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skullservant wrote:I've never used the EP or a Micro Amp, but I have used a Super Hard On, a Super Duper 2-In-1 and a general JFET booster. All of those literally take your signal and MAKE IT LOUDER without really doing anything except punching your amp in the gut. No coloring, discoloring, sag, bleh.

But with a Rangemaster, you're not dealing with Silcon, you're dealing with Germanium, which is like the whiny cousin of the family that everyone kind of looks at weirdly and sits at the opposite end of the table from at family reunions. What I'm really just saying is that Germanium acts a lot differently from silicon in that when you push a Rangemaster, it adds a lot of sparkle. Rangemasters are meant/created to brighten up dark valves.

But what if you aren't playing dark valves?? "To hell with British tone!" That's where the Gamut steps in and says "oh no, classic Rangemaster, you've lost your manhood, let me remind you of what makes you so awesome." The range control on the Gamut adds in another capacitor to the input, which in turn increases gain AND brings back some low end to the circuit. When you boost the volume on a standard Rangemaster, it gets gritty in a good way. But instead of being a thin gritty, you can make it a thick gritty with that range control. Like a thick stack of pancakes. You can turn that thin french mustache of a tone into a full on lumberjack beard and THAT is why the Gamut rules.

Sure, you can cut glass if you have the range control all the way down on the Gamut. I actually kind of dig the shrill tones of standard Ragemasters. But crank the range past 2 o'clock on the dial and you'll have to invest in a new razor.