AA00475Bassman
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Yep a Rooster !
I have been tying like crazy getting ready for honduras... ? Pro Bono ?
I decided to pick on up last year, just before Suhr stopped making them. The variety of choices that Jim made of how he built the amps was pretty extreme: heads, cabs, integrated attenuators, reamping, rack mount, tolex, mouse fur... It's hard to know exactly what you'll get if you buy one on the internet, except that it'll kick butt! Yes, very loud, 60w from 4 6V6s. You used to be able to buy "Jim Kelley" approved quads or duos of 6V6s that were guaranteed by Fender or Groove Tubes to take the voltage he used. I'm not sure how reliable modern tubes would be.
And yes, like a tweed Deluxe or a Trainwreck, the amp is balanced to overdrive smoothly and at all stages, so you get that wonderful touch sensitivity. But if you want to preserve your hearing and still get crunch and sustain, you'll want the attenuator with it! Those are also getting hard to find...
The Kelly sounds very cool! I think some parts sound like my Longhorn El Vaquero. Probably where the guy who makes them got his inspiration. You get your sound and layer on the dirt in any fashion you like. This is the only D type I have, but I play it quite a bit. You need an attenuator with this one (or the Torpedo). At 50W your boots will be standing in the middle of the room without you...
Really great fishing you will have a gas , Have a great fish Peter !
Very nice- Brown Fender on airplane glue- cool. Actually I never heard anyone play Highway Song before- i love that tune.
Here's my 'swing thought' when I attempt to make a video like this- " I wonder how long JB will laugh when he looks at this?"
Then I shut off the recording device.
Sounds relatively......AWESOME! What speakers you using there? I think you got a winner. It sounds like one that would compliment my collection, it's in a place that none of mine are. The clarity on the mids instead of mud or just bypassing them is what makes it for me. I have a few which do that as well, just not in the 'brown tone' range. The closest I have to that is my Komet but not quite the same...
I haven't tried the Kelley Attenuator with any other amps, but with the Kelley it's just perfect-really does act like a master volume! And with the original, 2 channel FACS, you can set it up to switch on with one channel, and not the other. So you get one master volume, power tube crunch channel and one straight up clean channel. Very cool! Add in 3 effects loops, the unusual EQ, pull shift knobs and you get an amp that was WAY ahead of its time.