What lies is in the name, be it good or bad, until you keep getting hold of almost all the features of an advanced amplifier in a single device. Yes, you got it very right, I’m talking about the latest Metasonix G-1000 All-Tube Guitar Amp that offers no less than an enormous sum of 23 valves or tubes.
The G-1000, formed by David C. Lovelace, may boast some of the latest as well as versatile features but its naughty name, clearly visible in the picture, together with a set of controls like ‘reverb’, ‘phase’ and ‘ream your ass,’ has earned it more fame than its exceptional usefulness.
Functions of the G-1000 are as mysterious and radical as its nickname, F*cking F*cker. It comprises of two self-regulating amplifiers, the HAPPY and the ANGRY channel, with altogether different preamp sections. While the HAPPY channel, including conventional guitar-amp tone control section, reverb, PHASE control and gain and distortion (if required), is essentially a conventional instrument amp, on the other hand the ANGRY channel, featuring typical guitar-amp tone controls and reverb, a 6BN6 and two remote-cutoff pentodes, is essentially designed for flux and raw.
Not only the G-1000 is unique, though vulgar, in its name, it is on the whole 100% vacuum tubes, also includes vast ranges
of tone and 100% new-old-stock (NOS) tubes, never witnessed in guitar amps before.However, too many functions make
the Amp one of the most complex tube guitar amp available at present.
Your courageous experimenter must have been woken up by now. If you are really impressed with this aggressive and raw amp and wanna own a piece, it would be better start saving bucks for the pricey device, which would be available for USD 5000 by the fall of 2008.
