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Keeping in line with my 25 year passion for playing guitar and seeking out the finest guitar tones, I have been drawn into making guitars and amps. About 10 years ago I discovered the amazing tone of the 50's Fender Tweed Amps. I was blown away by their warm and fat, yet detailed clean sounds that screamed and snarled when they were overdriven. With the almost non availability of the amps in Australia, except for $5000 Victoria copies, I set about learning how they work and how to build them. Since then i have built a variety of classic circuits and they are now used by top artists such as Ash Grunwald and Matt Mc Hugh of the Beautiful Girls. I love pedals and have many great pedals but my favourite tone is still a guitar plugged into an amp that i can send from clean to scream simply by how i hit the strings or with just the guitar's volume control. A good amp will interact with the player and come alive to actually lift the guitarist's playing. No longer is the guitarist playing through the amp just to amplify the sound, they are now playing with amp and the amp is behaving as if it were another instrument... almost as if it is another member of the band, breathing and responding to the music.
KELLY'S AMP - It's taken a while but Kelly's amp is finally finished. The amp is a valve rectified Class A 5W with an Australian made 12" Lorantz hemp cone speaker. The fin in the side panel of the cabinet is a shell encrusted FCS Kelly model that i found washed up on the reef at the Bluff and the grill cloth is made from an old hawaiian shirt. AMP FOR THE BLACK KEYS - I've been a big fan of the incredibly raw sound of the Black Keys and was stoked to run into Dan when they played here in Byron. I showed him the Class A 10W Plexi model which Dan really liked it but with his travel commitments and my work commitments it wasn't going to work to build him one. The end result is that I have agreed to supply his tech friend back in the US with the schematic so he can get one built for himself. I'm pretty stoked, Dan's guitar tones are monster and it's a real honour to know that he's going to be using the Class A 10W design.
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