| Savage Macht 6 [message #82828] |
Sat, 07 April 2007 14:16  |
TCB
Messages: 1261
Registered: July 2007
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OK y'all, since I know there are a few guitar heads out there. As most of
you know, I'm very much into the fancy new stuff when it comes to my music.
I'm into hip hop, breakbeats, dub step, software synths, and all of that.
But, after I pop in the phone booth and emerge as my alter ego, I also play
geetar in a rock'n'roll band. With guitar gear I'm positively Holocene in
my tastes. For almost ten years I've played the same amp, a Top Hat Club
Royale, basically an AC-30 top boost knockoff preamp with an AC-15 power
section. I've usually put a power soak on it and played it full out.
So, today I finally had a chance to really try out the Savage that a friend
is selling. In my not so humble opinion I think I've always had some of the
best guitar tone I've ever heard. More than once someone has offered to buy
my Top Hat from me on the spot. The Savage is AT LEAST as good as the Top
Hat. And, more importantly, the most stunning example of class A 6V6 amplification
I have heard this side of a lovingly restored tweed Deluxe owned by another
friend. It doesn't do clean at a level that would be useful outside a studio
(though it's clean tones are spectacular, I think it would make a superb
Grant Green sounding jazz amp), but the breakup goes from gorgeous Deluxe
to surprisingly Marshall sounding when dimed.
A lot of amp makers blackball their one really low wattage model with a crappy
sounding eight inch speaker and a sub par cabinet, I think because it's just
harder to justify a high price tag on a low watt amp. It shouldn't be that
way, but in the very masculine 'size matters' world of guitar players the
6 or 10 watt amp should be cheap. Mad props to Savage for doing things right
with the Macht series, which is a dream for those (like me) who love power
amp grit over everything else.
I'm running them parallel now and it's SICK how good they sound. Not sure
how I'll mic them for recording but I'm able to back off on the crunch coming
from the Top Hat and get more grind from the Savage, letting each amp do
what it does best. It's one hell of a roar.
TCB
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