Soon to be NAD, My SonicTone Loyalist is complete.

MadAsAHatter

MadAsAHatter

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Nick messaged me to say my amp was complete and he finished all the quality checks. I'm taking the day off work Thursday to start my Holiday weekend early and go pick it up.

As a refresher I went with the 100 watt Loyalist with a mod to channel 4. It's a 4 channel British voiced, high gain amp. Channel 1 is clean to crunch. Ch2 is his 81 Special preamp; think boosted JCM800 and Ch3 & 4 are the high gain channels. The mod is instead of Ch3 & 4 being duplicate channels, I had Nick do the high gain channel of the Patriot for Ch4. That amounts to Ch4 having a little more bass, more scooped, and being more American sounding.

Since this series of amps (Loyalist, Patriot, & Mercenary) have the revolutionary war theme I dubbed it the Culper mod after Washington's spy ring. Like an American spy infiltrated the British ranks. On the flip of that token, Nick said he was going to dabble with putting the Loyalist high gain channel into the Patriot, maybe name that the Benedict Arnold mod.

I'm excited for Thursday. Will report back when I have the amp in house.

Edit: wanted to add a link to SonicTone's website.

https://www.sonictoneamps.com/
 
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Sounds very interesting MAAH. :yes:

Nick with Ceriatone? Sorry, not as familiar with all the branding names you threw out.

HNAD regardless as I won't be around much this weekend myself. Cabin time and a friends wedding.
 
311splawndude said:
Sounds very interesting MAAH. :yes:

Nick with Ceriatone? Sorry, not as familiar with all the branding names you threw out.

HNAD regardless as I won't be around much this weekend myself. Cabin time and a friends wedding
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No, This is Nick with Sonic Tone out of New Orleans. He's local to me. He started up his amp company during all the lockdowns because he couldn't gig and needed something to do.

I went to his shop about a month back to test some of his amp and walked out putting payment down on his Loyalist model. First impressions when testing things out were I'd put his amps on par with some of our more known forum amp builders.
 
MadAsAHatter said:
No, This is Nick with Sonic Tone out of New Orleans. He's local to me. He started up his amp company during all the lockdowns because he couldn't gig and needed something to do.

I went to his shop about a month back to test some of his amp and walked out putting payment down on his Loyalist model. First impressions when testing things out were I'd put his amps on par with some of our more known forum amp builders.
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Hell, if that sounds killer and is a decent price, the forum would keep him buuuuusy.
 
jchrisf said:
Sounds awesome.. I like the 80s tones and the cleans
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That's the Mk 1 version in the video
I got the Mk 2 which is a full fledged 4 channel amp, each channel having its own EQ. I probably got one of the first MK 2's since he was just finishing up some circuit tweaks when I went try them out.

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Congratulations man - exciting stuff! Goood call on the mod - I’d definitely do the same.
 
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