http://www.atomicamps.com/products.htm

here's the original one....
it had a 18 watt tube amp driving it..
 
http://www.musicradar.com/us/reviews/guitars/atomic-reactor-112-24334

Thanks Bats,
 I was reading about them and came back to see you had posted links.
 
 The review reads pretty much as I expected. Mr King thought his Pod rig needed help: "the perfect powered monitor for the job was conspicuously absent.".
 
 So, he had Harry build him a tube amp that was "designed to amplify any preamp signal without adding any tonal colouring."
 
 Then it got discontinued to make something even better.
 
best regards,
mike

Sigh. The Kemper does allow complete tweakability just like any amp...in fact more so. So searching for your own sound is easier and offers even more options. But no one, certainly not me, is saying that it should REPLACE purchasing, playing or enjoying solid state, tube or even amps made of kryptonite. Although this is the type of inane non-starter argument I've come to expect. It is just another new and very powerful tool for all guitarists...especially working ones. Most of my friends who are working guitarists still use proprietary rigs too. Now. But just wait. As I said its all about tone...and ANY way you can get it is jess dandy.

PS...I'd bet the huge wattage is for the metal fellers playing the big shows.

ACTUALLY....
 
it'd be more appropriate for the super clean players who need massive headroom to play big arenas or large clubs.
 
 

Not meant as an argument Ol Pal or to discredit what you said or Kemper or emulation altogether. You know I appreciate you. I've also worked w/ amp sims long enough to know that they're a valid option in some cases.
 
That being said, this thread was initially started to state how happy I was to be mic'ing a real amp after almost 15 years of working w/ emulation. 
 
No matter how much better and more flexible and more this and more that, no matter if it mimics the amp I want to use to perfection - the entire thing was about working w/ something that's not an emulation of something else. In this case, a Marshall which reacts like a Marshall, sounds like a Marshall, look and smell like a Marshall - and perhaps even more importantly, has all the limitations of a Marshall.
 
That sort of simplicity. 

I like my pod HD pro for its versatility. I like my Marshall and my '59 Gretsch for the feel and sheer joy I get playing through them. It's just so much more organic. The way you know just how to get it to howl a certain way, or how you know just what type of feedback you're going to get if you bend the string this way, or lean into it that way, and how it will evolve as you hold the note. It's like an old friend that you know almost as well as yourself. That's what I don't get from sims.

 

yorolpal
As I said its all about tone...and ANY way you can get it is jess dandy.

Yes, I went and I had a listen to the latest work by a featured producer on the Kemper website after watching his interview where he spoke about saving thousands of dollars, loads of time, and making records over skype.
 
The kindest thing I can say is that all those *tones* made me feel like when I look at a photograph of a famous painting while hoping to experience the magic of standing before a Rembrandt. 
 
I don't think the working guitarist will mind though... because they all seem to be listening to their tone through custom molded ear buds... they don't even hear what the audience hears anymore.
 
We've come a long way baby.
 
 
 
 
You may call a discussion about this subject "inane" my olpal, but know this, some of us call it "passionate". 
 
 
 
Rock on, olpal, Rock on!
 
 
all the best,
mike

1rst to my ol pal Rain...you are so right...I'm sorry to have hijacked your thread as I apparently have. I got off on a tangent and I apologize. Again whether anyone even checks out any new technology to see if it might work for them or not is for them to decide. I know how much of a fanboi I can sound like at times...again if I've given anyone the wrong impression about my thoughts about tools and tone or the price of tea in China for that matter...chalk it up to the ravings of an old...but experienced...old player and producer. I've always said I try to let my music and production techniques speak for themselves. So be it.

Which brings me to my ol pal Mike. I've listened to both what you've had to say on a myriad number of topics over these last few years and also listened to the music you produce. And I know the content and level of each. I've also taken you to task on occasion and defended you on others. For all I know you may be a "hail fellow well met" sort of chap...though I doubt it. Like many others before me I have simply grown tired of your foolishness and obtuse reasoning and your constant aren't-I-clever-this-will-fly-right-over-their-heads posts that not only do not fly over anyone's head but only succeed in rudely kicking them metaphorically in the shins or tangentializing the subject at hand. I honestly wish you well...in both your life and your music. I hope you continue to have fun and have a great life. But I must be shut of you. And to use the sort of hyperbolic term you are so fond of...FOREVER. You, as we say down here, are a "piece of work". Go on with your bad self.

Thanks for making your self clear.
 
best regards,
mike