Woogie 1100 Watt Hybrid Head

"Boutique amp" Made in Adelaide, Australia in 2003, bass head.
1100W!!
2 valve (tube) preamp, passive EQ and compressor.
2 channels 1 for passive one for active seperate jacks to no switch for level padding
NO efects loop, NO line out, NO slave out, NO tuner out no nothing 'cept line in and speaker outs
this is one mother of an amp power wise... the guys in the shop said it's 2x550 Watt channels but I'm guessing that they are bridged because metering off the load on one speaker on one output is affectd by the ohm load of any speakers on the other speaker out.

This thing, this monster, has enough power to rock any venue short of a large concert hall or a stadium.

Not many features except for the one, over riding, feature of "more crazy power than you are ever likely to need" - pure electric insanity.

there is one perfect word to describe this amp's sound and that word is BRUTAL, no wall flowers need apply.

If you want to play HARD rock with power, punch and appropriate warmth and clarity do I have the amp for you (but you can't have it see... 'cause it's mine)

This thing is noisy - 2 fans and a fair degree of hum but on stage or in rehearsal you ain't going to hear that. Single coil basses like a Fender Jazz get a bit of interferance, probably from it's unsheilded transformer, but it disappears when you are 2 meters or more from it (and you honestly don't want to be much closer than that). With a Musicman and with a P bass it's quite enough to not be all that noticable in the breaks between songs....

Jamming with two hard driven vintage Marshall guitar rigs this thing sits on 4 pre gain and 4 master and cuts through the mix like a hot knife.

The passive tone control is not overly sensitive but it sounds good with everything on 5 and it give you enough control to tailor for your basses tone.

Sound wise it's like an Ampeg SVT 4 Pro warm but brutal with just the right level of browning out edge to it's sound.

If your style is classic rock or hard edged rock of any style (punk, metal, bass driven hard indi rock) then this can probably pull the sound you want with all the power you need.

I can see taking another, subtler, head to gigs and A/B'ing for more sedate numbers.

Oh yeh and make sure your speakers are up to the task and be gentle with the volume increases... I instantly blew the horns out of an Ampeg SVT-610HLF with it on 9 pre gain and 3 master and an Ampeg BST 410 HLF with it on 8 pre & 4 master ...
this thing brutally drives "The Fridge" (an Ampeg SVT -810E) without so much as raising a sweat.

Can't say - I'm going to ring the guy who made this to chat to him about the specs so I'll get some idea soon but the local music shops say good things about him.
Having opened it up the design is tidy, well spaced, and looks like it would be easy enough to service.

As I said above - the local music shops say good things about the guy who builds them but I can't make a call on that yet

OK so I had the cash to buy a new Ampeg SVT3 Pro and was on my way down to my regular shop to order one in... but I found this at another ampeg dealership along the way and this thing blew the SVT 3 clean out of the water and at less than 1/3 the price... if this get stolen it would be hard to shift in the second hand market here as there are probably only a small hand full of them around. But if it were stolen and not recovered - I'd be on the phone to Frank to get him to build me a new one ASAP.
Make sure you have a second amp (say a 50 to 100 combo) becasue for practice and rehearsal as this thing's starting volume (1 pre 1 master) is louder than my 30 watt practice amp flat out.
Not subtle but if your after the bass equivilent of a big block, super charged, nitrous blown, V8 Chev this amp is the one.
One thing I'd like is for a switch to unbridge the 2 power amps (if that is the current config) and at least a tuner out but I believe Frank will mod his old amps to such requested specs.
More quality bang for my buck that any other gear I've ever purchased