Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: sgmypod on April 15, 2009, 02:00:07 PM
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Mark1 simms watts head 100w...anyone have any info experience with these
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Mark1 simms watts head 100w...anyone have any info experience with these
Clean
Loud
Well built
...all by reputuation - never seen one myself !
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another maybe trade
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I have three and they're like Hamfist said - clean, loud, built like brick shitehouses.
The good news is that you can do some simple mods that really open them up. If you can get one for under £200 I'd say go for it. Spend another £100-150 on a service/mods by a tech who knows vintage amps and you'll have a great amp.
In stock form, you'll not get it overdriving until the master is on 7 and the channel volumes are flat out. Even then, it's bluesy overdrive. Like I said before though, you can get them sounding great very easily AND the basic circuit isn't too far away from a Trainwreck - bargain ahoy!!!
The output stage runs ultra-linear which increases the clean headroom and also gives a tone somewhere between triode and pentode. The good news is that since the whole amp is point-to-point wired, changing the output stage to run in standard pentode mode isn't a big job.
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Mmmm cool..and you have 3, didn't know that do you fancy selling one or trading
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Mmmm cool..and you have 3, didn't know that do you fancy selling one or trading
they've all been gutted and used to test out various ideas I've had over the years - they're only Simms Watts amps by vurtue of looks now. How much you offering like?