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My favourite of the Mats I had was a series 2000, a very sweet sounding amp for clean through overdrive.
https://youtu.be/1JzYquzn_HU
Yeah @Van_Hayden please keep us posted if you relaunch a lower wattage line.
Combo sound interesting, replace my old VC30 for me.
MATAMP means Hi-fi to me and Stoner Rock is Hawkwind, not overbearing sludge.
@blobb along the lines of the King St, although I could personally use a 40w ish combo with verb and possibly the bias modulating trem from the GT20.
@earwighoney most of our customers downtime to Hades anyway....
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as for thoughts, if you are up for suggestions, i think something along the same lines as the little Blackstar HT combo amps (5w and under) would be useful. a one-stop-shop pocket rocket.
the BS are small and quiet enough to play in a bedsit etc and still sound valvey. the new reality for most young (sub 30) guitarists is that they will spend most of their 20s/30s living in small sutdios/bedists/flats/shared houses, so amp companies with an eye to the future need to really focus on that setting. BS worked that out quick.
the BS also have DI, emulated out/speaker sim, headphone jack. simple contemporary innovations that make it an ideal all-in-one for those same forced out of the air and onto daw for writing/recording/practising.
where the BS fall down, to my ears, is that they seem to have a very compressed and tense tone, if that means anything to you? they never quite sound big or fill space, even through a PA. US flavoured tone stack maybe? i think they were thinking about Mesas.
Orange explored this same ground with their micro terrors, they sold well but i think the novelty wore off quick for many as the tone lacked something. i wasn't convinced.
maybe that area is now oversubscribed, or the concept or price point are not where matamp feels its interests are best placed. but speaking personally, i'm in the prcocess of selling a big brit combo and downsizing for bedroom and daw, so that's where my head is at re future plans. i don't see myself buying another big amp. i'm late 30s, lowish income, small place. so typical of the scenario i stated.
but definitely feedback on developments because it's a brand which inspires interest and affection.
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That cranked miniverb with a real non-digital reverb was a magic little amp head. I'll buy one tomorrow if you bring it back
I would love to see a mini-Matamp head, like the size of Dual Terror but Matamp style. Simple, elegant and goes from good cleans to the kinda nice break up rock tones...I personally don't use lots of gain but if I did I would just use a pedal.
I also think you guys should try your hand at the high wattage small bass amp world.
I've always fancied a Matamp but I've struggled to pick out which amp would suit me best. I'll watch with much interest
I'm guessing this is not possible...
So now my ideal (And it would be a Matamp, no other compares..) 5-10W, with Gain, 2 band EQ, Master Level and a spring reverb, a 10" speaker with an extension speaker output. Always set to a mild overdrive, clean it up with the guitar volume, or crank it up using a boost.
That would definitely be an easier amp to wire than my Kingstreet, don't you reckon @Van_Hayden ?
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please bring it back - make the head a little bigger if you need to, a little bigger head to keep that true great little reverb and quality cranked sound would be amazing, I push the poor guys at Matamp every time I have a minor communication with them as there really is / was nothing like it (also I'll buy a second hand one right now if one ever turns up in the office!!)