Linus27

I'm currently recording a solo album with my two Warwicks and they are sounding amazing. Kind of makes me want to get some more Warwicks but the only two that appeal to me is a Bubinga Corvette Fretless and a P-Nut Streamer.

[quote name='1976fenderhead' timestamp='1345671899' post='1780426'] I have the same cabs (which are great) and still find it sterile I could tell a massive difference when using my old SWR with these cabs and AB'ing it with this amp. The SWR was muddier, less focused and slower in the attack, but had that sizzling top end overtones that are nowhere on this amp (until I added the VT Bass). Depends what kind of tone you're coming from I guess... [/quote] Yes totally. I guess coming from the two shuttle amps and Aguilar cabs which was a very clean setup to the Reidmar and classic cabs will sound a lot richer and less hi-fi I guess.

[quote name='1976fenderhead' timestamp='1345671416' post='1780414'] I'd say the only possible reason is that in my opinion it's a very sterile- sounding amp. It's very transparent and direct, very fast attack and very focused, super clean, but it has zero organic warmth or colour. I always felt like something was missing until I added a VT Bass to it and though objectively the difference I can hear seems minimal, it increased my enjoyment of the tone massively. I'd compare it to CD vs vinyl. When I switched to CDs I couldn't quite get the same pleasure out of music and couldn't understand why. As we know, there's frequencies above 20K that though we don't 'hear' consciously, they make the music more pleasurable and they're missing from CDs. I get a similar feeling from this amp (coming from one with a valve preamp), and when I added the VT Bass it was like I put those frequencies back and it made all the difference. I'm actually liking the idea of a very sterile amp that is like a blank canvas in terms of tone that I can manipulate with pedals: I can leave it clean, I can give it a valve preamp, I can do all sorts of things. With an amp that already has a certain old school colour to it, if you add some other colour on top it just muddies the whole thing up. The VT Bass sounded like a muddy mess with my previous amp but really shines with this one. If however you like old school warm valve-like tones and want to get that from your amp and no pedals, you won't find it in the Reidmar. [/quote] Thats interesting as I feel the opposite. I found it a very full and warm sounding amp but then I am using it with the EBS classic 112 cabs which do give a warm vintage sound. I have tried it with a Genz Benz 112 and that also sounded very warm and punchy. I would certainly not say it was sterile, in fact the opposite.

Excellent, then nothing to stop you. They really are ace amps. I went from a Shuttle 6 which was nice but thin sounding, to a Shuttle 9 which I hated to a LM2 which was ace and sounded wonderful to now a Reidmar. The Reidmar not only sounds superb and has so much tonal range, it is also much louder than any of my previous amp heads. Plus it has a dragon on the front which in my book scores it a 10 as dragons are cool. I am very happy with it.

[quote name='nottswarwick' timestamp='1345670713' post='1780395'] ok. So no real reason not to get one then? [/quote] Nope unless you have a fear of dragons as there is a drawing of one on the front.

[quote name='nottswarwick' timestamp='1345670582' post='1780390'] I've read most of this thread and am intrigued. Is it REALLY louder than a LM2 or similar allegedly 500watt amps? [/quote] Yes.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1344425099' post='1764208'] Some of the for sale photos on here feature such delights too, it has put me off enquiring about a few instruments in the past tbh. I would forever associate someone's dirty y-fronts and socks on their bedroom floor with the bass, I don't need that in my life [/quote] I though that also lol