anyone heard of this amp i have one

[gary mitchell]

i have an old dean markley signature 120 all tube rack mount head, ive had it since it was new, and i just love it its in perfect shape and the amp is very easy on tubes. i seen a old video of clapton in his studio at home and he had two in the back ground. they were made in a little town in kansas. its one channel it has a preamp and a master, it can go from jazz clean i like it better then a fender clean to metal. it has no reverb so i use a alesis nano verb. it was made a short while then some company bought them and started making transistor kid crap. i was just wondering if anyone else out there, ever heard of are had one. they also signature 60 and a cd60 combo. something to look at if you see one.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: anyone heard of this amp i have one

I was in a band once in jr. high school with a dude, his rig was a tube Dean Markely combo and a PV Tele copy...he had a decent sound, kind of thin and a little buzzy...coudl have easily been the PV Tele...he later added a TS-9 and it did get better but soon after than he started playing through a SF Bassman 50 and a 4x10 cab so I wasn't around the Dean Markely long...

 

[Kosh Naranek]

Re: anyone heard of this amp i have one

A local store had a bunch of those amps in the early 80's!! I used to go over there and plug in to them when I could. They were the first amp I'd heard that satisfied my 80's lust for gain and sustain! I was 19 and had no money so I longed for the day when I could own one.
I remember the rack mount amps and preamps.
I ended up snagging a CD212 or whatever is was called in 1985. It was an all tube 2-12 combo. 4 6L6 power tubes. 100 watt. I played that amp until the early 90's. I had few reliability issues with it. It sounded decent, though I found I needed to engage the mid boost button to get a satisfying singing lead tone. Otherwise the tone was a bit thin. It really was quite versatile tonally. It also had bright and deep switches. The deep switch gave a nice scooped mid tone, before that tone became popular.

The amp had a lot of gain available. The tone controls allowed for a lot of adjustment. You couldl even have the clean and gain channels on at the same time for a layered guitar sound. Pretty good amp for the price. Guitarists didn't have all the choices in tube high gain amps back in the 80's that we have now.