Budda Superdrive 45 Series II Head

I am not really a fan of the KT66 power tubes in amps but this one doesn't sound that bad. It is pretty thick and fat sounding.

First off this amp is ugly as hell. Nothing about the amp cosmetically is appealing what so ever. From the stupid purple color to the hideous control knobs. It is as Budda set out to make a pure ugly amp and would stop at nothing to achieve that feat. A hand clap goes out to you guys on a job well done, mission accomplished. However, the amp sound amazing!!! Just hide it behind a Marshall on stage and see if anyone takes notice of how your tone sounds.

Budda Superdrive Series II 45-watt Guitar Head Features:

30" x 14.5" x 14.5"
48 lbs
45 watts
2 KT66 Power Tubes
Treble, Mid, and Bass controls
Rhythm Volume, Master Volume
Pull Bright on Rhythm Volume
Drive Control
2 Channels, Rhythm and Hi Gain
Selectable Tube and Solid State Rectifier Switch
Effects Loop
Slave Out
Pull/Modern Mid Eq function
Custom Wound Transformer with 4, 8 & 16 OHM Switch
Multiple Speaker Outs
4-8-16 ohm Selector Switch

UTILIZATION

Details
Type Tube
Number of Channels 2
Power 45W Class AB
No Effects
No Reverb
EQ Bass, Mid, Treble
No Amp Modeling
Number of Tubes 5
Preamp Tubes 3 x 12AX7
Power Tubes 2 x KT66, 1 x 5u4 (Rectifier)
Inputs 1 x Instrument
Outputs 2 x TS Speaker, 1 x TS Slave
Footswitch I/O
Effects Loop
Height 14.5"
Width 30"
Depth 14.5"
Weight 48 lbs.

SOUNDS

The tones on this amp are extremely fat sounding. They resonate very well with a humbucker style pickup guitar. Especially if you use a superstrat like Charvel or a Suhr guitar. Using a nice maple neck on top of alder body will get that fat tone to open up a lot more to get clean distorted note and string separation. Very great tone for rock and pop music.

OVERALL OPINION

At new these amps come in at around $2000 which may be a bit high for a lot of people, but the tone is extremely good. If you can get over how stupid these amps look.

I would recommend this amp to anyone needing a fat sounding distortion tone very similar to a Soldano SLO and don't want to fork out the money to buy one of those.