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Anybody here have any amps that are out of the ordinary? I have a
Garnet Revolution 2 (100 watts, tube, one 12"). They were made up
here in Canada (Winnipeg to be exact), and were used by the Guess Who
("American Woman") back in the 60's. It has pretty good built in
spring reverb, and the weirdest tremolo I've ever heard.
Mike
--- 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.
