New Pete Thorn sig PT15 including Reactive Load and IR loader

robmac5150

still stumps me why it took so long generally for manufacturers to realise a quality low watt amp was desirable for gigging and practicality. Been playing over 35 years and had a ton of amps that were too much for my needs in terms of output. Even back in the day it was always a pain for PA/Engineer levels

dindude

@hobobulous you’re in the know, were Suhr actually at NAMM this year? Can’t see any coverage 

hubobulous

By appointment only, not on the NAMM floor. I'm guessing that since Mike Ponce, John's right hand man, left in Jan, they've focus send on the amp and Reactive Load IR and largely left the guitars as they were.....which is a pretty good move given that tweaking for tweaking sake isn't their style. The Aura is the focus so I guess we'll see once they're all out of the door. I'd imagine an Aura custom option is likely and the new trem on the PT sig seems like it could filter down.

dindude

hubobulous said:

By appointment only, not on the NAMM floor. I'm guessing that since Mike Ponce, John's right hand man, left in Jan, they've focus send on the amp and Reactive Load IR and largely left the guitars as they were.....which is a pretty good move given that tweaking for tweaking sake isn't their style. The Aura is the focus so I guess we'll see once they're all out of the door. I'd imagine an Aura custom option is likely and the new trem on the PT sig seems like it could filter down.

That makes sense, took them a while to get the subtle tweaks announced at NAMM last year out so wasn’t expecting major changes. 

jwlademann

Personally I'd rather have a separate Load/IR and amp for the sake of versatility.  With this a substantial amount of the price is essentially going on a load and IR box that you can't use on any other amps.  The integration is nice and everything but you're missing out on a lot of flexibility.  Wonder if they'll do a cheaper cut down version....

Moltisanti

you can buy the Suhr reactive load/IR box separately for £600.

It will be really interesting to see if this sells really well, or does nothing

John_A

It does seem like everything PT might want for convenience in a single box, but for the rest of us it's all our eggs in one basket.  At £2700 you'd think twice about buying a new amp as you'd lose all the reactive load and IR capability, makes more sense for most people to have it in separate boxes.  

TTBZ

I love the idea of it but unfortunately not at that price.

VerodaClient

When I heard it was 15w I was gutted. Was waiting for a PT50 (or even a 30) for a good long time which would have been perfect.. the drummer in my band would *eat* 15 watts 
Maybe the next amp that's coming will have more wattage

Kebabkid

VerodaClient said:

When I heard it was 15w I was gutted. Was waiting for a PT50 (or even a 30) for a good long time which would have been perfect.. the drummer in my band would *eat* 15 watts 
Maybe the next amp that's coming will have more wattage

but these are meant to be loud and have high clean headroom as well and so best wait and see

I use a Divided by 13 that's 15 watts. Whatever it's got in it ?? efficient transformers, it can keep up with much higher wattage amps and a drummer.

BTW, there is a PT50, but not with this new spec.

VerodaClient

Kebabkid said:

VerodaClient said:

When I heard it was 15w I was gutted. Was waiting for a PT50 (or even a 30) for a good long time which would have been perfect.. the drummer in my band would *eat* 15 watts 
Maybe the next amp that's coming will have more wattage

but these are meant to be loud and have high clean headroom as well and so best wait and see

I use a Divided by 13 that's 15 watts. Whatever it's got in it ?? efficient transformers, it can keep up with much higher wattage amps and a drummer.

BTW, there is a PT50, but not with this new spec.

Yeah I'm holding out some hope but any amp under 30 watts for me has never held it with the band I'm currently in..  There's 6 of us too and 90% of the time I'm not through the PA so that doesn't help...  Still, here's hoping!

Is the PT50 you mentioned the old one or the one that's coming out?  I had heard that there was a PT50s years ago (maybe by CAE?) but didn't quite get the PT100 sound.  Might still be worth looking at though, nice one

Kebabkid

I see. Yes, the PT50 is an older model. @octatonic - as an owner, over to you on that one

octatonic

The CAA PT50 sounds the same as the CAA PT100.
The only difference is the loudness and slight difference to the bottom end, but the PT's have loads of bass anyway, I run the bass control on 4, max.
I've had them side by side (when I bought it) to compare with the same speaker cab on each.

I've seen a couple of people say they are different on forums and when I looked into it it turned out they were using different speakers in the cabs between the two, which would explain the difference.

The master volume on both amps is so good that either would work in a pub.
I used my PT50 as my home amp for a long time- it is big but works at very low volume.
It has been my main amp since 2011 and I have no plans to change it.

VerodaClient

octatonic said:

The CAA PT50 sounds the same as the CAA PT100.
The only difference is the loudness and slight difference to the bottom end, but the PT's have loads of bass anyway, I run the bass control on 4, max.
I've had them side by side (when I bought it) to compare with the same speaker cab on each.

I've seen a couple of people say they are different on forums and when I looked into it it turned out they were using different speakers in the cabs between the two, which would explain the difference.

The master volume on both amps is so good that either would work in a pub.
I used my PT50 as my home amp for a long time- it is big but works at very low volume.
It has been my main amp since 2011 and I have no plans to change it.

Class!  Yeah CAA, can never remember that 

That sounds like it'd be right up my street.  Only issue I can see would be the size and the weight of it but it might just be worth it.  I'll keep my eye out while I wait to try out the PT15 to gauge the volume in levels of terror 

octatonic

VerodaClient said:

octatonic said:

The CAA PT50 sounds the same as the CAA PT100.
The only difference is the loudness and slight difference to the bottom end, but the PT's have loads of bass anyway, I run the bass control on 4, max.
I've had them side by side (when I bought it) to compare with the same speaker cab on each.

I've seen a couple of people say they are different on forums and when I looked into it it turned out they were using different speakers in the cabs between the two, which would explain the difference.

The master volume on both amps is so good that either would work in a pub.
I used my PT50 as my home amp for a long time- it is big but works at very low volume.
It has been my main amp since 2011 and I have no plans to change it.

Class!  Yeah CAA, can never remember that 

That sounds like it'd be right up my street.  Only issue I can see would be the size and the weight of it but it might just be worth it.  I'll keep my eye out while I wait to try out the PT15 to gauge the volume in levels of terror 

It is a big amp- same sort of size and weight as a Diesel/Bogner etc (not as big as VH4).

Kebabkid

And here it is and they'll be shipping very soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzp_SnpA6Lo

rockmonster

I had a CAA PT100. Really nice amp. Kinda miss that one!

sgosden

Anyone got an order in?

Modulus_Amps

great idea, the switching of IR's with the channels is another level of brilliant, but wow that price is something else.

monkey42

Great concept

a lot of amp

a lot of money....