Manfred Klose wrote:
haha i like it
ok Manfred. I see your video, and raise you this: (not for kids)
Metasonix F@*#ing F#%@er Dual 15-watt tube amp!
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Here is Eric Barbour's unique Metasonix G-1000 tube amplifier. Like all Metasonix stuff, it is radically different than anything else. Metasonix uses NOS TV tubes that nobody uses anymore (nobody except Metasonix of course).
Some have asked for a serious demo because they wonder what this amp "really" sounds like. Well guess what - It sounds like what you hear in this video.
These amps are available in seriously small quantities, so don't be greedy and buy all of them at once. ?
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I like the comments:
"If I buy dis will it make me sound like nine inch nails????"
"Possibly, but it's more likely you'd sound like Weird Al Yankovic impersonating Nine Inch Nails. ?"
Anyways, other than this strange thing, metasonix make some good stuff!
Here is Metasonix's (edited) description of the G-1000 amp. For the complete, unedited version, please refer to the user manual or Metasonix website.
There is nothing like the G-1000. Not even vaguely. It is arcane and radical. It is 100% vacuum tubes, from input to output. It contains 100% new-old-stock (NOS) tubes. Types never seen in guitar amps.
The G-1000 consists of two totally independent amplifiers, with very different preamp sections. One channel is called the HAPPY channel. The other is called the ANGRY channel - for good reason. One sucks your face, the other gnaws your foreskin off.
The HAPPY channel is a more-or-less conventional instrument amp. It has plenty of gain and distortion (if desired), it has a conventional guitar-amp tone control section, and it has reverb. Everything else about it is DEVIANT. It has a PHASE control, which allows mixing of normal and inverted signals—or it may be adjusted to cancel out the original signal and pass only the distortion products....and, it's all made of unusual tubes. Mostly pentodes, ha ha ha.
The ANGRY channel is well-named. It is designed for instability and raw, berserk distortion effects. It, too, has typical guitar-amp tone controls and reverb. It uses a 6BN6 and two remote-cutoff pentodes.
Despite the identical output stages of the two channels, they sound TOTALLY different. In ALL settings.
The output tubes are 6BK5s. Obscure, yes, but great and forgotten. Phase inversion is done with 6GU7s. Various types are used throughout the preamp stages: 6AU6, 6BJ6, 6CB6, 6BN6, 5BQ7, 6AK5, and others. No 12AX7s, of ANY brand. How many tubes? TWENTY-THREE tubes in total. Including eight 6BK5 outputs. It might be the most complex tube guitar amp available today...
The output tubes are in a special self-balancing, self-biasing circuit. It is unique to the G-1000 among guitar amps. It does NOT NEED matched tubes, nor is any kind of bias adjustment needed. Output power is 15 watts per channel, and two speakers (or a stereo speaker) are needed.
Vast ranges of tone are available from the G-1000. We cannot even begin to explain its flexibility. The G-1000 is NOT intended for middle-aged “tone questers”, who believe that they will be able to play like Eric Clapton by simply spending a lot of $$$ on equipment. We HATE those people. The G-1000 is intended for the intrepid experimenter, not the pathetic imitator. Tone questers are invited to DIE.
No, you moron, it's not available in combo form. Head only. Speakers are available from other suppliers.
Artwork on the amp's front panel by Dave Lovelace, of Retarded Animal Babies infamy.
Oh, the amp's name? The idea came from Mike Brown of Livewire Synthesizers. Blame him. It came from one of Dave Lovelace's cartoons. Yes, the F'cking F'cker is a real, live cartoon character. A super-villain, come to think of it.
