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A friend loaned me one to try. I'm on the fence.
I like
the small size,
high power
flexibility
Price
dislike the annoying tone controls.
over driven sounds inferior to pedals.
I mean, I spent years mastering "bass mid and treble." Now I'm looking at the odd controls that mostly offer me flavors of mid scoop i don't want. The amp voicings don't do much for me and Im just using the default "full Q" setting. I guess if I was in a cover band and needed to switch to a lot of different voicings, but not really interested in that
I tried using the speaker out for recording, into my Avalon U5, but for some odd reason it was extremely noisy, where as it worked perfectly with a Henricksen Jazzamp
I'm been chasing the mild breakup/KennyBurrell Midnight blue tone lately. So far I'm much preferring the henricksen with a pedal (TC mojomojo) to the quilter with gain turned up
I have a week to mess with it before I have to give it back
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09-27-2016 02:53 PM
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Just an aside--I'm extremely impressed with the Mojomojo pedal, which sells for 49 bucks. It has a dark sound with a lot of low end and low midrange, and it can be set to break up in that range rather than in the fizzy top end. It's a really responsive feeling pedal and I can get the Quilter to sound like it, but not feel like it
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What about Quilter + MojoMojo?
Originally Posted by PB+J
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
Messing with that too. Comparing the Quilter to Henricksen through the same henriksen 1x10 cab.
It just seems to take me longer to get a sound I like with the Quilter--its not intuitive. There's a little more depth to the henriksen. And the "voices" feel a little canned. I'm not giving up on it just yet though.
It gets a good sound--I'm not arguing it doesn't. Just not obviously better than what I have
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I like the 101 on the Tweed voice (also with the Micropro). With a little mid scoop on the one knob and a bit of high end roll off on the other tone knob. The tweed voice breaks up, or warms up, nicely. Tone would also depend on your cab though. Quilters might not be your dream amp in the studio but they are very utilitarian: Sound great in most situations and are lightweight.
Last edited by MaxTwang; 09-28-2016 at 09:03 AM.
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Originally Posted by Jim Soloway
Jim, how did this power amp sound? Now on sale for $78.......
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It's very clean and like most class D amps that I've tried has a very pleasant almost 3-D artifact that I've never been able to explain. It has no tone shaping circuitry or controls, so the tone actually is dictated by whatever you use as a pre-amp. Originally Posted by boatheelmusic
BTW, the size is a bit misleading. It uses an external power supply, much like what you use with a typical laptop computer. So it's still reasonably small by the actual size and weight in your gig bag including the power supply is about double that of the amp itself.
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Thanks, Jim - so this amp, a pod and a speaker become a guitar amp........hmmm...
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That's exactly how I used it: with a Pod HD and a Raezer's Edge NY 8 Originally Posted by boatheelmusic
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I've been playing this Quilter 101 more and I'm liking it less. It has a nice basic sound with a nicely softened top end, so no one can say it sounds "sterile" or harsh. I've been able to get some pretty tones out of it. but the tone controls are just completely annoying, because they are all based on steering you towards a kind of generic rock guitar sound. You can scoop the mids: you can roll off the highs: you can tighten the bass and boost; you can select a "tweed" setting that sounds lousy at low overdrive levels, harsh and unpleasant. You can't boost the low mids at all. I'm finding it irritating.
I'm comparing it to a Henriksen jazz amp, which has boring, straightforward and sensible tone controls but doesn't profess to imitate Neil Young's tweed amp at full roar. On the henriksen I can, you know, boost the low mids. It's into too much to ask, and it['s much harder to navigate through whatever odd eq setting (if any) Quilter thinks will get me to a slight boost at 300hz. (note: have not found it, don't think it exists). In general, I have the feeling I always have bout amps that "model" this or that other amp: they keep steering me towards something I don't quite want. I really dislike the overdrive---it's all on the high end and raspy and feels unresponsive
But as always YMMV, I'm looking for a specific kind of tone the Quilter does not want to provide. It might be a great amp for some players--light, loud, versatile, has some pretty tones in it. There's a buttery smooth quality to the high end that's nice. It might be that I want the quilter with regular old tone controls, but then I've got to have garish light up knob labels? Everybody in the restaurant really wants to know where your mids are set
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But I like garish light up controls! Best design: Originally Posted by PB+J
Since this head lets you store and recall settings, the position of the knobs is shown with LED dots. BTW, the Shift button changes the function of the four EQ knobs, letting you choose their frequency centres -- it's a four band partially parametric EQ! There's your lower mids and then some.
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That looks cool! Well sonically cool anyway. I'm totally in love with the TC Mojomojo pedal, and the TC Hall of Fame reverb makes this geezer feel all cool with the cyber, what with the cell phone setting changes. So I need to look up some TC maybe
I'm probably being too hard to the Quilter--I've been going back and forth on it,. Today I think it stinks. Tomorrow, we'll see
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Hi Everyone,
Thank you for all of the feedback. This is all valuable to us. While the 101 Mini works fantastically for lot of players, the design and limited space to fit things in comes with their limitations. The amp weighs two pounds, is US made, and sells for only $299. There is only so much you can do. That said, stay tuned for 2017. We have some stuff in the works that I really feel you guys will dig.
I have been a forum member here for much longer than I have been working for Quilter and as a player have shared some of your frustrations with the Tri-Q EQ ranges. This has been my rig for a long time and it will be "publicly" changing in the near future. I can't say anything yet, but stay tuned.
Cheers
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You could probably stick an eq pedal (like a Boss) in the fx loop, but that seems to be defeating the mini-amp notion. Originally Posted by PB+J
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Yes...I have posted about this in other threads. I now really like my 101, but ALWAYS use a Boss EQ pedal with it. Without the EQ, I usually cannot dial it in. Most of the Voice selections are too nasal sounding. The one exception is "Surf" which just has tons of bass that cannot be dialed out without an EQ pedal. Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
So, 101, BossEQ and Reverb pedal in loop and I am a happy camper. The closest thing to a tube amp that I have heard (although I have not played Hendrickson, which looks quite nice to me).
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JZucker might like that , the sweepable centre fz ... Its looks cool Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
But I like garish light up controls! Best design:
Since this head lets you store and recall settings, the position of the knobs is shown with LED dots. BTW, the Shift button changes the function of the four EQ knobs, letting you choose their frequency centres -- it's a four band partially parametric EQ! There's your lower mids and then some.
And its got 'tube tone' too , hurrah
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Quilter is doing some seriously cool stuff, and though I don't like the EQ on the 101, it's extremely clever and well thought out. I'll be looking forward to whatever's in development.
meanwhile bass amps--I sometimes use my acoustic image head with guitar, but it pretty much lives in the car for bass gigs. Maybe I need to take it out and try again. Acoustic image cabs never did it for me, but I have other cabs....
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