Here's the MetroAmp kit (MetroAmp photo).
Do you hear “it” in this vid? “It” of course being a bit of EVH.
This is a ’68 spec Metro Amp kit, which refers to a 1968 Marshall Super Lead-spec – a la EVH’s prized Marshall plexi head…and it certainly sounds like it.
What’s remarkable about this clip is that it’s live, played with other instruments and the amp is a kit! – meaning anyone can build it to get the same tone (bearing in mind that you have to play Ed-like to get “it”).
The flip side of that is that everyone who builds the kit and leaves the spec the same has the same amp. This may not bother you, but just bear in mind that you are buying George Metropoulos‘ ears – meaning, since just about every ’60s Marshall was different, you are buying someone’s opinion of what the best one of any particular model sounded like or “should” sound like. Sometimes that works out for folks, sometimes not.
But I can assure you that I’ve heard these amps in person and they SMOKE! One day….
Arghh! Follow the link to the Metro Amps site, click on the picture, only to find that they have shut down their store for the time being. What a tease!