Egnater TOL 50 212

The Egnater 2x12 TOL( Tone of Life) 50 was the last amp made by ISP techno. Feb 2001 I belive built for Rocktron. The Orginal builder or dezigner is Bruce Egnater, Who I belive works for Rocktron.
This Amp has 2 channels with switching, effects loop and bunch of other Goodies, bright, boost, and voicing switches along with a 10 or 50 watt power setting.This amp is with out a doupt the Cleanest amp I have ever heard. exellent bules or jazz amp. The distortion or Gain
is also sweet.If i had to compare it to another amp it would have to be a Matchless.I use it mostly in small venues but there is no lack
of power. It's built like a tank and is heavey! aroud 80 lbs.
Not for the meek or weak.

I play a Fender strat thru it with Emg Pickups Very sweet sounding.
Excellent bules, jazz, rock n roll amp.
Very clean amp at high volumes good distortion not brutal

no problems as of yet.

have not had to deal with the company

I have been playing for about 25 years and build custom guitars.
If it were lost or stolen I would replace it at any cost.
I wish it had a head phone jack and it is extreamly heavy,but quality
like i've never seen. AND Please forgive my spelling !

Very cool blues amp sounds very good even at low volumes, good efx loop, I slave a modeling pre amp for some of my material. Alot of midrange clean channel is a sweet sounding no brainer for me.I end up using this channel most. But lead channel does great blues lead and sounds very full with wah. I am still getting used to the lead channel.
Built pretty good but tolex was put on too tight, I have a couple of tears in it already. I have giged with this amp it, I use a p-90 guitar got some good sounds and never a problem. A well made great sounding amp for the blues.

This is the kind of amp that makes you want to plug straight in with no pedals. One clean channel and one dirty channel--shared eq section for both includes tre/mid/bass plus density (+8 at 80htz.)and presence 2-button footswitch changes channels and activates a boost function on either channel. Each channel has an independent gain and master plus bright in/out button, and the clean also has an additional voicing switch that changes the character of the amp from Fender fat to Vox "chang". I wish this function was footswitchable too.
The reverb is O.K. but not Fendery. FX loop is series or parallel with a select switch and a FX mix knob. 2 eminence speakers series at 16 ohms. Ruby Sovtek tubes throughout (2 EL-34s, 4-5? 12ax7s) 3 way standby switch takes you from 10 watts to 50 watts to standby-but you can send a very hot, FAT preamp signal out of the send while in standby mode-take note rack guys! Even at 10 watts, she is plenty loud.

Great amp for low to mid gain blues. I am a Boogie guy. I also own an Egnater TOL 100 head. This 50 watter fills in the gaps hands down. It's like finding the weaknesses in Boogies and the TOL 100 and specializing in precisely those places. It is the SRV-meets-Robben Ford-meets Angus Young amp. Raw, complex, sweet, thick, snarly, crumbly, dusty, (gettin' the picture?)...
My pearly gates bucker strat nails the Robben meets Angus tones. My Lawrence L-280 Fender Strat sticks Stevie with a little help from a dynacomp (I know I said no pedals, but c'mon...I gotta have one!)
Even though it's nowhere near as high gain as the TOL 100, it can still sing. I love just RAKING power chords with this amp--again think AC/DC vintage Marshall flow with just the right sprinkling of bite. This is the amp that could replace all those taped together studio vault Voxes and tweed Fenders. Bryan Adams and Lenny Kravitz and Tom Petty would probably dig this amp.

got it yesterday. My TOL 100 is a year old though, and cool.

Got it from ISP technologies with a 6 month warranty. Spoke with Bill at NAMM. Great guy and knowledgable about tone. He helped with the Rocktron Egnater line before moving to ISP and personally assembled and tuned my amp prior to shipping. Also met Bruce Egnater at 2 different NAMM shows as well as chat with him via e-mail, and he's great.

I bought this amp without ever trying it, based upon my experience with my TOL 100. Once you hear tone that perfect, you know that the nuts can't fall too far from the tree. I may upgrade the Eminence speakers in it to the new Reverend 1250s, if I can afford it. Unless they can get the sound of this amp, my tol 100, and my triaxis/395 rack with all the effects into a combo the size and weight of a medium handbag, this may be the last amp I ever purchase (Especially if my friend gives me his Deluxe Reverb with an original Jensen speaker and NOS tubes!) This amp really makes me play different, and I admire that in an amp.

This amp is a real powerhorse. So far, I've only used it on the 10 watts setting and I've played in front of 4000 peoples without having any problems hearing myself. Also, 2 channels with 2 sounds (normal and boost) each, which make it quite flexible. This amp also come with a spring reverb which, altough it doesn't sound like a Fender's, is really nice and spacious (and footswitchable!). The normal channel also have a voicing switch which more or less cut the mids and make the sound change from a more or less Fender sound to a Marshall kind of sound; it's very usefull and I would have liked to be able to use a footswitch on this function but... Since the only effect I use is a Vox wah-wah, I cannot really comment on the quality of the effect loop. I play 2 to 6 gigs every weeks and this amp never failed to satisfy me. Only downpoint is that it is really heavy for a combo.

This amp sound a bit like a mix of various other amps. Overall, it remind me of an old Marshall, for the pleasing and natural aspect of the sound it can produce, crossed with a Fender Twin or an Hiwatt, for the large amount of clean headroom available and for the nice clean sound it can get, and with a little bit of a Boogie, for the sustain it's lead channel can deliver
the normal channel stays quite clean until you reach the last quarter of the gain knob range and then, it crunches a bit in a pleasant manner (like you can guess, a little more with a humbucker-equipped guitar) and when the boost is engaged, it's almost enough for classic-rock guitar soloing. The bright switch, which is present on each channel also sound good and natural.
The lead channel can also sound quite clean until the last third of it's range, but then, it become much hotter. However, take note that it might not be enough for metal or trash but the roundness and articulation of the lead channel sound is really pleasing and natural.Also, if controlled feedback and sustain is your game, it can deliver it superbly.
Tonewise, the words are "Tight", "Natural" and "Big". With all the tone knobs on three-quarters, it is punchy as hell (the density knob helps, of course)

Structurally, it seems to be well built, but the tolex already shows a couples of tears, even if i cover it with a blanket every time I take it in my car. Only time will show how well it is built.

Once, I've noticed something weird with my amp and I was able to talk with Bruce Egnater himself at the Rocktron factory, but another time, one of my tubes was really glowing red, and I've tried the customer's support e-mail adress, with no answer yet (it was 2 month ago and I took care of the problem myself). I just hope that if anything happens, I would be able to have it repaired properly.

I've been playing since 1977, used about every amps on the market and this one is, so far, my favourite. I've heard that the 100 watts is even more feature-ladden and flexible, but i'm satisfied with this since I love simplicity. Everybody is intrigued by this amps and says it sound fantastic.