The Randall KH103 is one of the best sounding signature tube amplifiers on the market. Period. It's basically the Fortin Meathead/Randall 667 on a three channel amp. I initially ignored the hype around this amp, but then I heard it in real life...and WOW. I bought 3 of these bad boys with the intention to do some gigging, and C19 sideswiped that idea. This particular amp has served as my backup amp to the other two Randall KH103's that I play, and I've never ever need to employ its use. After 5 years, I think it's safe to say that it's time to move this one down the road. These are retailing at $3K+ now brand new, and this unit is basically brand new minus a bit of dust from storage.
Features
The KH103 is a three channel amp with four different voicing options (BOOST, L, M, H for Hammett).
Channel 1
No Voicing - Metallica Cleans. JC120 clean. Solid State Clean. Very tough to breakup.
Boost - Pushed cleans.
L with Boost - Blues Clean in the 1-4k range, deep 125-250 bottom end. Very nice on a Strat neck pickup. Perfect for blues.
L - Slight breakup, gain is pushed, definitely breaking up...Fenderstyle breakup. Bassman sounding.
M - Medium Breakup, Old Marshall Cleans. AC/DC tones from an Les Paul humbucker. Sounds so good.
H - Basically more of the same as M.
Boost with M & H - Gets into super clean crunch territory if you crank the gain. Get's that dirty AC/DC tone.
Channel 2 (The Magic Channel)
No Voicing - Kill em All. This crunch is so good.
Boost Only - Kill em All tones with more gain.
L with Boost - Ride The Lightning crunch tones.
L - Ride The Lightning JCM800 snarl.
M - Master of Puppets Rhythm sounds with HIGH GAIN AND BOOST. Metallica Load Sounds (think the rhythm track to Fuel) with no Boost and Moderate Gain (5-6 oclock).
H - Live Metallica sounds. Snarlier, recto vibes. Kinda like that snarl from main riff in the the song St. Anger.
H & BOOST - Basically H voiced for a lead tone.
Channel 3
H voicing - Metallica Black Album Guitar Tone all day.
The rest of the voicings are variations of Channel 2 with more gain and subtle changes to the EQ of the signal.
Other Features
2 Effects Loops with dedicated send and receive levels in Parallel and Series routing (This is basically unheard of in an amplifier)
MIDI Switch Program Compatible
Line Outs/Slave Outs with Level Control