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New Matchless Thunderman

#5
On my radar. As a guitar player I have had a handful of Matchless amps that were phenominal, and as a bass player had a 90's SVT and currently use a modded Mesa Buster for tubey goodness. Have never been fortunate enough to stumble on a Thunderchief or Thunderman fliptop for sale, so this new Thunderman is very intriguing.
 
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Just for fun I emailed Matchless about it, asking if they were available for order and if they were going to make specific cabs. Here's their reply:

Hi,

Yes, the Thunderman bass amp is in full production. We have a new website launching this Friday and we’ll have more details up soon. We are considering making a specific 1x15 speaker cabinet for it. We’ll know more in about a week.

Best regards
 
#9
My thoughts:
  • don't bother w/ cabinets; we have enough great options out there (and most amp companies can't really match the quality of the modern cab builders)
  • instead, how about offering a 4ea KT88 version with the same basic control layout, just more power, hefty transformers, etc
  • i'll never understand what a bass player does with a presence control; i'd be happy without that and without the fx loop

We have more amp choices and options than ever before. What we don't have are a lot of locally manufactured, hand wired high quality products based around super simple features that focus on quality instead of bells & whistles. This is a great start, if they offered a big brother w/ 150 watts and endless clean headroom, the world would be an even better place.
 
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atgronkvist said:
45w doesn't seem like enough headroom for any mid-large size gig,
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especially on stage. while even small clubs often have a decent enough PA to fill the house w/ full range sound, including the bass, many small (and not so small) clubs have on stage monitors that can handle vocals and not much more. Now that my playing is limited to the club scene, I can state pretty confidently that most places I play will require that I provide my own stage volume. In other words, I'm on my own when it comes to hearing my bass on stage among the jumble of drums, guitars and whatever else. And especially if there are two guitars, a 45 watt bass amp is going to be working hard; more so for those of us who play with no top end to help cut.
 
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atgronkvist said:
Has anyone heard one of the new, 45w Thundermans? Matchless has not officially advertised on their website, but it is indeed in production. Premier Guitar reviewed the amp, but I've yet to hear an extensive demo of the amplifier.

Matchless Thunderman Review | Premier Guitar
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Hi bro good night I have the thunder man 45w it's very very good tone all the place I had play whit this amp the people come and ask me about. So perfect for small place but wen I go to big place I mic it I use to make to line direct whit Avalon u5 and mic the thunder man whit 4x10 Aguilar if you have a good engenier that can make a good bland but just the thunder man thus the job I was think in make a large review whit the tone and post on YouTube because nobody did this yet but I recommend wort the money you put in tone and qualit clear lows pic tone is amazing give a chance and tray it hope this help you have a blessed night
 

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