Bryan Ewald tomorrow night...

[markd21]

It was ok. The was a lot more talking than playing because most of those in attendance had A LOT of questions. Learned some cool stuff about the Sonzera amps. There were a couple of beauties to look at, but by the time he finished the store was closing up so no real time to check anything out. I was hoping to play one of the Silver Sky guitars that was there, but nope! By the time I got there - traffic was horrible - things were getting started. The closest I got to talking to Bryan was mentioning a great place for dinner. He put it in his phone, excused himself to call his kids, and shortly there after the event started.

Sorry, no messages!

 

[Deleted member 5962]

Too bad you didn't get a chance to play the SS! Would have liked to hear your thoughts on it.

But... tell us about the Sonzera.

 

[markd21]

The Sonzera has a cool feature where the clean channel has two volumes - a master and a volume. Bryan showed us how arranging them differently simulated different "power tube" drive. A lot of amps have this. My Rivera does - in fact my Rivera even has a pull boost on the master so I have THREE controls for volume on the clean channel.....

Anyway, what seems cool - and different - about the way PRS does it is that that volume control is placed right before the master. Bryan called it "input volume". I still consider a "gain" control, but PRS runs the clean channel controls like this:

(left -> right) reverb, bass, middle, treble, master, volume

It seems normal, but sounded really cool. He also demonstrated how easy it was to match the power drive between the Sonzera 50 and 20 using those controls. I was impressed. Not enough to buy one, lol, but you could tell quite a few guys were interested.