Question: What's under the hood? with SeaDevil

[IamSeaDevil]

And now MarkWeinGuitarLessons.com in association with Premier Music, Brings you:

What's under the hood? with IamSeaDevil!
A new weekly feature that features Amps and shit SeaDevil likes but can't comprehend

Take it away SeaDevil!

So for this maiden voyage of "What's under the hood?" we have an Amplifier from Portland based amp builder Hovercraft Amplifiers.
The amp we have here is the Elder Giant!
Let's take a look at this crazy ass mofo of an amp.
hmy:

Let's check out What's under the hood?

That's a lot of firepower in there!
So what we have is the perfect practice amp for home or the apartment or next to an airport where the only thing louder than you will the plane crash you will inevitably cause. That's a small price to pay for tone.

• footswitchable 2 channel (vintage / modern)
• international voltage ready (120/230 switchable)
• KT88 or KT120 power tube quartet or duet
• 5 x 12AX7 preamp tubes
• 49 lbs
• tube powered effects loop
• 4, 8 and 16 ohm speaker outputs (2 ohm out with Mercury Magnetics transformer upgrade)

Price:

2 x KT88 $1150
4 x KT88 $1500
4 x KT120 Tung Sol – custom wound Mercury Magnetics transformer set. $1850

Thanks for playing "whats under the hood?"

 

[Stratguy]

This topic should be very interesting as it moves along.

 

[Tig]

Needs headers.

 

[Jbird]

49 pounds?

 

[CBHScott]

That is ca-RAYYYYYYY-ZEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!


And, for @IamSeaDevil 's OP intro:

 

[IamSeaDevil]

Needs headers.

Headers only come on the combo version

 

[Coralkong]

.....or next to an airport where the only thing louder than you will the plane crash you will inevitably cause. That's a small price to pay for tone.

Rip Glitter would be proud.

 

[GilmourD]

That's a whole metric fuckton of loud.

With a quad of KT120s that's potentially 300 watts without realistic distortion.

 

[IamSeaDevil]

That's a whole metric fuckton of loud.

With a quad of KT120s that's potentially 300 watts without realistic distortion.

Apparently they have built one with the quad KT 120s I would love to see it in action, provided the bunker was far enough away