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Re: Gene's Rickenbacker transsonic amp

Supposedly Led Zepplin used Transonics in their very early days. Mitch Easter has one which I've used. They have na interesting sound - much better than most transistor amps from those days but perhaps not as good sounding as Kustoms.

Re: Re: Gene's Rickenbacker transsonic amp

Pretty cool Ric amp site here, done by a French fellow.

Transonics explained, nice historical lowdown on all Rickenbacker amps actually.

I have here a cool little amp Mssr H might or might not be familiar with. There is one -if not the same, similar- on the cover of Sound Of Music. My Ampeg Jet/J-12. One of the only amps I've kept, mostly due to space constrictions, this one mostly cause I adore it. Loud as hell and clean as a whistle. And ...it's nice and light.

Mark

Re: Re: Gene's Rickenbacker transsonic amp

I played bass in a Chapel Hill band in '91, and I still remember coming across one of those things in a pawn shop in Fayetteville, NC (always the best pawnshops!). It didn't work, or else we would have bought it!

Cheers, Tim

Re: Gene's Rickenbacker transsonic amp

Thanks Mark,Enjoyed reading the low-down.So that's where Peterson got those amps from.Ya learn something new every day!
Adrian

Re: Re: Gene's Rickenbacker transsonic amp

Some background info:

http://jzu.free.fr/rick/amp/transonic.html


john



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