An exciting new amp, the Sonoma. This amp is based on the famous Bluesmaster and Overdrive amps from the legendary amp builder H.A.D. I was approached by a long time friend who asked me to build a BM style amp for him. After doing a lot of research, and talking with several fellow amp builders, this is the result. I think its one amazing amp. Very clear, but not sterile clean tones, and that thick, sustaining overdriven tone that you associate with them. The amp is available as a 100 watt amp with 4 6L6, or EL34, and also Im working on a KT66 varient. This amp also will be available with 2 6L6 for roughly 40 watts as well. . The amp is set up with seperate master volume controls for the Clean, and the Overdrive channels. It has switchable mid boost, and also for a preamp boost, and channel switching. It comes standard with a 2 button switch for Boost and Channel switching. Several custom features such as Boost Level Control, and Mid Shaping to give the amp a bit wider range of tone choices. It comes standard in the narrow 22" wide head cabinet, so it should fit on almost any speaker cabinet setup. Soundclips coming soon.
SONOMA
80 Watt $2895
40 watt $2695
Bob, This amp is blowing me freakin' mind !
At the moment (10:30 your time ,a little late to call probably?)
I'm playin' my Paul with Lollers paf knock off's with both pickups on
and the tone rolled back on the neck pick up ,the bridge pickup is louder , But the tone is actually the kinda tone I've heard Mark Knopfler get outa his Paul (Man I Bet he's gonna love this amp)
Any way , i'll call ya tomorrow ,Right now I'm going back to Tone heaven:-). I've never had a tone like this, heard it but didn't know how to get it ...Amazing ...An absolute honor,
the last time I just sat and played guitar in my front room was when
I got my Titan!! cheers ...P.B.
Sounds
I have a few soundclips from Pat Buchanan who is one of the top session guys in Nashville, and also plays live with Faith, among others. More clips on the way
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These 3 clips were also done by Pat. These are his guitar tracks from a session he was on. I just put small samples up here. Id love to have the rest of the master from the session, they sound like cool tunes, but I dont want to put the whole tune up.
Sonoma Blues Jam. This was done by a friend of mine in Nashville, Jimma Matejek. It is more of a traditional Dumble style clip, with more of a Robben Fordish feeling. Enjoy.
That freaking thing is a blast to play- the feel of it is unreal, and it doesn't take much gain at all for it to feel good, either. Yeah, that's the Sonoma for both tracks, and all I did was flip the overdrive switch off in the back for the clean track. I'll take a pic of the settings and also the mic placement. That's an Earcandy 1x12 cab with an EV12L, and I just threw a SM57 straight on it a little off the center of the speaker. The guitar is just a cheap Yamaha Pacifica tele style with two humbuckers (JB in the bridge, Duncan '59 in the neck). I guess I went really low maintenance- didn't tweak the amp between tracks, used a cheap guitar, didn't even use a mic pre, lol. But I think that's cool because it shows how great the amp is!
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