- and myself, to a whole new level of obsessiveness!
... "obsessiveness"? Anyway - with the two tens, it's kinda a Super Deluxe!
(modify it to accept octals in the preamp and PI, and it'll
really be a Super Deluxe)
(bet I'm not the only one thinking about trying
that, with their 5E3)
I managed to take a couple photos that are a little better:
- those of you with all kinds of experience with great amps might be doing some head-scratching at all the details - some of which are surely a bit silly; looking around in here, I've seen posts from many people who've built four or five amps and seem to have detailed knowledge of dozens of other amps! But for me, a one-amp-for-twenty-years kind of guy, this amp is far and away the finest and most interesting amp I've ever played, let alone had as my own. So I'm fussin' with the frame, a little bit.
The weird thing is, it feels
familiar - and I don't mean because I put it together; something about the sound, and the way it feels.
It may be something to do with the designs from that era; what you get, when you play a guitar or an amp from that time, is really yourself - a very natural, acoustic-but-louder rendering of what you can do. Maybe when we look for gear, we aren't really looking for gear so much as for a way into ourselves, into the music and the sounds in our minds that aren't always easy to understand, and that haunt us, until we find some way to make them real.