Michael,

The SST-30 is world class! Oh my god what an amp you've built here!

It arrived on Monday, but I was out of town until Thursday. So I picked it up yesterday, got it home, plugged it in (nice touch including a speaker cord with it, by the way!), and just went nuts with it. It helped that the GF was out for the evening so I didn't lose that half-hour of "well, yes, technically this IS a new amp, but it's different from that, ya see...".

I plugged it into a Celestion Gold in a semi-open 1-12 cab and tried a jillion different guitars and each sounded better than the last.

Something I'd never tried before was cranking the amp - vol and master on 'stun', tone all the way up, 'verb all the way up, some throbbing trem - and then playing quietly using the guitar volume and tones, but that worked like a charm and really gave a nice sense of the amp's voice. Which is incredible.

Okay, so I've got a whopping hour or two on it, and I'm sure some of this is honeymoon, but it's obvious you've built a lifetime achievement amp with the Super 30. I have (and worship) the AST, but this one has everything I love about that plus bigger balls and the master that lets you get super whacked out sustain at low volumes. Not sure how it happened, but I managed to get feedback on a Les Paul at conversational level!

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that the amp arrived and it's everything I was hoping for and more. And I love the black tweed!

Thanks very much -

David Kelly

The SST-30 head and cabinet records really well and ROCKS!! Again, it's great reverb and deep sounding tremolo (I did a clip almost like an old analog-synth Arpeggiator ). The master works very well and one can get nice gain tones at comfortable volumes. For some reason the new Swart amp makes me think about "The Who" where the tone is so crunchy yet really dynamic. You know, where the pick attack controls how much gain is present in the tone.

You're a complete badass with these amps, man!!!!!

Greg V
Guitarist Extraordinaire

Stu from Fat Sound has some of his own
impressions of the SST-30 - kh

All new from one of my all time favorite amp designers.....Michael Swart.

This new amp starts off with clean tones that are very full and thick and have a feel that reminds me of a good old tweed amp at moderate volumes, but it has a sweeter less abrasive and easier to play top end and a very tight and controlled low end with just enough looseness to feel like it's moving some air.

This is easily one of the thickest, creamiest, most complex amps at gain that I have ever heard. There isn't a harsh frequency anywhere to be found and dialing up perfect single coil or humbucker tones is as easy as turning the Volume and Tone controls to their maximum settings of 11.

There are all kinds of wonderful in between tones to be found at other settings, but the simplicity and ease of knowing you can always just crank it and have it sound perfect is a real boon for players who like minimal fuss in dialing their amps in.

In the Hi gain setting the Super Space is pure creaminess. No mud, just thick, harmonic goodness with gobs of sustain. The Lo gain setting backs things down the perfect amount for a slightly more vintage response and gain level.

As with Michael's original 20 watt Atomic Space Tone, the Super Space has gorgeous reverb and deep, organic tremolo that will pulse you right over the edge of the stage at its highest settings.

The Super Space is easily loud enough and has enough headroom to work in any small to medium sized club I would ever play, but it is so smooth, fluid and rich that it never seems brutally loud.

Matching cabinet is gorgeous and sounds as great as it looks. Loaded with Dual Celestion greenbacks.

Stu
Fat Sound Guitars

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