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Bluguitar iridium metal3/29/2024 ![]() (There's also an optional Easylock accessory - a neat system for magnetically attaching and detaching from a pedalboard.) A sturdy zip-up bag is also included. The metal stomp-format housing is less than 10 inches wide and includes an underbody channel that allows the amp to sit over a guitar cab's handle. ![]() All the channels have been fine-tuned, to give a tighter overdrive sound that still retains punch and attack, and offers a range of tone from clean to high-gain rock (with a lot of good stuff in-between) and the reverb algorithm has also been updated.Īs you can see from the pics, there is a fan for cooling, but as this only kicks in when the amp is working really hard you're unlikely ever to hear it. The amp still owes a lot to the original design, but it's much improved. Like the original, the Amp1 Mercury Edition (I'll call it the Amp1 ME) is a pedal-format amp head that combines solid-state analogue circuitry with a miniature nanotube valve driving a Class-D 100W output stage that has been specially designed to interact in an organic way with the speaker load - it emulates the way that a transformer-coupled valve output stage appears to the speaker. Over the last year, though, two new versions have been released - the Mercury Edition and, more recently, the Iridium Edition. Few amps can claim to cover all guitar genres but this one got as close to it as any, with a choice of three 'dirty' amp flavours as well as a nicely responsive clean channel. ![]() We were highly impressed with the result, as you'll know if you read our review (SOS June 2015: ). Unable to find anything commercially available that met his own needs, Thomas Blug's aim for the original Amp1 was a rig that would fit in his flight bag but wouldn't compromise his sound. ![]() Thomas Blug and Frank Fleckenstein will guide through this special Metal workshop.Thomas Blug aims to deliver his perfect amp tones in small and portable packages. The amp can be played and listened at multiple testing stations and at the BluGuitar booth # 223Ī dedicated AMP1™ IRIDIUM EDITION workshop is scheduled for Saturday September 28th from 17:15 – 18:00 at the Recording Stage. Both the AMP1™ MERCURY EDITION and the AMP1™ IRIDIUM EDITION are the results of this unique expertise.ĪMP1™ IRIDIUM EDITION will show up at the Guitar Summit 2019 ( from Sept.27th – September 29th 2019 in Mannheim, Germany. He started developing products for well-known manufacturers in the early 1990s, some of which today are regarded as the milestones of true tube pedals. Thomas is a legendary intellectual creator of tube-driven pedal amps. The optimal platform for pedals like shimmer reverb, modulation or delay. VINTAGE – Tight and mid-emphasized woody sounds that are transmitted tightly especially using extreme low tunings while delivering creamy midrange distortion.ĬLEAN – Massive headroom thanks to the 100 watt power amp and treble reserves, which give even mid-emphasized humbuckers a transparent, sparkling clean sound. The mid-range can be shaped by the Custom Control TONE from “Hot Rodded British High Gain” to “Teutonic wall of sound“. MODERN – With its extremely high gain reserves, this channel delivers crystal-clear string separation through a massive low-cut, and the Custom Control TONE knob lets you dial from a “cut thru the mix” solo sound to the typical “maximum brutality” mid scoop.ĬLASSIC – Due to the hard distortion characteristics and the specially tuned bass filter, this channel is percussive and significantly wider and harder in the mid-range than VINTAGE. The CLEAN channel, with its massive headroom and treble reserves, delivers transparent, sparkling clean sounds even in conjunction with mid-heavy humbuckers. Each of these channels offers different kinds of attack, response, and dynamics. Three independent, discrete OVERDRIVE channels deliver rich and tight distortion sounds that can be changed in gain structure and timbre. In cooperation with experienced, international metal guitarists, BluGuitar founder and professional guitarist Thomas Blug has developed this new amp from the ground up and, unlike the acclaimed AMP1™ MERCURY EDITION, he voiced the IRIDIUM uncompromisingly towards modern metal. World Premiere at Guitar Summit 2019: BluGuitar presents a new Metal Guitar Amp – The AMP1 IRIDIUM EDITIONīluGuitar GmbH/ Germany – September 16th, 2019 (ictw) – With the AMP1™ IRIDIUM EDITION BluGuitar introduce a pedalboard amp that is completely new researched, developed, designed and merciless voiced for modern Metal.
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