The "Mass Produced" Fortin amp.......that FAILED

[@ChernobylAudio666]

Skipping over the clean channel, a man of culture, that's what I like to see 🤘

[@andrewlong445]

Says the guy who's demoed some of the best cleans I've ever heard on some things (Two Notes Revolt)

[@FuzzImp]

Just three Thrashers looking at each other

[@qwasz123123]

Last time I looked people were pricing Randall stuff like it was made of gold

[@JasonCGuitarOfficial]

I LOVED my Thrasher! Unfortunately I didnt sign with Randall till 2013, and as we all know a few years later US Music got sold off to some Asian conglomerate and everyone awesome at Randall was done. Mike, Jason, Jocke, Matt, and everyone else there were so awesome to me the for the time I was there. It was such a GREAT group of guys! It was also awesome to trade licks with guys like Ola, Per, and Matt. Great time indeed!!

[@mangotango5988]

I love the stuff that Mike Fortin designed for Randall. The Randall 667 take on his 6 channel Meathead amp can get virtually any rock/metal tone you are looking for and is unbelievable!!

[@chaseminer3935]

yo you had multiple strokes throughout this video. Lol. good shit. keeps it feeling like a real interaction. you're the shit man.

[@jameskelly9269]

Based on the title I was thinking this was another video of you bashing on Fortin and Randall. Much to my surprise you and I agree in this case. I have owned my Thrasher 120 since 2015. I have owned and tried the Thrasher 50, RD-45 Diavlo, and the Sigil. And to me none of them are close to the 120. I have had some minor tube socket issues that I solved but I hope I am never without the Thrasher 120. A great amp for sure \m/ you were spot on this one good job.

[@w1923]

Mine took a shit…thinking it’s a tube socket issue cause it’s not the tubes. Did you take it in for service or repair yourself

[@jameskelly9269]

@@w1923 I called around alot and I ended up cleaning the tube sockets thoroughly with CRC and that fixed the issue. Its been a few years since and no issues. I don't play the Thrasher as much these days as I am into Synergy amps more but this video inspired me and I am playing my Thrasher as I type and its flawless surgical metal \m/

[@LouCondon-j1v]

What is the difference in sound between the 50W and the 120W?

[@jameskelly9269]

@@LouCondon-j1vless congested more headroom. Also both heads are heavy to carry. I bought the 50 to see if it was a lighter option. I found it to be almost as heavy to carry and for whatever reason I liked my 120 way more tone wise

[@yousocrazy1199]

i got the 50, swapped the tube to a Sovtek 6l6 smaller bottle, the amp sounded better than ever. no more spikey sound, the metal scraping sound was gone. and i love it.

[@yousocrazy1199]

i use Precision drive or a Jeff loomis essentials pedal. sound great. dial depth to 4pm, presence pass 12ocl, gain 2-3 ocl. not bad to ears.

[@B-Dubba-U]

Legit impressed with the tones you were able to get out of that amp. My roommate had one of these back when they were first released and we were both so massively letdown by it. For context, he had an actual Fortin NATAS and the thrasher was kind of implied to be an affordable NATAS in some of the pre release hype content and some of the marketing. Roommate and I both went in expecting it to be at least in the ballpark of the NATAS and it wasn’t even close. It just seemed really flat, lifeless, and nowhere close to being as tight as we expected. If we hadn’t had a NATAS to compare the Thrasher to we probably would’ve had really different options and would have tried a lot more experimenting with overdrives. Also kinda recently I’d seen a few guys that tried the thrasher at Namm mention that the Namm demo head did sound more like the NATAS but the cramp released to the public sounded way different than they expected as well. Seeing this video does make me want to try one again but since the used prices on the Thrasher and Satan have gotten kind of ridiculous I doubt that will happen.

[@RyRyTheBassGuy]

Same experience with a friend. He got one and we both found it really underwhelming. Now, we never tried it with any boosts because that just wasn't a thing either of us really knew to do back then (he was used to the Peavey 5150 and the XXX which didn't really need one and I played bass so I was in my own little world). He ended up selling it off pretty quickly.

[@Davidlovesmusic311]

Dude you are an audition for Saturday night live, you got a great sense of humor and you're funny

[@blasher4]

This amp actually sounds pretty friggin good. I am more of a Mesa rec and/or Peavey 5150 type of a player, but this is great!

[@michaelr.4878]

Just listened to the intro and the amp sounds really good.

[@maniphestorchestra]

Hi from Croatia ! Try Randall 667 "Trasher" - Fortin Meathead design ! Nothing sound like this. Sick monster amp with 6 channels and many combinations of sounds with 3 way voicing for every channel, boost integrated, 3 way bright switch, integrated 3 way TSS switch and depth for every channel ! Monster and massive sound

[@jackbootshamangaming4541]

I just bought a Thrasher, and you release this....

[@Cas_anova]

Hahah, rip.

[@1thess523]

I just got a Blackstar HT 50 MKii used for my birthday from my son, it came with the factory big pedal which I'm glad it did because it has a built in boost which kicks the amp up a few notches and sounds even better. You wouldn't know it exists if you don't have the stock pedal because if I'm not mistaken it's only achievable with the stock pedal.

[@bobrutledge54]

I think you did a great job on this review. That thrasher sounds pretty good, and you really know how to dial in a decent tone pretty quickly.

[@tj1486]

Crazy you dropped this today. I just got a Diavlo 100 today. Love it. It's a bit darker than I prefer and hence why i came looking up thrasher's tonight lol. To me the Diavlo reminds me a lot of my Splawn Nitro but not quite as quacky and aggressive when boosted (though still plenty aggressive) and I'm wondering if that's kind of the Fortin thing; I gotta say It's a great tone and definitely one of my favorites of all the some 20-30 amps I've owned. Also i don't think I've found an amp that sounds better with a 7 string than the Diavlo. It's like it was made for those and won out over my uberschall on tone for that. I'm definitely gonna be keeping my eye out for this or a satan but I don't think the Diavlo is on it's way out the door just yet.. I've heard the satan at least gets pretty bright but I'm hoping the thrasher might be what the dr ordered for me.

[@benoitwollenschneider9042]

I have mine for five or six years, You should try the input for active guitars (even for passive guitars). Despite the loss of volume, I find that the amp's EQ reacts much better.

[@thomasmiller5057]

When I first saw the amp here I thought it was the Kirk Hammett Randall with the plug -in modules. This one seems versatile

[@jackbootshamangaming4541]

I cant wait to get mine tomorrow

[@Cas_anova]

Congrats, gonna be sick bro.

[@jackbootshamangaming4541]

@@Cas_anova got the 120w, amazing price

[@sheriewart8100]

Thanks Kyle, another great vid

[@jackbootshamangaming4541]

I want to give a thanks to Guitar center for their badly listed used year. I paid what I thought was a good price for the 50 W and I ended up getting the 120 W

[@twomuchworth]

Kyle can you check out the Taylor danley devil pedal

[@belligerentamateur]

Keep your eye on the channel later this week 😈😈

[@BryanMiranda96]

Ive got a Satan 120, honestly i use it maybe 2-3 hours a month tops since getting an SLO-30 and cortex. Just hoping one day the price skyrockets because of the Ola tax

[@CajunReaper95]

That guitar is gorgeous! I have a Epiphone LP Custom in the same color or nearly the same color!

[@somn]

I sold mine last month due to hard times. I absolutely miss it.

[@iwannarockon2010]

Sounds pretty saucy 🤘

[@sebastian_meier]

if you like the Thrasher and want more options take a look at the Randall 667

[@charlesrocks]

These amps sound great if and when they actually work.

[@jroobz]

Love this Randall era. Still looking for an EoD...

[@ancientalien815]

Its crazy how that thing responds to different pickups!

[@carnovector6396]

im not a big Fortin guy but this thing sounds like a great pedal platform

[@AllofJudea]

The Schecter sounds nice. As a lefty I appreciate them

[@ZachComa]

I have a pre-Fortin RT100H. If you can ever find one, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I personally love mine, but I just might be a little biased.

[@beautague9163]

I've always wanted to try one of these but the prices got out of control and i fell in love with synergy, revv, and ksr 😂

[@27retrodaze]

You can get one pretty cheap right now... Must be trying to sell out the stock.... Ive always liked the Thrasher.

[@Timconnorsis]

this was a rough one man, wurdz r hard today haha

[@PooNinja]

Words are hard, this tone is harder 🤘🏽

[@Lordbaccus]

Turn EVERYTHING up^ too 11 and Let it RIPPP

[@ToneMasterGeneral]

You need a power conditioner and variac @ 117v. It will help

[@chipchiperson679]

That LP custom makes any amp sound good.

[@jasondobie6739]

You should do an Ibanez tbx 150. They're hard to find now but in my opinion the ultimate solid state high gain amp. I just posted an ampero tone capture preset that i captured from a friend of mines tbx. Ridiculous gain.

[@MrDISTORT6]

Sorry…I was extremely distracted by that Avenger head behind you.👍🏻🤘🏻

[@mikaelvuorinen3143]

Hi from sweden what do you think about the kirk hammett randell amp

[@djabthrash]

Sounds killer

[@Dezmond2inbox]

What is the distance from bridge pickup to the strings?

[@Lordbaccus]

if I am going to spend that much$ I would go for the Peavey Invective 120

[@Mr.Goldbar]

Low freq gain at 0, high freq gain at 10, that's the real shit :) All low end should come from the EQ section and the speaker/mic combination.

[@Seth_metal]

I like my Thrasher 120 but I did get it for free lol. My father law is a guitar player and picked on up and decided he didn’t want it anymore. Still want to try the Satan

[@MFKitten]

Pretty sure the low and high gain (girth and grind) are just a Baxandall style low and high shelf EQ in front of the gain stages.

[@B-Dubba-U]

In my experience with them I’d say sort of. They definitely don’t have quite the same effect as sticking something like an integrated preamp out front which is an actual baxandall eq. They also didn’t work as well as the girth and grind controls on the NATAS head that this was sort of implied to be a copy of.

[@brutalslam8443]

That Schecter sounds mean as hell.

[@curtdurocher6061]

not the only place girth was added

[@Ghostman1846]

These amps rip in the hands of the right guitarist. The Fortin Randall era was the last gasp of a dying company. His designs were awesome. The 667 is by far the most versatile and killer amp ever made.

[@vaclavslovak3104]

The problem with these amps i hear (just by the videos) seems they lack the low end. Using SD-1 that sucks plenty of low end is not good option I think.

[@BigTyronie]

Im surprised it didnt have metric tons of gain. Shocking

[@hebguy420]

Curious how different the trasher vs the actual fortin version amp sound. Heard they had completely different components in them due to randall trying to make it more affordable to the general public

[@AdamGotheridge]

I thought it sounded really good no matter where you set the controls, that's certainly a good thing. Kyle from the future here... at some point you won't be able to jump as high, and at some point you won't be able to do the right hand stuff you do today in the same way. So future Kyle says to young Kyle, just enjoy the ride, and find some peace and happiness in all you can do today.

[@gregbrooks7850]

So bro, there is a badass movie called Idol Hands. Why is it you look so much like the heavy metal neighbor dude. Real name John Noseworthy. I mean you two could easily and I mean easily be brothers.

[@DEJ915]

Having owned the satan I was always curious if the thrasher was better since the satan was best described as jangly. The satan was alright as a pedal amp but the presence just made it fizzy and the depth made it flubby so I ended up getting rid of it. I have a fryette ultra lead too and it is much, much, better if you want a "dry" sounding amp. Ola's demos at least were accurate to how it sounded so it wasn't misleading.

[@pinkyellowblue007]

Didn't he design the newer RG series also?

[@CarsAndGuitarsTV]

I feel like I would dig this amp a lot but the prices these things usually are don’t seem to justify with what you get out of the amp.

[@thewolf7119]

I blame Canada...or at least the Canadian company that had control of U.S. Music Corp at the time

[@-cobainism-]

Damn it’s here Kyle AGAIN?? Never mind then…

[@LeDechaine]

I know Scott Ian had the Nullifier but to me this is amp is 100% "how to sound like Anthrax".

[@MFKitten]

Imagine if Randall wasn't a garbage company that never committed to a damn thing. I LOVED these Fortin designed amps.

[@davidscafidi]

sounds like balls alone.

[@troyfrink]

AMPRIFIER!!!!!!!!!

[@EDWINPIERCE168]

Kyle Thud.

[@Admiral_Bongo]

I can kinda see why it failed. It's not a BAD sounding amp by any means, but... It's kinda sterile, lacking a distinct character. Even more so than, say, Engl Powerball.

[@riffnastyhubanks5714]

I remember a buddy of mine had one and it was absolute ASS in our opinions. Granted this was years ago and tastes have changed but yeah it sucked.

[@Dezmond2inbox]

Why failed? )

[@philfoster2246]

I had one...absolute HOT GARBAGE! $2500 paper weight

[@tedmich]

what amp did you replace it with?

[@GodFlame666]

Thank you for admitting about the terrible riffage.

[@88Nyman]

Day 50 to Ask you find Randall RT100H and demoing it to us😮

[@Deathcorp666]

No one really bought that amp. Engl so much better.

[@TNTGoBoomBoom]

Third

[@marvinmartin3438]

Dude, are you gay? asking for a friend

[@Hagstrom4ever]

To me this amp sounds good but it will sound better with a Mesa OS. I found my VH4 too congested with my old Traditional, once I tried it with an OS, that low mids congestion went way.

[@Uberboogie]

Sounds like a fart 💨