open it up to check what's under the hood.
Not a whole lot is different!
1 or 2 cap changes and lifts, depth mod (very common jet city mod), "vintage / modern voicing" control (seems like a presence control), FAC would be more useful with a rotary switch of 6 caps and the voicing option is really just a filter.
The voicing option is, from what I gather after playing for about 3 weeks, a switchable filter with each position modelled on a how a sunn, orange or hiwatt react etc etc etc
HOWEVER!
I played this head live without being mic'd, with a full band…. it was very very loud. Loved it. Kept up with doom very well.
It does cleans incredibly well (with a strat it is epic).
Overall, if I was just listening to this amp without any other knowledge or bias - I'm impressed.
Iommic Pope wrote:belor, have you checked into the doom room yet?
Also, how was your buying/ordering experience?
I live in Brissie and a mate of mine was gonna get a Dwarvenaut on a run they did a few months back. So he emailed Hovercraft and they teed it all up. The next week or so, they announce they sold that run out, so mate asks, "did you hold me one then?" and all he got was, "nope". That was it. No apology, nothing about the next run. Nothing.
I was keen on a Falcon a while back but....fuck that. That shit shakes confidence.
birthofsound wrote:Talk to me about the clean tones! What would you compare them to? I really like hiwatt type cleans but have no idea if lt would get me in the ballpark.
How soon did it break up?
Last thing lol. What model did you have?
wildebelor wrote:I have the occasional visit in the doom room but not a full time poster!
I'm in melbourne now man, was on the sunny coast / brisbane.
Nial is a weird cat - super busy and sometimes gets hard to email, but he is a good guy.
I never had a problem ordering and mine was an order outside of the run.
I would just try and chase it up again if your friend was keen.
Falcon would cost about 250-400 to ship here as opposed to $150 for the dwarvenaut.
And I'm not sure if it does 230/240v?
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wildebelor wrote:birthofsound wrote:Talk to me about the clean tones! What would you compare them to? I really like hiwatt type cleans but have no idea if lt would get me in the ballpark.
How soon did it break up?
Last thing lol. What model did you have?
It cleans up surprisingly well!
It's definitely similar to hiwatt and orange cleans.
Sounds great with single coils!
But if you're planning to play live with a SUPER loud band, you're not going to get the cleanest of cleans out of it.
20 watts just doesn't have enough headroom for that application.
However, if you're in studio - this amp is incredibly versatile.
I put the new heavy modified rat I built in front of it and it just tightens it up and makes it a chug machine.
Wes Mantooth wrote:Ill be doing demos of my Andromeda this summer for sure, mostly doomy shit but if anyone wants something specific let me know.
wildebelor wrote:I'm in the middle of doing demos of all the pedals I make so I can get a hovercraft demo online within the week.
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birthofsound wrote:Wes Mantooth wrote:Ill be doing demos of my Andromeda this summer for sure, mostly doomy shit but if anyone wants something specific let me know.
If you could also show off the clean tones I would be in debt to you for eternity.
wildebelor wrote:I'm in the middle of doing demos of all the pedals I make so I can get a hovercraft demo online within the week.
I wouldn't:
a) be afraid of these amps breaking (there just isn't any reason why, the mods are done very well - Nial used to work for a very good tech / amp company)
AND
b) if for some reason it did need servicing, it's not going to be a hard fix - why would it be? it's not as if the circuit is unknown? and the mods are very apparent - the tech would just have to replace whatever is wrong.
These are great amps and super affordable.
I love the idea of recycling and improving and making them unique and custom - it needed to be done and of course there will be naysayers… but I say YAY
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