always look on the vintage side

Laney Klipp - Guts

Altar @ First Church of Amplifiers of the ol’ days.

Latest addition.

Leo’s legacy.

Score of the day (~275 €). Need some love and work, but nothing serious.

Happy family!

First i’ll try to learn more and more about the debugging (it’s a bit noisy on every channel so maybe something wrong after the preamp) and then i’ll swap out few components on each preamp. The first one going to be all stock and then i’ll raise or lower a singel components value channel by channel to see how it sounds than. Stoked!

Got this 1977 Sunn P.A. Twelve mixer/power-amp at the local flea market for 30 euro. It’s a super heavy 12 channel mixer with a built-in reverb and a 200 watt power-amp under the same hood. Not tested it yet, but it powers up. Only half of the knobs worth more than what i paid for it.

Hello there! It’s really a hard to choose one amp for both bass and electric. I would say that go for more and more wattage (because the bass) if you play some heavy stuff in a two guitar, one “bass style band. I think the Ampeg V4 is great platform for both guitar and bass tones because the tone shaping qualities but it’s pretty dirty when you drive hard with bass - and you have to because 100-120 watts for bass are not really much these days… but it’s depend on your cabs and such. I have actually and old OR120 and it’s a great sounding on bass but it’s not clean either on high volume levels. Maybe you should check the 100 or 135 watt fender bassmans too. Sounds great too and it’s easier to get on a reasonable price level. Hope that helps. By the way: what’s your problem with your current setup? If you give me more detail on your application or problems with your rig, maybe i’ll can tell you more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQEn6CsQ4k

Some of you asked me to show the WEM Shadow Echo as a preamp. Here you are!

Got this Watkins "The Shadow Echo" today which sounds a bit noisy yet but it's usual in that age. I've the original tape loops in a sealed case and the tubes are untouched too so it's a super score and i haven't mentioned that sound... This unit rips, that tube/tape saturation is unbelievable. You should hear that!

Sunday jam.

True vintage classic from the late sixties! Goodmans Audiom 12-P (Green label), 25 watts, slays! 

Actually I never heard personally, but i'm sure you can't go wrong with any Moog product if you're fine with the features. Personally i like the pre-delay drive circuit idea like in the old Memory Man delays.Comparing delay pedals are really hard, because most of them just sound really close to the same. I think if you looking for delay just focus on the features (delay time ect.) that the pedal offers, in a live situation they just give you ambience and space in the most cases so cheaper digital delay could do the job as well. You'll never notice any significant difference in an analog repeat when it comes to full-band mix. If you like looping and play music alone - like most of the ambiend, post-rock players it's worth to purchase a really powerful delay otherwise it's not necessary (for me).

(Note that the vintage unit has the blend on the bottom, not the delay knob.)

Family photo.