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Topic: Solid State Traynor Amps |
Jim Strawser
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Posted 22 Jan 2009 10:11 pm |
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Since I may never own a PSG unless I win the lottery or win big in Vegas(fat chance!) in Feb 09, I try to use my 1980's era Traynor Solid State TS-100 for multi use guitar and lap steel practice. Yes, its a poor mans twin reverb but I can't seem to get anyone to comment; that has had any experience with them, other than a reply from Seymour Duncan when I sent an inquiry about some pickup changes in Strat and Tele knockoff clones(great tone though)and one of their techs loves his!! Pedal wise, I  watch the forum here and have scored some awesome pedals and even a Lexicon Reflex unit. Maybe I just wanna be different and save money and not buy Peavey or Fender etc? Any takers on this post or maybe I should just shut up and play??
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Leslie Ehrlich
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 23 Jan 2009 10:06 am
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The Traynor TS series amps are not bad for clean sounds, but they sound like hell if you crank up the preamp gain and naturally overdrive them. It's a very sloppy, grainy, uneven distortion and I find it quite painful to listen to.
Also, most of the guitar amps in the TS range came with speakers that had huge square magnets. I don't know who made them, but those speakers have an extremely thuddy sound with way too much low treble / upper midrange.
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Jim Strawser
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Montana, USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2009 11:30 pm Traynor TS 100 amps
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Yah, I was thinking of replacing the original speakers with some Weber speakers anyway, Thanks for the reply my friend!
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