Well I tried anyway. After a rousing debate over solid state amps and Norlin LP's, I decided I would jump over to the dark side and try out one of these babies.
My goal was to play my 76 custom with the ss amp, and see if there were any good tones to be had, expanding my tonal pallete, and removing the myth of ss ugliness.
So, I find a Kustom KB100 head figuring if it works for Fogerty (I know he played a kb200), it would work for me.
Upon delivery, I notice there is a strange type of debris poking out the back of the head. Further inspection after removing the chassis, revealed an enormous amount of critter debris. Apparently mice lived in the back of the Kustom for quite sometime, the debris ball was taking up almost the entire back of the chassis compartment. Wires where chewed, rust on the trannies and general gunk on the inside. The tuck and roll was in great shape, the outside pics were very good. Looked like a cool amp that reminded me of my buddies growing up.
I repacked this baby up and returned it to the seller in record time, it spent about 40 minutes at my house which is the quickest sale I have ever been part of, even amps that suck stick around for at least 8 hours.
The tube gods reached down and urfed up this big hairball to advise me once again, that I should stick with what I know best, the world of solid state amps was sending me a message. Go away, dont come back here again.
So sadly, I never really experienced the world of Kustom amps,in fact I got so turned off, I am selling the Norlin LP to boot.
I guess its me, but I cant seem to get past the words solid state without something bad happening. But I did give it a try.
My goal was to play my 76 custom with the ss amp, and see if there were any good tones to be had, expanding my tonal pallete, and removing the myth of ss ugliness.
So, I find a Kustom KB100 head figuring if it works for Fogerty (I know he played a kb200), it would work for me.
Upon delivery, I notice there is a strange type of debris poking out the back of the head. Further inspection after removing the chassis, revealed an enormous amount of critter debris. Apparently mice lived in the back of the Kustom for quite sometime, the debris ball was taking up almost the entire back of the chassis compartment. Wires where chewed, rust on the trannies and general gunk on the inside. The tuck and roll was in great shape, the outside pics were very good. Looked like a cool amp that reminded me of my buddies growing up.
I repacked this baby up and returned it to the seller in record time, it spent about 40 minutes at my house which is the quickest sale I have ever been part of, even amps that suck stick around for at least 8 hours.
The tube gods reached down and urfed up this big hairball to advise me once again, that I should stick with what I know best, the world of solid state amps was sending me a message. Go away, dont come back here again.
So sadly, I never really experienced the world of Kustom amps,in fact I got so turned off, I am selling the Norlin LP to boot.
I guess its me, but I cant seem to get past the words solid state without something bad happening. But I did give it a try.