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 UA-cam.. 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. UA-cam 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.
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...
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.
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!
@@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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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!
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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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'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👍
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
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.
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.
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 😬
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.
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
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!
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
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. :)
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.
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.
You really shouldn't close this issue without trying the working man's standards on part III - the Peavey Bandit and the Tech21 Trademark 60. Keep jamming!
So, entering into the spirit of all this wet/dry malarkey, whilst not wishing to blow up any of my existing kit, I now find myself the proud owner of a Hotone Nano Legacy Captain Sunset (WET), a Hotone Nano Legacy Siva Boogie (DRY), a Hotone Nano Legacy Freeze B (WET) and 2 Lehle P-Splits. The result is EPIC. Ta very much guys.
Good times whenever Dan finds tonal nirvana, Great episode!. I am surprised that the new Orange Pedal baby, Or the milkman amp wasn't in this episode. I have a feeling you may have to revisit this topic with a part III. 🤔
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.
My glass back is looking forward to easing the burden of carrying amps up and down two flights of stairs every week, so Thomas Blug's fantastic sounding Amp1 Mercury is now in my sights. Thanks, guys for the hip tip!
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.
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!!
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! :)
I've been watching the show for a long time and find every episode engaging, informative and above all entertaining! Sometime's it's the subjects you think apply to you the least that teach you the most! Whilst not directly linked to this episode but sticking with the multiple amps theme, what are your thoughts on using different amps for clean/crunch/lead tones, effectively switching between amps instead of channels on an amp? And how about running these amps into one speaker to save space at a gig (using heads instead of combos and a single cab)? Could you extend this further to have your wet effects between the amps and the speaker? Could there even be enough here to explore in a future episode? I'm sure I represent a huge majority of people when I say a big thank you to Dan and Mick and all involved at TPS. Please keep up the good work!
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.
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 !!
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!
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!
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
Mick, really like your playing! Wish you could do a parallel series of small episodes explaining your thought process for mixing chords and lead on-the-go.
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 UA-cam.. 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. UA-cam channels, blokes down the pub and everybody inbetween!
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!
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.
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
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.
Think it’s time you guys should give quilter amps another try. They’ve got even better now!
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!
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?)
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!
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!
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.
The lab series L5 is, in my opinion, is one of the best solid state amps ever made. Built in compressor was awesome
Great intro Mick !! and the coffee is hot, going to enjoy this !!!! are not Fridays great !
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
The two gentlemen are in fine form tonight. Bravo.
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.
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'm glad you guys did two consecutive shows on transistor amps. Now, we never need to do that again. ;~)
Hahahaha!!!!!
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!
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.
Every video on UA-cam should start with that intro. Holy Hell that was a thing of beauty. 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.
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!
The education I receive from your hard work is invaluable. Thanks guys!!!
Dan's face during Mick's intro jam ... priceless.
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.
"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. 😂
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.
Very Robin Trower at the beginning. Nice!!
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.
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!
Fantastic show guys! The comments on personal necessity of guitar speaker - perfect!
Love that trem!!!! Dang Mick. That intro solo melted my face.
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
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.
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
Guys, I really love your show!!! Returned early from work, took a coffee, switched on this episode ------ Weekend!!!!
Red by King Crimson yeah! ( maybe next time with a fuzz pedal😁)
Love the show!
If Mick gets to play Band of Gypsies every episode, Dan needs to play Crimson every episode.
Case Nowie I'm holding out for the midi/KC dedicated episode - Fripp & Belew era 🤤
@@davidtexmex1616 I've recently seen a Roland JazzChorus and a guitar with a sustainer PU on the show. They're slowly moving in that direction 😊
The public is crying out for an hour long demonstration of Frippertronics!
Loved it!
I was so happy!
Then Mick brought back disco.
Now I need to get back on my meds.
I posted earlier about Mick’s playing.....but Danny boy on that Nik Huber, YESSSSSSS!!!
Yeah mate. That Nik Huber sounds lovely
Thank you for giving me a safe space online to be completely nerdy about guitar stuff. 🤘🏼
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'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👍
Dan's red guitar...I cannot describe to you how much I love it.
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
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.
HEY GUYS! 00:15 and on.the vent and harmonic tremolo together = HEAVEN.
Great show. Was hoping to see the BlueG and Quilter together in the wet/dry set up. Please try this in part 3 🙏
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.
3:41 Thanks Derrick! 😂🤣😂. Subtle humor is a beautiful thing. Nice timing Dan. 10/10. 👍🏻👍🏻
The Quilter sounds great with the fuzz!!
Excellent vid guys, as always.~
Some very nice playing throughout but that Solo at the end .... jus' flyin' man... I went all Kozmyk.
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 😬
Guys, the picture and sound quality of your content is incredible. It feels like you're little guitar playing midgets inside my computer screen
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.
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’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!
On this #2 when you pulled in the Fender to the dry amp I was falling in love again. Sounded awesome together.
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)
Perfect friday: hunkering down during the snow storm and watching TPS
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
Those got some really good sounds! They each clearly have their own character.
I really love your shows!great sound and nice playing!
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. :)
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.
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.
You really shouldn't close this issue without trying the working man's standards on part III - the Peavey Bandit and the Tech21 Trademark 60. Keep jamming!
Let's do it!
The Tech 21 Blonde is no joke. Great tones in there emulating Tweed, Blonde, BF and SF. It's well worth a few minutes.
And I'm playing through a Quilter Interblock 45 for the dry and a pair of Mooer Baby Bomb 30s for wet. Credit to TPS for the switch to solid state.
@@ThatPedalShow Lab Series L5 and a vintage JC120 too.
So, entering into the spirit of all this wet/dry malarkey, whilst not wishing to blow up any of my existing kit, I now find myself the proud owner of a Hotone Nano Legacy Captain Sunset (WET), a Hotone Nano Legacy Siva Boogie (DRY), a Hotone Nano Legacy Freeze B (WET) and 2 Lehle P-Splits. The result is EPIC. Ta very much guys.
Good times whenever Dan finds tonal nirvana, Great episode!.
I am surprised that the new Orange Pedal baby, Or the milkman amp wasn't in this episode.
I have a feeling you may have to revisit this topic with a part III. 🤔
All in good time. :0)
Deluxe reverb blackface, by far the best pedal platform ever and the favorite pf Andy from PGS
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.
My glass back is looking forward to easing the burden of carrying amps up and down two flights of stairs every week, so Thomas Blug's fantastic sounding Amp1 Mercury is now in my sights. Thanks, guys for the hip tip!
loved the jazzy chilled playing by "Hello, Mick here" today
YES I ENJOY THIS SHOW...A LOT!!! MORE SOLDERING!! Thanks for all the inspiration and motivation!
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.
You guys made me feel young today. That whole Jazz section I was going "Uuuuugh Jazz! Bring back the good music." 😉So thanks for that.
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.
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
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!!
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! :)
Wowwww! Mick your pedal setup is insane at the moment! Jealousy has struck me! Digging your playing too! Superb!
I've been watching the show for a long time and find every episode engaging, informative and above all entertaining! Sometime's it's the subjects you think apply to you the least that teach you the most!
Whilst not directly linked to this episode but sticking with the multiple amps theme, what are your thoughts on using different amps for clean/crunch/lead tones, effectively switching between amps instead of channels on an amp? And how about running these amps into one speaker to save space at a gig (using heads instead of combos and a single cab)? Could you extend this further to have your wet effects between the amps and the speaker? Could there even be enough here to explore in a future episode?
I'm sure I represent a huge majority of people when I say a big thank you to Dan and Mick and all involved at TPS. Please keep up the good work!
Very nice lads. Analog Man Sun Face Fuzz, yes please.
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.
I've been using a MXR Shin Juku with a HRD for an 'open, dumbly' overdrive and it sounds amazing.
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 !!
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!
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!
3:40 "Thanks Derek." LMFBO!!!
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
Mick, really like your playing! Wish you could do a parallel series of small episodes explaining your thought process for mixing chords and lead on-the-go.
Only 6 mins in but think I just heard a new T-Shirt slogan from Mick: “I’ve got solder but I’m not a solderer”