6 Reasons you should own the Harley Benton Thunder 99 (Stereo Poweramp Review)
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- The pedal sized stereo amp is SO cheap and SO good that I don't think you really need 6 reasons to own the Thunder 99 from Harley Benton. Use it as a backup, power your stereo pedals and.... well just watch the video!
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what guitar is that, it’s gorgeous!
Yes! Yes you should. :)
You know. If you get 5 minutes spare. :)
Prestige DC COUPE
@@TheGuitarGeek ;) just found it in your thumbnails! ruclips.net/video/TdXOeh--HLM/видео.html
Yes, yes, yes and more yes. Now, if you could get a bass player to play with you, at the same time, on the thunder 99, that would be THUNDER THUNDER THUNDER!!!
Excellent description, demo and rundown. Thank You. Always been impressed with Harley Benton. Purchased many items based on you reviews and recommendations 👍👍👍👍
Good to hear!
Wow. this was such a solid demo. The wet/dry/wet scenario blew my mind.
I have one!!! It’s a game changer for real!!!! Love it. I still can’t believe I can power my 2- 4x12s w it!!!! Amazing to have a stereo power amp in a pedal.
Thunder, thunder, thunder, I've gone too high!
What a great little piece of kit. Having separate pre-amp and power amps on your pedalboard really does give the ultimate in flexibility. Also a really nice video, and it has me GASsing after one now :)
Yeah! We are really lucky these days
awsome job fella, I love your videos, all about fun and that's how it should always be
K. noxville Tn. USA. I`m close to the Gibson factory, but I just ordered one of those and its going on my board. right next to a quilter 45, wall wart goes under the board.These are awesome to power a personal monitor or my cabs. and i run a direct signal using the joyo preamp house and cab box together. all effects in the loop of the preamp house except a couple in the front of the chain. all drives in a loop off A donner sophgate. this rig is amazing and works fantastic. thanx for all your help..
I was just expecting to geek out on some affordable gear, but I learned a bunch about the stereo possibilities. Very interesting!
Donner and blitzen am so high I can’t get down to my pedalboard....wet/dry/wet at a budget outlay sounds the way to go for tone hounds...thanks for a clear and focused review
Thunder, thunder, thunder, I've gone too high! I'm so high I daren't come down! This is my first view of your channel and I love it - I also love the little gizmo too PS Fab guitar
thunder, thu...whatever ;) good, well done Andy, I was just wanting someone to show both Benton power amps, or at least one to show what is capable of, you just did it, tnx mate! a 25W stereo rig or a 100W mono 8 ohm, both interesting choices.
Great job, Andy! You covered every question I had. Definitely getting this!!
Thunder Thunder Thunder, I've gone too high!
Enjoy it mate! (And use the links in the video description please)
@@TheGuitarGeek but, of course!
Excellent Review as usual.
Thunder THUNDER THUNDER!!! I can’t remember the next bit 😂 getting old
Great video as alway man, thank you. Interesting & handy pedal.
Thunder, Thunder, Thunder!!! Great job as usual.
Awesome review. Nice Wet&Dry sounds. THUNDER, THUNDER, THUNDER, I GOT YOU ..... HIGH?!
I'm really enjoying your picking dynamics, Andy. Not enough people are playing chords like that.
Thanks! It’s important to hear the response. That Mooer preamp is doing a lot of the heavy lifting
Moore is more?
I had a 5150 III mooer preamp. It was glorious!
You’re playing and that guitar. Looks so futuristic!
Thunder! Thunder! Thunder I got too high 🌩🥴. This viedo gave the quickest and best way how to create a wet, dry, wet rig. No more need to watch endless That Pedal Show videos ;-)
Great video! I wonder what are those thin interpedals cables....never seen them!
Thunder, thunder, thunder, I've gone too high!
I've been searching for a solution like this for a while, thanks for this video
Thunder, thunder, thunder, i've gone too high! 🔊🔊- Thanks for another great video. Now even i know, what a Wet-Dry-Wet-Rig-Setting is...
Thunder! Thunder!! Thunder!!! I've not gone too high at all because I'm not a fan of heights. I did, however, go to the foot of our stairs and this still sounded great. Loved the Wet-Dry-Wet.
Hahahaha!!! This is a must have for testing out wet dry wet
Awesome, thanks a lot for putting this video together.
I've been trying to set up a signal chain that allows me to play on headphones or small volume (living in a very small apt). I was thinking about this: Guita -> Focusrite -> PC (AmpliTube 5 OR Neural DSP plugins). From there, I could (1) send the signal to Headphones or (2) to a Power Amp -> Cabinet. Do you think the Thunder 99 could work as the Power Amp in this set up? I also have an eye at the EHX 5MM, have you tried it?
I got 2 of them.
Huge and clean power when it is paired with my Hotone Ampero.
I thought about selling it until I saw this video.
Very concise description etc. I play Jazz and Gospel, FYI
🎸
Cab sim on the headphones?
@@JOAQUINARMIJO
No cab simulation.
Cab simulation through a digital preamp like Ampero multi Effects preamp pedal.
I have a great idea! If you watched dipped in tone with Rhett Shull and Zack Broyles from Mythos they were saying we should have a guitar cab that has a power amp. So the mod!! Connect the thunder 99 inside the cab with the power cable coming out of the cab. Easy usability and great looking.
One step ahead of you 😉
@@TheGuitarGeek clap clap clap. well done
hi great video! ive learned a lot from it. could you tell me what make is the ABY box ? cheers Rob
Is the headphone output modeled in a way that it could be connected to a mixing console to provide front of house sound or silent recording? It would be a great advantage if it was.
Thunder! Thunder! Thunder! I've gone too high! excellent review Andy
Good demo, thinking about it... and, as for the "sexy or not", print a decal and stick it on the surface, that's it
Thunder, Thunder, Thunder! Thanks for this, interesting product for sure.
You bet!
I’ve wanted one of these for a while but reading around online (possibly a mistake I know), there seemed to be some reliability issues. Do you know if these have been solved? Apart from that, I can’t see why any guitar player wouldn’t want one.
THUNDER THUNDER THUNDER .. I Got Too High! Great Video Andy. I am a newie to your channel
Respect to the AFRO way better than Rabea´s !!! I picked up a EHX Magum 44 yesterday for 50euro 2nd hand!
I normally have the old CRATE PowerBlock into a pair of homemade Celection cabs: 1x12 & 1x10.
Will experiment with a WET/DRY set up tomorrow. Progress report ASAP!!. Cheers from Madrid
Hi, Can you use two output to 2 different guitar cab in mono version?? With Only 1 mono input
Brilliant piece of kit Andy and a brilliant video. That’s a a real mcGuyver pedal to have in your arsenal!!😀👍👍👍
Thunder thunder thunder. I’ve gone too high already 😂😂
Cheers Tom!
Hi,
I have a bit of a long winded question for you, apologies in advance.
I've recently bought a Bugera 6262 212 combo amp, and the amp says it should be set to 16 ohms for internal speakers. It has a single 6.3mm speaker lead but two speakers and whatever the input source is it should be 16 ohms.
I'm actually going to bypass the speakers and plug into an axetrack isolation cab I managed to get, it's a speaker and an SM57 in a sealed box. It uses the input from where the amp would usually go to a cab, so the amp gets full use, it just goes to the iso speaker instead of the combo speakers. The SM57 picks it up, there's an XLR out which I'm planning to connect to a Behringer UMC22.
That plugs into a computer and has headphones out, but to be honest I'm not that bothered about recording, I'm basically using the whole setup as an analog attenuator with air and a mic rather than limiting the signal electronically. I'd like to get the output from the UMC22 to go to the speakers on the amp that I'm using instead of through PC or headphones, I asked on Amazon and someone said that the signal would need a power amp otherwise it would be too weak for the speakers.
So my chain is:
Guitar > amp section of Bugera 6262 212 combo > iso box with sm57 > xlr > Behringer UMC22 > ...... > speaker section of Bugera 6262 212 combo
Can I output from the UMC22 into the Harley Benton Thunder 99, amplify without colouring the sound (at least not too much), then send to the speakers in my 6262 cab?
This way I'd be getting all the tone of a cranked up AND cranked speakers, picking up that sound and being able to hear it, AND being able to play without a DAW when I want but also being able to use one when I do but still hearing the sound from a cab with zero latency.
The goal is to get the sound of a cranked amp AND speakers that are really pushing air, but at bedroom levels, something attenuators can't do because they lower the signal so the speakers don't work as hard.
So what I really need is a way to cleanly amplify the SM57 and get it playing out of my the speakers that are in the combo.
So do you think it would work and be safe? I'd rather use my amp speakers than buying more.
I don't know, I'm very confused lol.
Sorry it's such a long question and thanks for your time.
(Thunder, thunder, thunder, I've gone too high!)
I know this is an insanely old video but just one thing, when doing to wet/dry/wet test, you're sending a "preamp'd" guitar straight into another preamp when using the fender... might be a good idea to plug it into the fx loop return in order to only use the power stage of the amp and bypass the preamp altogether.
Thunder thunder thunder I've gone 2 h👁️.
Great little review.
Great little amp pedal.
Thanks.
I subscribed as well 👍🤘
Love the 99 but wanted to ask what output cabinets did you use with the hx; powered or standard guitar cabs. I use powered frfr with my hx, so not sure if they would work since they are powered. Too much power?
I've been looking and transitioning to a more compact rig! You've convinced me!! Thunder!! Thunder!! Thunder!! I've gone too high!!!
Do you know if Thomann will bring back the Harley Benton GPA-100? In the website right now it says "not available" and that makes me soooo SAD. I want to buy one of those.
can it boost a hotone heart attack head 5w going to a harley benton g112 vintage with celestion vintage 30 in order to play with a drummer?
That Double cutaway is great guitar.
That thing is awesome. Thanks for putting it on my radar🤟 What are you using for speakers in the demo? Never mind, I should know better than to ask questions halfway through a video but you got me hyped for this pedal
Thunder thunder thunder, I’ve gone to high!🤣
I do mention in the video which cabs I’m
Using 😂
@@TheGuitarGeek I recently sold a 1982JCM 800 because I live in a condo and can’t play it the way I want, so I get a little hyped when I see something like this🤣 i’m also considering the two notes thanks to one of your prior videos👍
thunder, Thunder, THUNDER! I'M HIGH! that was a fun video. nice work.
Thunder I’m getting my W/D/W on after my second amp failed. My signal will be all going through a pre amp and fx loop before being split out.
This will be good for ampless setup, 2 cab sim pedals for each out straight to PA
Can i go with my Headrush and thunder direct to pa system?
Cool vid. Thunder.🍻🍻
Is there a “practice at home” pedal
That has the exact same inputs outputs of this pedal?
Is this the same as the Carvin mach 100? It looks identical but is only about half the price.
Thunder, thunder, thunder! I’ve gone too high! Nice one Andy!
Cheers V
That’s an awesome little power amp solution! Thunder thunder thunder I’ve gone too high 😆
Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, I've gone too high - but that little pedal is coming to a pedal board near ME!
Thunder I've got to high, it was good weed. I just didn't get where this pedal fits direct in or effects loop. I have trouble sometimes dialing in volumes of different pedals between clean and distortion. For instance got nice rock tone with an overdrive and distortion then switch to clean channel and volume is so loud . I like this pedal and wet dry effect is marvelous but am I now trying to balance the clean channel again
Ive found an always on compressor pedal solves this issue 😁
Just have to dial the drive channel and cleam channel a little different
I've read in some comments where some were experiencing shocks from the pedal. Obviously a grounding problem.
Thunder, thunder, thunder I’ve gone too high.
Awesome job, now I understand 🤙🎸
Donder, donder, donder! Gotta blitzen the neighborhood! Actually getting ready to demonstrate for the new roommate, she can't just run all nighters without a four-amp reveille at dawn. Two flavors of Fuzz on the dry channels, and I run a Flanger and a Vibrato through a Panning Tremolo to the wetter amps. It is all modular, so I could slip that little pedal in right where the CS-800 is running to a couple four ohm 2x12s. (Black Label EVMs FTW🤘) Sacrifice a little bit of tone in the wet maybe, hard to tell when the Voxes are on the pipe.
🤘🏽 noice
Thunder, Thunder, Thunder I've gone to high (I hate you for that ;)) Thanks for the quick and awesome explanation for the wet/dry and wet/dry/wet. I heard someone else talking about that today but had no clue to what it meant. Now I know! And knowing is...
Hej, what guitar is that? I kinda love it!
Hey mr guitar geek.
Can you use the stereo outs into a Marshall 1960B cab , it has a stereo plate on mine so I was thinking to split the 4 x 12 into two 2x12’s .
I’m looking at coming out of both outputs of the Quad cortex , maybe into this Harley Benton power amp and then into a 1960B cab with the stereo switch flicked over to stereo of course . Cheers pal.
yes im gonna do exactly that with my hx stomp + hb 99. Did you achieve stereo from the 4x12 cab in the end using stereo switch?
Can we us it in North America? Do we need a special adaptator?
Does the phones output stereo signal from mono input? To hear from both R and L headphones?
Could you input mono and output both L and R to hear the mono signal in both channels?
Fairly new to pedals, hope it makes sense.
I’m sorry, I didn’t check that
Thunder! Thunder! Thunder! I got too high! And on that note, I gotta get one of these for my stereo situation for the rocking and the rolling!
Total newb here...why the pre-amp? Is it absolutely needed or, like you said at the outset, is it adding "tone"? I see the EQ and gain buttons.
Thunder thunder thunder I've gone way too high! Head cocked to the heavens. Very interesting and I learned a lot, things are getting out of control, way too many options now ... take your pick? Thanks for the video. Regards.
Sounds great Andy, what about phasing doing stereo? Oh I almost forgot, thunder thunder thunder, we’re up too high
50 watts side at 4ohm load? Would that be 25 watts per side with an 8 ohm load? Thing about getting one of these but both my cabs are 16 ohms
Thunder....Thunder...THUNDER I'VE GONE TOO HIGH! That seems like a fantastic amount of utility. I was considering something like the Terror Stamp for a similar use case, but this seems cheaper and smaller.
If you have a preamp, go for it
you absolutely need two Toob Metro 6.5FR speakers for wet/wet :)
I have a dv mark 60 wattt and a kantana 100 head both sound great
Great video. Thank you for explaining this pedal.
Thunder, thunder, thunder! I’ve gone to high! lol
I’ve read many reviews of the amp that report it blowing up shortly after purchase and even more worrying people have been getting nasty shocks from it due to poor isolation. Great price but the cost may be high
I read that too.
No problem with my units, though
Yeah mine started smoking after about 6 months
No issues running without cab loads?
Quick question: is that a Klon Centaur between the blue strat and the black ES behind your afro in certain scenes?
Hey! No it’s not.... it’s something else
Do they still make this??? Available in Canada?
I really hope you reply to old comments (or some kind stranger does) be cause the temptation to give into GAS is high, does this turn a mono signal into a stereo signal or is it 2 totally separate (other than volume control etc.) power amps?
Hey, I do my best to answer comments. Yes, this can turn a mono into a stereo signal to take your mono signal source to two cabs.
@@TheGuitarGeek thank you for the quick reply and for all the quality content! Also damn you for making me buy a katana... OK majorly influencing my decision to buy one but that doesn't make my wallet any less unhappy lol. Thanks again, top quality channel!
Edit: top quality channel I wasn't subbed to, that's awkward... remedied now though.
Cab sim on the headphones?
can it run on 9 or 12 volt DC?
Nice idea,especially running in stereo. Had one,but sent it back. Kept getting shocks from the unit. Checking the Thomann buyer comments revealed this to be a common problem that Thomann do not seem to have rectified.
Oh yea you convinced me within the first couple minutes with the helix 😅😅😅.
What's that guitar you are playing?
Thunder ! Thunder ! Thunder ! I've gone too high !
I wonder if it's usable with a Cab M ? The goal would be to benefit from the preamp of the Cab M, and just use the Thunder 99 to plug into a real cab on stage, while using the XLR out of the Cab M straight into the board...
I don't know if I'm clear... In fact I wonder if connecting the Thunder 99 to the speaker out of the CabM would work, if it did it would be wonderful for a flight rig...
Yes you can use this with the cab m
wow, this would be great to amplify a stereo modeling pedalboard like the Axe F/X, Helix, Quad Cortex, Profiler Stage, or Tonemaster! Thunder Thunder Thunder, I've gone too high!
There is also HoTone Loudster Portable Power Amp for anyone looking into this kind of solution.
Thanks!
@@TheGuitarGeek Thank you for your review.
I'm thinking about doing a wet dry wet with this. Except with a multi effects for wet and my evh for dry.
This would work wonderfully
@@TheGuitarGeek the chain I'm thinking is... guitar into aby, A signal straight into the front of my evh with 2x12 cab, B signal straight into multi effects, stereo outs of multi effect into thunder 99 then into separate 1x12 cabs. Dial up an evh clean tone out of the modeler multi effects and bam...
You did that extremely well, but here comes a warning to people who wants to try it out. Some vendors wants to make you believe that it is possible to run stereo i ONE cabinet,
it is not! It sounds thin and lifeless. The stereo signal will cancel itself because both speakers are on the same baffle. You need cabs that are separated, and if they are close to
each other, you need to angel them in a triangle, with at least a 30 degrees angel.
Brian May uses the wet / dry / wet principle with a lot of success (stacks of VOX AC30s).
Assuming the headphones out is stereo?
Can I run an iPhone guitar app rig and power cabs with this???
Yes you can
Thunder, thunder, thunder, ive gone too high! Lol! Sub'ed!
Have you tried it in a band context, traditional drums, another guitar player?
Two questions:
1) If you set up a wet-dry-wet signal and pan the whole thing either left or right, are the positions of each cab shifted accordingly? What I mean is, if you shifted the signal 33% to the right in your DAW, would the Marshal cab be almost centre, the Orange cab hard right and the Harley Benton somewhere in the middle of the right channel? Just wondering if you wanted to double track the guitar left and right, would 6 different sources be detectable to the ear in the stereo field?
2) Would this be usable as a flat power amp for creating IR's?
This product is sweet!
Thunder, thunder, thunder - I’ve gone too high. What is that beautiful guitar you’re playing Andy? And how do I convince the world I need one?
Hi Joseph! It’s a DC coupe from prestige guitars!
That was awesome, especially for that price. Thunder! Thunder! thunder cat.... I've gone too high.
What's the difference between the Thunder 99 and the GPA-100? I'm not sure why someone would pick one over the other. The only difference I really see is the GPA-100 has EQ and the Thunder 99 has a footswitch.
thunderTHUNDER T H U N D E R I've gone too high! Model check on the guitar... Prestige DC Coupe Ace MG. I dig the single coil filtertron, but not so crazy on the double cutaway, but damn does it rock!
I love mine its been just over a year and I'm still using it on the regular.
Thunder, plenty loud even through my 16 ohm 412 cab.
Thunder, a little darker than a guitar amp as its a "Full range" amp not voiced for a particular instrument.
Thunder, Stereo so W/D or WDW with your fav amp as the big D.
Is the Moon to far up to come down?
Thunder Thunder Thunder Cats HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOly crap W/D/W is fun.
If you don't have a 4 ohm cab you can run mulitple cabs in parallel to achive the proper impedance and its class D so it wont explode if you turn it on with no speaker attached :)
P.S. its got a MUTE for a quiet power up/off or just to try to hear what's rattling from all the THUNDER!!!!!
It feelS good to be backed up by the mighty moon man
I have had mine a similar time and have a simple pedal driven stereo setup. Very good for home use as the volume goes smoothly low, unlike my little Marshall. Great.
I read there is an electrocution/minor shock issue with this pedal. Is that true was that your experience?
No not at all. I read the same thing after I made the video. I have tried to recreate it and failed.
Thunder! Thunder! Thunder!!! I've gone too hight!
That guitar is gorgeous. What is it?
Dude your hair is freakin awesome , you must let it grow full Slash length it will totally rule
Thunder, Thunder, Thunder I’ve gone too high. If you do use it as a backup when your main has failed, how or could you E.Q. It?
It’s a power amp so you COULD use a drive pedal as a preamp and do the tone shaping there or if you have a new pedal on your board, use that.