Weird Guitar Amps

brace yourself because on today's episode I'm going to demonstrate and tell you the story behind some of the most weird and odd amplifiers in my entire collection [Music] before I jump in and demonstrate these odd amplifiers I want to tell you a little bit about what you're gonna see and hear in this episode so you can understand all the variables so all of these amplifiers are going to be heads so that means they don't have a built-in speaker so I'm going to use a speaker cabinet that has two speakers in it a 12 inch speaker and a 10 inch speaker you're gonna notice that there's two microphones on that cab two sm57 and one of those is going to be on the 12 inch and one on the tin so in your right ear is the 12 and then your left ear is the 10 inch if you want to leave both ears in it sounds fantastic no need to pull them apart but you're super nerdy like I think you are you could pull out your right ear and just hear the brighter 10 inch speaker or you could pull out the left ear and just hear the 12 inch and I think that'd be good for some of you guys who might use one of these speakers more over the other or you're just curious how the amps responding so across all the amps the same speaker and that will give you a really nice variable of how it's responding to that cab every amp is different but the cab stays the same now the guitar I'm gonna use is the same guitar do every amplifier and it is my built xacti it's a semi hollow body with a mastery bridge you've seen this on the episode quite a bit and the reason I'm using it is because it has two of the staple p90s by Lawler now these pickups to me are super balanced and they strike a nice chord between a Les Paul and a strat so when I go to the bridge I can get a huge almost humbucker sound and when I'm on that net pickup it's almost like a strat neck and I felt like that was just easier than pulling out a bunch of guitars and it also lets you hear every amp with the same guitar so you can really see the story of how these different odd amplifiers sound without so many variables last is I don't want to use any overdrive distortion pedals or fuzz but I did want to use a boost pedal so I went to the shelf and I pulled off an mxr micro amp and basically I'm gonna set it at 75 percent I measured that to be about 10 DB of gain and I'm gonna use it you're gonna see me hit this button and you're going to notice more distortion but don't be deceived this is not a distortion pedal it is simply clean as you can get gain being pushed into the preamp tubes and it will cause those tubes to distort more so same speaker same guitar same boost pedal you'll see all the variables would be very tight and that way you can look it ahead and go man that really does sound different than the last one it's all the same gear except for that head with that said let's jump right in the first amp is a weird ant it's so weird I don't even know what it is it's been on the shelves here for years and years and here's what I know about it it's measured at about 4.5 watts it's single ended and it has a volume bass and treble control it's in a rather shady enclosure that kind of is falling apart I don't really know about the output transformer situation you just plug your speaker cabinet in here and I go my guitar into the microphone jack it also has a phono stereo input so maybe this is some PA amplifier I don't know it has a thumb balance control maybe some of you guys know but apparently it's not all here but all the tone is here because you're gonna hear it and you know because it's not grounded and because I'm really not sure if there is an output transformer if I died playing this just know that I went out in a blaze of glory and you got to experience it hopefully the files get edited somehow [Music] this odd amplifier is one you can actually go by unlike everything else on this episode it is the gammatron by satellite amplification it is really small and 2.3 2.7 Watts something like that this thing is truly Marshall sounds like at a very low volume but somehow it still feels really great through the speaker cabinet I'm not sure Adams a genius I love his amps have several and go to their website satellite Gemma Tron [Music] [Applause] [Music] this episode will be a complete and utter travesty if I did not have a weird odd piece of equipment from Japan so to keep this episode on the straight here it is it's a weird odd amp from Japan that I got in LA and it's a crown tube head I almost didn't get this home there's a long dramatic story about how I couldn't find the box to put the cab in with the head but I'll spare you all that it's here you're looking at it you're gonna get to hear it here's the cab it's a 112 there's the crown logo and on the back this is funny I took the back off so you can see the Japan written in sharpie it's amazing we're not gonna use the cab because frankly it sounds like hot trash and we're just gonna put it in the normal cab we have here this thing stays clean at about 7 to 8 watts I'm gonna crank the volume and leave it and it has a nice tremolo circuit and it sounds awesome when the boost hits it so just a single-ended class-a amp and super light as well it's actually negative weight like as I hold it it's like falling three my hand it's hard to explain it so anyway [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you [Music] you [Music] next is the Pathfinder by Newcomb this is a pool and so Newcomb was a company in the 50s and 60s out of Hollywood and they made these heads to be pas they were PA so you'd see them in schools and churches where you'd plug in a microphone and you know kind of public announcement type systems this has been converted to a guitar head and it is exceptional I really really like it it's heavy I'm gonna set it down it's for ela t4s it's about 30 Watts Class B push-pull so it is incredibly voxi and I like it more than any Vox I've ever played even the old jmi here in the shop so it says a lot really versatile and I love hitting it with boost pedals wait see here that micro in at the front end it is magic [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I had a delivery the other day and it's conveniently an odd amplifier it's from a good friends over at quilter it's the new interblock 45 I've used the quilter stuff at NAMM I've used them playing live gigs I have really tried almost every model and I love them matter of fact every petal we test we use a quilter solid-state head through a cab this came in and it's their new product so I'm gonna demo it it fits right into the show because I think the definition of odd is not like things that are normal I think that's solid you'd find that on the Internet probably here it is quilter interblock 45 it has cab simulation headphone out but when I plug it into the forearm tap on this cab it's gonna be a 45 watt amp with a master volume gain control and a full tone stack that's kind of bonkers it's the size it's actually smaller than my double barrel or sweet tea pedal pretty crazy you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the last odd amplifier is not only odd and weird it is incredibly rare it's as rare as finding a good Creed album I'll let you think about that for a minute here it is it also weighs 17,000 pounds it is a Saab tic MIG 80 and to be honest there's not another one on earth I'm pretty sure if you can prove me wrong please do in the comments but this ant came to me about a year ago in a prototype form pretty much a nonworking board that could have never worked because of layout issues weird Russian power tubes all this stuff but my good friend Dave Brown came over and we restored it we put in some 6l sixes and this thing screams it's amazing big beautiful clean tones awesome distortion tones it's about 50 watts really unique really cool and I think it's probably the rarest amp I've ever had or will ever have so until the saab tech episode at least you get to hear this weird one it's you [Music] [Music] [Music] today's record time is brought to you by my life in the bush of ghosts by David Byrne and Brian Eno you know David Byrne from the Talking Heads and you know Brian Eno as a famous producer well this is a collaborative record that they did in 1981 and it is an odd masterpiece I say odd because odd is really good sometimes odd like this record just doesn't fit into the times it's way ahead or it's way outside of the box and that's what this is so and those comments tell me your favorite odd record maybe it's a band that had a formula but they strayed from it and made your favorite record because of that or maybe it's just an album or a band that never fit into their era either way put those in the comments I'd love to check it out and listen to those and then listen to this and tell me what you think about that's it for this episode I hope you enjoyed it what I would love is for you in those comments to tell me what your favorite odd amplifier that I played today was tell me why it's your favorite tell me how you would use it and then if you own an odd or weird amplifier put that in the comments as well and maybe link to some pictures or descriptions of it I'd love to look through those and see if there's anything I've never seen for myself if you liked this episode hit like subscribe to the channel and there's a bell icon you'll get notifications of future episodes if you click that until next time have a wonderful day

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Id: yQQTuI_-5n0

Length: 16min 23sec (983 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 10 2019