With those settings you was hitting it a bit, powerwise, and it surely was adding a fair bit of tube colour and compression....it sounds big and glorious that way. It sounds glorious just about always. To me, it's always surprising how good the amp sounds with the band even without having a big humbrella of mids or sharp high mids or tighter lows. I mean, the Wa, set "neutral", with mids at 10 o clock, bass and treble at noon, is big, big big in the lows, clear and rich in the midrange, sort of woody, and has just a tiny bit of hair in the highs. BUT, it is capable to not only be heard, but also to punch and cut, even without pushing the input stage too much. It's quite a bit of a miracle, if you ask me. After having played tons if SS or class D stuff, even aggressively voiced, after having tried to obtain a coherent and bold bass tone capable to cut, I came to the WA and BAM...the magic was there. Effortless, pure, convincing. One of the best amps on the planet.
