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  • February 22, 2009 at 8:44 am #93792
    Stankerbell
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    How much and how common is the Sunn name across the pond? My guitarist and I each have a Sunn Solaurs, and we picked ’em up for pretty low cost. Mine’s a 2×12 combo from ’68, only has 40 watts, and is too loud in the house if I crank it past 2. At gigs, 4 is just about the max. The only way I can get it dirty naturally (no pedals, I mean) is to push it past 5 or 6, and I think I might start breaking windows at that volume, so as you could guess, it stays clean for days. I have no idea what 10 sounds like… I’m scared…

    February 22, 2009 at 9:18 pm #93818
    FantabulousNoise
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    hey everybody

    you’ve all been very helpful

    I went to the shop where my lester was being set up and tried out the Peavey to check the work on the guitar and see what it sounded like

    I couldn’t really play loud – but I liked what I heard

    I could coax a nice low level overdrive sound out of the preamp as it has 2 gain controls in addition to the volume as well as the option of putting another valve in the circuit as a gain stage

    the reverb was pretty good too – just sounded like an amp reverb really so I am well pleased in that regard

    I’m a University Student right now – so hopefully I’ll get a cafe job in the summer

    If I worked full time for one month on minimum wage I could more than afford the Peavey – and I think it would punch exactly the right weight for me

    March 2, 2009 at 10:52 pm #94147
    BlueSteel
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    yesterday i was at this antiques place and i found a danelectro amp that the seller said was from the late 50’s or early 60’s it was sort of a half stack. and it was a tube amp. i just thought it was cool but i dont need another amp so i didnt buy it. plus im saving for some ehx stuff.

    http://ampblog.fargenamps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/1485m1.jpg it looked almost like this except i think a little smaller.

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