Private Reserve Guitars, which is the high end outlet of Musicians Friend, is now selling Egnater Amps.
Guitar retailer Private Reserve Guitars announced recently that they are now an authorized dealer of Egnater amplifiers. The boutique tube-amp line was designed and developed by Bruce Egnater who has over 30 years of experience in amplifier manufacturing. Egnater amplifiers are heralded for their tonal versatility and well-crafted components. Private Reserve Guitars is proud to add Egnater amps to their guitar amplifier selection.
This one, the Tourmaster Series 4212 All-Tube Guitar Combo Amp, looks interesting.
The price is $1,599.99, which is in line with what you would expect to pay for a well made, 100w, tube amp with two twelve inch speakers (”custom-voiced Egnater Elite-80 speakers from Celestion”). But, this thing has a couple of features that are unique. For starters, it is a four channel amp, with each channel having separate EQ and master volume. Personally, I would welcome four channels, I think that it would be quite practical in a live situation. Also, there is a great deal of versatility with the output. You can set individual channels at different outputs.
In FULL POWER mode, you can choose between 100w, 50w or 25w per channel. In the HALF POWER mode, you can between choose 50w, 25w or 10w per channel.With the Tourmaster 4212 tube amp, you not only have a wide array of tones available from the preamp channels, but with the Power Grid you can introduce any amount of power tube distortion you wish to each channel: all preset, all automatic.
Curiously, there is no information about the tube compliment but the M word (Marshall) pops up a few times so, I’m guessing it’s an EL34 type of thing. With the old Marshall’s there is a big difference between the sound of a fifty watter and the hundred watt versions. So, conceivably you could set up one overdrive channel at 50 and one at 100, for example.
The amp also has tube driven reverb, an assignable tube driven effects loop (”Assign to channels 1&2, Assign to channels 3&4, Assign to all four channels, Assign to pedal only”), and a cabinet voiced line/recording out.
There is also a head version for $1,399.99 and a 4×12 cabinet for $599.99.
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J wrote,
“custom-voiced … speakers from Celestion”??
How in the heck do you “custom-voice” a speaker?
“Hyperbole is something I’d better avoid.”
-Terry Gilliam
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Link | June 12th, 2008 at 8:12 am
patdarnell and men of pause wrote,
but does it have “Delay and Cook” like my son’s little killer amp? I doubt very much.
so strong it killed the cat two houses down… which is a good thing today.
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Link | June 12th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Sans Direction wrote,
Now that’s something pretty cool. I want to push it until glass glows and get a nice grinding sound, but I want to be able to hear after, so I’ll drop to 25 watts. Then I’ll want lots and lots of clean headroom, but I’ll be next to a drummer so it has to be loud. I’ll put it to 100.
If I had use for it and that kind of money, it’d be right up there.
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Link | June 12th, 2008 at 10:06 am
axe victim wrote,
Looks sweet and I’ll bet for that kind of money it sounds pure too. Have you tried out a 65 amp yet Jack. Now that’s my kind of boutique amp.
Link | June 12th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Pribek wrote,
How in the heck do you “custom-voice” a speaker?
Amp guys sometimes talk in mysterious language. I think that it has to do with speakers that match and/or enhance the tonal characteristics of the amp. And, Celestion may very well have modified a design to fit well with the amp. I had a neat little Gibson Goldtone amp, a Les Paul sounded ferocious through it but, my Tele sounded painfully bright using it. It was designed (voiced) for Gibson’s. Now, an amp guy might comment and say that there is a more technical explanation. In that case, I will defer in advance.
I looked at the 65 amps, Axe Victim and they are sharp. I listened to a few of the clips too and, as expected they sound great.
You know, there are a lot of guys making great amps in the $2,500-$4,000 range. And, most of them sound tremendous. This Egnater at 100w and with the channel switching, loop and output control, recording out, tube reverb-that’s a ton of useful features in this price range. If all those features function in a practical manner, it appears to be a hell of a deal. Now, I don’t see them throwing around the terms “point to point, hand wired” and “turret circuit board” like a lot of the more pricey amps do but, it can be a great amp even without those buzzwords.
Link | June 12th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Pat Darnell and the men of pause wrote,
Can I ask a dumb question? huh?
How much does the “place one plays” have to do with amp-ocity?
My old director was always about the “place” and if it was quick, bright, impossible… i still say it has to do with the future microwave and fiberoptic stuff just around the corner.
Delay and Cook, is our way of saying one second, two seconds delay to the back of the stadium… and how much we had to pull our mouthpieces apart to keep it “cooked.”
So please help a poor child, did I hear “voice” and “money” in the same comment of, well, all of youse’s?
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Link | June 12th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Pribek wrote,
The “place one plays” have a great deal to do with tone and other factors like the delay you speak of or lack of it. Some rooms are bright, some muddy, some live, some dead, some just right.
Other conditions like humidity affect how a place sounds. It can be dry one night, sound one way, humid the next and sound like two cats in a confessional.
If you get everything right at a soundcheck in an empty room, you have to change stuff when the bodies show and start soaking sound.
Link | June 12th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Pat and the friends wrote,
hmmmm.. that explains many angles of the art form: Tonight’s Bill
Come to the Empty Room
Show and Start Soaking Sound
Play out of your element: get Cold and Wet!!
Introducing WETPLAY — Tonight on stage
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Link | June 14th, 2008 at 5:59 am