Donner wrote:GDKing wrote:I looked at the site.
What is the blue moon 50-100 like as far as features and price? Is it a 4 tube setup where you take out 2 tubes, or is it a 1/2 power switch, or is the 50 one model and the 100 the other model?
Is it non master volume fender style or ? Details!!
Well t he Blue Moon will be some of the larger rarer power sections- I love KT 66/77/88 power sections for thier headroom and character ....
The preamp sections will be built around a similar theme -- a number of voiced tubes that can be blended into what you like a normal/bright and bass 'channel' that can then be finetuned with a blendable 3 step EQ .... very versatile vintage tones... so the knob compliment would be
input - 3 voice knobs a mix knob and T/M/B knobs and master volume --- and a negative out put switch to further change basic tone.... and there will be deluxe versions with a few more features
and we will do a few pedals too - basically one drive for when the amp is working, and one for clean amp and the pedal does the distortion and acouple other things to came
but Versatile Vintage is the core sound.
That sounds really radical. I use an SSH guitar, The amp I currently use and like is a cowtipper 45 that I use and a klon as the end clean buffer/boost in my pedal chain to give my signal some oomph and is always on with no drive .
I use a Tim pedal for cranked vintage "keef" gain on the humbucker bridge, and it works well for SRV type stuff on the single coil neck.
For all my gain stuff I hit the tim with a honeybee which brings me into classic rock territory and is where I stay most of the time, I use the boost on the TIM to kick it up a notch for leads. I hit both of those on with a MKIII pro analog fuzz set low to give me the over the top lead tones or can shut off the honeybee and turn on the fuzz and TIM for a great neck tone. So its like 3 buttons but I have a ton of territory.
I have read your philosophy on pedal stacking and how it relates to, and can recreate, gain stages on an amp and I agree with it as that is what I do too and I have gotten better results at lower volumes that I can with master volume and/or a cranked amp. I wonder if you could make a great sounding clean amp and keep the actual amp circuit pure and simple and do the gain stages like pedals? I think that would be neat as it seems the more builders get away from basic "clean" amp philosophy the cleans always suffer for it, but everyone and their mother is waiting for that great channel switcher where you truly do not lose on either end. Plus it would make the overall rig more reliable than having to worry about cabling, and etc etc.
I never understood why you cannot have it all but it would be neat to have a honeybee and a tim like pedal built right into the front end, and a delay at the back, have a 4 button foot switch with a boost and all you would have to do is bring is a smile really for most any gig (besides a fuzz and a wah) and maybe a vibe, and err maybe a distortion pedal...
Ah sing never mind.
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:18 pm
