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Originally Posted by reverbbb
There is a guy named Glenn Kuykendall that owns like #2 Trainwreck. He has had the chance to A/B his Trainwreck to a Ceritone build. He prefers his Trainwreck as a clear winner in sustain and touch sensativity. But he said the Ceritone was fairly close in tone, just not the 'magical sustain'.
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You could not have put that any better.
It's so easy to forget that each of those original amps was pretty much tweaked for the individual customer, or simply tweaked on the builder's tastes, intuitions, et al at the time. To clone such an amp is really a HUGE challenge, and takes a lot of guts, IMO.
If the owner of the real deal is willing to say that a clone is "fairly close in tone," that is a testament unto itself.
Nik could just play it safe and offer the standard Plexi, 18 Watt, 5E3, etc. kits - but he actually has enough affection, drive, and respect for the more challenging designs to include them as well. For amp nuts like us, this is nothing short of a golden age of sorts.