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Post by larryguitar54 on Aug 23, 2020 22:19:03 GMT -5
I'm doing survey of my amp collection.
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Post by Sharkie on Aug 24, 2020 6:38:26 GMT -5
I'm doing survey of my amp collection. That’s a great looking and sounding amp Larry. I’m guessing the only complaint would be the weight? |
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Post by sfk on Aug 24, 2020 7:29:28 GMT -5
I had a purple one that was my main amp for a number of years. A wonderful, versatile amp.
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Post by larryguitar54 on Aug 24, 2020 17:19:52 GMT -5
As follow up my 'pros v cons':
Pro--Crunch channel with pre amp and master is really good. You can dial in your tone and let overall volume to taste. It sounds great at quiet living room levels and can do loud in medium room. The crunch channel has a natural compression and sustain requiring very little pedal use. Plug in a delay and maybe a chorus or tremolo and you are good to go. Also the effects loop is excellent. You get no loss in tone or noise in the channel. There is visual appeal. The amp is fairly quiet in the crunch channel
Con--if you buy the amp new it's pricey--around $2.5k if they still sell it. Also very heavy--65 lbs which is the same as a Twin Reverb. Main complaint--not a huge one but a complaint---the clean channel does not have the same 'ballsy bottom end' as a comparable Fender blackface such as a Pro Reverb or Super. Others have said the same thing and I think it's a valid point.
Summary--I love the amp for what it does which is to give me a really warm high gain tone at living room level but can hang with a band in a medium sized venue. When you show up at a local jam you get oohs and ahhs over the looks alone. You really can just plug and play with no pedals and not miss anything But if you are gigging outdoors on a large stage and need to punch the guy in the back in the chest then go with a trusty Twin Reverb instead. (I will demo/review that next probably)
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Post by windmill on Aug 24, 2020 17:35:09 GMT -5
That does sound good Thanks for posting the video. No wonder you get the crowd going !  |
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Post by larryguitar54 on Aug 24, 2020 18:51:46 GMT -5
The story on that clip at the end--
I was watching a documentary on Hendrix at the Atlanta Pop Festival. I heard what he was doing and I thought, "Ya know --I think I can play that...I think that's just one big E chord he's milking for all its worth."
So I quick grabbed the guitar and did a quick clip into an Iphone while I was just chiling in my Lazy Boy to see if I could copy it. I got some noisy thin recording in music memo app.
But later I was able to take that very rough mix and load it into Garageband and somehow polish it into the final product. By GF did all the engineering and showed me what she could do. She added the crowd noise for grins.
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