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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