guitarmike
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After hearing Zach's clips I bought an Atomica. It is very risky spending $2800 on amp you cannot play. So far I have used it for church 3 times and practice with both of my new bands. I have played contemporary Christian to Iron Maiden through it using a greenback cab and a 1979 Marshall with cl80's.
The only frustration I have with the amp is the effects loop. If I use pedals my flanger sounds crappy through the front of the amp or the loop. Chorus, phase, and delays are good. My Gmajor sounds ok at gig level, not so good at practice volumes. My solution is to buy a Suhr line out box that goes between the head and cabinet so I can run a wet/dry rig. I will use an old Marshall JCM600 for the wet rig.
The amp is cable finicky; to be fair almost all high gain heads are, I forgot that after running friedman modded amps for the past 2 years.
The good: The amp sounds like nothing else, you want Cameron grind, you got it. You want modded Marshall, it's there. You want classic rock, no problem. It will even clean up to the point you think it has a clean channel.
It is a single channel amp so you can't go from Fender clean to death metal by footswitch. If you have heard my old clips on my website so can get an idea of "my" sound. I have the Atomica sounding close to the clips, it does clean up with the guitar volume good enough that I don't need a clean channel.
If you are in the Milwaukee are and want to try the amp, pm me and we can work something out.
To those of you that want an amp that sounds like Zach's clips, you can't go wrong with the Atomica.
The only frustration I have with the amp is the effects loop. If I use pedals my flanger sounds crappy through the front of the amp or the loop. Chorus, phase, and delays are good. My Gmajor sounds ok at gig level, not so good at practice volumes. My solution is to buy a Suhr line out box that goes between the head and cabinet so I can run a wet/dry rig. I will use an old Marshall JCM600 for the wet rig.
The amp is cable finicky; to be fair almost all high gain heads are, I forgot that after running friedman modded amps for the past 2 years.
The good: The amp sounds like nothing else, you want Cameron grind, you got it. You want modded Marshall, it's there. You want classic rock, no problem. It will even clean up to the point you think it has a clean channel.
It is a single channel amp so you can't go from Fender clean to death metal by footswitch. If you have heard my old clips on my website so can get an idea of "my" sound. I have the Atomica sounding close to the clips, it does clean up with the guitar volume good enough that I don't need a clean channel.
If you are in the Milwaukee are and want to try the amp, pm me and we can work something out.
To those of you that want an amp that sounds like Zach's clips, you can't go wrong with the Atomica.
The top end is definately shaved off.
Perhaps Dave can jump in and give some advice. I know Paul and myself are using the loop as Dave recommended, master volume 1/2 up and adjust volume with loop level. 