tallchris wrote:I missed this earlier in the year, but they started making a tube pre/solid state power hybrid amp. Stereo amp, 700 watts per channel. You could even run guitar through one and bass through another.phpBB [media]The fuck is that crazy ass fuzz pedal he keeps hitting.

Any Verellen owners ever modded their amp? I get all my dirt from pedals now, so I just use my Loucks clean channel and I'd like it to be fuller and cleaner. Less like a marshall and more like a Bassman or Musicman amp. Are there any obvious mods that could accomplish this?I know it'd probably be easier and cheaper to sell the Loucks and buy another amp, but the build quality, 100watts, 4,8,16ohm speaker outs, etc make me think I'd regret dumping her, especially since i paid about half off of retail.

So, I took my Verellen to a pretty well regarded amp tech, just for shits and giggles.He says the circuit is pretty much a straight copy of an old Hiwatt. Didn't see that coming.

Riff Magnum wrote:So, I took my Verellen to a pretty well regarded amp tech, just for shits and giggles.He says the circuit is pretty much a straight copy of an old Hiwatt. Didn't see that coming.Everything I've read/heard about the Loucks is that it's a take off of a Hiwatt. Skyhammer is the more Marshally/hi-gain Verellen equivalent, and the Coop is the Blackface Bassman.

I'll vouch for the Meatsmoke preamp/800rb combo.

tallchris wrote:I missed this earlier in the year, but they started making a tube pre/solid state power hybrid amp. Stereo amp, 700 watts per channel. You could even run guitar through one and bass through another.phpBB [media]Anyone use one of these yet...? Thoughts, feelings, praise/complaints?@Riff - you said you're looking for something cleaner than the loucks, maybe this will do it?I'm trying to build a rig for both guitar and bass, and Ben said he would build me a Klaloch with a meat-smoke pre built in...I'm wondering how different that would be than me just getting a Meat Smoke pre and running it into my RB800...wouldn't look nearly as pretty tho

I'm selling my Verellen Loucks on Reverb for $1200 plus shipping($100). I'd probably take a little less than that for a PRF'er. Don't have pics of my actually head yet and I've never learned how to post a link on here, so yeah, I suck. It's the only Loucks for sale and i'm in Fort Worth, Texas. It got all new tubes and biased last fall, plus footswitch and heavy duty road case with casters.SOLD!!

Charlie D wrote:ezweave wrote:Big John wrote:If he is using new components in the amps...... well since nothing in music ever is improved upon from its first incarnation. Than the componets themselves are not as good as the ones made before the present day in the 50's & 60's. A old resistor or capasitor is capable of conducting 10,000 times the musical conductivity (this is a different mesurement than it's electrical properties) of modern ones. I know this is true because I read it on Gear Sluts and it was repeated at Harmoney Central and Gear Pages too.It's really two units of measure we're talking about: street credits (measured in Fonzies) and soul (measured in JBs or James Browns). It's a relationship that can be expressed as the following formula:Code: Select all (t2 - t1)/50 x c = s Where t2 is the current year, t1 is the year the product was built, and the difference between the two , divided by fifty (the window for coolness) multiplied by c, which is the street credits in Fonzies, resulting in s, which is soul in James Browns.For example, a 1964 blackface Princeton (which has at least 3 Fonzies, according to the US department of weights and measures) in use today: Code: Select all(2012 - 1964)/50 x 3 = 48/50 x 38 = 2.88 James Browns or 2.88 JBsIn contrast with, say a 2004 Marshall Mode 4 head (which has a 0.3 Fonzie value):Code: Select all(2012 - 2004)/50 * .3 = 8/50 * .3 = 0.16 *0.3 = 0.048 JBsThis can be calculated per component, if you wish. As you can see, a Mode 4 head is just not cool by this standard.Eugenius wrote:How many Danzigs to a Fonzie? And how does all of this translate into Geezers?ezweave wrote:In light of recent events, the Office of Weights and Measures can no longer recommend the use of Danzigs in measurements. At last check, it was approximately 2.0 X 10^-9 Fonzies = 1 Danzig, making Danzigs nigh worthless. Geezers are really more of an English measure (Imperial System).Eugenius wrote:ezweave wrote:In light of recent events, the Office of Weights and Measures can no longer recommend the use of Danzigs in measurements. At last check, it was approximately 2.0 X 10^-9 Fonzies = 1 Danzig, making Danzigs nigh worthless.I assume this recommendation marked the defacto end of that smallest of all measures the Nano-Danzig?ezweave wrote:The nano Danzig, which had been the reigning Danzig unit, is now only used in historical context. If you see it in a text book, just remember that there was a time before Glenn Anzalone complained about the arctic chill of sixty degree weather and demanded sacrifices of chicken soup. So, in context, a nano-Danzig was much more valuable (but not as valuable as it had been say twenty five years ago, before the nano-Danzig actually existed).Nate Dort wrote:I heard that if you fold a Danzig a certain way, it turns into a coupon for Fresh Scoop cat litter.All of this: HOF.I somehow stumbled onto this thread last night, and I just read this for the first time. Solid chuckles. A+