First public 3rd party review of the Glaswerks SOD50

[dogears]

From Miles Long on TGP:

Damn, this amp's off the hook! I auditioned it with my Languedoc hollowbody. The clean channel is a thing of beauty, more usable than my Emerald pro, more blackface like but with more mids on tap, very harmonically rich. Step on the boost and the clean has that perfect slightly broken up tone, dig in and it sings! The od channel I jokingly called audio LSD bacause of all the colorful harmonics leaping off the fretboard. Definately enough gain on tap here, I was dubious at first. Each held note gloriously sustained into effortless harmonic feed back, like a laser it was. You could easily get a tone simmiliar to EJ or Herring. Most D-style amps aren't the greatest for rock, no deficiencies here unless you're playing Metallica! There are 2 tone stacks available here, 80's and 90's voicings plus a boost for both channels and a mid boost as well, I personally liked it a lot better than the Two rock custom sig I played at the Philly show. Also I'd like to thank Vlad for letting me play his new alder Suhr, it was insane! So was his playing! Last but not least, the new Lerner Fuchs revisions have taken Andy's amps int a new realm of excellence, kudos Scott and Andy, the 30 watter I played was excellent as well! Glaswerks on the way..

From Vlad on TGP:

Mark,
Thanks for the props,bro!Indeed, the Glaswerks SOD has an ungodly tone!I've never played a Dumble and honestly I don't really care about playing one,especially after hearing the Glas amp and owning a piece of amazing gear in the face of my Fuchs SLX-truly a masterpiece product of Andy's with the input of Scott's golden ears.The Glas amp,the Fuchs that I own along with all the other Fuchses I've heard really leave me quite confident that tone doesn't get any better than this.As a disclaimer and for what it's worth this is only my humble opinion and then again it really deppends on who is playing the amp because as we all know even the best amp can't make every player sound great.

Vlad

From Miles Long again

......having played Gene's tan Dumble that Christopher Cross owned, I've also owned a Two Rock Emerald pro and a Fuchs, The Glaswerks amp kicks all kinds of ass, I'll leave it at that....


I'll add that Miles post about kicking Fuchs ass was referring to an earlier revision and not the ones he played at my house. For people into more the EJ violin thing, ot Carlton and early Ford, the Fuchsen I have are tops...

[les_guitar]

From Miles Long on TGP:

I'll add that Miles post about kicking Fuchs ass was referring to an earlier revision and not the ones he played at my house. For people into more the EJ violin thing, ot Carlton and early Ford, the Fuchsen I have are tops...

I am hoping that the Glasswerks SOD50 can easily pull the Larry and Robben tones too. Correct?

[dogears]

Yep... I meant tops on the same level as the SOD50... Me bad. Both amps kill on the 80s voice. But, the SOD50 does HRM too!

From Miles Long on TGP:

I'll add that Miles post about kicking Fuchs ass was referring to an earlier revision and not the ones he played at my house. For people into more the EJ violin thing, ot Carlton and early Ford, the Fuchsen I have are tops...

I am hoping that the Glasswerks SOD50 can easily pull the Larry and Robben tones too. Correct?

[les_guitar]

Yep... I meant tops on the same level as the SOD50... Me bad. Both amps kill on the 80s voice. But, the SOD50 does HRM too!

From Miles Long on TGP:

I'll add that Miles post about kicking Fuchs ass was referring to an earlier revision and not the ones he played at my house. For people into more the EJ violin thing, ot Carlton and early Ford, the Fuchsen I have are tops...

I am hoping that the Glasswerks SOD50 can easily pull the Larry and Robben tones too. Correct?

That's what I thought! Thanks for clarifying. BTW, the reviews on the Glaswerks SOD50 are hot! I think you and Gary might have nailed this one...

Although I'm just a software guy, this forum is really great. I can't believe all of the mods and tweaks that you folks are doing to dial in the Dumble sound. Very impressive. And the clips are just killer.