Holland Amps
Randy Lewis
Holland Little Jimi?
Second hand info is ok too.
I have been to the website...
http://www.hollandamps.com/silver.htm
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my price range, but I have looked at them. They duplicate early Fender circuits
with hand-wired, point-to-point circuits and high quality parts. Holland's
Bassman repro is gorgeous, but costs and arm and a leg.
Holland is known-name in handmade boutique amps, though not as big as some of
the other names.
Greg
Pat Lyman
The guitarist in my band has a Holland Gibb Droll (the Bassman clone)
and another friend of many decades has the Little Jimi.
The Gibb Droll is one bitchin' amp! I have heard it side by side with
a couple of different original 50's Bassmans, and the Holland
absolutely ate them both for breakfast! Perhaps the original Bassmans
needed work, but the bottom end, smoother high end, and overall volume
was much, much better on the Holland.
With a good Strat, it captures the SRV tone to the best of the ability
of the player. With a Les Paul, it gets the early Clapton tone (think
Mayall period to Strange Brew) very, very well.
The only negatives he mentions is 1) that you have to schlep around a
reverb (he has both the Fender brown face RI reverb and the Peavey
Valverb; prefers the Peavey); and 2) it's hard to control at gigs where
he should have brought his Deluxe out in the first place.
The friend with the Little Jimi states there ain't a bad tone to found
in the thing. "Creamy at any volume" was one statement he made. He
particularly loves the built in 3 knob reverb. I haven't heard it yet,
but he sold his BF Super after getting it.
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bench test, but that one. I bought it at a guitar show a few years ago,
and he told me it was that same exact amp used in the magazine's bench
test. After carfully examining the photo's wood grain, and the small
dents from the shipping, I had un-doubtedly bought the amp used in
article of GP August 95. Allmost at the same time I purchased a Fender
Bandmaster 3-10 Tweed clone built by a hobbiest David Booze.
I, at first liked the Holland Gibb Droll, but I sold it because it
diddn't "have it". The Bandmaster clone was better, but it didn't meet
my high standards, and maybe that was due to the Mojo Tone speakers, I
am very criticle.
To me the new replica amps just don't have it, and there is no faking
it, it has something to do with the transformers, caps, resistors,
cabnit, it all adds up to one big sum. Is'nt that how all things are,
by adding up all of those details. They all add up to one big sum, and
though you and your band may sound very good, evan to my criticle ears,
I still prefer the vintage stuff. I have never owned a real vintage
tweed Bassman, but playing the Holland Gibb Droll did not sound like any
recordings of vintage Blues, or Rock and Roll that I ever heard. It
sounded loose and floppy, and the gain was very harsh when turned up
loud. I have a vintage 57' Gibson GA 30 that was repaired/ modified and
this thing is totally bitchin', and so I am not totally impossible to
please. That Holland amp may get your rocks off, so don't let me poke a
hole in your bands balloon.