Egnater Rebel 30 aka FOUND an Amp

[mathias]

These are all great resources. Thank you!

[mathias]

GASing for this thing. It's different, and scales volume down but doesn't use an attenuator or voltage scaling

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyxfLxtR9Ds[/youtube]

Wishing I had a lot of money. The head is $1800

Great sound that sounds like what I hear in my head when I think about what I want my overdriven tone to sound like.

There's also the Reinhardt stuff, which has his own power scaling as well. I love the clean sound on these at around 2:30 in the video. Also out of my price range for now..

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-fr7ByVwlY[/youtube]

[mathias]

You Milwaukee Makerspace guys are awesome. This has me interested in hackerspaces. I don't see any too near me, though.

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

Start one!

[mathias]

There's also this little guy called the Bambino from Reason. 2 or 8 watt, class AB despite being tiny, with a balanced line out that has speaker load for silent recording.



It's actually cheaper than the Egnater. Interesting.

Edit: the more I read / research about this Reason, the more I like it. Unfortunately, it's another amp I can't play in person anywhere near me

Edit edit: I'm liking this color, too:

[dorfmeister]

You Milwaukee Makerspace guys are awesome. This has me interested in hackerspaces. I don't see any too near me, though.

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

Durham, NC

http://splatspace.org/

Am I wrong to think that South Carolina is one of the least progressive places in all of the U.S?

[mathias]

The 65 Amps Lil' Elvis is becoming a clear contender. My girlfriend even commented on its tone while I was watching a video.

Here's some guy playing his various pedals through one during warm-up for a concert:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nueHFMGvI[/youtube]

I'm wondering if the "Lost Schematic" they say this thing is based on is an old Supro practice amp.

[mathias]

I think tonight's the night for a new amp. I've been saving for awhile and my clients have been demanding crazy hours. Technically I made enough staying up Friday/Saturday/Sunday for nearly 48 hours straight to buy a nice small amp. So that's what I'm going to do. My girlfriend and I are driving down the Guitar Center west of Milwaukee after we have dinner. There's two other guitar stores out there, one that snipelfritz told me about, that we may check out. Dunno what my girlfriend's tolerance level for guitar stores will be, though. There's a place that carries Matchless and Carr. Even though those are out of my budget, I want to go play them

I've got a jam session scheduled for tonight, too, but no one RVSP'd that they're coming to it, so it may just be me and my new amp.

SO EXCITED ZOMG.

[Heavy_Soul]

get something sweet then take lots of pictures of it

[mathias]

Short list to try out tonight:

• Egnater Rebel 30
• Egnater Tweaker, just for kicks
• Blackheart Studio head
• Engl Gigmaster, if I can find one
• Marshall Class 5, for kicks
• The Marshall JTM45 reissue, again just for kicks
• Gretsch Electromatic 5watt
• Vox AC15, again for kicks
• Whatever Carr and Matchless that other place has..
• Vintage amps from this place: http://www.creamcitymusic.com/c-272-vintage-amps.aspx?pagenum=2 specifically that Hiwatt Lead 50R head (50 watts, reverb, and a LINE OUT )

[Heavy_Soul]

Class 5 has a lot of balls

[mathias]

Anyone know anything about that Hiwatt Lead 50R? I guess the 80s ones were built in China, not handmade in the UK, and if youtube is any indication, the only thing people use them for is to cop David Gilmour / Pink Floyd tones.

[dorfmeister]

Cream City is a cool place. I was there last summer and they had a bunch of Victorias, and vintage Ampegs, Gibsons, Gretsches, Gibsons, and even a Flotatone which was a Milwaukee amp manufacturer.

[mathias]

dorfmeister, where are you from?

[mathias]

Update: I don't know if it was my playing or my guitar or what, but I couldn't get a good sound of the Egnater Rebel 30 (and other people have said that they couldn't get a bad tone out of it.) I guess I was being really critical because I was about to drop a lot of money on something, but the Egnater didn't live up to my own hype. Total letdown. The only other amp from my list that they had was the Tweaker 15, and it doesn't get quiet or have a line out, like I need. Guitar Center is supposed to carry Blackstar but they didn't have any. The salesguy tried to pitch me on a Fender Blues Deluxe / Hot Rod Deluxe, then a Twin Reverb, even though I'd said I was looking for Marshall tones and absolutely had to have a line out..

The other two stores were closed by the time we got out there, so I'll have to try Cream City Music some other day..

Bummed that I don't have an amp

[madmax1012]

Update: I don't know if it was my playing or my guitar or what, but I couldn't get a good sound of the Egnater Rebel 30 (and other people have said that they couldn't get a bad tone out of it.) I guess I was being really critical because I was about to drop a lot of money on something, but the Egnater didn't live up to my own hype. Total letdown. The only other amp from my list that they had was the Tweaker 15, and it doesn't get quiet or have a line out, like I need. Guitar Center is supposed to carry Blackstar but they didn't have any. The salesguy tried to pitch me on a Fender Blues Deluxe / Hot Rod Deluxe, then a Twin Reverb, even though I'd said I was looking for Marshall tones and absolutely had to have a line out..

The other two stores were closed by the time we got out there, so I'll have to try Cream City Music some other day..

Bummed that I don't have an amp

GC associates are idiots sometimes. I enjoy putting them to shame, especially when it comes to pedals but those hot rods are overpriced IMO, and you can get them used for alot cheaper. the thing i find funny about those Egnaters is that when they first came out, they were pretty hyped up. but you slowly start to notice the number of used ones popping up