Rainbow BuzzBomb
Groovy, baby...

The newest in our series of BuzzBomb 18 watt amps. Weapons of mass distortion. Guaranteed to blow your mind. Explosive tone. Tone that cannot be de-fused. Blows away other 18 watters. On and on...

I've built over 30 of these little rockers over the years (does that make me a bomb maker?) Each one has been a little different. Features, and finishes. All have kicked ass! We've done some of our wildest finishes on BuzzBomb amps. From the first BuzzBombs with racing stripes, to tribals, real leather, snakeskin tolex, even classic hot rod flames and pinstriping. This may be the wildest yet. The cabinet is covered in real, hand tye-dyed cotton, applied to the cabinet and covered in epoxy resin. Like fiberglass, only "fiber cotton". The result is a tough, shiny finish and a look like nothing else!

The frontside starts with (L to R) input, hot/cool switch, gain, low, mid, high, master, earth, and sky controls and finishes with switches for standby and power.

Hot/cool switch is a gain switch. Most M/V-type amps have 2 inputs for high and low gain. I put this on a switch to keep the cool input stage tone and just "downshift" it to be more pedal friendly and give the amp a clean tone option. The gain control works the same in hot or cool modes. I just leave it in hot mode for all the rock and roll I want.

The gain, low, mid, high, and master controls work pretty much like you think. The mid control changes the tone a lot and the master volume doesn't thin-out the sound when you need to turn it down.

Earth and sky are low-end and high-end presence controls. The earth (bass presence) is really great for getting a thick tone in small clubs or with a 1x12" speaker. Or dial it down to control boominess and tighten lows. Very cool!

The Tone:
This one is a small gain monster. There's a lot of gain in the preamp, so you can crunch at just about any volume. It's a little mid-rangey, but in a way that cuts thru a mix and fills a room. With 18 watts you can crank the power section well into the sweet spot and balance the power tube/preamp overdrive. There's also enough headroom to back off your volume and the amp will calm right down and clean up with you. I made this amp to do classic rock tones at small club volumes. It does that really well! I use one of these amps with a 1x12" cabinet most weekends and it keeps up with any drummer I know. It rocks the house without scarin' the girls!;-) As a matter of fact, with an amp that looks like this you'd be surprised how many girls start diggin' guitar amps. And the guys who play them!

Price: $1600.00