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Title: Rory Gallagher early in his career
Post by: smackoj on February 09, 2018, 10:26:17 am

I posted this for listening pleasure but also as a request to see if any of the forum members can identify the amp Rory is using?

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Title: Re: Rory Gallagher early in his career
Post by: Ritchie200 on February 09, 2018, 07:15:13 pm

Stramp amps

Jim

Title: Re: Rory Gallagher early in his career
Post by: Ritchie200 on February 09, 2018, 07:18:23 pm

German company long gone. Marshall clones.  How good is your German?

Jim

http://www.rory.de/stramp.html

Title: Re: Rory Gallagher early in his career
Post by: Ritchie200 on February 09, 2018, 07:27:56 pm

"They were produced from '69-'75 by Peter
Struven. They were tube amps that used a printed circuit boards and no
chokes in the amps. Basically they were laid out like a 100 watt
Marshall. In '75 Stramp entered into an agreement with Dynacord to
increase production. Dynacord changed everything about them and made
them solid state amps. It was all downhill from there. Periodically
they can be found for next to nothing in Germany and usually only need
a little work. OT's are still available from Stramp for around $200
USD."

Obviously this is for the Mashall'esk head and 4x12 setups, not Rory's.

Here is a better link to pics.  His amp is called a PowerBaby.

http://www.rory.de/pwrbaby.html

Title: Re: Rory Gallagher early in his career
Post by: Ritchie200 on February 09, 2018, 07:42:55 pm

Supposedly the Power Baby was built by special request from Rory for an amp he could throw in his trunk.  It is rumored that the album cover of Blueprint shows the schematic of this amp and that it was SS.  However, looking at that album cover schematic, it shows a reverb which the Power Baby does not have.  The Transformer mounted at the speaker in the pic of the amp, plus that great tone - I'm guessing tubes.  I can not find any interior pics.

Jim

Title: Re: Rory Gallagher early in his career
Post by: smackoj on February 10, 2018, 04:05:24 pm

Hey that is some great information Richie thanks! I thought maybe it was Supro?  I never heard of Stramp before, thanks again.   :icon_biggrin: