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A few weeks ago my old band mate and best man came around with his spanking new aquisition.
A Big White Monkey 5 watt Chimp – Link
It is of course an valve amp and not an electrified furry beast looking for tarzan.
Anyway a couple of days we decided to get the thing set up and recorded much in the same way I recorded my Fender Champion a day earlier.
From their website:
‘We started off modifying guitar amps as a project—trying to get the sound and feel we wanted from amps already out there. The Fenders, Epi’s and others gave a great sound, but just didn’t have what we were looking for. So we went back to the drawing board and designed our own. We came up with mods you won’t find on any other amp, which help get the tone and sound we wanted. ‘
Getting any info on the Chimp is quite difficult to be honest – there’s plenty of it there on the website but it’s all very technical and a guitar smacker like myself can’t be arsed reading, I want to hear the bugger.
So that’s what we did and we recorded it for reference.
Equipment list:
Fender Telecaster(mexican) with single coil seymour duncan bridge pickup.
Shure SM57 and SM58.
Planet Waves guitar leads.
Electro Harmonix Double Muff.
Behringer Xenyx 1622FX mixing desk.
Let’s get started…
Amp settings below,
Mic placement as in the three images below,
From the pictures above you’ll see that the amp has been placed on a cusioned stool about 9-12 inches from the floor.
Two dynamic mics have been placed directly in front on the cone.
These are a SM57 and a SM58 as stated earlier.
Each recording has been recorded in three states with three different pickup selections.
Clean, Single Muff and Double Muff – for each variant Guitar Toggle Down, Middle then Up.
Tones and Volumes on guitar are on full.
Warning you may hear some jibba jabba as this recording setup had two people involved.
Chris is playing on these recordings.
Recording 1: Open Chords
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Recording 2: Palm Muting and Power Chords
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Recording 3: Lead
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Recording 4: Funk
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Hope you likey.
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Before I start I have to point out that I’m reviewing this amp with sound as opposed to using descriptive terms.
I’ll let you be the judge.
My opinion is that this is a great amp for the money.
Prices vary between £125 and £140 dependant on where you purchase.
Usual blurb product blurb: Scroll past to get to audio
The Fender Champion 600 is a fun and affordable tribute to a rare and historic Fender amp.
The Fender Champion 600 is a 5-watt tube amp with a 6” speaker and 1950 “two-tone” looks. We added a higher-gain preamp circuit to let the overdriven tone exceed that of the original, and we added a choice of high- or low-gain inputs. Internal speaker jack enables use of a larger speaker cabinet.
Fender Champion 600 main features include:
- Type: TUBE AMPLIFIER
- Output: 5 watts
- Ohms: 4 ohms
- Speakers: One 6″, 4-ohm Special Design driver with ceramic magnet (0073904000)
- Channels: Two (Instrument and Microphone)
- Tube Preamp and Tube Power Amp (One 12AX7 tube; One 6V6 tube).
- 5 watts into a 6″ Special Design speaker.
- High-gain and low-gain inputs; hotter preamp circuit than the 1950 original for warm natural overdrive when turned up.
- Single volume control.
- External speaker output.
- Brown and blonde vinyl covering; vintage-correct 1950 “two-tone” cosmetics.
- Leather strap handle.
- Red jewel pilot light.
- Controls Volume
- Weight 15 lbs. (7 kg)
- Dimensions Height: 11″ (28 cm), Width: 12″ (31 cm), Depth: 7.5″ (19 cm)
- Tube Complement 1-12AX7A, 1-6V6 (diode rectifier
The recording of these audio examples was done with two shure dynamic mics – I’m experimenting at the moment so bare with me.
I’ve used an SM57 and an SM58.
Like I said I’ve moved these around until I was reasonably happy.
Amp has been placed off the ground on a very small stool and in the centre of the room – my house is open plan.
I’ve played using a Fender Telecaster (mexican) fitted with a Seymour Duncan at the bridge.
As you can see I’ve got the Tele going through an Electro Harmonix Double Muff.
I’ve set the Fender Champions amp volume to between 6 and 7.
Other equipment used for reference,
Behringer 1622FX, standard XLR mic cables and Planet Waves guitar cables.
Recorded to PC using Sonar.
No fx or processing used.
Each audio example has been played three times:
Pedal State:
Clean(bypass) -> Single Muff on -> Double Muff on.
Guitar: for each pedal state.
Toggle switch down -> middle -> up.
First Example: Open Chords
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Second Example: Funky
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Example Three: Palm Mute and Power Chords
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Finally Example Four: Lead
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Hope you enjoyed my hacking, note: you may if wearing headphones notice that the amp has quite a strong hum.
When you’re playing it’s not that big a deal and if recording it is only really apparent when listening on headphones.
Listening through my monitors it doesn’t seem that much of a problem.
When I record my next song using this amp I’ll report on how the hum affects the track.
Until then.
Enjoy.
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This is the 2nd audio review of the Hodad Amp Mini Amp using a Japanse Squier Silver Series Strat.
The Ultimate 60′s Tone Toy! The new Denelectro Hodad is a mini-amp with BIG features and pure retro vibe! Includes echo and tremolo controls.
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Amp Settings:-
Tone: 12 o’clock
Gain: 12 o’clock
Volume: 12 o’clock
Guitar Settings:
Volumes and Tones set to full – toggle switch down.
Played with pick – ‘Chords’ – Distorted/Overdriven – Open Chords, Powerchords and Barre Chords.
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Amp Settings:-
Tone: 12 o’clock
Gain: 12 o’clock
Volume: 12 o’clock
—LEAD GUITAR—
Guitar Settings:
Volumes and Tones set to full – toggle switch down.
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