What's up everyone? And welcome to Ola Testing Shit.
Today I'm trying out the BadCat Lynx amplifier.
I'm actually excited,
because this is not the first time I've tried a BadCat amplifier.
Back in the early 2000s
there was one Swedish distributor here in Sweden
that was carrying BadCat amplifiers,
you know, I think it was just when BadCat became a thing a little bit.
And I remember playing one.
They're boutique amplifiers with an enormous headroom.
And it just didn't do metal.
But I did try one back in the day and they sounded really good, really good.
Now, the Lynx is a metal amplifier from BadCat, so...
You know, that has me a little bit excited.
I can't deny it.
It's 50-watt tube, you have two channels.
You have a line out, FX loop,
you know, pretty standard for a regular amplifier, I would say.
For this demo I'm using this Solar Type XC1.6
going into the BadCat right there.
No effects, no extra pedals or anything.
That goes into my Mesa oversize cabinet.
And this is a SE Audio Voodoo-2 microphone.
I also have a stereo microphone up there.
And this is the BadCat Lynx.
We're on channel one right now.
Calm down, we're gonna play metal, OK?
Calm down, this is just the first tone I'm getting.
So, you can basically go clean.
Just raise the volume.
Or you go the other way around and just gain it up.
Dial down the volume a little bit.
And that dirty tone right there is...
It's just...
You know?
Very rich-sounding, I must say.
OK, gain at max.
Note that we're on Low right now.
There's a High and a Low, but we're still on channel one.
Let's go to High, see what happens.
That sounds f**** incredible.
I hope you can hear this.
That's such a rich-ass sound right there.
That's the presence undone, right there.
Or, in other terms, the richness.
How rich do you wanna be? Dial up the presence, baby.
That's a little bit too much money right there.
Let's go back right here.
Good at chugging, man.
Alright, let's go to channel two, that's where the high gain is at.
Oh, I forgot to mention, it also has a noise gate which is on right now.
Let's put them both at the same gain.
I wanna hear the difference between one and two, OK?
Channel one.
Channel two.
Alright, channel two has more gain.
You know what? I really like that.
But I wanna try just push it a slight, slight bit more.
I bet it will be perfect if you add a Tubescreamer under.
Give me a second, OK?
Alright, I brought out a Tubescreamo right there.
The TS-9.
And I'm just gonna push it a slight, slight bit, OK?
Oh shit.
Let's see how that sounds.
Let's turn down the gain a little bit.
That is no sound.
What did I do wrong?
Oh, the cable is not in.
Let's try this.
Holy shit-face, man, OK.
Dialing down the volume a little bit on the boost.
Just, you know, to tighten up a little bit.
Let me crank this.
F****, it sounds good.
Shit.
I'm gonna be completely honest,
I haven't been this happy about playing a new amplifier
in a very, very long time.
It's not that often that I get impressed about new amplifiers.
I've tried so many amplifiers, and this...
Dude, I have to buy one of these.
How much is it? I hope it's not expensive.
This could've been a really badly sponsored video,
where I go like 'Hey, oh, it's amazing, you should buy one'.
But I'm actually serious, I wanna buy one.
Here we go, it's... OK, it's...
Yeah.
2,200 euros.
That is expensive.
But it sounds f**** incredible.
If there would be something to complain about
in regards of this amplifier,
but I'm very happy with how it is,
because it has its own character.
It would be that it sounds slightly, slightly scooped.
I was thinking at first, maybe I matched the cabinet,
this one has Vintage30 speakers in it.
And maybe it was a wrong match with the cabinet.
So I checked on the website,
but apparently the Lynx cabinet also has Vintage30 speakers in it.
So, not sure about that match right there.
But it feels like something has been cut a little bit too much.
And I feel like the more I bring out the mids,
you know, I kinda need to have mids at high.
And that little cut probably helped with that throatiness
and that throaty sound, which is just...
Almost like half-magical, or something like that.
Anyways, holy shit.
That makes me so happy.
It's not very often that I get impressed like this.
But I was impressed.
Good job, BadCat.
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