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As you may know, I design and build amps for Rich at Stormshadow. Rich makes awesome guitars, which you should check out.
I'm very pleased with how the latest project is going, so I thought I'd share here. It's the 4th amp I've built for Rich and it's called the Stormshadow 'Firestorm' amp, and is a 3-channel 60 Watt head, with Power Scaling and digital reverb. It has 6 x ECC83 in the preamp and a pair of 6L6s.
The digital reverb uses the well-regarded Belton 'brick', as used by some boutique pedal builders. It also has an SDM zero loss effects loop and dual foot-switchable master volumes.
The clean channel is Fender twin-ish and has a bright switch. Channel 2 is medium-to-high gain with 4 gain stages so goes from Plexi to something like an SLO. Channel 3 is the 'Ultra Gain' channel, as I've used before on the Stormshadow Hellfire and ST60 amps, and has a foot-switchable boost, with 6 gain stages and diode clipping! Similar to the EVH 5150 III in character.
The photos show the amp as is. Bear in mind this is the prototype, and production amps will be a little tidier. The cabinet is currently in build, and an accompanying 'Fat Bottom' closed-back 2x12 cab with Celestion Lynchback speakers is also being done.
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Thanks. Wait till it's got it's clothes on!
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How much tidier can it be? Your work never ceases to amaze me with its sheer attention to detail.
Thanks folks! Much appreciated.
Hope to get some demos done soon.
Great work!
Ta!
Blushing now.
This one will be finished in red tolex, with black hardware and a black grill cloth front panel, but you can have them in a range of colours.
Should have the cabinets finished this week.
In other MJW Amplification news, my new website is up and running.
I was going to tie this in with a price rise, but I've held off on the rise for now.
And here it is completed: