JGR's 1200 watt micro - let the madness begin!!!!!

[bucephylus]

I've followed this thread from the beginning and found it most interesting; and I certainly hope this amp sees the commercially available light of day.

But, I have to say that if some of you are saying the Demeter preamp circuit is a pig... Then you've lost me.

 

[monkeyfinger]

Great vid JGR. Would you post one that uses an overdrive in front please? Something short and quick will do fine.

 

[natw42]

To me ears, this thing nails the 'grind without fizz' thing that a lot of people try to get at its higher gain settings.

Killer.

 

[Smallequestrian]

I've followed this thread from the beginning and found it most interesting; and I certainly hope this amp sees the commercially available light of day.

But, I have to say that if some of you are saying the Demeter preamp circuit is a pig... Then you've lost me.

I don't think anybody is quite calling it a pig. The Demeter amp itself has a great sound with a very nice and clean preamp, but having a great sounding preamp and tweakable/flexible preamp are often different things.

 

[monkeyfinger]

Agreed. To me it has some of the grindy-ness of some of the better solid state amps from the '70s.

 

[kd5uwl]

I still like the Wrecking Ball name ...

 

[monsterthompson]

I thought it was going to be called Count Fistula???


"Comparison is the thief of joy."
- Theodore Roosevelt

 

[thumbs&fingers]

I love the sound of your amp, for me eliminates the need for a pedal. Has just enuff hair on it to sound authoritative and fun. And no pedals is less in signal chain. Winner

 

[JGR]

Great vid JGR. Would you post one that uses an overdrive in front please? Something short and quick will do fine.

Sure, I'll try at some point. I was blasting my Bass Big Muff through it a while back and it worked great. There's a lot of headroom so you can really slam it, or run a clean type boost which works really well too for more subtle stuff. So no worries there. No strange artifacts of feedback, it responds very nicely and as a good high voltage tube design should, smooths out the edges quite nicely.

As t&f said, I think there is probably just the right amount of grind on tap for most folks, with a huge range of clean headroom for that crowd as well.

 

[Foz]

Can you put that EQ in mine?

 

[JGR]

Can you put that EQ in mine?

Nope, it's truly a completely different design - all the gain staging, everything. I can improve yours by updating to the latest spec - like I've been asking you to forever now

 

[natw42]

Hey JGR, I'm a little confuzzled - Is it 4 or 5 band eq? I thought you decided to go with 5 but the video only shows 4. Sorry to make you repeat yourself.

 

[monkeyfinger]

Yeah, I suspect the extra headroom would work well with dynamic effects.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Hey JGR, I'm a little confuzzled - Is it 4 or 5 band eq? I thought you decided to go with 5 but the video only shows 4. Sorry to make you repeat yourself.

The added EQ band's control is sitting (taped) on top of the amp.

 

[JGR]

The added EQ band's control is sitting (taped) on top of the amp.

Yup. Going to work on new front panel and circuit layout now (right after I empty the litter box) so we can get this party started.

 

[BassyBill]

Clearly the intention is for this product to become available for sale - excellent, good luck building your business. But of course, that would mean this thread from now on in counts as free advertising. I don't think it should be deleted as it does contain useful input from a number of contributors, but at this point it's a thread about the product of a commercial user and therefore needs to be closed.