White Whale 1 of 3 Acquired

Picked this up during the weekend from a friend of mine.  Its a Verellen Skyhammer from Seattle Washington.

I first fell in love when I played one a year ago (You can read about it here)

This is a little bit different from the standard model in the following ways:

• Clean/Pushed Channel has a full 3 band EQ.
• Pushed option is available via footswitch and modded to not have a tremendous increase in volume when selected
• Half Power Switch to knock it down to 50 Watts

I was really excited to try this out and was able to get time with it in our practice place.  Here's a few quick notes I mentally gathered:

• Master Volume, as stated before, has a great taper to it. No big jumps when you're adjusting. 10 means 10
• The Suhr Koko Boost works amazingly well with this thing
• All EQ adjustments have a great sweep and are interactive with each other. There are few tones that you can't achieve.
• Volume (Gain) for the Lead Channel not only increases the gain levels but adjusts the overall feel and tightness of the amp.
• The Lead Channel has an insane amount of gain on tap
• With the Koko Boost on Mid Boost, the Level was set on 11:30 and Mid set on 11:00. Volume was set at 10:00
• This tightened up a lot of the low end and maintained a tremendous amount of saturation
• The Pushed Clean has great classic and 80s rock tones available
• With the Koko Boost on Mid Boost, the Level was set on 11:30 and Mid set on 11:00. Volume was set at 2:00
•  This would stand very well with classic Marshalls
• Clean (non-Pushed) can be chimey but capable of great breakup when adjusting the Volume

I hope to get more time with it outside of practice and actually spend time with the Effects Loop and putting a Suhr Riot in front of the clean channel.

Side Note: I would LOVE to start putting clips/videos together for each amp I come across and post them. Frankly, I am not that great a player and would like to find someone that can do some riffing to help with this endeavor.

Home Rig

I got tired of lugging guitar cabs between our practice space and my house so I picked up this little Egnater 1x12.

Guitar > Maxon 808 > NS1 > Frenzel BUD50 > Egnater 1x12