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Offline crashtm1

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Thunderfunk numbers?
« on: February 03, 2013, 12:06:32 am »
There seems to be very little reviews on Dave's guitar amps...
  Were the production numbers really low? Anyone ever owned one?
I see he's building bass amps now and living in Indiana.

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Re: Thunderfunk numbers?
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2013, 12:15:18 am »
Dave didn't play the game with magazine reviewers. So his clients were mostly studios and session/live players in Nashville as best I can tell.

He also (in my opinion) was a little too honest to "sell buyers an idea" and get them all excited about some supposed magic in his amps, the way some other boutique builders did at the time. I'm thinking the time frame of early-late 90's

I had him work on one of my amps once when I lived in Nashville, and got the impression that he'd probably left the area around or before 2000.


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Re: Thunderfunk numbers?
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2013, 07:19:45 am »
Yeah, I can't even find user reviews.
 I've got a lead on a 100ls.. Just curious of the tones expected.

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Re: Thunderfunk numbers?
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2013, 09:26:19 am »
Go play it. I've never heard one in person, but the buzz back in the day was it was the best reverb on any guitar amp ever.

It was also meant to be an amp that could be clean, clean or offer its brand of distortion at stage volumes, while being very "coherent" and punching through a mix to be heard.

But if it's not 100 miles away, it might be worth it to go listen. Unless you found it through some online ad, making a private audition unlikely.

 


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