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Pure Class A Hand-wired TONE from Georgia
From the dusty, oily laborotory of world-renowned Hammond organ guy Richard Goodsell comes a new family of EL84-based 17 watt guitar amplifiers with astonishing tone and playability. With transformers and topologies inspired by vintage Hammond designs from the 50s and 60s, and with a respectful nod to our British forebears, Chicago meets Liverpool and takes a gig in Nashville...
Like it's glorious godfather, the Hammond B3, the Goodsell Super 17 amplifiers enjoy a tone and a harmonic richness found only in old-school assembly techniques and vintage iron. Each point-to-point hand-wired amp benefits from a total lack of innovation; no pretense, no extra useless knobs to compensate for one-dimensional tone - just a magical simplicity of execution using only 3 knobs to achieve an amazingly diverse palette of musically useful sounds.
How We Do It
A remarkably simple front end, utilizing a single 12AX7, a one-knob tone stack between the preamp and the 12AX7 long-tail phase inverter, coupled to a carefully selected pair of cathode-biased EL84s. High-voltage current is supplied by a GZ34 tube rectifier, with the option to use a 5Y3 depending upon user requirements; either choice yields an amazing degree of touch sensitivity. This design renders your guitar's tone and volume controls genuinely useful; clean/crunch, tone, and dynamics are at your fingertips - and if that alone wasn't enough, the incredibly complex and textured tone flatters every type of guitar, especially ordinarily thin-sounding single-coil designs. The "2" and "4" Strat positions are absolutely heavenly...
Don't Believe Me...
Many builders of expensive, so-called "boutique" amplifiers make obnoxious claims that their methods are "the best", or that their products are somehow superior; indeed, often these claims seem to be a desperate, insecure attempt to validate the design(er) or justify an incredibly high price. Other amp designers and builders I count among my friends and mentors, and I owe many a debt of gratitude for sharing their insights and experience with me. The point is that this is not a competition; most Super 17 b