LIBERTY MUSIC - Archtop Jazz Guitars & Jazz Amplification Dipl.-Ing. Ernst Weinbach www.liberty-music.de / liberty-music@gmx.net Weinstrasse 79 / D-67434 Neustadt Tel +49-6321-82369 / Fax +49-6321-480501
I own a Bud 6 and here’s an interesting and easy mod. I actually experimented with lightly plugging the hole in the bottom of the amp to control the bass response (I found it too boomy on my hardwood floor) but I can remove the plug for gigs.
No. Larger speakers are not louder. Larger speakers = more bass. Small speakers = faster response, more focused sound. Larger speakers more brilliant, more room-filling - but the sound also gets lost. Recommendation: 6.5" for playing in a band with a bass player = no competition. 10" + 12" for solo playing. Henriksen 12" is unfortunately no longer available. Replacement: Henriksen Bud Head with Raezer's Edge Stealth 12ER
Thanks for the great videos .... I was about to order a Quilter amp, but when I saw they were now built in China and no more in the USA, I changed my mind... My PRS deserves better than a chinese made amp .... So thank you, thanks to your video I know I can rely on the Henriksen to get something small, reliable, powerful and that will give me the sound I need, if I put a Tech 21 Flyrig in the front. I still hesitate between the Six and the Ten. Since I only play BLUES, I think the 6 will be enough (I don't need the extra bass the 10 " would give me). What do tou think ?
Hi Frank. I suppose that the SIX will be the best for you. But if you want to have more you always can add a 10" cabinet. Say hallo to Peter Henriksen. You prob will order there. Liberty Music is situated in Germany. Sells Henriksen Amps sinc 16 years. Best. Ernst
The one major omission in the Lazy J videos is the price tag. If you have around $4,000 laying around, you can get one of these. Or, you can spend 1/4 of that and get a great, durable, reliable Fender tweed Deluxe. Boutique amps are rarely worth the price.
Thanks very much for this. Great demo. Overall, the 12 just does it for me, although perhaps even more worrying for the wallet, in the mix, all 3 sounded superb in their own right. The scoopy sound of the 10 was really fun around 3:30. Much food for thought. Cheers.
For sure. The Luna 700R was developed as Bass Amp. Even so the speaker of the Stealth 12 is a typical bass speaker. Both are also perfect partners for Jazz guitarists
@@libertymusic3874 Thanks for the prompt reply! I do play both bass guitar and jazz guitar, so this might be the perfect fit. Do you have more demos with the Luna on Bass?
I've been looking to buy a replacement speaker, so I have been listening to a lot of "sound demos". They are usually conducted with an iphone speaker, in a boomy room, with a guitarist who can't play very well, and at high distortion. This demo is a breath of fresh air, wonderfully done.
Thank you for taking the time to demo this. I'm impressed with these amps and want to make a wise choice. We don't have a dealer to test drive in my area. Your playing is perfect for me.
Yes, the speaker makes a difference. It is in fact what we hear. The great thing about the old Polytones was not so much the amp as the speaker! I have a Crate BX100 bass amp with 15” speaker that I’ve set to sound nearly identical to a Polytone. IMO the keys are the speaker, and a power amp with enough headroom to drive the speaker cleanly. For jazz guitar, the speaker should be no less than 12”.
I enjoyed the demo--great playing. It's easy to hear that the amps sound different when the settings on each are the same. I'm curious how close they can be dialed in to sound the same. Maybe the Ten with the bass turned up can get really close to the Twelve? Maybe the Twelve with the upper frequencies boosted can cut like the Six? Not asking you to devote the time to another demo, but I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
Really nice playing and an awesome sound! Can you tell me how the amp is set for the Strat and the Tele sound in this demo? I am looking forward to get my Lazy J20. Best regards and thanks in advance!
Großartiges Video. Ich spiele meine Benedetto über einen der allerersten »kleinen« Buds. Manchmal schalte ich den Royal Blue Overdrive von Mad Professor davor. Im Video gefällt mir der TEN am besten. Herzlichen Dank für die Demo.
Question: If you were going to run these like the gig rig in A/B/Y with one amp a little wet just for fullness of tone and clarity. Which ones would you pair together and with which speaker cabinets? I personally like the sound of the twelve and also the harmonics of the six, but in this demo I didn't like the ten as much as the others. I just wondered would you use a six + twelve extension for the direct tone and a ten + array for the wet? I just want to run vocals and guitar through it. Just curious what your ultimate tone stacking and wet dry getup would be with these amps. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE it, if you would do this same setup but use an array extension cab with each one..... Six + no array, Six + array, Ten + no array, Ten + array, Twelve + no array , Twelve + array, and then maybe combinations - Six + twelve, Ten + Twelve. I think it would give us a great idea of how to build our sound when using the Bud. I'm still shopping for it and left Henriksen a message that I would love if they could supply you that equipment to do another video on
Well, that’s really a tough question. I did some experiments with a wet/dry/wet setup using a TWELVE or TEN for dry and 2 SIX stereo for wet signal (this is like Steve Lukather uses his rig). The SIX is great for wet (FX)sounds, because smaller sound sources can be located more easily on the stereo width, and the FX-sounds are really sound awesome, but you don’t lose any power and still cut through with the dry TWELVE. Another thing I tried was using the bud head (man, I love this amp!) with the TWELVE cab the Henriksen Ray cab for acoustic sounds, using a x-over between TWELVE and RAY. This was great, because the TWELVE sounds great for lows and mids and the RAY Cab gave the silver highs you need when playing a flattop. Using bigger arrays may cause some problems with interferences….I recorded the 3 amps (six, ten, twelve) simultaneously but on different tracks and with closed miking, and the sound of the three together in the room wasn’t that clear, because they stand to close to each other. So you need to be careful about the positions of the amps/cabinets and I would suggest to use 3 amps/cabs max to provide that problems. If you like to realize the array thing I would suggest to use the bud head and a combination of a big speaker (Twelve) and one or two cab with smaller ones and use a x-over; or you use the twelve with tweeter off and set the EQ for fat lows and one or two SIX set to boost the highs, so you don’t need a x-over. The TEN is a great allrounder but it hasn’t the fat lows of the TWELVE and lacks the great highs of the SIX. For me the TEN is the best choice when playing just 1 amp.
@@libertymusic3874 Thank you for the detailed reply, that gives me some good insight. I'm kind of using the setup for everything, arch top with both the pickup and a mic on it going in plus voice, flat top acoustic, maybe even a strat later on I don't know. I love that it sounds both great as a PA and guitar amp at the same time. I would just be doing wet/dry where you have one cab dry and one cab with the wet signal blended in... not a true complete separation. I felt like the guys at That Pedal Show get a really good setup with that and it seems simple enough. To me it sounds like a combination of the Twelve and the Six would be really good, I'm just not sure where to fit in the array. If you had a six, twelve, and array and you were running a guitar pickup signal split wet/dry and then a mic on the guitar and a mic on the voice how would you configure that? Would you stack the array up on the six and run the voice and effects through that? Or with the SSL board run the vocals wet dry as well and just run everything dry through the 12? Just curious for an ultimate guitar and vocals wet/dry studio class sound how you would configure six, twelve, and array. Or would you just cut the array out altogether? I wonder what the array would bring to the end result of that kind of setup with a 12 and 6, if it would introduce a complimentary character and bigness or if it would just be too much
Wow! That intro Jazz track, and the last one (starting at 3:24)! Fantastic groove playing and demo of that Toob speaker cab that I only discovered today.
Merci pour ces instants de beauté sonore. Plus l’on change de guitare plus le son se réchauffe. Mais je préfère le son fenderien chantant et douçoureux du début. Question de goût e d’ambiance.
Comme c’est chaleureux et douçoureux. Au fur et à mesure que la guitare change cela devient encore plus chaleureux mais peu à peu on perd le son Fender du départ . C’est une question de goût. Mais merci pour ces instants de pure beauté.
