Nothing bothers me more than someone who turns on an amp twists dials like there is not a care in the world and then after 2 minutes have passed they say the amp sucks. Come on 2 minutes on an amp and it blows. I have heard people say this in the guitar stores and watched them do this in a span of literally 2 minutes. You need to sit with an amp and really work with it to see what all it is capable of.
That is where all these bad reviews come from. I always have been a hands on before drawing an opinion. Good thing too because I would never have bought the Eggie going on the wrong information some of the reviewers posted.
As far as some of the first 4100's I read reviews of them blowing fuses like crazy and it was a bad run of power tubes that the folks at Egnater have long had fixed with the tube manufacturer. It wasn't even an Egnater issue it was a bad run of tubes.
This amp has been called a heavy beast and I agree it must weigh in at the equivalant of a small country
but that means there is big metal in those transformers and that attributes to the killer tone. I don't want to look in my amp and find those tiny little transformers trying to make my sound.
This amp is going to last the test of time I believe and to get my sounds dialed in to where I am in love with it in merely about 8 hours time......WOW is all I can say. I have had to dink with other amps for days and weeks to really get the sounds I wanted and still wasn't happy with them. It was a more or less, "this is the best I could muster out of what I had".
This simply is not the case with this 4100 head. It really flat out is impressing me and inspiring me to want to play it 24/7. I only had 1 1/2 hours last night in resetting all of
my rocktron multivalve effect settings to work perfectly with this amp. I have shimmery cleans, a killer 80's rock/metal tone and a blow me away modern high gain sound going. All this in 8 hours of dialing her in.
I am ready to tour with this thing now and trust it as a work horse to get me through anything I can dish out. Coming from a recording engineer standpoint and a guitar player for 30 plus years I am just floored by the stuff Bruce designs. This is as versatile and usable as any amp could ever get.
Is there a way to know if it is one of the "new" ones with the better bass?