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--- In SurfGuitar101@y..., surfkings@h... wrote:
> Anybody here have any amps that are out of the ordinary? I have a
> Garnet Revolution 2 (100 watts, tube, one 12").
Hehehe, I actually have a Garnet Gnome, pretty much a clone of a
Fender Vibro Champ. The tremolo circuit is different and there's a
solid-state rectifier (totally off-the wall concept for a single-
ended class-A amp) but it actually sounds pretty damn close to the
silverface Vibro Champ I used to have years ago.
The story on the Garnet is that I actually found it in the garbage,
lying by the side of the road. To make matters even more absurd, it
was lying next to an empty box from a digital multi-effects unit. I
thought to myself "wow, some fool just took a very expensive tonal
step DOWN".
Turned out that the amp had a physically ruptured cathode (never seen
that before!) and a few burnt resistors. About $6 worth of parts
later it was good to go and hasn't given me any trouble ever since.
I ended up replacing the awful particleboard baffle and totally
useless no-name 8" speaker and made a thin pine baffleboard that now
houses a 10" speaker (makes the amp a little more useful).
At +/- 8 watts, it's useless for anything but recording and practice,
but as far as a recording amp goes, it really works! With volume,
treble and bass all turned up to 10 this thing gives a really
credible Link Wray tone.
