“I've got many guitar amps, but all of them are missing something -- either bottom, top, attack or midrange. I end up having to combine several amps to get the sound I want. But Hot amps have made this Ayreon 2011 amp especially to my personal specifications and it has it all...finally I don't have to switch amps all the time anymore!”
- Arjen Anthony Lucassen.


HOT Ayreon 2011 is the signature all tube guitar amplifier model of Arjen Anthony Lucassen. Fully hand-made and hand-wired guitar amplifier made in the Czech Republic (E.U.) by point-to-point technology made of first quality materials and components, featuring three channels, serio-parallel effects loop driven by ECC83 valve, pentode/triode power switch (100W class AB/50W Class A), custom ‘Presence’ ‘Sweep’ and ‘Master’ controls, footswitch, outputs for 4 8 and 16ohm speaker cabinets and more.

HOT Ayreon 2011 offers three channels – Clean channel and two Drive channels. Clean channel offers tone from really bright and warm clean to vintage crunch. Drive channel 1 is more of vintage and hard rock character and Drive channel 2 is of huge Modern fast attack and nicely singing tone character with more middles. Drive channels of HOT Ayreon 2011 are producing very concrete clear and transparent tone even in high gain positions with HOT’s characteristic warm “chugga” attack tone and fastest response ever. HOT Ayreon 2011 features also serio-parallel tube driven ( 1xECC83) effects loop. This ultimate Arjen Lucassen signature all tube guitar amplifier is coming with footswitch and nice HOT waterproof transport cover and is made (as all our amplifiers) under the highest and same quality standards as the original HOT Ayreon 2011 signature model owned by Arjen Anthony Lucassen.

“The HOT has a lot more presence possibilities than the Bogner which is good.Definitely enough distortion, excellent 'chugga' crunge attack (or whatever you want to call it!). The middle is excellent and quite extreme, you can clearly hear it all the way from 1 to 10. Excellent presence! It's great that you added it to the master volume. I tried the effects send and it works perfectly.” Sweep control - “I had to learn to work with this one! I found out that this sweep actually influences all the other controls. Changing the sweep influences the bass, mid and treble controls as well. It's like a parametric equaliser.”
- Arjen Anthony Lucassen about HOT Ayreon 2011