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Published on 01/27/10 at 15:00This amp is a silver face 4X12 100 watt tube monster. It is essentially a twin reverb with an extra 2 12's. It has two ins in the normal channel which has volume, treble, mid, bass control. It also has two vibrato channels which has volume, treble, mid, bass, reverb, speed, and intensity control and a master volume. Each channel also has a bright switch.
This amp was given to me by my dad. I noticed that there was an amp behind our door in the parlor that had become a table/coat rack. I asked him about it and he said he bought it when it came out in 1972 and used it in his gigging days but hadn't touched it 20 years. I asked him if I could try it out and he told me I could have it. Lucky me. He regrets it a little now.
This is the absolute cleanest amp I have ever played single coils through. When you have the bright switch turned on, it lets every high come through and also lets you have warm bass. Its not one or the other with this amp. The reverb is fantastic, no pedal can recreate the sound of a vintage amp with reverb. It dirties up nicely too. I have heard others complain that you have to play at deafening levels to get the tubes to overdrive. Not so. If you pull the master volume out the amp pushes the tubes harder at lower levels. It does sound better when it overdrives on the normal setting which does take quite a bit, but there is a simple break mod that can be done to your guitar if that is a problem.
I feel bad for complaining about this but... The amp is VERY heavy and awkward. It is also very expensive to re-tube with 4 6l6's and several power tubes.
The quality is great. The amp is almost 40 years old, has been gigged with for several years and only has a few small holes in the silverface. (I have no flight case or cover for it) Very solid amp.
I LOVE this amp. I hope to never part with it, and if it is lost or stolen, I will have to find another. It is built like a tank and sounds just like I like my strat to sound. Hauling the beast around is worth it every time.
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This amp was given to me by my dad. I noticed that there was an amp behind our door in the parlor that had become a table/coat rack. I asked him about it and he said he bought it when it came out in 1972 and used it in his gigging days but hadn't touched it 20 years. I asked him if I could try it out and he told me I could have it. Lucky me. He regrets it a little now.
This is the absolute cleanest amp I have ever played single coils through. When you have the bright switch turned on, it lets every high come through and also lets you have warm bass. Its not one or the other with this amp. The reverb is fantastic, no pedal can recreate the sound of a vintage amp with reverb. It dirties up nicely too. I have heard others complain that you have to play at deafening levels to get the tubes to overdrive. Not so. If you pull the master volume out the amp pushes the tubes harder at lower levels. It does sound better when it overdrives on the normal setting which does take quite a bit, but there is a simple break mod that can be done to your guitar if that is a problem.
I feel bad for complaining about this but... The amp is VERY heavy and awkward. It is also very expensive to re-tube with 4 6l6's and several power tubes.
The quality is great. The amp is almost 40 years old, has been gigged with for several years and only has a few small holes in the silverface. (I have no flight case or cover for it) Very solid amp.
I LOVE this amp. I hope to never part with it, and if it is lost or stolen, I will have to find another. It is built like a tank and sounds just like I like my strat to sound. Hauling the beast around is worth it every time.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com