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Actually, this Fatman is a hybrid but, looks cool…

…and it’s wireless…with a VU meter! iPod, old-school chic.

Another new edition to the range for 2010, the Wi-Tube is compact and sexy, but still packs a solid punch. Producing 28W per channel this is no lightweight when it comes to power. Utilising a radical new hybrid valve design, the basis of which was first suggested in a theoretical paper 50 years ago, it just sings with quality… and looks stunning.

Coupled with the FatDock for wireless connectivity. One may also use a wired connection on the RCA pair on the back of the dock direct into the amplifier if preferred.

I’m guessing that this is the same company that made studio compressors and the like a few years back. Good stuff too. So, if you have a burning need to send your iPod signal wireless through some tubes…may be the way to go.

$599.00 available in May.

Hey gear geeks…I’ve got a particular amp set-up I’ve been tinkering with lately.

Tele>Boss Digital Delay
—Direct out>30 watt tube amp (Crate VC30)
—Delay out>15 watt solid state amp (Johnson Reptone 15)

I channel switch on the Crate and run it with no reverb at a normal stage volume.

I run the little practice amp on the clean channel with flat EQ at a much lower volume.

I set a short delay time. So, it’s a stereo set-up but the two channels aren’t equally balanced. The smaller amp is just a ghost note. You hardly even hear it but it adds ambiance.

So, I tried this the other night with a rhythm section for the first time. It worked really well. I was able to keep my level low but still really “feel” the sound. I was really impressed by how it worked with the clean sound. Normally, I will use a compressor some on the clean side for lead stuff but, I didn’t use it all with this set-up and didn’t miss it.

The Johnson amp is real small (6 1/2 inch speaker) and easy to tote around so, no extra hassles really.

I’m going to mess with it some more in gig situations but, so far, I’m really digging it. Here’s the cool part; both of these amps can be acquired pretty cheap. You could find this pair or, something similar, for well under four bills. I’ll let you know more as i go along…

The idea behind the Neuhaus Labs T-2 is to make your computer sound nice.

First, by extracting only the digital music files in your computer. When you connect your T-2 Amplifier to your computer via USB, you are bypassing the sound card on your computer. We simply take the pure unaltered digital files from your computers and send it directly to our amp. The T-2 Amplifier has a built in Digital to Analog Converter (DAC). A digital-to-analog converter, or DAC, converts digital information — 0’s and 1’s — into analog music signals. When you connect computer speakers normally, they attach to your sound out or headphone plug. This type of connection produces terrible sound quality because uses the computer’s sound card, which is, again, not meant to produce quality sounding music.

So, for instance, you could take your Canned Heat MP3s, which were originally recorded analog then, at some point, “converted” to digital files then, compressed in to MP3 format hence, losing a good deal of the sonic in formation then…convert that information back to analog…and run them through some tubes thus, making them all warm, fuzzy and lovable and pump them through your computer monitors.

Make sense? If so, the T-2 at $795.00 may be just the ticket.

Boogie Down!