Welcome to the sound samples page. Here you can download audio files that allow you to hear the effect of fitting one of the Rothwell Little Knob series to your guitar.
Sample 1 hi-res MP3. 640 KB
Cool Little Knob - These samples were played by Andrew Rothwell on a Gordon Smith Gypsy guitar fitted with two Rothwell Cool Little Knobs
Neck position selected. Control turned up and down with the knob in both the up and down positions.
Sample 2 hi-res MP3. 650 KB
Bridge position selected. Control turned up and down with the knob in both the up and down positions.
Sample 3 hi-res MP3. 2 MB
Cool little Knob – within a mix. The eight bar intro features a twin humbucker guitar played clean, on the neck pickup. The first four bars of the intro has the Cool Little Knob in the down position and turned all the way up (standard humbucker mode) and in the second four bars the knob is turned all the way down. No amp settings were changed at all. The rest of the track features a series of four bar phrases played on the bridge pickup, with distortion, with alternate phrases being played with the knob turned up full and then turned all the way down.
Hot Little Knob Samples - The first three samples were were played by Chris Porter on a Japanese Fender Stratocaster fitted with a Rothwell Hot Little Knob. The last three samples where played by Paul Rose on a Fender USA ‘62 reissue through a Marshall JMP1 preamp.
Sample 1 hi-res MP3. 500 KB
Hot Little Knob – first in the down position (standard strat mode) and then in the up position.
Sample 2 hi-res MP3. 700 KB
Hot Little Knob – clean tone, down then up
Sample 3 hi-res MP3. 320 KB
Hot Little Knob – with overdrive, down then up.
Sample 1 lo-res MP3. 380 KB
Sample 2 lo-res MP3. 390 KB
Sample 3 lo-res MP3. 1.2 MB
Neck Adder Sample - This sample was played by Andrew Rothwell on a Japanese Fender Stratocaster fitted with a Rothwell Neck Adder
This lick is played first of all on the neck pickup only, followed by the bridge pickup only and then with the Neck Adder used to combine the bridge and neck pickups. Finaly, the bridge pickup alone is heard again for comparison. The bridge pickup alone can sound a little thin for some peoples taste. Combining it with some of the neck pickup fattens up the sound.
Hot Little Knob – Bridge pickup first in the down position (standard strat mode) and then in the up position.
Sample 5 hi-res MP3. 945 KB
Hot Little Knob – Middle and bridge, down then up
Sample 6 hi-res MP3. 895 KB
Hot Little Knob – middle pickup, down then up.
Hellbender sound samples - All samples are played by Andrew Rothwell and were recorded using a small class A valve amp (1 x ECC83 pre-amp valve, 1 x EL84 output valve, custom made by Rothwell Audio Products) driving a 10" Celestion speaker, close mic'd with a dynamic microphone. No EQ used at mixdown.
Please note that in order to give you the best possible indication of the capabilities of the Hellbender, these audio samples have been recorded as 192 kb/s MP3. As a result they are all about 1.5 Mbytes. This shouldn’t be a problem for broadband users but modem users should expect download times of at least one minute each.
Bluesy/space rock lead tone, strat (bridge + middle pickups), Hellbender gain control set to 12 o'clock, tone set to 12 o'clock.
Blues/rock 12 bar rhythm tone, strat (bridge + middle pickups), Hellbender gain set to 9 o'clock, tone set to 2 o'clock.
Soft rock/pop tone, strat (neck pickup), Hellbender gain set to minimum, tone set to 11 o'clock.
High gain lead tone, Gordon Smith guitar (2 humbuckers, Les Paul style), Hellbender gain set to 3 o'clock, tone set to 3 o'clock.
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