Greer Amplification SOMA 63 VINTAGE PREAMP

[@TheGurner1]

"And don't forget to boogie!" Great demo, well put together - I've ordered one to put in front of my '65 Princeton RI - much cheaper than getting a '63 as well ;-)

[@taylorhansen2298]

Magnet by the punch brothers?

[@popintothechemist]

Taylor Hansen that’s the one! My new favorite band... just found them

[@taylorhansen2298]

@@popintothechemist that album is one of my all time favorites. And they are ven better live too!

[@jaredplant3729]

Where you be likely to put this in a signal chain, Mike? It seems similar to something like the Hudson Broadcast or Benson Preamp. Very cool.

[@steveslikewow]

Jared Plant sounds like it gets a little fuzzier than those. And a spitter almost gated fuzz whereas the Benson and Hudson sound like a classic fuzz to me.

[@jedielrodriguez4835]

Jared Plant I would put it after all your drives, think of it as being an amp. It’s the whole circuit of a Brownface replicated in a box. I mean output stage, output transformer, tone stack/preamp and phase inverter. It works and behaves like amp(without the amplification factor of course). Compared to the Benson and Broadcast it can do very similar things but those two work more as an effect compared to this guy. Hope this helps.

[@winstonsmith8236]

Jediel Rodriguez hey there - good info, you think it’s overkill to run this into an already brownface flavored amp And preamp? I have a MilkMan the Amp and wondering if this will open up its preamp to more detailed EQ tweaking

[@777Yoni]

@@winstonsmith8236 I think this would sound bloody marvelous in front of it.

[@marcuskruse1]

This would be excellent for recording over dub or a cutting fuzzy lead on top of tradition overdriven sounds.

[@Simonsmukke]

Cool intro Song, but what an annoying drumming!

[@trahnettilhcs]

You don't get the show!

[@HuterDerSchwelle]

I enjoyed it.

[@shawnshipstad8883]

If you have the right gear to begin with, look at what was done in the 60-80s great. They did not have or need this stuff. Waste of money. Composition of original material is what counts kids.

[@JohnnyFriendly]

I am 100% in agreement of what you said, thank you. This whole world of "gear" is nothing more than commerce and has little to do with the act of making music Plus why not just buy a brownface (original or clone) than this?

[@shawnshipstad8883]

@@JohnnyFriendly Thank you. Shawn

[@JohnnyFriendly]

@Telerado The OP allows comments on this demo, presumably to elicit opinions on it, good or bad. All I and the first commenter are pointing out is that this is nothing more than a tawdry gimmick that exists solely to extract money from the easily-swayed and you're free to argue against that (though you haven't really done so). And if there is a mythical "guy with a solid state Quilter head and can probably play circles around you", don't you think that said individual would be motivated to buy quality equipment instead of corporate junk? Believe me, this is not aimed at such people.

[@cwyatt034]

I have to say, Greer is as far from Corporate as you can get. Small shops across America producing great amps and pedals, what’s not to like about that. Why bash the small American business model? It’s not a good look. If you don’t want a preamp pedal at least look at their other amps like a Thunderbolt 30 and then form an opinion.. or go and look up the Benson preamp pedal and crap on it too even though people own their amps and also love that pedal. I see no problem with small builders making money and having fun giving Americans jobs creating cool guitar gear.

[@hoover728]

What an ignorant, shortsighted take. It’s a tool- if you don’t see the utility of it then move on. It’s specific usefulness is that you can get an ‘amp cranked to the point of heavy saturation’ sound at low volumes, very helpful in many recording and practising situations, and even many live ones- the days of going to a smaller venue and diming your amps are over. As for your ‘60s-80s’ comments, most artists from those eras used whatever effects were available at the time. Everyone used a tape echo at some point, as well as whatever fuzz/dirt and modulation pedals were around.