SgtThump":ghwvf9z6 said:
I too think the Sig:X is going to be Steve's biggest product. This amp is clearly high quality, sounds fantastic, has very useful features, AND is priced VERY REASONABLY! I see this being his most popular amp over the next few years (or sooner.)
i've played most of the VHT stuff and the D60 was the first one i could kinda see connecting with...but the sig X AMAZED me.
best new amp of the NAMM show imo, due to the wide variety of quality classic to modern sounds in a unique raw marshall voice with boogie squish/thump and velvety horn overtones--
it had tons of features, but they all sounded natural and pure.
( side note: eggies kill and have bigger tone swings and can spot on nail fender, vox, and egnater colored of marshall tones, and cameron rules for amazing heaviest of heavy stuff, and fuchs for authentic dumble sounds)
steve f. demoed the amp for us at NAMM and explained a feature unique to it, which kind of worked like a throttle for the power section, so instead of being more linear, like instead of when you hit it hard it just gets louder, the sig x responds by letting the power tubes saturate and compress, yet reigns in the output volume to the speaker so you get more of the sag effect, and all the tube's tone and roar, without flooding the output with sheer volume--and then as the signal drops, the circuit expands back up naturally so you get all the detail and bloominess----
that's probably a bad description but it went something like that
if you can't find a great tone in that amp, with all those bells and whistles, go take up nose flute.
I have a jvm to check out for a few days and if that doesn't work for me I may revisit the sig x and try some different speakers than v30's. There is a midrange sweep in the sig x that didn't jive real well with v30's to my ears.
