My Phaez amp.

[Jouni]

Hi.

A while back I was looking for a high-gain 30-50watt amp, and decided to go with a Phaez amplifier, a Canadian "boutique" amp-builder, also associated with Ark amps, Randy Fay.
I emailed the fella and he agreed to build me a 6l6-powered amplifier with his "Daisycutter"-circuit. According to my specs, a simple, single-channel amp.
It arrived day before yesterday, and yesterday I assembled it in the amp-sleeve I had made for it, plus the front and back grilles I made myself. Price was around 500 dollars. I went with the "live-in" type of an amp-sleeve.

the amp:
http://serif.pp.fi/images/oct14.jpg
insides:
http://serif.pp.fi/images/sisukset.JPG
installed in the sleeve:
http://serif.pp.fi/images/kasattu.JPG

As you can see he installed a dented transformer in it, and partly used a PC-board. Slight letdowns there, but overall a neat looking little amp, for the price.

What matters is the sound.

I started off with gain low, pretty decent clean sounds on an Epi LP baritone, added some gain and got a cool crunch out of it. I'm a metalhead, so I went ahead and maxed the gain. Plenty of it. Enough for metal.
Very rich with harmonics, very nice action on the mids. Round and soft, feedbacks nicely, but not excessively. Girth and thickness. A tad nifty with bottom end, but I'm used to the 120watt Novik... there is enough for a decent palm-muted punch. At first, playing it by itself it seemed a tad grainy, but when played with the band at good volume, it was fine. Master volume ended somewhere around 1-2 o'clock when playing with the band. Very nice. I'm definetly going to gig with this thing.

Unfortunately, all I have for a soundclip at the moment...:

Warning!
A Zoom H4 recording from a rehealsalplace, Black Metal.
http://serif.pp.fi/haaska/merryoldtune.mp3

Phaez is on the right side of recording.

I might buy another one in the future, with upgraded parts, 60-80watts and EL34:s... I likes.