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Topic: Gretsch Fury amp |
Brett Lanier
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Madison, TN
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Posted 21 Feb 2016 4:16 pm |
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Last night I was messing around in my friend's studio and he had a Gretsch Twin reverb that I really fell in love with for guitar. Just for kicks I plugged my steel into it and it sounded really good. Not amazing because it's a low output amp with 2 x 10" speakers, but the character of the tone at the right volume was really nice. I went home and dug around the internet for any larger models that they might have made and came across the Fury. It's two channels with reverb and tremolo on one, and it has 4 6L6's but two output transformers. They made a combo version as well as a piggyback, both with 2 x 12 speakers. Has anyone ever seen or heard one? There's not a whole lot of info about them.
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David Nugent
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Gum Spring, Va.
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Posted 21 Feb 2016 5:29 pm
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| Not certain concerning the earlier models, but later model Gretsch amps were built by the Victoria amp company and were excellent sounding units. The local Sam Ash had a 'Playboy' model that I played my Emmons through and even though it was the 2x10 configuration, it still sounded really good, (could not help imagining how much better this same amp would sound however run through a 15" BW speaker). |
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Bill Sinclair
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Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 21 Feb 2016 5:56 pm
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| I know a lot of the Gretsch tube amps of the 60's were made by Valco and often have nearly identical circuits to the Valco made Supro amps. There was at least one Supro amp model that had two output transformers, each with two 6L6s (model S6625). Cathode biased though, so probably a total of about 60 Watts. "140 Peak Watts" sounds like advertising gimmickry. I have no idea why they used two output transformers instead of just one designed to handle the higher Wattage. Valco amps sound great but not the same build quality or as quiet as Fenders, IMO. |
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Bill A. Moore
From:
Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2016 7:46 am
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The noise problem in my Airline, "Supro", was easily fixed by moving the wiring around in the chassis. They are true "point to point" amps built on stand offs, (not a circuit board). When I resurrected my old amp, I spent some time moving the wiring with a drumstick, moving one wire 3/8" fixed the hum it had since I owned it!
It is the same circuit as the Gretsch 6152. |
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