Mackie Hotwire VT12

Hotwire VT12 description:

The Mackie Hotwire VT12 gives you great tone, flexibility and portability.

Designing the Mackie Hotwire VT12, Greg was driven by his desire to create a single, great sounding and extremely portable guitar amp to carry to his gigs and recording sessions instead of trucking around his half a dozen or so boutique and classic tube amps. Four years after this seemingly simple revelation, the Mackie Hotwire VT12 emerges as the only tube amplifier capable of honestly being associated with the words great tone, flexibility and portability.

The Mackie Hotwire VT12 is the world's first Mode Switching guitar amplifier, which is a fancy way of saying that Greg preserved the proper use of the critical physical components and circuit designs found in real tube amps rather than trying to recreate classic tones by artificial means. Using real Class A and Class AB operation and performing complex circuit re-wiring on the fly, the VT12 gets its great guitar tone from time-tested analog circuitry, and reserves the "modern technology" for effects processing, where it belongs.

Hotwire provides eight power output levels to perfectly pair the power amplifier's headroom and overall output level with the desired preamp circuit configuration. Dial in from 1 to 120 watts to balance the accurate interplay between preamp, power amp and speaker and you've got more flexibility than any guitar amp has ever offered before.

Mackie Hotwire VT12 main featyures include:

• 2 X 16 character amber-backlit LCD display
• One-button Buzz filter, for eliminating noise due single-coil pickups or other noisy input sources
• Notch filter, for reducing feedback from acoustic instrument sources
• Manual mode, for simple "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" operation
• Rear-panel microphone input with independent level and processing control
• Onboard compressor/limiter
• Click (metronome) function, with variable sample type, tempo, and level
• Onboard chromatic tuner
• Tools menu, providing access to numerous utility functions.
• Insert loop, for inserting external effects and/or signal processors.
• Stereo line inputs, for jamming along with a CD or MP3 player.
• Cabinet emulated stereo line outputs.
• Stereo headphone output.
• External speaker jack, for connecting an optional EX12 extension cabinet