I don't know if it's because I'm a modern player at the young age of 17, but to me the smoothness of the fuzz into the Quilter was preferable to my ear. It also has an astounding clean tone. What a great amp.
Hi youngster, when I was your age I was playing with muscical jazz talents, dont understand how...,!!! now Ive got hand/finger problems but tuning lower I still play....and my ears are working! SO: dont play too loud!!Many of my age 57 and younger /older have tinnitus!!! Friend: trust your hearing and taste, and lookout for Loud Playing, and KEEP PLAYING!!!!!!😎
I’m surprised you boys get any negative feedback. You’re like the standout, favourite teachers at school, you don’t question what you are being taught but are just thankful you’re being taught. Seriously, you guys continue to provide us with a top quality education and on behalf of us all, I thank you.
Thanks Ross! We really hope people take the show as it's intended: two geeks having fun for people's entertainment - like having a chat down the pub with your mates. Moreover that it inspires people to try stuff. Nevertheless it is astounding how uptight people can be and get offended because they think it's some kind of manifesto. Thanks for the kind words!
Have you noticed just how much of a bunch of trend setters you’ve become on RUclips.. you do a topic one week and loads of others copy you weeks later, loads of Q&A also now appearing. As someone who’s followed you since Dan had hair on his old channel.. I approve you lovely pioneers. Turned 50 the other day. Cheers chaps. 🍷
Its because TPS is the 'definitive' show of its type. Almost every guitarist I know is a subscriber and pretty much any of the guitar based live shows (Pete Thorn, Phil McKnight etc), the chat almost always mentions TPS at least once or twice. Point is, its the definitive Pedal show and no wonder others will try to copy...
I agree. But I am confused at why other channels like Mr. McKnight have so many more subs. I tend to believe that TPS is above some people's heads. Facts and having a passion for tone seem to take a back seat to mediocre commentary and self rightous criticism from people who can't really even play guitar very well. I really like Pete Thorn by the way.
I’m lucky enough to have met Dan and Mick, both very down to earth and deeply lovely humans... cost me a bloody fortune in gear mind you.. and made me a much much better guitar player. I learned more in last 3 years watching them than in the last 30 years.
Just an ovsercation, but it's Youtue in a nutshell really - somebody posts an interesting opinion slightly against the grain and coutless others repeat what they've been told and try to pass it off as their own thoughts. RUclips channels, blokes down the pub and everybody inbetween!
Another great episode. I thought the pinnacle of my playing career after 30 yrs was finally getting a PRS CU24. Then I discovered TPS. Every week I learn more and more about amps, pedals and tone! But most of all Dan and Mick's enthusiasm and great playing never ceases to inspire me to play my guitar. Thanks for that guys.
Yet another great video. Mick, you don’t EVER have to apologize for not being a “real” jazz player. You are both highly skilled and at the very least, more than conversational on many different styles of playing. I for one appreciate hearing more than just distorted tones when you’re demoing a piece of gear. No one should expect you to be a master of every style but even attempting different genres helps us as listeners get a sense of what’s possible on the gear. P.S. I love the reoccurring disco breakdowns.
Great timing on this vid. Just got a Quilter Interblock 45 about 2 weeks ago. Running it through a 2x12 Marshall with Celestion G12T-75 speakers. It is my dry amp with a Peavey Classic 30 as the wet amp. Loving the wet/dry sound. I have a 100 watt 1x12 Katana that I've run wet/dry with the Peavey. That sounds great as well. I think Dan is correct, plug in just about any 2 amps wet/dry and they sound great. Thanks for the inspiration guys! Love the show.
Dan’s playing used to do nothing for me, with all the slight pauses and hanging on notes here and there. BUT NOW I LOVE IT! I love the way he expresses his passion and love for the sounds and even one individual note. Wallows in the beauty! You’re a beautiful man Dan!
absolutely!! apart from the insane tone, just marvelous feels. I just returned from the post office, traded a delay for my first univibe style pedal and if i can come anywhere near these tones and I'll be ecstatic...
My wife keeps 'catching' me watching these videos and i'm sure she thinks i'm bonkers, but I now find myself happily watching this stuff over the telly nowadays. Keep up the good work fellas and thank you!
Amazing seeing sonic comparison like this. I'm also appreciating the more "clinical" views of the amps tones regardless of their make up and personal preferences. You guys get a PhD in Tonal Analysis! It's great to see the flexibility of using the more cost effective solid state amps with some of the most popular tube/valve amps and continually enhancing the tone. Thank you Dan and Mick!
Just wanted to say, love you guys. Every single Friday I look forward to an hour of great tone and learning how to get a couple percent closer. My wallet hurts so good!
It's funny, I spend most of my "me-guitar time" loading my luggage onto to the tone wagon and traversing the audio universe in search of the ever-elusive perfect experience. You'd think I'd have no time or interest in watching you two travellers do the same. Yet this show remains my 2nd most favorite guitar activity!
I have an original reverb-less Quilter 101. It has a very different tonal response to this one. It emulates the tone stacks of various classic amp types via a Voice knob and also has a pair of tone controls, Tri-Q and Hi-Cut, that kinda but not exactly correspond to treble & bass. The high end gets into Vox Top Boost territory with the Full-Q voice and the Hi-Cut turned up, which adds a mild presence peak to the tonal response. I also love the Jazz voice: impressively Ampeg-like.
OMG jazz from Mick too. So sweet. NO SORRY that was lovely. And Dan's jazz chops are far better than what he gives himself credit for, too. Good lord, you two. I'm just going to slink off to my room and practice for the next six months without sleep.
@@ishancooper if it's always on, just run before/after the switcher entirely. No need for it to use up a space in the switcher. Chris Buck does this with his klon.
Long time Hot Rod Deluxe user here. Just getting to the 25 minute mark and I'm surprised how much I like the quilter. Once you guys got the mids into it that is. It has a plenty of vocal mid range punch but without that harsh sizzly thing I can never get rid of on the Hot Rod.
Considering the size of the Quilter, it’s quite amazing how much they’ve packed into a small package. However when it’s A/B’d against the Hot Rod Deluxe, in my personal opinion the Fender still sounds a lot better to my ears. But to give credit to the Quilter, the Hot Rod Deluxe is built with the cabinet size and speaker in mind, whereas the Quilter obviously isn’t designed with a specific cabinet and speaker in mind so it might not be sounding it’s best. Phenomenal playing as always guys 👏🏻
Santafemikez Ah fair enough, I didn’t know. I would’ve been very interested to have seen a comparison between the actual pre-amps. So using the HRD as it is and then comparing that with the Quilter preamp out into the HRD power amp in. No reason for it, just curiosity.
Kieran Sweeden Quilter is my number 1 grab n go for when cartage is extremely limited or non existent. With my pedalboard and an effectrode Tube preamp at the end, it sounds excellent for such a portable package. Quilter makes a modular cabinet for their block series that allows you to drop the Head right into place making it a combo. Altogether it’s 19lbs, I have a mono double bag that I put my pedalboard in on side of the case. Two parts and I’m good to go. It’s super practical, price effective, simple and sounds pretty good
Wonderful couple of shows. The two of you very engaged, open and deep into the whole solid state thing, in spite of your honestly stated previous views on the subject. I have an emotional aversion to valves along the lines of "it´s the twenty first century and I am supposed to use something Marconi would recognise?", so the shows were very, very interesting. Thanks.
Just looked at #1 and enjoyed it a lot. Looking fwd this one. You guys are talking things I have been wondering all my time playing guitar through various almost all time high end budget amps. These videos are filling a hole in my head and clarifying many things to me. Thank you for that Mick and Dan! You have opened a new sound world to me.
Great videos! You never know what you’re going to like until you try! When I was learning all I had access to was a solid state amp. Saving up for a tube amp was the “goal,” making my solid state amp seem “not good enough.” (Which was partially true) However, having now owned tube amps and falling in love with the sound and feel, I need to revisit solid state much like you guys have. All part of the never ending tone journey. Thanks for all the videos!!
ONE WEEK TOO LATE! Last weekend I treated myself to a Mesa Boogie Mark 25 head, after being unable to try a Quilter anywhere, and decided I needed to try a head and cab set up at SOME point in my long playing life. Love the Boogie (and I've been a blackface guy forever), but damn the quilter sounds great, and so damn portable.
Mick we appreciate you guys a lot too. I have learned so much watching you guys . I am looking to add a strat to my arsenal as well now ... mostly thanks to the sounds you get out of yours!
Maybe you’d like the overdrive 200 over the 101 reverb... much more headroom, much more dumble voiced, might be closer to the two rock tone wise. There’s also the Eric tales signature dv Mark, which I’ve heard sounds stellar with single coils, but not so much with humbuckers... I’m actually really liking this transistor amp stuff, as I’m looking for an amp that can do super quiet for practice and also be loud enough to gig with, and to be honest, the transistor stuff really interests me
I use a quilter interblock + eminence Legend 1058 for my wet signal and a Laney vc15 tube + Celestion 65 heritage for my dry. Sounds absolutely great!!! Also very compact and easy to gig with.
Thanks guys this was really useful. I've been thinking about using a Quilter for about a year a so in a wet dry setting, so this answered a lot of questions for me.
you are absolutely right, solid state amps may not sounds so good on their own,, but in a wet dry with a tube amp, they fill all the space that you didnt even know you were missing
Simply incredible sounds this week chaps. At the open, and again at the end, plainly put, you win the universe. I try to avoid hyperbole (sometimes), but this called for it... UNIVERSE!
Mick, you do one hell of a job on the sound. The Hot Rod Deluxe sounds very much not good, and just incredibly harsh (and I can hear those things in this video). But you're doing a great job evening it out in headphones and getting it to sound as good as possible. Mega hats off to you for it every week.
Thank you sir. The HRD is pretty aggressive sounding... Which is one reason it's so popular as a live amp. You kinda need that agression and edge to cut and be heard in a loud band. I love them. Prefer the Deville, but always happy with a HRD. Thanks again!
Agreed. The HRD is a decent amp, but there’s just a harshness about it that, over time, just drove me mad. Replaced it with a mesa electradyne (which is a great amp), which has now, more or less, been replaced by an interblock45 for gigging. Tone is very close, but the mesa is 75lbs and the interblock weighs 2.5lbs. Guess which one I’m gigging with.
VCQ on Monday... a mid week VLOG AND a second VCQ... and TPS proper on a Friday lunchtime! I think I've spent more time with Dan and Mick this week than my wife and daughter! What a time to be alive
I've had the Quilter 101 Mini Reverb for a while and commonly run a Fulltone OCD and Dunlop Fuzz Face Mini through it. I run it into an Avatar 2 x 10" Alnico Gold. I love it. A few times I've run it through a Two Notes Captor direct into a PA, and have been very impressed with how it sounds and responds.
That Quilter sounds SUPER. It all comes down to how it FEELS when played. I had the previous 101, no reverb but different amp settings. I was never really comfortable with it when I played with my mates. I tried different settings, pedals, etc., couldn't connect. Seems like you guys feel similarly.
Been happily using a hybrid Ampeg head as a second amp since I started doing wet/dry, the thought being that the higher output would aid in clarifying a voluminous low end .Needless to say, 100 watt headroom would further assist in this direction, and as this comes out,- mighty timely,- was pondering the Quilter. You are so right when you say ANY amp sounds great in stereo and /or wet dry-, the initial experiments ( checking the splitting components) utilized a Fender Rumble I had on hand.Surprisingly, yes,- even that was fairly "mega". I have since noticed two significant factors/ points: the cab type makes as big a difference as the speaker enclosed(stock Blues Jr, that sounds iffy as is, sounds great with same speaker in a closed cab), and , secondly, that even adding an extension cab to the same amp ALMOST provides the desired (awesome) effect. Yeah,~ tubes ARE all that, but the technology is catching up.
Awesome show Guys! I'm definitely heading down this path. My dry amp will be my beloved AC15 and for wet I'll be using my Boss Katana Artist (just the clean setting as a pedal platform - basically ignoring all it's usual wizardry). I'm really looking forward to experimenting with this! Thanks for a great show! :)
big fan watch all the time. i think you guys should do a show where you take one brand and make a pedal board out of that brand. maybe multiple pedal boards. like 3 or 4 brands and 5-10 pedals on each board maybe in stereo wet dry and compare boards by just jamming. anyway you guys are great. dont try so hard to appeal to everyone. you guys are great most when you guys are just being yourselves. great show!!!!! please dont quit being awesome and informative . keep inspiring. try and spend just one or 2 songs a day psychedelic, surf, stoner, doom, rock n roll. listening to great music produces inspiration and you guys will come off more like andy if you just start listening to more music. just my opinion. you guys are awesome tho. cheers
I went out and got a Quilter 101 for the size and weight but was having the hardest time connecting with it, so I got an EQ pedal and ran it in the effects loop, and it's absolutely chalk and day. Highly recommended - now it responds in a way I'm much more familiar with.
Did you do it to bring out some high end and make it less dark? I’ve got one but even with my trusty preamp pedal in front, it won’t sparkle, it won’t spank, and just sounds sort of undefined for lack of a better word.
@@PorkPioneer Exactly this - I will say that I never connected with it like I do with valve amps, but an eq in the effects loop of the amp was the only way I found to coax some sparkle out of the Quilter.
@@baileyarango thanks for confirming. Just ordered a Behringer graphic EQ. Very weird that nobody talks about this problem because it seems pretty glaring. Do actual Deluxe reverbs or other BF amps sound this dark? Cause people do say that it sounds a lot like them.
@@PorkPioneer not in my experience! My primary amp is a Deluxe and it does the sparkle thing immediately - you'd have to work to make it dark. There is a slight cult vibe to Quilter forums.
I think the Quilter only seems to lack presence in the context of the Hotrod Deluxe. I happened to have the headphones off for a second and come back into the Quilter. Starting there, the switch to the HRD sounded just a little thin/shrill... But that combo - awesome.
Hey guys love seeing you guys...I know I’m only one many hundreds of deaf people who listens to ur show and was wondering if my friend Dan could use sign language more so I could understand more when Dan talks maybe I wouldn’t nod off as much..... I would really love a show were you talk about the OX audio .i find that a great tool ... just kidding of course having some electronics in high school I find u guys really interesting and fascinating.... Keepem coming
I tried the 101 Reverb and really could not get myself to like it. Way too dark. Couldn't get any sparkle out of it. The Tone Block 202 sounds MUCH better loud. It's loud and solid and as bright as you want. Lots of sparkle and life in the TB202. Stiffer sounding than a tube amp in general though. For loud and clean genres like jazz or surf rock though the Quilter is glorious.
@@KipCount I’m having the same problem with my 101R right now. No sparkle, no spank. Not sure if you noticed this, but I somehow got more high end definition by turning the mid knob UP. Did anything else work for you or did you just stick with the TB202?
I had a interesting revelation with solid state amps as well. I recently picked up a Fishman Loudbox mini and have really enjoyed some the sounds I’ve been getting with it running my Strat in it.
I have a Quilter 101r in my rig running through a WGS Reaper. It cuts pretty well overall, though still retains more of a round top end. I would suggest that comparing a Quilter to the HRD with its proprietary speaker might be like comparing pastel chalks to sharp cheddar cheese.
I'm pretty sure I need a Bluguitar to go with my tube amp. Loving both the sound by itself and in wet dry. Epic! Great show guys! You always make it a great end to my week👍
Love what you guys do but THANK YOU for giving us a different slant on things it’s long over due. Some attempts at jazz with clean tones and even the noise of a transistor amp. Got to be honest I am playing an epiphone Broadway elite through a tumnus, Xotic oz noy AC RC, Empress 2 tremolo and into an old Ibanez wholetone wt80 with a 15” driver and you would not believe how well it does everything from clean jazz to blues breakup 😳 even have a Carpe diem in the chain 🤭. PM me guys as I have an amazing idea for something new for your channel to bring a greater new diverse life into it 😬
I watched the show the first time with 5.1 surround sound audio and the Quilter sounded flat and thin like there was some kind of phase issue. I knew that couldn't be right and just watched the show on my iMac that I do music recording and editing on. Hearing the Quilter through Tannoy active nearfield monitors in full stereo I was able to experience it the way you guys intended. From now on I will be watching your show in my office rather than in the living room.
For wet/dry BluGuitar amp 1- absolutely! - a little experimenting with potential speakers and a world of possibilities. just set the BluGuitar up close by at the gig for tweakability and life just got a little easier!
I believe the Nextone sounds better due to; at the very least the matching of speaker to cabinet. Boss got it right with that amp. I suppose that the experience they have on tap with the JC Series of amps probably helps quite a bit. I gigged with a JC 120 in the late 1980's for a while before I started using a Fender Twin Reverb.
I have my ABY and am building my first pedal board..and wet /dry thanks to you both! a GK 250ml for "quiet practice" and my wet amp, my.dry will be an attenuated -(Weber mass) Laney GH100s, vh100r, or Marsall 800 2x12 combo. too much fun!
This is brilliant guys. Two pedal and valve/tube fanatics playing more clean jazz than ever before. I love the nods to Hendrix, Trower, SRV and Miles (thats my education). I hope you guys have watched Wes Montgomery on RUclips clips. He's just about the most relaxed monster guitar player ever. So please Dan/Mick some Wes licks too (a challenge). Every one of your videos is an education and a cross reference of musical geniuses. A great pleasure to view your output. The right balance of conversation, humour and musicianship.
I listen to Wes from time to time. I have the same kind of awe that I do for other pioneers of that era. Mick here. It feels so far away from anything I could ever understand, I've never even tried. Hmmmm. :0)
Cheers guys, intriguing episode. All the solid state amps at some point had tones I preferred to the HRD, there are indeed many ways to skin a kumquat. I think I'd prefer 2 valve amps, but at least I know that's 'just' psychological now. :)
Something I have incorporated into my rig is using a pedal with an fx loop (the One Control Mosquito) to run wet-dry all with one amp/cab. This provides a different type of wet/dry sound but I find it very useful and less of a hassle
I had the quilter 101 mini and thought it was too warm, dark. Sold it. I just traded for the quilter 200:overdrive and it absolutely sings ! I’m using a fender 1x12 with a WGS ET-65 speaker and it’s great. Not talking over my Budda or Bandmaster, Twin Reverb, Divided by 13 or Reason SM 40 but…it’ll be a perfect backup
Just to point out that at one point Mick says there is a lot of treble in the clean channel of the amp1,,that is certainly true, however if you note the channel volume setting its at about three,,,the amp1 clean channel is designed so that under 5 its tone is similer to that of having a bright switch on,,after 5 the tone darkens up to break up,,,hope that helps someone
I know I'm late to this... but Ty Tabor of Kings's X had an AMAZING tone in his early days.. and used a Gibson Lab Series amp... transistor! His current tone is also crushing, but in a different way.
The limiter on the Quilter is really important in adding that tube feel, adding sustain and smoothing out harsh frequencies. It's best to set the gain past what you want it, then dial the limiter in until it lowers the gain back down. I'd recommend sitting down with it again because it takes pedals more reliably than the majority of tube amps I've played.
Four things: Speakers make a buttload of difference. The limiter on the Quitlter makes a butload of difference The active midrange EQ on the Quilter makes a buttload of difference Most people compare the 101R to a Deluxe Reverb, rather than a Hot Rod Deluxe. And yes, they sound different.
mint video lads! I'm doing a wet dry rig using my bluguitar amp one as the main drive amp running the dry side,using the effects send of it to my mod,delays and reverb and instead of going back to the amp 1 I am sending it to a 50 watt peavey valveking combo in the clean channel. Instant wet amp on a cheap budget !! Sounds bloody huge ! Thanks for the idea lads !!
Great video. Would love to have seen the Quilter Overdrive 200 - it's been my mainstay amp for over a year now and I love it, bought it instead of the Victory Kracken. The clean channel is inspired by a Dumble and the lead channel is inspired by a Mesa MkII. My main tone is the lead channel only (no crunch) pushed with a TS808. I'm in a death metal band and that tone suits my needs down to a tea. I love it for the exact reason Dan said "it fits in my gig bag" and I'm getting too old to be lugging gear around ;) Headroom wise, the OD200 is CRAZY! It's 200 watts and I can barely run it at 40w on stage before getting the evil from the sound guy. It's darker than most amps, but for stage I don't mind that because the sound guy is going to change my tone to however he wants anyway.
I'm fine with solid state amp (Boss Katana and Nextone), are really good. But then I play through my tube amps again... :-) That being said, I do think that these Boss amps are a better value than let's say a Blues Junior because it handles many styles of music. Btw: the Bluamp is used by Jennifer Batten. I've had the pleasure of seeing her play during a demonstration and she signed my custom shop strat (honk). It sounded huge and clear. I was very impressed with that amp.
Great stuff as always guys. Good to see Dan made it to the barbers before NAMM - gotta look good in the background of all those synth bloggers videos! ;) I've been running a JC40 as a wet amp (allowing for stereo wet0 and trialing different tube amps as the dry. The main issue I've had is the incredible headroom from the JC40 when I step a boost, or drive. I've been having more success using dry amps with more headroom and dialling my drives for less volume boost and more onboard gain (as opposed to pushing the amp to do a lot of the work). If I set up a klon or TS style pedal for a fairly clean boost, the dry amp will break up nicely but the JC (with the extra headroom) just gets louder, as does whatever wet effect it's running at the time. Apart from that it sounds fantastic as a combined W-D-W sound. I think this is a fairly common concern with using a clean solid-state amp with a tube amp. Options I'm thinking of trying: - Using a compressor after the split on the wet signal (it'll sound great on cleans, and help curb a bit of the headroom and top end so the JC doesn't get too spiky when boosted). - Doing a similar thing with a light overdrive pedal. - Having boost and boosted drives after the split on the dry side so I'm only boosting the dry sound when I need more cut, or for lead/solo tones. - Setting up my G2 with post gain reduction going into the wet, setup at different volumes based on which gain pedals I'm running. Any other things I should try?
I recently bought an Amp 1 because I was fed up of dragging my amps to rehearsal. However I also used it at a backline gig into a Marshall 4 x12 cab and it sounded fantastic. Basically the EQ is so good on it it's super easy to dial in. Looking forward to using it as the "wet" amp with my Vox AC15 after watching this video. Thanks for the show guys, it's all super relevant to the gigging guitarist!
I don't know if it's because I'm a modern player at the young age of 17, but to me the smoothness of the fuzz into the Quilter was preferable to my ear. It also has an astounding clean tone. What a great amp.
Hi youngster, when I was your age I was playing with muscical jazz talents, dont understand how...,!!!
now Ive got hand/finger problems but tuning lower I still play....and my ears are working! SO: dont play too loud!!Many of my age 57 and younger /older have tinnitus!!!
Friend: trust your hearing and taste, and lookout for Loud Playing, and KEEP PLAYING!!!!!!😎
I’m surprised you boys get any negative feedback. You’re like the standout, favourite teachers at school, you don’t question what you are being taught but are just thankful you’re being taught. Seriously, you guys continue to provide us with a top quality education and on behalf of us all, I thank you.
Thanks Ross! We really hope people take the show as it's intended: two geeks having fun for people's entertainment - like having a chat down the pub with your mates. Moreover that it inspires people to try stuff. Nevertheless it is astounding how uptight people can be and get offended because they think it's some kind of manifesto.
Thanks for the kind words!
Have you noticed just how much of a bunch of trend setters you’ve become on RUclips.. you do a topic one week and loads of others copy you weeks later, loads of Q&A also now appearing. As someone who’s followed you since Dan had hair on his old channel.. I approve you lovely pioneers. Turned 50 the other day. Cheers chaps. 🍷
Its because TPS is the 'definitive' show of its type. Almost every guitarist I know is a subscriber and pretty much any of the guitar based live shows (Pete Thorn, Phil McKnight etc), the chat almost always mentions TPS at least once or twice.
Point is, its the definitive Pedal show and no wonder others will try to copy...
I agree. But I am confused at why other channels like Mr. McKnight have so many more subs. I tend to believe that TPS is above some people's heads. Facts and having a passion for tone seem to take a back seat to mediocre commentary and self rightous criticism from people who can't really even play guitar very well. I really like Pete Thorn by the way.
happens in a lot of areas. just look after all these reaction channels. 80% copy cats.
I’m lucky enough to have met Dan and Mick, both very down to earth and deeply lovely humans... cost me a bloody fortune in gear mind you.. and made me a much much better guitar player. I learned more in last 3 years watching them than in the last 30 years.
Just an ovsercation, but it's Youtue in a nutshell really - somebody posts an interesting opinion slightly against the grain and coutless others repeat what they've been told and try to pass it off as their own thoughts. RUclips channels, blokes down the pub and everybody inbetween!
Another great episode. I thought the pinnacle of my playing career after 30 yrs was finally getting a PRS CU24. Then I discovered TPS. Every week I learn more and more about amps, pedals and tone! But most of all Dan and Mick's enthusiasm and great playing never ceases to inspire me to play my guitar. Thanks for that guys.
In addition to being the best "teachers" on tech guitar stuff AND how to create great sounds you are genuinly very very nice guys. Respect!
Yet another great video. Mick, you don’t EVER have to apologize for not being a “real” jazz player. You are both highly skilled and at the very least, more than conversational on many different styles of playing. I for one appreciate hearing more than just distorted tones when you’re demoing a piece of gear. No one should expect you to be a master of every style but even attempting different genres helps us as listeners get a sense of what’s possible on the gear.
P.S. I love the reoccurring disco breakdowns.
Great timing on this vid. Just got a Quilter Interblock 45 about 2 weeks ago. Running it through a 2x12 Marshall with Celestion G12T-75 speakers. It is my dry amp with a Peavey Classic 30 as the wet amp. Loving the wet/dry sound. I have a 100 watt 1x12 Katana that I've run wet/dry with the Peavey. That sounds great as well. I think Dan is correct, plug in just about any 2 amps wet/dry and they sound great. Thanks for the inspiration guys! Love the show.
Dan’s playing used to do nothing for me, with all the slight pauses and hanging on notes here and there. BUT NOW I LOVE IT! I love the way he expresses his passion and love for the sounds and even one individual note. Wallows in the beauty! You’re a beautiful man Dan!
Micks playing in the intro was fantastic, damn.
Yes Mick all the recent work on old blue seemed to keep you inspired. Well done!
absolutely!! apart from the insane tone, just marvelous feels. I just returned from the post office, traded a delay for my first univibe style pedal and if i can come anywhere near these tones and I'll be ecstatic...
wowie zowie. YES! that sounded GREAT!
Channeling Robin Trower!
Just makes me smile every time :D
My wife keeps 'catching' me watching these videos and i'm sure she thinks i'm bonkers, but I now find myself happily watching this stuff over the telly nowadays. Keep up the good work fellas and thank you!
Thank you sir! And regards to the missus - we hear of many such spouces! (Spii?)
HEY GUYS! 00:15 and on.the vent and harmonic tremolo together = HEAVEN.
Amazing seeing sonic comparison like this. I'm also appreciating the more "clinical" views of the amps tones regardless of their make up and personal preferences. You guys get a PhD in Tonal Analysis! It's great to see the flexibility of using the more cost effective solid state amps with some of the most popular tube/valve amps and continually enhancing the tone. Thank you Dan and Mick!
Just wanted to say, love you guys. Every single Friday I look forward to an hour of great tone and learning how to get a couple percent closer. My wallet hurts so good!
It's funny, I spend most of my "me-guitar time" loading my luggage onto to the tone wagon and traversing the audio universe in search of the ever-elusive perfect experience.
You'd think I'd have no time or interest in watching you two travellers do the same. Yet this show remains my 2nd most favorite guitar activity!
3:41 Thanks Derrick! 😂🤣😂. Subtle humor is a beautiful thing. Nice timing Dan. 10/10. 👍🏻👍🏻
Every video on RUclips should start with that intro. Holy Hell that was a thing of beauty. Thanks.
I have an original reverb-less Quilter 101. It has a very different tonal response to this one. It emulates the tone stacks of various classic amp types via a Voice knob and also has a pair of tone controls, Tri-Q and Hi-Cut, that kinda but not exactly correspond to treble & bass. The high end gets into Vox Top Boost territory with the Full-Q voice and the Hi-Cut turned up, which adds a mild presence peak to the tonal response. I also love the Jazz voice: impressively Ampeg-like.
OMG jazz from Mick too. So sweet. NO SORRY that was lovely. And Dan's jazz chops are far better than what he gives himself credit for, too. Good lord, you two. I'm just going to slink off to my room and practice for the next six months without sleep.
Great sounds!! So many options now.
Every week it’s a real reminder that we are truly living in the golden era of GEAR!!!
On a side note I love running a clean boost too as an always on pedal. If it’s always on is there an issue running it after the G2?
@@ishancooper if it's always on, just run before/after the switcher entirely. No need for it to use up a space in the switcher. Chris Buck does this with his klon.
_pattybrown Thanks Patty! Yeah that makes good sense to do it like that .. prob along with the reverb too!
AWESOME! MEGA! Thanks Those last few mins of Dan's feedback! Such a great series! All I need is the Humdinger, and I'll be on my way.
Mick! I don’t know what I’d do without those Matt Schofield licks! I play the same ones. He’s awesome and so are you!
Long time Hot Rod Deluxe user here. Just getting to the 25 minute mark and I'm surprised how much I like the quilter. Once you guys got the mids into it that is. It has a plenty of vocal mid range punch but without that harsh sizzly thing I can never get rid of on the Hot Rod.
Very Robin Trower at the beginning. Nice!!
Considering the size of the Quilter, it’s quite amazing how much they’ve packed into a small package. However when it’s A/B’d against the Hot Rod Deluxe, in my personal opinion the Fender still sounds a lot better to my ears. But to give credit to the Quilter, the Hot Rod Deluxe is built with the cabinet size and speaker in mind, whereas the Quilter obviously isn’t designed with a specific cabinet and speaker in mind so it might not be sounding it’s best.
Phenomenal playing as always guys 👏🏻
Santafemikez Ah fair enough, I didn’t know.
I would’ve been very interested to have seen a comparison between the actual pre-amps. So using the HRD as it is and then comparing that with the Quilter preamp out into the HRD power amp in. No reason for it, just curiosity.
Yet, with the fuzz Quilter demolished the HRD.
Kieran Sweeden Quilter is my number 1 grab n go for when cartage is extremely limited or non existent. With my pedalboard and an effectrode Tube preamp at the end, it sounds excellent for such a portable package. Quilter makes a modular cabinet for their block series that allows you to drop the Head right into place making it a combo. Altogether it’s 19lbs, I have a mono double bag that I put my pedalboard in on side of the case. Two parts and I’m good to go. It’s super practical, price effective, simple and sounds pretty good
Also I use it as well in a wet dry setup with my valve amps, it’s a great piece of kit
Try an Orange Tiny Terror (hand-wired if you can find one). Very small and light and miles better than any TX amp ever made.
The education I receive from your hard work is invaluable. Thanks guys!!!
The two gentlemen are in fine form tonight. Bravo.
When I first heard that 101 Reverb in the store the other day I ran over to see what was being played and I was floored.
The lab series L5 is, in my opinion, is one of the best solid state amps ever made. Built in compressor was awesome
Wonderful couple of shows. The two of you very engaged, open and deep into the whole solid state thing, in spite of your honestly stated previous views on the subject. I have an emotional aversion to valves along the lines of "it´s the twenty first century and I am supposed to use something Marconi would recognise?", so the shows were very, very interesting. Thanks.
Just looked at #1 and enjoyed it a lot. Looking fwd this one. You guys are talking things I have been wondering all my time playing guitar through various almost all time high end budget amps. These videos are filling a hole in my head and clarifying many things to me. Thank you for that Mick and Dan! You have opened a new sound world to me.
Great videos! You never know what you’re going to like until you try! When I was learning all I had access to was a solid state amp. Saving up for a tube amp was the “goal,” making my solid state amp seem “not good enough.” (Which was partially true) However, having now owned tube amps and falling in love with the sound and feel, I need to revisit solid state much like you guys have. All part of the never ending tone journey. Thanks for all the videos!!
ONE WEEK TOO LATE! Last weekend I treated myself to a Mesa Boogie Mark 25 head, after being unable to try a Quilter anywhere, and decided I needed to try a head and cab set up at SOME point in my long playing life. Love the Boogie (and I've been a blackface guy forever), but damn the quilter sounds great, and so damn portable.
I'm not a fan of fuzz, however, that fuzz tone through the Quilter sounded awesome. I didn't like the fuzz through the Fender at all. So cool.
Mick we appreciate you guys a lot too. I have learned so much watching you guys . I am looking to add a strat to my arsenal as well now ... mostly thanks to the sounds you get out of yours!
Maybe you’d like the overdrive 200 over the 101 reverb... much more headroom, much more dumble voiced, might be closer to the two rock tone wise. There’s also the Eric tales signature dv Mark, which I’ve heard sounds stellar with single coils, but not so much with humbuckers... I’m actually really liking this transistor amp stuff, as I’m looking for an amp that can do super quiet for practice and also be loud enough to gig with, and to be honest, the transistor stuff really interests me
Great intro Mick !! and the coffee is hot, going to enjoy this !!!! are not Fridays great !
Guys, I really love your show!!! Returned early from work, took a coffee, switched on this episode ------ Weekend!!!!
I use a quilter interblock + eminence Legend 1058 for my wet signal and a Laney vc15 tube + Celestion 65 heritage for my dry. Sounds absolutely great!!! Also very compact and easy to gig with.
Dan's face during Mick's intro jam ... priceless.
Dan's inability to correctly name the Fender Blues Jr., HRD, etc. on his first try will never not be funny. Great show as always!
Thanks guys this was really useful. I've been thinking about using a Quilter for about a year a so in a wet dry setting, so this answered a lot of questions for me.
Loved it!
I was so happy!
Then Mick brought back disco.
Now I need to get back on my meds.
you are absolutely right, solid state amps may not sounds so good on their own,, but in a wet dry with a tube amp, they fill all the space that you didnt even know you were missing
Fantastic show guys! The comments on personal necessity of guitar speaker - perfect!
Perfect friday: hunkering down during the snow storm and watching TPS
A guitar lesson invert episode... Love that (So What) lick at 38:21 Sublime...
Simply incredible sounds this week chaps. At the open, and again at the end, plainly put, you win the universe. I try to avoid hyperbole (sometimes), but this called for it... UNIVERSE!
Hahaha! Awesome. Wet dry FTW (of the universe). :0)
Mick, you do one hell of a job on the sound. The Hot Rod Deluxe sounds very much not good, and just incredibly harsh (and I can hear those things in this video). But you're doing a great job evening it out in headphones and getting it to sound as good as possible. Mega hats off to you for it every week.
Thank you sir. The HRD is pretty aggressive sounding... Which is one reason it's so popular as a live amp. You kinda need that agression and edge to cut and be heard in a loud band. I love them. Prefer the Deville, but always happy with a HRD. Thanks again!
Agreed. The HRD is a decent amp, but there’s just a harshness about it that, over time, just drove me mad.
Replaced it with a mesa electradyne (which is a great amp), which has now, more or less, been replaced by an interblock45 for gigging.
Tone is very close, but the mesa is 75lbs and the interblock weighs 2.5lbs. Guess which one I’m gigging with.
VCQ on Monday... a mid week VLOG AND a second VCQ... and TPS proper on a Friday lunchtime! I think I've spent more time with Dan and Mick this week than my wife and daughter!
What a time to be alive
Deluxe reverb blackface, by far the best pedal platform ever and the favorite pf Andy from PGS
I've had the Quilter 101 Mini Reverb for a while and commonly run a Fulltone OCD and Dunlop Fuzz Face Mini through it. I run it into an Avatar 2 x 10" Alnico Gold. I love it. A few times I've run it through a Two Notes Captor direct into a PA, and have been very impressed with how it sounds and responds.
Think it’s time you guys should give quilter amps another try. They’ve got even better now!
That Quilter sounds SUPER. It all comes down to how it FEELS when played. I had the previous 101, no reverb but different amp settings. I was never really comfortable with it when I played with my mates. I tried different settings, pedals, etc., couldn't connect. Seems like you guys feel similarly.
unfortunately, feel is difficult to convey in a video
On this #2 when you pulled in the Fender to the dry amp I was falling in love again. Sounded awesome together.
Been happily using a hybrid Ampeg head as a second amp since I started doing wet/dry, the thought being that the higher output would aid in clarifying a voluminous low end .Needless to say, 100 watt headroom would further assist in this direction, and as this comes out,- mighty timely,- was pondering the Quilter.
You are so right when you say ANY amp sounds great in stereo and /or wet dry-, the initial experiments ( checking the splitting components) utilized a Fender Rumble I had on hand.Surprisingly, yes,- even that was fairly "mega".
I have since noticed two significant factors/ points: the cab type makes as big a difference as the speaker enclosed(stock Blues Jr, that sounds iffy as is, sounds great with same speaker in a closed cab), and , secondly, that even adding an extension cab to the same amp ALMOST provides the desired (awesome) effect.
Yeah,~ tubes ARE all that, but the technology is catching up.
Excellent vid guys, as always.~
Some very nice playing throughout but that Solo at the end .... jus' flyin' man... I went all Kozmyk.
I posted earlier about Mick’s playing.....but Danny boy on that Nik Huber, YESSSSSSS!!!
Yeah mate. That Nik Huber sounds lovely
Awesome show Guys! I'm definitely heading down this path. My dry amp will be my beloved AC15 and for wet I'll be using my Boss Katana Artist (just the clean setting as a pedal platform - basically ignoring all it's usual wizardry). I'm really looking forward to experimenting with this! Thanks for a great show! :)
big fan watch all the time. i think you guys should do a show where you take one brand and make a pedal board out of that brand. maybe multiple pedal boards. like 3 or 4 brands and 5-10 pedals on each board maybe in stereo wet dry and compare boards by just jamming. anyway you guys are great. dont try so hard to appeal to everyone. you guys are great most when you guys are just being yourselves. great show!!!!! please dont quit being awesome and informative . keep inspiring. try and spend just one or 2 songs a day psychedelic, surf, stoner, doom, rock n roll. listening to great music produces inspiration and you guys will come off more like andy if you just start listening to more music. just my opinion. you guys are awesome tho. cheers
I went out and got a Quilter 101 for the size and weight but was having the hardest time connecting with it, so I got an EQ pedal and ran it in the effects loop, and it's absolutely chalk and day. Highly recommended - now it responds in a way I'm much more familiar with.
Did you do it to bring out some high end and make it less dark? I’ve got one but even with my trusty preamp pedal in front, it won’t sparkle, it won’t spank, and just sounds sort of undefined for lack of a better word.
@@PorkPioneer Exactly this - I will say that I never connected with it like I do with valve amps, but an eq in the effects loop of the amp was the only way I found to coax some sparkle out of the Quilter.
@@baileyarango thanks for confirming. Just ordered a Behringer graphic EQ. Very weird that nobody talks about this problem because it seems pretty glaring. Do actual Deluxe reverbs or other BF amps sound this dark? Cause people do say that it sounds a lot like them.
@@PorkPioneer not in my experience! My primary amp is a Deluxe and it does the sparkle thing immediately - you'd have to work to make it dark. There is a slight cult vibe to Quilter forums.
The Quilter sounds great with the fuzz!!
Dan's red guitar...I cannot describe to you how much I love it.
"So you think tone is all in the fingers? Well listen to me slap your face!"😆 Ok that will be the last line I write for a script. 😂
I think the Quilter only seems to lack presence in the context of the Hotrod Deluxe. I happened to have the headphones off for a second and come back into the Quilter. Starting there, the switch to the HRD sounded just a little thin/shrill... But that combo - awesome.
Great show. Was hoping to see the BlueG and Quilter together in the wet/dry set up. Please try this in part 3 🙏
Wowwww! Mick your pedal setup is insane at the moment! Jealousy has struck me! Digging your playing too! Superb!
Thank you for giving me a safe space online to be completely nerdy about guitar stuff. 🤘🏼
I’m using the Tech 21 pedals for direct wet/dry to the main board .. it’s pretty cool .. thank you guys for the great show!! Love it!
Hey guys love seeing you guys...I know I’m only one many hundreds of deaf people who listens to ur show and was wondering if my friend Dan could use sign language more so I could understand more when Dan talks maybe I wouldn’t nod off as much..... I would really love a show were you talk about the OX audio .i find that a great tool ... just kidding of course having some electronics in high school I find u guys really interesting and fascinating.... Keepem coming
I so desperately want to love the sound of the Quilter. I really do.
I tried the 101 Reverb and really could not get myself to like it. Way too dark. Couldn't get any sparkle out of it. The Tone Block 202 sounds MUCH better loud. It's loud and solid and as bright as you want. Lots of sparkle and life in the TB202. Stiffer sounding than a tube amp in general though. For loud and clean genres like jazz or surf rock though the Quilter is glorious.
@@KipCount I’m having the same problem with my 101R right now. No sparkle, no spank. Not sure if you noticed this, but I somehow got more high end definition by turning the mid knob UP. Did anything else work for you or did you just stick with the TB202?
@@PorkPioneer I ended up just going back to tube amps.
YES I ENJOY THIS SHOW...A LOT!!! MORE SOLDERING!! Thanks for all the inspiration and motivation!
I had a interesting revelation with solid state amps as well. I recently picked up a Fishman Loudbox mini and have really enjoyed some the sounds I’ve been getting with it running my Strat in it.
I have a Quilter 101r in my rig running through a WGS Reaper. It cuts pretty well overall, though still retains more of a round top end. I would suggest that comparing a Quilter to the HRD with its proprietary speaker might be like comparing pastel chalks to sharp cheddar cheese.
I'm pretty sure I need a Bluguitar to go with my tube amp. Loving both the sound by itself and in wet dry. Epic! Great show guys! You always make it a great end to my week👍
Those got some really good sounds! They each clearly have their own character.
Love what you guys do but THANK YOU for giving us a different slant on things it’s long over due. Some attempts at jazz with clean tones and even the noise of a transistor amp. Got to be honest I am playing an epiphone Broadway elite through a tumnus, Xotic oz noy AC RC, Empress 2 tremolo and into an old Ibanez wholetone wt80 with a 15” driver and you would not believe how well it does everything from clean jazz to blues breakup 😳 even have a Carpe diem in the chain 🤭. PM me guys as I have an amazing idea for something new for your channel to bring a greater new diverse life into it 😬
I watched the show the first time with 5.1 surround sound audio and the Quilter sounded flat and thin like there was some kind of phase issue. I knew that couldn't be right and just watched the show on my iMac that I do music recording and editing on. Hearing the Quilter through Tannoy active nearfield monitors in full stereo I was able to experience it the way you guys intended. From now on I will be watching your show in my office rather than in the living room.
For wet/dry BluGuitar amp 1- absolutely! - a little experimenting with potential speakers and a world of possibilities. just set the BluGuitar up close by at the gig for tweakability and life just got a little easier!
I believe the Nextone sounds better due to; at the very least the matching of speaker to cabinet. Boss got it right with that amp. I suppose that the experience they have on tap with the JC Series of amps probably helps quite a bit. I gigged with a JC 120 in the late 1980's for a while before I started using a Fender Twin Reverb.
I have my ABY and am building my first pedal board..and wet /dry thanks to you both! a GK 250ml for "quiet practice" and my wet amp, my.dry will be an attenuated -(Weber mass) Laney GH100s, vh100r, or Marsall 800 2x12 combo. too much fun!
Guys, the picture and sound quality of your content is incredible. It feels like you're little guitar playing midgets inside my computer screen
I'm glad you guys did two consecutive shows on transistor amps. Now, we never need to do that again. ;~)
Hahahaha!!!!!
This is brilliant guys. Two pedal and valve/tube fanatics playing more clean jazz than ever before. I love the nods to Hendrix, Trower, SRV and Miles (thats my education). I hope you guys have watched Wes Montgomery on RUclips clips. He's just about the most relaxed monster guitar player ever. So please Dan/Mick some Wes licks too (a challenge). Every one of your videos is an education and a cross reference of musical geniuses. A great pleasure to view your output. The right balance of conversation, humour and musicianship.
I listen to Wes from time to time. I have the same kind of awe that I do for other pioneers of that era. Mick here. It feels so far away from anything I could ever understand, I've never even tried. Hmmmm. :0)
Cheers guys, intriguing episode. All the solid state amps at some point had tones I preferred to the HRD, there are indeed many ways to skin a kumquat. I think I'd prefer 2 valve amps, but at least I know that's 'just' psychological now. :)
Something I have incorporated into my rig is using a pedal with an fx loop (the One Control Mosquito) to run wet-dry all with one amp/cab.
This provides a different type of wet/dry sound but I find it very useful and less of a hassle
I had the quilter 101 mini and thought it was too warm, dark. Sold it. I just traded for the quilter 200:overdrive and it absolutely sings ! I’m using a fender 1x12 with a WGS ET-65 speaker and it’s great. Not talking over my Budda or Bandmaster, Twin Reverb, Divided by 13 or Reason SM 40 but…it’ll be a perfect backup
Just to point out that at one point Mick says there is a lot of treble in the clean channel of the amp1,,that is certainly true, however if you note the channel volume setting its at about three,,,the amp1 clean channel is designed so that under 5 its tone is similer to that of having a bright switch on,,after 5 the tone darkens up to break up,,,hope that helps someone
I know I'm late to this... but Ty Tabor of Kings's X had an AMAZING tone in his early days.. and used a Gibson Lab Series amp... transistor! His current tone is also crushing, but in a different way.
Yeah.
That's correct.
An Lab Series L5.
I've finally got myself one.
It's an amazing amp.
Great job again. The fuzz seemed to react well with the Qltr. Very interesting.
The limiter on the Quilter is really important in adding that tube feel, adding sustain and smoothing out harsh frequencies. It's best to set the gain past what you want it, then dial the limiter in until it lowers the gain back down. I'd recommend sitting down with it again because it takes pedals more reliably than the majority of tube amps I've played.
Four things:
Speakers make a buttload of difference.
The limiter on the Quitlter makes a butload of difference
The active midrange EQ on the Quilter makes a buttload of difference
Most people compare the 101R to a Deluxe Reverb, rather than a Hot Rod Deluxe. And yes, they sound different.
Did you know a buttload is 384 imperial gallons? I bet ya didn't. Also, it has nothing to do with bottoms.
@@philclarke7712 I did!
mint video lads! I'm doing a wet dry rig using my bluguitar amp one as the main drive amp running the dry side,using the effects send of it to my mod,delays and reverb and instead of going back to the amp 1 I am sending it to a 50 watt peavey valveking combo in the clean channel. Instant wet amp on a cheap budget !! Sounds bloody huge ! Thanks for the idea lads !!
Great video. Would love to have seen the Quilter Overdrive 200 - it's been my mainstay amp for over a year now and I love it, bought it instead of the Victory Kracken. The clean channel is inspired by a Dumble and the lead channel is inspired by a Mesa MkII. My main tone is the lead channel only (no crunch) pushed with a TS808. I'm in a death metal band and that tone suits my needs down to a tea. I love it for the exact reason Dan said "it fits in my gig bag" and I'm getting too old to be lugging gear around ;) Headroom wise, the OD200 is CRAZY! It's 200 watts and I can barely run it at 40w on stage before getting the evil from the sound guy. It's darker than most amps, but for stage I don't mind that because the sound guy is going to change my tone to however he wants anyway.
I'm fine with solid state amp (Boss Katana and Nextone), are really good. But then I play through my tube amps again... :-)
That being said, I do think that these Boss amps are a better value than let's say a Blues Junior because it handles many styles of music.
Btw: the Bluamp is used by Jennifer Batten. I've had the pleasure of seeing her play during a demonstration and she signed my custom shop strat (honk). It sounded huge and clear. I was very impressed with that amp.
Great stuff as always guys. Good to see Dan made it to the barbers before NAMM - gotta look good in the background of all those synth bloggers videos! ;)
I've been running a JC40 as a wet amp (allowing for stereo wet0 and trialing different tube amps as the dry. The main issue I've had is the incredible headroom from the JC40 when I step a boost, or drive. I've been having more success using dry amps with more headroom and dialling my drives for less volume boost and more onboard gain (as opposed to pushing the amp to do a lot of the work). If I set up a klon or TS style pedal for a fairly clean boost, the dry amp will break up nicely but the JC (with the extra headroom) just gets louder, as does whatever wet effect it's running at the time. Apart from that it sounds fantastic as a combined W-D-W sound. I think this is a fairly common concern with using a clean solid-state amp with a tube amp.
Options I'm thinking of trying:
- Using a compressor after the split on the wet signal (it'll sound great on cleans, and help curb a bit of the headroom and top end so the JC doesn't get too spiky when boosted).
- Doing a similar thing with a light overdrive pedal.
- Having boost and boosted drives after the split on the dry side so I'm only boosting the dry sound when I need more cut, or for lead/solo tones.
- Setting up my G2 with post gain reduction going into the wet, setup at different volumes based on which gain pedals I'm running.
Any other things I should try?
Highlight of the week and instructional joy.
loved the jazzy chilled playing by "Hello, Mick here" today
I've been using a MXR Shin Juku with a HRD for an 'open, dumbly' overdrive and it sounds amazing.
I recently bought an Amp 1 because I was fed up of dragging my amps to rehearsal. However I also used it at a backline gig into a Marshall 4 x12 cab and it sounded fantastic. Basically the EQ is so good on it it's super easy to dial in. Looking forward to using it as the "wet" amp with my Vox AC15 after watching this video. Thanks for the show guys, it's all super relevant to the gigging guitarist!
Really cool sounds, guys. That intro was massive!
Loving this solid state series and blue is kickin' it.
Sorry I'm late to the vid, btw...
Cheers