Splawn QuickRod amp review

ShredCow said:
Nice review! I find your review gives a very clear picture.. don't get a feeling of fan-boy-hype at all... pretty rad!

The amp doesn't "honk" too much too aye? And it grinds nice - didn't expect that to come from a suhr.
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Thanks man.

Your right, i am actually having the mids on this amp at 1 or 2 o'clock most of the time. Treble and presence about 9-10 o'clock. Bass to taste. The amp is on the trebly side if there is a need to classify it.
 
ShredCow said:
Hahaha.. goose... maybe!

Nano - On second listen, I really like the tone you got there. I recall youtubing the Splawn long time back and people were doing the whole scooped metal thing that wasn't exactly you know, toneful.
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Yeah i know what you mean! Quite alot of them did comparisons to a mesa boogie rectifier. The splawn actually sounded tighter and had more definition. The Nitro sounds really great for those scooped tones. Reminds me of an Elmwood Modena or Diezel kinda tone.

I think the lead tone i use is pretty much the same since donkey years ago. Marshall high gain type, digital delay with modulation with speed at 480ms.
 
NanoShred said:
Got it when u.s.a was on " sale " 5 mths back. Abiut 2.6k sing with shipping included. Its way more expensive now.

Thanks for watching. Just a quick scrappy pieced together demo. Nothing more.
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wow that's cheap.
i believe you have tried ceriatone plexi before?
would you able to advise us on the difference?
 
NanoShred said:
Yeah the mesa. Its a wide body cabinet with a 90 watt Black Shadow speaker. Adds this extra tightness and mids which i like.
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Ya man... it's nice and "even", but not flat. I like MESA cabs... I really wonder what they do to those Celestion speakers that make them sound different in a Marshall Cab.
 
bedokkids said:
wow that's cheap.
i believe you have tried ceriatone plexi before?
would you able to advise us on the difference?
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It was ok. Wasn't blown away by it or anything. For the price i dont think anyone can complain.

The quickrod is basically a summary of all those great marshall tones through the years. The plexi ( Van Halen, Blackmore, etc ), the modded plexi ( Doug Aldrich, Reb Beac, etc), the modded jcm800 ( Zakk Wylde, Nuno Bettencourt etc ). Doesn't take much tweaking to get a good tone as well.

The ceriatone plexi isn't even in the ballpark.
 
NanoShred said:
Yeah i know what you mean! Quite alot of them did comparisons to a mesa boogie rectifier. The splawn actually sounded tighter and had more definition. The Nitro sounds really great for those scooped tones. Reminds me of an Elmwood Modena or Diezel kinda tone.

I think the lead tone i use is pretty much the same since donkey years ago. Marshall high gain type, digital delay with modulation with speed at 480ms.
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I used to think it was youtube that trashed the sound so badly but man... have you seen the other clips of the splawn? Some of them end up sounding like a POD (badly tweaked)!


I'm very interested in your approach to that lead tone - especially with the digital delay with modulation thing. I've never been able to live with that... Do you have any specific recordings where you have that kind of delay running, playing high gain lead stuff?
 
bedokkids said:
nice outlook.
how much did you pay for it?
playing wise ok ok only, but thanks for the demo.
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you gotta be kidding me! After watching the demo I wanted to call Brandon up to ask for lessons... just that I don't really have time now. Hopefully soon I will. Bro, still giving lessons I hope? Superb playing, love the grease in the tone.
 
I agree...some ppl just don know what are they saying..... until they get one nice one in the face :)
 
ShredCow said:
I used to think it was youtube that trashed the sound so badly but man... have you seen the other clips of the splawn? Some of them end up sounding like a POD (badly tweaked)!


I'm very interested in your approach to that lead tone - especially with the digital delay with modulation thing. I've never been able to live with that... Do you have any specific recordings where you have that kind of delay running, playing high gain lead stuff?
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Ya i saw some of them. Not too good. But there some really killer ones as well. I just find that the delay fattens and smooths up the lead stuff a whole lot and the modulation ( nothing to pitch shifty ) adds that shimmer as well. Or you could use chorus mixed very low into it.

For that purpose , i think digital delay works best.Kinda like a Steve lukather, Michael thompson kinda thing. Analog is too dark, unless your going for that sound.
 
KennethC said:
you gotta be kidding me! After watching the demo I wanted to call Brandon up to ask for lessons... just that I don't really have time now. Hopefully soon I will. Bro, still giving lessons I hope? Superb playing, love the grease in the tone.
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Yeah i still am. Thanks man. Haven't spoken to you in a bit. Hope your well. See you around soon.
 
wow.... i dont believe you dissed this guy... this is Brandon Gan man!!... the best guitarist ive had the pleasure to sing next to. never felt more confident with any other...
 
after 4 pages, has bedokkids come up with a soso/good playing demo of his amps or anything? Cause i'm pretty curious what's good and not too, as my benchmark on pretty good is what Brandon has shown me when we work together.

As far as we're concerned here, the Quickrod is 1 beast and we've got enough tools and methods to A/B amps and dissect how different amps respond.

Goose: 1 boosty deal done, thanks for dinner LOL *kidding*
 
You guys are hardcore!

Two potential Soldano owners. I actually ordered a Custom Audio Amplifier OD50 standard plus, before my Splawn quickrod. But, had order complications and canceled it ultimately.

We need to have a gear fest again to have an update on everyone's new gear
 
NanoShred said:
You guys are hardcore!

Two potential Soldano owners. I actually ordered a Custom Audio Amplifier OD50 standard plus, before my Splawn quickrod. But, had order complications and canceled it ultimately.

We need to have a gear fest again to have an update on everyone's new gear
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my SLO shud be arriving end of the yr or early next year.

=)
 
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