PATRICK WOLF: I'm Patrick Wolf. I play guitar here in Louisville. I'm building an amp from scratch by hand.

Now we start out with the frame. I went with a single 15 with a closed back on it. Chassis will obviously be right there. Here we go. We're going to do grille cloths from here to here above the chassis and then this will get grille cloth on top of that. We got nice elephant-style black Tolex that we Tolexed the whole box in.

It's really nice with the 15 with the sealed back. The low end stays tight. You don't get that kind of speaker crack at the bottom when you go to the really low notes and the high notes really stay substantial. They don't thin out, you know.

The purpose of this amp, I'm using this for clean tones, 100% clean tones, more along the lines of jazz stuff, jazz-rock-type stuff. That's just the purpose for this particular amp that we're building. Again, the reason for the 15, it kind of helps out with that too, really keeping those clean tones thick and substantial.

I've actually used Doc's amps exclusively for about the past three years. I started out with this guy right here. This was custom-built for me. A couple of cool features on it. You know, the Tolex, we didn't go with Tolex. We went with a liner. It's like what you find in the back of pickup truck beds.

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PATRICK WOLF: Made this I mean super-durable.

PATRICK OGLE: That's an interesting idea in itself.

PATRICK WOLF: [OVERLAPPING] Yeah, I was doing a lot of road shows at the time and so I needed something that was going to hold up. I didn't want to have a bunch of cases and stuff around. This is basically like having an amp case on your amp at all times. It has two EVs on it which are, you know, good for handling high wattage. They don't break up very easy. I always use a really, really loud clean tone. The dirt channel on this is very dark ala McLaughlin maybe, a very, very dark dirty channel.

This amp was very high wattage, very, very loud. Again, I was doing a lot of road shows and so I needed something that would be loud enough to play in pretty much any venue. Very, very dark sound on the distortion side and just tons of headroom on the clean side using two humbuckers with this amp, a Les Paul and an Ibanez Artist. I moved from that to this amp down here, which is the CLUB, a much brighter kind of shimmering clean channel in it, and I use a Tele with that mainly now. I also use a Les Paul with that a lot. The clean is just super brigh it cuts through. I use that in a band where I have a rhythm guitar player playing behind me so I don't want to get lost in the mix and it really cuts through.

PATRICK OGLE: So you pick a different amp to fit who you're playing with?

PATRICK WOLF: Exactly.

PATRICK OGLE: Yeah.

PATRICK WOLF: Exactly. That's one of the benefits of having something custom-made is I can come in here and say, "These are my criteria. This is what I have to work with." You know, I don't have to sacrifice playing the guitar that I don't want to be playing to get the sound that I want. I can use the instrument that I want and get the tone out of it using, you know, something that we put together here.