Matamp First Lady Handwired Boutique Amp UK
Matamp First Lady in exellent condition. Huge tone and really loud for 7 watts!
Unique Attack control simultaneously changes the tone and gain of the power tube and changes the way the speaker reacts. This 7 Watts nominal power (clean) amp does it all and can be gigged if miked up. Phenominally loud for a 7w amp. Controls are Voice, Volume, Reverb, Bass, Middle, Treble and Attack.
Redesigned head based entirely on the Guitarist Gold Award winning C7.
Extra features include two output tubes, 6CA7 and 6V6, user selectable for even greater tonal range.
Features
- 7 WATTS (nominal output)
- ATTACK control
- VOICE control
- REVERB
- 2 OUTPUT VALVES selectable
- RECORDING OUT
- FX SEND/RETURN
- 16/8/6R OUTPUTS
- Matamp founder, Mat Mathias, started the company RadioCraft by 1946.[1]What started as an interest ultimately developed into a fully-fledged business building amplifiers for the burgeoning music scene in the early sixties. Behind his wife’s retail shop, selling accessories to young musicians, Mathias’s workshop/manufacturing facility also extended into a fully fledged recording studio complete with disc cutters for young bands to record and cut their own demos. This resulted in the formation of MAT Records. His customers would come and see him, tell him what they wanted, and he would build it and/or record it. Patterns would emerge, and trends soon changed into product lines.
- Long-term friend and hi-fi amplifier designer Tony Emerson joined with Mat in the early 1960s, shortly after the name MATAMP (Mat and Tony amplifiers) was coined. As word got around Matamp would soon be working with such musical luminaries as Peter Greenof Fleetwood Mac (who Mathias joined on their US tour in the late 60’s) and recording early demos with the likes of Graham Gouldman who would go on to form 10cc.
- After Emerson’s departure and Matamp’s subsequent development work with Fleetwood Mac, Matamp formed a partnership with Cliff Cooper. Cooper owned the Orange music store and the new partnership began producing Orange Matamp amps from Mathias’s Huddersfield workshop. In 1971 Orange Matamp outsold Marshall, giving Cooper a taste of high volume sales. However Mathias was not prepared to forego quality standards in favour of mass-production [citation needed], so the Orange Matamp partnership was dissolved. Orange Ampswent on to be a major international amplification company so Matamp has also become widely recognised due to this early collaboration with Orange.
