Musikmesse '09-Bolt Amps 100 Watt Amp Demo

http://www.premierguitar.com PG's Chris Burgess is On Location in Frankfurt, Germany, for Musikmesse where he stops by the Bolt Amps booth. In this video, we get to see and hear Bolt Amps' first head, a 100-Watt (2 12AX7 preamp tubes & 4-6L6 or EL34 tubes) rendition which features three channels (Lead, Clean and Crunch). This amp also includes 3 selectable Reverbs, selectable active & passive EQ, 3-position voicing switch and a SoloBoost option.

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Music

Tags:

• Premier Guitar
• Musikmesse '09
• Bolt Amps
• 100 Watt amp head
• demo
• 6l6
• el34
• boost
• crunch
• lead
• clean
• reverb
• rock

[HeavyMetalThunderss]

With lots of amps you can have sweet spot in lower volume.

[speedburnervideo]

its a SPINAL TAP amp!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOL!

[joemel1967]

@youshalldietonight Yea ,,You Could Do That..You Could Even Add A Crossover To It Before The Cab..It's Endless What You Could Do..

[joemel1967]

Sweet Head..I'm Using A LANEY 1989 A.O.R.100 Pro Tube Lead Head.. I Just Re tubed It For The ''FIRST'' Time Recently.Mine Is Simular But 2 Channels.Mine Is The 80's Sound.. ,British To a Marshall Sound.Pretty Much All Of The ''Hair Bands'' Used It.Never Had Any Problems With It,Being Brought To A Shop To Get Worked On.Everyone I Jammed With Had It,,So Knowing How It Sounded,I Got One.If I Ever Got Rid Of It,I'd Get A Messa Boogie Or A Blackstar...!!! The BOLT' Amps Sound Very Good..!!

[AbraxasTribute]

I don't even use the Lead (OD) Channel. The Crunch channel is enough for me.

The OD channel can go all the way out there to distortionland.

It has enough gain for anything I've heard out of a guitarist in the past 50 years.

Any cabinet will do, but I prefer 1/2 or 3/4 open back with Scumback M75 LHDC 100 watt spkrs. They are KING!

[flairfan101]

@AbraxasTribute I have owned alot of amps...Boogie- Triaxis/290 power amp & Dual Rec. Marshall- DSL 100, JCM 800(re-issue) & 50 watt Plexi plus other amps. Currently I am using a Carvin V3 with a Marshall 4x12 with Celestion GT12-75's & I love it but I do want to get something else down the road in the next 6 months or so. Can you get a Priest like tone from the crunch channel on the Bolt? Does it have enough gain?Will I need the cab or can I use mine? Thanks!

[AbraxasTribute]

I'm a lucky one. I own the 100w head. I live near where they are produced.. The only, and I mean only down side to it is the size. It is about 28 x 11 x 12. But if you like tone, a big head isn't that bad.

ABSOLUTELY. It is like having 18 amps in one with the Voicing and Boost. I might get the 50w head, but I'm starting to love the 3 different channels, and the 50w head only has 2.

This amp is a real winner if you're serious about tone. I've used M, F, Rivera, Boogie, Ceriatone, Bogner, etc.

[gtrsuite]

Great amp!!! The holy grail of tone. (and I own a Marshall DSL100). Three amps in one. Tone, tone tone!

Three (well 6) voicings. Marshall, Mesa, Fender, Vox, and some hybrid thing they do, WOW!!! What an amp. Well worht the money (street, $2300). Compare that to other boutique amp prices like Bad Cat, Matchless, Orange (one trick ponys) and you will see the value.

[diesect33]

@youshalldietonight another way that sounds better to my ears is a ppimv post phase inverter master volume). this coupled with class operation switching and pentode/triode modes would or do offer the same thing. to me this amp sounds like a marshall which is cool but, it would be nice to hear something new as opposed to M or F type's being rebuilt with new bells and whistles.

[diesect33]

@youshalldietonight yeah they have that. it's called a power attenuator. they also make "volume boxes" for exactly what you're talking about though they are known to cause problems with amps. you can also get speakers with built in attenuation controls from eminence.

[youshalldietonight]

@youshalldietonight this should result in being able to power ur amp to the fullest and still be able to reduce the signal strength ( or volume ) foing to the speakers... or would it mess up the speaker wattage/ohms rating with the amp?

[youshalldietonight]

wow... watchin this video i realied something stupid and dumb that i want all to look at and judge with any criticizm or anything at all.... to get that saturated tube sound out of a low volume on say a 100 watt amp... simply take the normal volume knob and label it as drive or something like that... then make a VOLUME knob between just the amp and the speakers... this would only lower/raise power going from the amp to the speaker right?