Letter from a satisfied owner of a Pritchard Amps Sword of Satori 1-12 Tunnel Back™

Eric,     Thanks for taking the time to talk about the 1-12 TB Sword's features the other day. As you know, I have owned literally dozens of amps. At one time I had 12 different Fender amps. All perfectly teched and tubed. I could sell them all, your amp is that good. Actually giving the matter some thought I still have 16 amps, though I sold about half of the Fenders a while back.     I play for pay. I use my gear on a daily basis. I need gear that gives me tones I can use and enough versatility to cover many different styles and gain structures and your amp does it.     If I have a need for speed, the Pritchard says “GO”. The F setting on the Voice Knob gives me a nice American tone that reminds me of my old friends and is the fastest circuit I have ever played through. No lag, my tube amps can't keep up, the Pritchard can.     The Watts Knob is much more useful that a master volume control. I can have a 10-watt amp or a 60-watt amp, it's awesome. Last week I did an 8-piece gig with 3 horns and didn't have the Watts Knob above 5. Lots of reserve. It's always initially confusing. It's so loud. Yet so light and small.     The clean tones are excellent, so varied. Unlike some other non-tube amps I own, the tone is very lively and nuanced, and the fact that I have so many voice choices is amazing.     I "get house" every time I play a rock or blues solo. You can feel the people in the room getting psyched. I can get all the upper harmonics and feedback I want and control them. If I have a simple stomp box in front of the amp, and use the stomp box and the amp's foot switch it gives me 4 different tones and 2 boost modes. All with this great feel and tone.     This amp gets asked about more than anything I've ever used. Even keyboard players are curious. Now you know piano players don't give a darn about a "geetar" amp. Well I just tell them, "sorry this one's just for us guitar players".     The aspect of the amp that I find so intriguing is the feel of my guitars in my hands when I play through the Pritchard. It's not a tube amp, not a transistor amp or a tube/transistor hybrid. It's something different, and better than all 3. It's truly the most interesting amp I own. I have always told folks that I was a diehard tube guy. But your amp has changed my mind. I used it with my electric violin for a couple of jobs last week and it came through. Picked one channel for the Fiddle and one for the Guitar and with an A-B box and the amp foot switch I had what I needed in the one amp. Made my life easier.     All in all it is my favorite buy of '04. After all these years it's good to find products that are innovative and exciting, that work well and enable artistry. Considering what you get I think it's a bargain. How can you put a price on inspiration? Oh; another thing is that the amp sounds "better" on the gig than it does in the practice room which is the opposite of most amp situations. You know the drill. You dial in the perfect tone at home, go to the gig and find that your tone was an illusion. Well not the case with this amp. It's an instrument in its own right.     Thanks for all the thought and effort, getting these amps into production. They live up to the web site claims and more. Regards, Al Watsky