SOUND DESCRIPTION
D100 were born from the demand of our clients to modify so many amps, until they
recognized an unique style and sound in our work. It took us almost a year to develop
this 100w all tube amplifier after all the positive experience with D100.
We are proud to say that this is not a clone of anything. You will not find any ingredients
from any other builder inside. Like it or not.Here is the sonic features for this amplifier:
• CH1 (Clean channel)is something between and old ‘50s Fender and late ʼ60
Marshall Plexi. Sparkly and rich clean sound, something that is hard to find in
todays modern multi channel amps. It can crunch with some aggressive pickups
but it stays almost clean with any guitar below the gain set at 4. With a classic
Strat type guitar it stays clean or have an early breakup between 5 and 7, with a
LP style guitar breakup is little earlier. Tone stack is way more effective than the
vintage ‘50/ʼ60 mono channel amplifiers, you can obtain quite a lot different
sounds from this channel. Bright switch also add some flexibility to it, B1 is classic
bright, a high shelf around 4KHz, B2 is way more effective and start around 1KHz,
boosting some mids.
• CH2 (VINTAGE): Vintage channel is where youʼll probably want to spend most
of your time. Gain quantity can be set from a crunchy Marshall-esque sound
(think of early AC/DC) to ‘80s VH. Not a super huge gain quantity and no over-
saturated gain in the low end. With the volume control you can obtain a very
good clean sound, even with gain dimed. With “LEAD” mode engaged you are in
the late hard rock ‘80s territory. Quite a lot of gain available now, consistent bass
response, dynamics is always at maximum. Eq is shared with MODERN channel
and itʼs way more effective than your usual eq and probably a bit different. Our
special mid control can scoop or boost mid in a unique way, capable to turn this
channel into a lot more channels, we are not joking here. Treble and bass is also
are super effective, you can dial in almost every guitar here and probably a bass
guitar too.
• CH3 (MODERN): The Modern channel starts where the Vintage channel ends
but with a little more gain and bass frequencies on top. This is a lot tighter, gainy,
compressed and saturated than the previous channel. Itʼs has the right amount
of gain to play solo parts even without using “LEAD” mode. Engaging “LEAD”
mode you have a huge quantity of gain, you can be ready for any hard rock /
classic metal tones.I
IMPORTANT NOTE: while VINTAGE and MODERN channel shares the same eq controls
they are two completely separated channels. This allow us to have two different flavours
of the same sound, using the second channel sound but with a bit more
gain/compression on top. Pure magic.
