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 Fender Cyber-Twin. This little Valve-Transistor hybrid amp
is truly amazing. It contains 120 of the worlds best
amplifiers built in! Akin to modeling amps this (Cybernetic)
amplifier at the flick of a switch can re-circut itself for
different pre-amp and power amp sections as well as tone stacks and
effects. You can be playing a modern brit marshall one minute
and a classic 1965 fender super reverb the next. All its knobs
are on servos so when you get the settings you like you can save
that patch into its memory bank and when selected watch all the
settings and knobs move to where you had them. Along with the
cyber-foot contoller you have access to every aspect of the amp at
your feet. I LOVE the sounds I can get out of this amp and up
until recently was my main gigging rig.
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Two-Rock
Custom Reverb Signature V2 (100 watt version) Folks at the time
of posting this there are just 110 of these amps in existence.
All Hand made by Bill Krinard and Joe Mloganoski at
K & M Analog
Designs this all tube tone master is one of the most sought after
amplifiers by professional blues and tone freaks. I was
fortunate enough to take in a show at the Gravenhurst Opera House
where
Peter Swanek of Peters Players was putting on with a up-coming
blues star named
Matt Schofield. His
shear talent and incredible tone had my jaw to the ground so I made
a point of checking out some information about the amp he was using
which was a Custom Reverb Signature like this only the 50 watt
version. I soon found out that one other player that blew me away
with feel and tone (John Mayer) was also using Two-Rock amps.
After some chatting with Matt Schofield I contacted the K&M guys
about building me one. I can only hope I do it as much justice
as Matt and John do. Powered by 4 6L6 (Tung-Sol at the moment) and 12AX7's.
I have been doing a little experimentation at the suggestion of
Matt Schofield of trying some different tubes for
different flavors. Currently in position 1 (clean channel) I
am using RFT ECC86 NOS (NEW OLD STOCK) Tube with Halo Getter
manufactured in the 1970's and in Position 2 (drive channel) I have
a Tung-Sol 5751WA NOS tube manufactured in August 1956
Military Long Plates with Horseshoe getter. and a RFT ECC81 CIRCA
1960"s to drive the reverb tank. I
purchased my Two-Rock in May 2008 along with the Custom Signature SD-2-12
cabinet loaded with Two-Rocks TR12-65s These amps have a hefty
$8000 price tag on them so needless to say this will be my last
purchase for a while :-P
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