New Amp Day

[the3secondrule]

it's been a long time coming, but I finally have my new amp, built by my buddy Richard (https://www.facebook.com/OrchardC?fref=ts)

The Orchard D150 - 150w bass head. Basically I wanted something that would have enough clean headroom to keep up with our (very loud) drummer, that I could dirty up when I needed to. a fairly vague brief, and this is what came back:

[DutchMF]

Congrats, she's a beauty! Must weigh a ton though....

Paul

[cooder]

Looks like a grunty as badass backbreackin' beauty... just what you bassplayers out there deserve...!
(toddles off and cranks his 3 watt single ended 6V6 lunchbox sized 'two stroke' amp...)

[Haberdasher]

dude that looks awesome

[billstein]

Those tubes in the back are awesome. I don't think I'd ever put the cover on. Just stare at those the whole time.

[drezdn]

That's a work of art.

[the3secondrule]

Thanks guys, I'm certainly very happy with it.
Richard gets pretty busy with amp builds and repairs, and I got mates rates on this one, so I didn't mind a bit of a wait to get it finished.

here's the review I posted on his FB page:
"Fired this puppy up at band practise on thursday night. suffice to say, it has headroom and volume to burn, I was running gain and vol about 10/11 o'clock, and it was plenty loud. sounds savage with the gain and depth cranked too, just a shame I need to have a clean tone some of the time, otherwise I'd be running the amp hot, and using the dirty tone all the time."

It's certainly not light, but it's getting paired with a 2x15" cab so I'm used to hauling heavy gear around

[alanp]

Wow, the Matamp is strong in the design! Looks nice, engraving, I take it?

[raulduke]

Wow really cool amp.

Like others have said; it has a real Matamp vibe to it.