My Bambino from Reason Amps

I recently got a new amp! It's a Bambino combo, the all tube home studio amp from Reason Amps.

www.reasonamps.com

The amp designer is a long-time friend of mine from old school days back in St. Louis where I grew up. We've kept in touch over the years. When he told me he was launching his own company I knew I'd have to check out the result. So, I met with the guys from Reason at the Nashville Amp Show and was amazed with this little box! I bought one and they agreed to make me an endorsed artist. I also got permission from them to do some demos.

(Full disclosure: I don't get paid to do these. I don't get a piece of the action for any sales or referrals. I really just love how this machine works and wanted to be associated with it!)

The idea here is to demonstrate the basic settings & parameters of the amp with different guitars.

1. Epiphone jazz box into normal channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHfp6gpS82Q

2. Epiphone jazz box into bright channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ThJn8qA6xw

3. Epiphone jazz box into stack channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qijPR_AEWY4

4. Fender Strat into normal channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUPQIPrdxhY

5. Fender Strat into bright channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv9vrMLQ7WI

6. Fender Strat into stack channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6KzDi4Lo0k

I hope you enjoy watching & listening to these as much I did making them! I'll be incorporating this amp into as many future lessons as possible, too. :)

Hey Chris,

First, is there anything you "CAN'T" do on a guitar?

Sounds like a nice amp. I would really like to hear what it can do with some humbuckers in a strat style body. You feel like demoing something like that?

Oh and tell them you want your own signature model. ;)

Sounds like a great amp, but I think Mr. Schlegel's playing has a lot to do with that :)

I'm thinking that you should convince them into giving a special price for us GT members!

Originally Posted by: RickBlacker
First, is there anything you "CAN'T" do on a guitar?

Absolutely! There's always a new piece, song, lick, trick, technique to learn. Search YouTube for Eliot Fisk, Joe Pass, Paul Gilbert. That's the stuff I look to and think, "Man! If I can just a handle on one of those licks ..." :)

I never stop trying to improve. And at any level of ability it takes time and effort just to maintain the chops.

It is a wonderful amp. It is a superior piece of craftsmanship from the design to the electronics, cab, assembly, aesthetics, the whole package is quite stunning. This amp perfectly fits my bias, my desired tone out of a machine in a lot of ways.

Years ago, I used various combinations of Marshall & Fender half-stacks. Either separately or together as the gig called for. The Marshall for clean-grit to full roar, and the Fender for ultra-clean to warm-gain, etc.

Reason's whole line is like having the perfect combination of both of those in one box ready to roll! If it was 20 years ago I'd be buying a half-stack from them. :) But since I'm old, boring and married, this Bambino is like having the perfect little scaled down hot-moded Marshall & Fender combo all in one box without having to mod anything!

I've just done some lessons with my black Strat with the Dimarzio HotRails humbucker. Wow, that is a monster tone. I'll get it in the work queue for editing and uploading soon.

Thanks for checking it out, Rick!

Originally Posted by: DazooSounds like a great amp, but I think Mr. Schlegel's playing has a lot to do with that

Thanks for the compliments, but the amp really does help! :)

If anyone is truly interested in one, please feel free to contact them via their site. As far as special pricing for GT members, I can't speak for the Reason Amps guys.

Again, I am not a paid endorser. And this is a brand new start-up company. So, I really don't know how that would play out, but it might be worth mentioning and asking.

Thanks for checking it out!

These new demos are the result of a discussion I had with the guys at Reason Amps. They mentioned the lack of demos that explicitly focused on the clean, cleanish tones that are possible with a classic humbucker style guitar & the Reason amp line.

So, I plugged a Gibson Les Paul into my Bambino & hit record!

First, I explore the Normal channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yl-j0-QGXA

Next, I switch over to the Bright channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxUPFihfbyA

Finally, I even pull some nice clean(ish!) tones out of Stack mode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiB4nDdM2ic

Enjoy!

Thanks alot for sharing with us your experience with that beautifull amp.
I just love the sound you get out of the bambino on all your videos.
That amp just made it to my wish list. I just have to find a dealer that ships to canada :)

Edit: Here's an online guitar shop I got on reasonamps.com that sells the Bambino Reason and ships international if anyone is interested :)

Here's the link : http://www.rocketmusic.net