I did get to use the amp on a gig over the weekend. Wow! I'm sure many have been in the same situation where you play an amp at the store and love the sound, you bring it home and love the sound, you take it out on the job and in the the band setting all that great tone seems to disappear. Not so with this amp...the sound was exactly the same sound I heard on all the demos online and the same sound I heard when I first set it up at home.

The cleans are bright and dimensional without being harsh, the od is smooth, full and creamy while still being able to cut through the mix. This is the stage sound I've been looking for 30 years.

I LOVE this amp!!!

Yes, I do have 6v6's. I had read that the JJ 6v6's could take the higher plate voltages so I ran ran it by Nik and he gave me the go ahead.

I've never played through any of the others so i can't say first hand, but after listening to the clips it would seem to be the case. It does seem to have more grit and not quite as smooth but that could be more my style than the amp.

First off, this will probably be useless to you guys who have played through these kind of amps before because most of what I'm going to say is probably more about the kind of amp in general as apposed to the Bluesmaster 100 specifically.

I tubed it with ei ax7's and JJ 6v6's. I wanted to tame the 100 watts a bit so I went with the JJ's.

My first impression of the clean channel is "Wow, this is the sound I've been looking for my whole life." It just has that sound that seems like you can only get from small wattage amps like a champ or a princeton but it's way better and you can get it at any volume.

As far as the overdrive channel...there is literal thousands of distinct flavors of tone here. It is really going to be difficult to figure which flavor I want to use for a whole night of playing.

As far summing up the Bluesmaster specifically... it has the mid boost switch added, the bright switch moves to a push-pull on the volume and the internal OD trimmer is moved to the back panel with a regular pot so it can be adjusted on the fly. You get new features without losing anything. Again, I can't make a comparison since I've never tried the others but I LOVE this amp!!!

If I would have waited 4 hours to post, I could've written that I had received the Bluesmaster 100 instead of just expecting it. I'll need a few days to get it tubed and in the cabinet, then I'll post my opinion.

I have a Bluesmaster 100 that I was told would ship last thursday. I'll keep you posted when I receive it. Although, since I've never played through any of the others I have nothing to base a comparison on.

Has anyone actually used the JJ 6v6's and where did you set the bias for them?