My Framus Cobra ODYSSEY - A tale of terrible decisions + Demo & Shootouts
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- Опубліковано 8 бер 2024
- A few years back I made the very questionable decision to buy one of the worlds infamously unreliable amps... from a backline rental company.
Here's the story of how dumb I am, everything I have learned about the amp as well as a demo and some quick shootouts.
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Time stamps:
00:14 Intro
00:53 Index
01:46 Framus Cobra Demo
03:55 Demo: Clean Channel
05:31 Demo: Crunch Channel
08:01 Demo: Crunch Ch. + Boost
09:05 Demo: Notch switches and the EQ
10:44 Demo: Lead Ch.
11:49 Demo: Lead Ch. + Boost
14:35 Demo: Global Controls
15:03 Demo: About the FX loop
18:46 Demo: Through a Greenback loaded cab
21:34 A close look at and a brief history of the Framus Cobra
27:07 About my Framus Cobra - A tale of terrible decisions
46:28 Shoutout
47:05 vs. Diezel Herbert Ch. 2
48:12 vs. Diezel Herbert Ch. 3
49:38 vs. Diezel Herbert Ch. 2 + Boost
51:31 vs. Diezel Herbert Ch. 3 + Boost
52:16 vs. Engl Powerball 1
53:24 vs. Engl Powerball 1 + Boost
54:34 vs. Engl Savage 120
56:05 vs. Engl Savage 120 + Boost
57:34 vs. Peavey 5150
58:25 vs. Peavey 5150 + Boost
59:57 Final Thoughts
Holding an amp like that is way more awkward than I expected.
What do you think of the Framus Cobra? Have you encountered one with a failed OT?
Tried something new with the format of this video. What's the verdict? Snoozefest or interesting?
Oh and the speakers in the Cobra cabs were in fact 8 Ohm speakers after all. My bad!
I wanted one but now I think I'll just get a diesel lol
I think I might be experiencing this right now 😬 just received my amp back today from a tech actually, so this video is extremely informative. But unlike your experiences, he’s a great dude, and I’m not faulting him. He replaced most of the electrolytic caps (at least the ones that swell and go bad over time). I jammed through his 2x12 greenback and h30 cab and noticed immediately some distortion on the clean channel that does not change whether how low the gain or high the volume knob lies. He tried changing the bias as I played and still distortion. Same with the lead, but this is even more interesting, as this distortion turns more into an undertone fuzz. Almost as if someone is plugging a fuzz pedal through the effects loop, with the volume knob most of the way down and blending it with the distortion of the lead. Again, bias did not solve this. This problem is also apparent on the crunch. From what I’ve noticed watching your video, the crunch opens up around 2-3 o’ clock. On mine, it is super saturated on 11 o’ clock.
TL/DR I think I’m having the same problem that you had. All channels are experiencing that weird distortion, even after changing the filter caps.
Getting a Diezel is never a bad idea
Oh man, sorry to hear you are having issues but having a good tech helps. If it's the optocouplers, he could test it by bridging the ones for the active channel and taking the other ones out of the circuit.
Good luck! Hope your Cobra roars again soon
@@TheOtherJohnBrowne update on my personal odyssey of this amp: amp still has the issue and I, myself, have become obsessive. Tech has replaced a coupling cap on the input of v1 that could cause dc leakage, but very weary if it will solve this issue as every other tech in town cannot spot the distortion/fuzz on an oscilloscope. Also, every tech looks at me weird when I mention anything about optocouplers. May have to resort to doing this myself.
Which brand and specific part number did you use for the optocouplers? Several h11f3 variants, but I’m not sure if there any differences regarding spec between them.
Awesome vid John, really incredible work. Probably the best and most comprehensive amp demonstration yet. And thanks for shouting out the Amp Driver!
Thank you!
It's a wicked pedal and I can't wait to dive deeper into it!
Best review on the framus. Ever.
Thank you!
@TheOtherJohnBrowne good job. It's like I'm in the room with you and I'm hearing the amp.
@@amirtak9886 I am delighted to read that
1 hour of TOJB. My body is ready.
Cheers! Enjoying NZ, I hope?
Best video on this amp so far! And pulling up the schematic half way into the video is making my inner nerd so happy!
Cheers! Tried a few new things in this video with great reception!
My V1 has a very “slo” style mid range that I love. Also found the EQs have interesting interactions with each other in groups, bass/mid and treble/presence. Pushing the bass up makes it almost a low mid control, and the mid becomes a mud control (almost like a pultec cut/boost effect)
thank you for sharing your story, you had me cracking up the whole time. I love my Dragon but have the same love hate relationship and I am terrified of ever bringing it out anywhere. Would love to someday be able to build it (or have it built) from scratch in a sturdier and cleaner build for longevity. There's such little info on these beasts and I really appreciate your dedication here!
Thank you!
Ya I love my Framus Cobra except I received it with this crazy hissing all the time regardless of channel. Never put money into it because mostly if you turn it up loud enough the hissing volume stays low and barely audible.
Thanks for sharing your journey!
It sounds beautiful. Sometimes I think what our mind generates as the expectation can really take us away from what it is. My presumption is a lot of people think they will hear killswitch engage right away not realizing those guitars are more than just one and your hearing how their rigs sounded blended into a mix which is not going to sound exactly as it did coming right out of one guitar into an amplifier that is being recorded by a microphone. Also a lot of times people miss hearing the actual sound on recordings because they are hearing the whole thing versus just a guitar. An easy example would be that when they did the eq for the track they made that eq compliment the bass and the impacts you’ll hear on things such as the snare, cymbals, toms, kick, and hi hat. Most guitar players love bass but it might not work in the mix and therefore they are wondering why they aren’t hearing the depth when they use an amp not realizing most of the deeper sounds were actually coming from a complimentary blend of bass and guitar in harmony.
You nailed it
I didn't remember the Framus Cobra sounding that good, actually, but just played it once 20 years ago. The clean sound makes me want to play the intro of Eighteen Visions - Waiting For The Heavens 😉 I really like the crunch channel, especially boosted. It seems to have a unique footprint in the mids.
I also like to hear about the weird background story of this amp, although i heard some of it before 😀
This didn't feel like an hour long vid. Amazing job. I've not played the real amp but Kazrog's plugin version of the amp was my main tone for years.
Thanks, mate! I'm glad it didn't feel too long because it felt like a day long video when I edited it 😂
Excellent episode. Would love to see more content like this. Would love to know more about the basic stuff we can all do (without dying) before we trudge off to the amp repairer too, not to mention the more advanced (insane) experimental stuff you did! Nice to know its not just me that has these mysterious amp issues.....
Great shootout too man. The tone of the Framus (at least how you had it dialled) was brilliant. Fuck carrying that thing around for a joke though!
Cheers! Thank you! I'm still experimenting with some formats but they are all a lot of fun to. Maybe I can do some more technical stuff too!
LOL! Yeah, it's not nearly has heavy as the Herbert or 5150 but holding it over my head for the thumbnail was a lot more awkward than I anticipated
Well done figuring out what was the issue and not giving up. It must be rewarding for sure.
Thanks man! Not sure if I am tenacious or just insane
@@TheOtherJohnBrowne I have a few amps with issues and it definitely keeps me up at night but once I am in front of them, I feel like I am going to screw them even more than they are so I procrastinate (i bought the Merlin book so it’s happening, at some point 😅) So I guess you did great and went to the bottom of it being tenacious. As time goes by and you get older you’ll learn how to use your time judiciously. Just a life learning experience in my opinion.
Loved the vid John. Very informative and I liked the tones throughout. Great tenacity into finding out what happened and how to fix. Look forward to more content. Great jamming too!
Thank you very much!
Nice!
I remember looking into the fx loop conspiracy years ago. The best I could figure was that folklore developed around people having phase or comb filtering delay issues with effects or gates because of the parallel loop, so setting the mix pot to full series fixed the issue... but that's typical of parallel loops. (The bare patch cable wouldn't do much unless the switching jacks' contacts are going bad... which happens).
I mean, the loop circuits are just resistors and caps, with the only shunt cap being the ~200pF or so Miller capacitance of the return tube's grid... which doesn't amount to much with respect to the loop pot setting (less than half a dB at 20kHz).
The extreme lows would change a tiiiny bit with the pot at opposite mix pot extremes since the coupling caps are different values, but again: not much and not audible... 1/gm, so under 1k, meaning shunt capacitance from a cable running from output to input won't do anything in the human hearing range... unless you used a 200 foot cable.
Last thing: I didn't see if you mentioned what tubes you are running, but it sounds like you moved away from the EH brand they spec'd stock? I remember them sounding wooly in that amp and I don't hear that in your samples.
Thank you for putting the fx loop thing in context! It's great to now know the physical background to it! I appreciate it a lot!
Yeah, the stock tubes on this one were pretty deflated so I changed them all out. The power section now has Tung-Sol EL34Bs in it and the preamp has a mix of TAD (Shuguang) and JJs in it.
Great video. I liked the length and format!
Awesome, thank you!
Great stuff man! Thank you for sharing this knowlegde and pain you went through. I had a very similar path with Crate VC5212, it was the opto couplers too, but to get there I changed a lot of other components prior, to no avail. Best to you and keep up the good job, the format is great :)
Thanks man! Happy you figured out what the issue was with your Crate too! I much prefer relays now. lol
I have been on a mission to find out more about this amp and buy one. And then your video comes out informing me. As always amazing content
Thanks for the comment and your support, man! I greatly appreciate it!
Great review and extremely detailed, really enjoyed it! Love the Cobra!
Thanks, man! i enjoyed your Cobra videos too!
@@TheOtherJohnBrowne 🙌🙌!!
Waited for this video, since you announced it and really loved every second ❤
My Framus dragon was my first and will be my last amp. Took me years to finally understand the damn eq settings, because i finally found out that the eq section is based on a Baxandall EQ.
And I also managed to make the FX loop usable quick and easy. Profile this piece of sheep of an amp with a Kemper. 🎉 My favorite sound of all time.
And for your Story with your Cobra, you deserve an Audio Academy Award, you legend!
Cheers, man! Glad you liked it! Yes, telling the story was therapeutic 😂
owned one way back when, bought used and luckily always worked, i have this memory of the footswitch and what felt like a 10metre cable 😄 didn't keep it too long in the end, for some reason i was buying various metal orientated amps, but was in an indie/alt rock sort of band, i think it culminated when i had an OG EVH 5150, the Cobra and an oldschool Peavey Ultra but i only really needed a clean and an overdriven sound , the cobra could certainly have done that, but that was when i got swayed into the whole world of pedals/pedalboards into amps
cool to see such a long video dedicated to it in any case, kudos
Awesome! Might not have been the worst choice to move the Cobra on. I'd love to try an old Peavey Ultra amp someday
That 5150 was sounding pretty close to the Framus Cobra, at least from where I am standing. That Powerball, though was sounding really good. I wish Engl amps weren't marked up 40% here in the US or I'd already have one.
The Powerball was the surprise hit for me too
Man, that`s one of the best videos I`ve seen lately. Hope your amp will work from now on!
Would like to see an in depth review of the Randall MTS sitting under the Cobra. I think I actually sold you that one ;)
If you sold me the Salvation MDA board with it, you probably did :-)
This video is doing surprisingly well so far so I might do more like this and the Randall is a good candidate although it has been good to me so far
Yeah, think it was me. I did sell it in Germany, either over the FB group or Kleinanzeigen :)@@TheOtherJohnBrowne
The Cobra is a SLO100 preamp clone, but the tone stacks are Baxandall EQs, it is an active EQ used in the HiFi world, and it can boost or cut frequencies, instead of the traditional Marshall style TMB passive EQ, that only cuts and has insertion loss even with all controls on 10.
It is more flexible than the SLO100, due to the switching options and dedicated presence controls for each channel. What happened to the depth controls though??
The notch filters are pretty much useless, it would be way more effective if they put the control on a pot instead.
The funny thing is that they took the useless series soldano fx loop and managed to make it more useless by making it parallel, I wonder what they were thinking 😂😂😂
All in all, even by copying the SLO100 gain stages, these amps sound nothing alike 😂😂
Thanks for providing some more technical info on the amp. From how effective the EQ controls are, I suspected they were active but I never bothered to verify it.
The loop is ridiculous, isn't it? Like, how can we make this loop worse, guys? 😂
Great in-depth review and demo, as always. I totally get the love/hate thing with this amp. I had a Cobra half stack back in the early 2000's. I really liked the tones, kind of spongy like a rectifier and one of the few amps I felt I didn't really need to boost. IMO the matching cab did not sound very good, so you're not missing anything. I don't remember if it had greenbacks or v30's but It was thin and didn't project much bottom end. I can't really complain... my buddy was a Framus endorsee at the time, so that's all I'll say about that. I used it for about a year and eventually traded it off. I didn't have any issues but it was just too much amp for my needs and I knew about the reliability issues and figured I'd get rid of it before any potential problems.
Thanks for sharing your story with the amp!
You are a madman. It’s a great project, but even at its best the clean channel isn’t anything special.
Glad you saw it through. You’ve earned a sub.
Cheers, man! Thanks for being here
Jeez that story gave me such PTSD ... i almost bought a dragon but i got a deal in a jcm 900 mkiii for 300 euros so i passed ... a friend of mine got the dragon ... long story short the amp worked for a month before the capacitors gave out ... and my jcm is still going ... nothing changed since 91
Man, does seem some of the reliability concerns are warranted with these. I had a JCM 900 HGDR for a few years and fixed it up. One of the very few amps I regret selling
Great video john. I often overlook framus stuff when it comes to diezel or engl.
Thanks, mate!
Amazing job sir. I have gone over to the Synergy side of amps after blowing through tens of thousands of dollars worth of gear, and I can say with minimal regret that they are 96 percent there. I don't know if they have ever come up on your radar but I encourage you to check them out, especially in a studio environment. I remember seeing Killswitch in a small club in Fitchburg MA and talking with Adam, who like yourself is a student of the amp, and he was having nothing but frustrations too. I loved the Framus cabs, but they are rare and expensive. Thanks for the great video
Cheers! I'm a big fan of the Synergy system and have compared a few of them to the original amps too.
Yeah, I heard the amp famously died during one of the songs on the End of Heartache album and that's why some tracks have different guitar tones
Great shootout! I found the 5150 sweet spot is just a hair below 2 on the master. It's sound most balance to my ears.
Love The Framus Cobra High Gain Sound
I have that very same amp and model. It sounds good now, but it took a lot of work from a shop to get it to sound great. The guy I bought from, and I am guessing, but he had the bias really high and put low voltage preamp tubes. To me, I think he was trying to create a plexi. I bought a dragon on the cheap, and the amp tech basically stripped out everything and installed it in my Cobra. My cobra works and sounds great now. The thing is, I really don't know what the Cobra is supposed to sound like. Everyone I have known that has one, they had to put a lot of work in their Cobra, and all of them sound different. Just for poops and giggles, all four of us compared our amps, and they sound so different. The settings react differently. When I say different, I mean different, not by a little but by a lot. It's a great amp that is very troubled. It's such a great story, and I think most people who have owned one can relate.
Great comment! Thank you! I'd love to replicate the test you did with your friends
@TheOtherJohnBrowne unfortunately this was 2015. I live in Asia now. (Work reasons ) One of them I know sold his, but if I go back to the U.S. I would love to video the comparison. It really surprised us. All of those amps were bought used with some kind of modd done to them, and was taken to 4 different shops to get worked on.
Thank you for telling your story. It looks like these optocouplers could be fitted nicely with DIY adapter PCB.
I can't tell how close this experience is to the one I made with my Framus Dragon (which is basically the same amp). I bought it new from Thomann when they were selling them out. It had an issue right from the beginning (noise, no power). Got it back, good for a year. The first time I moved it from my living room to the rehearsel, the problem came back. This time i measured the bias - it had dropped to about 50%, all power tubes ok. Sent it back to Thomann with video proof, but they did not find anything and stated it worked perfectly. I decided to change the capacitors myself (my first terrible decision). Did so, but forgot to cut the excessive leads, causing a short-circuit, frying the PT. Framus had one in stock, to an exorbitant price. Found a company that could make one exactly to specs. Had en excellent tech, but after he exchanged the PTs it still wouldn't work. But he actually found out that the PCB had become conductive. So I was really happy with that. Now I found that the loop is not working, no signal from Send, probably a ground problem. But I am afraid of touching this amp again, exactly as in the video. So nice to see that I am not the only one with this experience. Cheers!!!! Wonderful video, btw!
I'm gutted to hear you have one with even more Gremlins. I feel your pain. It's beyond frustrating
Damn that one sounded good - fantastic video alltogether.
Learning the story behind the amp was great - same goes for all the technical details (as maddening as this journey must have been).
So yeah, love this format, outstanding stuff!
Cheers!
(oh, btw - how big is the temptation to rebuild the entire thing in Diezel build quality and call it ToJB Odyssey? ;) )
Cheers, buddy! Thanks once again for being here.
That is... a very cool idea that never crossed my mind. Odissey would be a sick name for an amp
@@TheOtherJohnBrowne Glad to be along for this journey - wouldn't want to miss it! Also: Congratulation on 2k subscribers!!
As always - I'm looking forward to all you'll come up with!
Thank so very much!!!
You’re channel has grown !
Much to my own surprise!
Love the story time! Some amps are just a mix of agony and ecstasy. Let's see a plugin do that 🤣🤣🤣
LOL!
I really feel you on the "amp techs" had pretty much the same exact thing happen on a Soldano hot rod ,I finally found a great tech to work on it and then started my journey into fixing,modding,and building my on amps and pedals.
Oh yeah! Thank goodness there are good techs out there. I since have met a couple
Finally a solid review of the Framus Cobra. I’ve had mine since 2003. It’s a V1. They were biased cold from the factory. I had bias points installed and switched the power tubes to Ruby tubes and swapped out some of the preamp tubes as well. I biased it to around 33-35 and I run the channel masters at 3 o’clock. This makes a huge difference and really opens it up.
There’s so much folklore about these blowing up but when I look into the actual evidence it’s hearsay or someone forgot to plug in the cabinet. The cabs did have crappy speaker jacks (I had to replace one of mine).
Regarding the effects loop, when there’s nothing in it and you run it at noon I got a bit of volume boost and what felt like a little more grind. This could have just been volume though. When I have my Gmajor in the loop the level has to be up all the way or there’s phase issues.
The tone stack is a Bandaxall stack and doesn’t work like “regular” ones. You gotta use your ears when dialing it in, especially the low end.
Cheers! I agree with you. It has to be mostly hearsay.
I think I run mine a little colder at about 30 mA.
One has to get to know these amps a bit to dial them but once you get them there, they sound glorious
Do you ever watch a video and think, "I want those minutes of my life back"? Well, this was absolutely NOT one of those. So good!
All the amps sound great in their own ways, except...
The Diezel clips sound suspicious. The attack is like its hitting a limiter or compressor. It sounds like more than power amp sag would account for to me, but maybe it really is that snappy. I usually have to send bass tracks through an LA2A (plugin) to get that kind of snap.
Man, you had me there for a sec. I was bracing myself to get my feelings hurt 😂
Not sure what the issue might be with the Diezel clips. Maybe I didn't leave enough headroom and youtube clamped down a little with compression
@@TheOtherJohnBrowne I normalized the Framus and Diezel riffs by loudness and I definitely see (using Melda MMultiAnalyzer) the Diezel's percussive attacks in the waveforms, that I'm hearing. In the measurement window of momentary LUFS the difference in attacks is one or two LUFS. That's a long window to measure transients, but the measured difference is an indication of how chunky the Diezel is. Its quite impressive.
I really liked this video, thank you. I tried a Cobra at the Framus store in NYC about 10 years ago while shopping for amps. I hated it. Scratchiest, thinnest sounding bullshit amp ever. I was demoing it with their LTD Les Paul style with EMG’s., which is also a pretty thin sounding guitar. Altogether it was so unpleasant haha. The Herbert is amazing. I ended up with a Peavey 6534.
Also over the years I’ve had a lot of similar problems with the 6505/6534 series of amps. About 6 of them between bandmates and myself. It’s always the same problem, and techs can never figure it out. There’s some kind of noisy popping sound that develops at some point when the amp is running. This is across four 6534’s and two 6505’s. Every amp had it. So frustrating. It gets expensive (and time consuming) chasing the issues around. I still have one 6505 and it still has the issue so it rarely gets used. If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know!
Thanks man! I was fully prepared for this video to tank. I'm glad you like it.
Yeah, the Cobra is a bit of a weird and picky amp. I also had a 6534+ for a while. I'm sorry you are having so many issues with your Peaveys
@@TheOtherJohnBrowne I just reread my reply, sorry man I wasn't meaning to spread negativity about your amp! I was just relating to having a total pain in the ass for a guitar amp, whatever the brand or model
I used a v5 for several years as my main gigging amp. Just let it go a few years ago because of the effects loop. I wanted to play some weak music with ambient reverbs (sorry).
Always loved how it sounded.
With the OD, that amp sounds awesome.
Great vid...thumbs up, looking under the hood on amps is a guilty pleasure. I emailed you abt a marshall
Thank you for cool and informative video. I think about was it worth to buy and, in this video it sounds confident comparing with other famous higainers. One thing i not quite understand - it is Framus cobra mk2 as it is odessey or not?
Thanks, mate! In the end it was worth it for me as I learned a lot.
I called it odyssey as I had to mess with this amp for so long that I wasn't sure I'd ever get it to work correctly
@@TheOtherJohnBrowne Haha! Thanks
Mine does have very faint/quiet high gain bleed going on when playing clean channel. Clean is also quite nice/deep but also upfront sounding, I mean picking softly does not work that well.Anyway support told me once it may have bleed due to some design. I actually asked about this the other John Browne, never got reply, thats why I prefer this channel as you share your view and bad sides of the amps as well.
I find pretty loud compared to other amps, but it has pretty unique low end, huge, tight, sizzly, textured.
I think Framus has been acquired by Warwick some time ago.
Thanks man. I appreciate your kind words. Yeah, the switching design is the amps achilles heel which is why your amp may have some slight channel bleed.
It would be cool if Warwick reissued the Cobra and Dragon with improved switching and loops.
Heard you tell this story before. I feel like this is a rabbit hole that one falls into once or twice when dealing with used amps… a rite of passage for obsessive idiots, if you will. On the plus side, in the comparative tests the Cobra really sounds fuller and more juicy in the low end than the counterparts. I hope to try one some day!
Btw Unidyne + middle of cone is a damn bright toan, especially when stuck straight into the speaker. Would definitely pop it somewhere more chill next time!
Yeah sounded better to me when recording it too than it did later. Had it at the edge of the dustcap
@@TheOtherJohnBrowne I feel existential angst when I move a mic further away than that.
Wooow.
That was something in overal.
Format is great for me, but ut has to me shorter in my opinion. This time you had amasing story to tell so it was really interesting till the end. Jokes ... top lever man ! 😂 I want to hear more of that.
I was really surprised about quality of german butique amp. Sentence "Germerman quality" doesn"t have that meaning anymore. Especially if they want such load of money for that.
Seperatey it doesn't make such an impression till you compare it to thise amps. You, right, Powerball has something in it. For me just Powerbal can compete.
Massive job you have done to make this amp alive. Impressive, especially that you"re not amp builder.
Good job with amp
Good job with video. I'vd like to see more like this. Maybe shorter... but jokes has to be on the same level ! 😅
Haha! Yeah, it did end up being veeery long. Future amp videos will be shorter again as they didn't torment me as much as the Cobra.
Don't worry, the humour stays. I'm slowly able to show my true goofy nature here 😂
@@TheOtherJohnBrowne Doesn't mean that I don't like long videos when they're interesting ... 😀 but some people will not have enough patiance.
BTW sorry for my spelling I'm making many mistakes.
@@Greg25815 No worries, mate! I understood you perfectly
I remember the late night troubleshooting and peering at schematics trying to figure it out😂
Thank you for being my amateur therapist, brother
Hey John, would you be able to do some high gain d.i captures of the Cobra? Your other high gain ones are awesome 😎
I'm sure I can help you out. Feel free to message me via IG or email
@@TheOtherJohnBrowne awesome, where can I find your email? Can I direct message you on FB? Im part of Jon Symons new group.
I will watch the everliving shit out of this before bed tonight. With a nice bottle of lotion by my side.
LOL
Ha!
Your experience with techs is the reason a lot of us dont use techs because we have trust issues 😅
Miss my Cobra. I actually contacted Framus last year to see whether there are any plans to bring the Cobra back. Apparently they're considering it. Itll need to be made overseas though
That's interesting! With a better loop and switching design, that might be a cool thing
Absolutely. To leave this glorious circuit out of production is a shame. You're in Germany, keep the heat on them!
Oh fuck yeah
Hey John. Just wondering if you would be up for collaborating on capturing some of your cool gear for NAM? I've trained a bunch of NAM profiles which could help take some of the pain points away.
Depends what you have in mind. Please send me an email or message me on Instagram if you want to talk about this
I had one, too. When I wanted to sell it, someone drove 2 hours to pick it up… 30 minutes before he arrived the amp suddenly died. That was embarrassing.
Aw man, that sucks. Did you get it working again?
@@TheOtherJohnBrowne The amp was still under warranty and I received a full refund from Thomann. In this way, I even got more money for the amp than I would have gotten if I had sold it second-hand, which is a bit ironic. In any case, I was extremely embarrassed when the buyer arrived at my place after a long drive and the amp had died a few minutes earlier without warning.
framus all day
Have had a piece of sh*t V5 cobra before. Beautiful clean channel but the rest sounded like fuzzy, woolly garbage. A wet fart if you will. Only amp I have ever had that red-plated.
Sorry to hear you had issues with your Cobra. Based on a lot of the comments here, you are not alone. Seems the Cobras reputation is justified
I have one of these, and I both love and hate it. It’s really easy to dial in a satisfying tone with the (original) cab in the room, but dialling it for recording is way harder. I mainly use a Two Notes Captor and IR’s for recording, and the amp really doesn’t play nice with most of the IR’s I have. I did however realize after a while that the amp is (obviously) designed with Greenbacks in mind, and getting som GB IR’s really helped.
Yeah, I have a love-hate relationship with mine too but I quite like it with V30s too
@@TheOtherJohnBrowne Yeah, you definitely got some good sounds out of your V30 setup. I’m going to keep experimenting :)