Rich_S
HomeGrownToneBrewologist
Looking for trouble on eBay last night, I found this:
Link to the eBay auction...
For those of you who don't remember these things (or weren't born yet) GBX made a line of amps in the mid 70's. Every week, while waiting for my guitar lesson at the local music store, I would drool over these high-tech beauties.
The thing in the picture is not a traditional amp head - it's a solid-state preamp with (IIRC): drive, volume, and 3 tones controls. It has line outputs, intended to be connected to GBX cabinets, which came in 4x10, 4x12, and 2x15 varieties. Each cabinet also contained a 90-watt solid-state power amp. So, every time you added a cab, you added power.
The best part was the owner's manual. It had several pages showing how to set the controls to obtain the sounds of popular artists of the day (yeah, right). Then in the back, it had the requisite safety warning, something to the effect of; high volume can hurt your ears and if you string together say, 6 or 8 cabinets, it's dangerous.:laugh2:
Gotta love the 70's.
Link to the eBay auction...
For those of you who don't remember these things (or weren't born yet) GBX made a line of amps in the mid 70's. Every week, while waiting for my guitar lesson at the local music store, I would drool over these high-tech beauties.
The thing in the picture is not a traditional amp head - it's a solid-state preamp with (IIRC): drive, volume, and 3 tones controls. It has line outputs, intended to be connected to GBX cabinets, which came in 4x10, 4x12, and 2x15 varieties. Each cabinet also contained a 90-watt solid-state power amp. So, every time you added a cab, you added power.
The best part was the owner's manual. It had several pages showing how to set the controls to obtain the sounds of popular artists of the day (yeah, right). Then in the back, it had the requisite safety warning, something to the effect of; high volume can hurt your ears and if you string together say, 6 or 8 cabinets, it's dangerous.:laugh2:
Gotta love the 70's.
