The18

The 18

Our first product, and still one of the all time favorites is the 18. The 18 watt is based on a Marshall (tm) with a few circuit changes. This amp goes anywhere from sweet clean tones, to classic rock, to heavier gain, without being too heavy. Think AC/DC, Van Halen, ABB, etc. Due to overwhelming demand and popularity power scaling is now a standard feature on the 18. This amp does it all, and does it so well. Touch sensitivity on either channel is second to none. Play lightly, it has sweet cleans, dig in a little and its unleashes mild bluesy overdrive tones. Dig in harder and its Classic rock at its finest. No need for pedals with this, but it does love a good boost as well. Do not confuse with the original 18 watt Marshall amp, this amp has all that, and much more.

The first channel, or "normal" channel is based on the stock amp, nice chimey cleans to a killer smokey blues. Great feel and dynamics.

The second channel or "bright" channel is the hotrodded channel. This channel has had the tremolo removed, and another gain stage and full range EQ added in its place. With a master volume on this channel, it can go from amazing chimey clean to nice crunchy gritty blues, to a killer classic and hard rock tone. No over the top heavy muddy gain here, but a killer hot plexi level.

For those who wonder if 18 watts is enough to gig with, the answer is YES. Several customers report that its great to be able to turn an amp up enough at a gig to get that sweet power tube distortion without being yelled at be the soundman, or the club owner. Easily loud enough to be heard over all but the most heavy handed drummer.

Amps come standard with a custom blend of JJ. TungSol RI and EH tubes. This amp uses 3 12ax7/ecc83 preamp tubes, 2 el84/6bq5 power tubes and a 6ca4/ez81 rectifier.

Transformers are Heyboer copies of the original Radio Spares trannies.

Sozo Vintage series and Mallory 150 caps, 1% tolerance resistors, all teflon wire and shieled input cable for low noise.

SOUND CLIPS

Greg Martin from the Kentucky Headhunters was kind enough to record some clips of the 18 he purchased. Greg is a legendary guitar player, and has a wonderful style and feel for tone. Also he is one of the nicest guys you could ever talk with. I am very happy to have him with me as a customer. The first 2 clips were done with his 1958 burst, and the last 3 clips were done with an '80 Heritage, with RS Guitarworks custom designed Fralin pickups. All of the guitar tones, rythym and lead and slide were done with one of our 18 watt style amps. The cab was an old marshall 4x12 with vintage celestion g12h30 speakers. These are small files for those with slow connections. I will be putting the same clips up in a larger file for more resolution for those with faster connections soon.

Anthony Steele Clips

This set of clips were recorded by Anthony Steele. Anthony is an outstanding guitarist who has played with a "who's who" of famous musicians including Buddy Miles. Check out his site for information and contact info. His clips were recorded using a Gibson R8 loaded with WCR Coils pickups. They were recorded plugging the guitar straight into the Reinhardt 18. Speakers were Celestion G12-65's in a 2X12 cab.

well all I can say is that this is the best amp I have ever heard for ME.

I guess all my guitar playing life I had been trying to get that 'Marshall' sound. From running other amps (Fender, Vox) with a pedal in front for that Marshall'y sound. Now I don't even need pedals. Its amazing. The touch sensitivity is incredible. By varying your pick attack you can go from just strumming, ex. Wish You Were Here chords Pink Floyd, to hard hitting riffs ala, Zep, ZZtop etc.

I am more than pleased with this amp. It just makes me have this huge shit eatin' grin on my face while playing. I can't say enough about Bob or his amps that he builds. Both are incredible.

Thanks again Bob.

Waylon 18 owner