The Mackie Hotwire VT12 Amplifier is a great sounding and extremely portable guitar amp to carry to gigs and recording sessions instead of trucking around a 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. To accomplish this, Mackie took a completely different approach, unlike anything that's come before, and without assumption or compromise.The result is a Mode Switching guitar amplifier, which is a fancy way of saying that Mackie 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.You will be equally taken by the painstaking attention to detail and unforgiving standards of performance that the VT12 has been held to. In the end, however, these are all just words on paper until you experience this Hotwire amplifier's soul. And more importantly, the soul of your own music pouring out of a brilliantly designed musical instrument that keeps its focus where it belongs: on pure, uncompromised tone.Mode Switching: The Heart of Hotwire. To understand Mode Switching, you have to first understand that the tone of any great tube amplifier is the result of distinctive tube types, specific preamp circuitry, rectifier design, power amp circuitry, speaker voicing and physical cabinet structure all converging into a single and soulful piece of gear. When any link in this well-proven chain is compromised, the resulting tone is equally compromised without exception.The Mackie Hotwire VT12's patent pending Mode Switching technology electronically rewires the entire analog circuit path, changing the character of its preamp and power amp sections and re-voicing the speaker to actualize the recreation of classic (and through its extensive editing options, customized) amplification. Because Mode Switching physically changes the fundamental analog circuitry of the amp itself, each of Hotwire's twelve basic Modes is inspiring and real from the expressive pluck and growl of Class A, '60s era classic tube combos, to the power and grit of Class AB American monsters. In between, you'll find everything from sparkling hi-fi to dynamic crunch tones, all responding to the slightest nuance of the player's touch. Hotwire delivers the rich body and natural tone demanded by the finest electric and acoustic instruments.Shedding the Weight: A Bold New Power Section Design Focused on Tone The power section of any tube guitar amp consists of a power supply and a power amplifier. They serve different pur
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