Just had a day servicing two huge amplifiers made in the day of, well, huge amplifiers.
This may easily be the coolest amp I've ever seen from Ampeg:
I believe this may have been a custom order. It's a later model, with 7027 tubes rather than 6L6, and a 7199 driver tube. Grid bias, 5AR4 rectifier and those lovely 6SL7 preamp tubes. The tweeters are a cosmetic addition having never been hooked up.
Not going to get into anything technical, I just wanted to share this behemoth with y'all.
The cabinet has that ultra cool Austin Powers era cosmetics. I have a friend who has a single 15" version as well. Big amps really are no longer in vogue in NYC. This one was on the Reverb cheap as chips and still sitting there. Today the world is about small amps and efficient PA systems. I mean, who wants to move a refrigerator every time you have a gig?
That being said, if I owned a little coffee / wine shack where I featured jazz and folk music, it would be kinda against the law not to own this and stick it in the corner next to the house Slingerland drum kit.
One interior shot:
I did grow up in the last age of the big amp. I used to play a Marshall half myself. Can't say I miss moving these things but, damn. Nothing sounds or looks as cool as that oversized backline!
J
