Voodoo Amps Crate BV120H Mod

same as any stock blue voodoo, no extra knobs or anything were added.

i used an ibanez RG 732l, ESP viper 401 (with emg's) and a carvin dc127 to test out the amp. the noise on the distortion channel is now gone and the bass has increased a lot. the gain is still for the most part the same sounding and i dont think the distortion channel has improved very much. the clean channel is a little bit better sounding and a little more headroom was added. this channel sounds nice overdriven too. i expected the mod would really help make this amp come alive, as i payed about $675 for little improvement. now if i would have payed around $200 for it, then it would be worth it.

the amp is as reliable as it always was.

the customer service is decent, sometimes you have to leave messages or email a few times to get an answer. trace and his team are pretty nice on the phone. i dont like how they didnt return certain emails and delayed various things they said they would do.

i'm dissapointed witht the amp still, and now i just spent more money on this piece of shit. i'll have to low ball it to get rid of it. i'm pretty pissed.

No features were added by Voodoo amps, still the two channel class A amp made by Crate. Four 6L6's, clean and gain channel, individual reverb on each channel. It's not a bad amp stock.

Sent it off to Voodoo Amps right after I recieved it and had listened to it for maybe 15 minutes. Got it back last week and played it in church yesterday morning. WOW!!! What a difference. Clean channel is as good as almost any Fender I have tried except maybe a really fine Tweed Pro. Tons of useable base like a blackface Super. An good overdrive pedal (Iuse an Addrock Ol' Yeller) on the clean channel is that smooth, satiny tone you expect from the $3,000.00 boutique amps. Just gorgeous. The overdrive channel now has more gain than I can use. I had a great sound going with the master on 5 and the gain on 5, but had to turn way down because the singers couldn't hear themselves think. Went down to about 2.5 on gain and master, and thought I would be disappointed; I wasn't. I was getting the most beautiful classic rock distortion I have had since I fried a VHT poweramp that was overbiased. And then for solos, I was kicking on the Addrock for a bit more volume and drive; I could have taken a bathroom break while leaving a note ring out. Sustain has never been this fun. Tapping, legato, hammered volume swells all work like they should through this amp. Only complaints, I could use a bit more note definition on chords, and the gain channel doesn't clean up quite as well when I back off the guitar volume as I would like. But those are both minor, and I sortof sent Trace a sow's ear. He ask me up front what my goals were for this amp, and I said I wanted the best sounding head in Austin. He of course let me know I would have to send him something besides a Crate to accomplish that goal. But he has managed to get me the best sounding amp I have ever owned. And that inludes Marshalls (Silver Anniversary, 30th Anniversary, JCM 800), Fenders, a Bogner Shiva, an Alesandro, Vox Valvetronix, an Egnater M4 preamp (look for that baby on E-bay), a Rocktron Prophecy preamp, Boogie gear, and other stuff I probably didn't have long enough to remember.

Too soon to tell.

Trace has been incredible so far. He answers the phone practically everytime I call!!! For those of us who have run businesses, that alone speaks volumes.

I would most definitely track down another Blue Voodoo and send it off to Trace if something happened to this one. Or I might just let him build me the best sounding head in Austin. I think he could do it.