Good day, tone tweakers - a pair of very new Egnater amps are now in the Rig Exchange: The Rebel-30 Mk II and the SE-20.
=AMP ONE=
[Egnater SE20 6V6S Merged]
[Egnater SE20 SE20 FX Send Merged]
This pair of profiles stems from Bruce Egnater's recent amp-building workshop, where we all built the latest iteration of his 20W 6L6 "SE20" seminar amp. Bruce is taking preorders (see his FB page) for this DIY "Boutikit" until October 29th, which will be shipping December 1st. There will also be a 50W model. But of course, being a Kemper user the first thing to do was profile it, so here you go.
The SE20 is a single channel (5 12AX7's, 2 6L6's, 20W) amp with a variety of mods (tight, bright, mid shift, density, lead boost) in addition to the usual knobs. As a Direct Amp profile, the "Merged Cab" here is the Virtual 4X12 of the Behringer ULTRA-G DI used for profiling. The 6V6S profile is taken from the speaker out, while the preamp-only profile taps the FX send. (Which sounds better?) The cabinet, which is being used here only as an impedance load, was a Tweaker 112X closed-back.
Settings:
Presence: 1:00, Density: 10:00
Bass: 10:00, Middle: 9:30, Treble: 10:00
Gain: Max (with knob pulled out)
Tight, Bright, Mid Boost: all off
==AMP TWO==
[Rebel30 II 30W-6L6 OD] (also 15W & 1W - nine direct amp merged-cab profiles in all)
[Rebel30 II 30W-EL84 OD]
[Rebel30 II 30W-TubeMix OD]
The Rebel-30 Mk II has only been out a month or two. It's a feature-packed dual-channel 30W mini head with two sets of blendable power tubes (EL84 & 6L6) and power-scaling continuously adjustable (per channel) from 30W to 1W, direct out, tight, brite, and reverb. No Presence, Density or Mid controls on this one.
The purpose of doing a suite of profiles was to compare the impact of EL84 power tubes vs. 6L6's (or a blend of both) running at the max, min and half-way (15W) power scaling settings. If you've ever wondered what the difference might be, here you go.
Personally, I think the 30W TubeMix & 6L6 settings sound best. I've only done the overdrive channel here! There is also a clean channel. Any gain differences are the result of tweaking the watts & tube mix knobs, and the profiles have been set to similar listening levels for ease of comparison.
Settings:
Bass: 2:00, Middle: 9:30, Treble: 9:15
Gain: Max
Tube Mix (set as per profile)
Watts (set as per profile)
Tight, Bright: both off
Enjoy!
-djh