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Is there an amp that actually goes to 11?
- Thread starter mikethecannibal
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I've got a Line 6 LowDown combo with eleven dots on each knob. For a small 75-watt amp, it can definitely go to 11.
My guitarist's Fender Twin Deluxe goes to 12. The two channels on it are called "drive" and "more drive."
My guitarist's Fender Twin Deluxe goes to 12. The two channels on it are called "drive" and "more drive."
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Yeah, that's 6,000w bridged mono at 4 ohms....pretty sure the 10 on that amp would be "sufficient" =)
Yeah, that's 6,000w bridged mono at 4 ohms....pretty sure the 10 on that amp would be "sufficient" =)
Taylor Livingston
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Perhaps I took this question more seriously than I should have? I figured this guy really wanted this, as silly as it is to me. People have actually bought the special "Spinal Tap" Marshall amps that were renumbered to go to 11, so it's not that hard to believe...
Hi.
Won't probably help OP, but IIRC there is a custom vintage Marshall face-plate supplier who has the "goes to 11" face-plates for several different Marshall models (mainly JTM, JMP and JCM800 of course) , including bass amps.
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Sam
Won't probably help OP, but IIRC there is a custom vintage Marshall face-plate supplier who has the "goes to 11" face-plates for several different Marshall models (mainly JTM, JMP and JCM800 of course) , including bass amps.
Regards
Sam
Good Lord!
Now where's the pic of the speaker load which can handle it...
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BOB
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I don't know if you can see it clearly in this picture but the old QSC MX1500s had gain knobs that went to 11.
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I have one of these! Picked it up at West Edmonton Mall when we were on tour there a couple years ago.
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At Genz Benz, back in the day we did make a production amp that went to 11... accidently.
It started out as a tongue in cheek reference to Spinal Tap, an inside joke that our engineering tech and I did just to poke fun at Jeff's requests for more, more, more. This was one of our guitar combos that we did, a hybrid that covered from spanky clean to pretty heavy distortion, and included 16 Alesis digital "best of" effects
Well, the prototypes got refined multiple time but through all of this we all forgot and the numbering never got updated. The amp had been out at least a year, and at NAMM one of our dealers came up to us and told us how cool it was to see an amp that went to 11. I believe this was during the transition when our good friend @hasbeen became our brand manager. He looked at us, Scott and I looked at each other and I recall both of us saying "oh crap" together. ALL of the first run of production units (hundreds) had included the 11 nomenclature that was supposed to be changed to 10.
Fortunately everyone was a good sport and had a good laugh at our expense, but it served as a reminder to be more careful with inside jokes. We were also lucky the Roger and Jeff and a good sense of humor and saw it for what it was. For the record, I believe all of the production retained the 11 nomenclature.
It started out as a tongue in cheek reference to Spinal Tap, an inside joke that our engineering tech and I did just to poke fun at Jeff's requests for more, more, more. This was one of our guitar combos that we did, a hybrid that covered from spanky clean to pretty heavy distortion, and included 16 Alesis digital "best of" effects
Well, the prototypes got refined multiple time but through all of this we all forgot and the numbering never got updated. The amp had been out at least a year, and at NAMM one of our dealers came up to us and told us how cool it was to see an amp that went to 11. I believe this was during the transition when our good friend @hasbeen became our brand manager. He looked at us, Scott and I looked at each other and I recall both of us saying "oh crap" together. ALL of the first run of production units (hundreds) had included the 11 nomenclature that was supposed to be changed to 10.
Fortunately everyone was a good sport and had a good laugh at our expense, but it served as a reminder to be more careful with inside jokes. We were also lucky the Roger and Jeff and a good sense of humor and saw it for what it was. For the record, I believe all of the production retained the 11 nomenclature.
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i read the whole post hoping to find this. that's what we like to see.
I predict that in 10 years, the Genz Benz "11" amps will be major collector pieces at least tripling the value of the old vanilla "10" versions. They will certainly have more "mojo"! Andy, you could help this by casually mentioning something ab out the early capacitators being more robust than the later ones or some such nonsense.
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They were a pre-Fender ampI predict that in 10 years, the Genz Benz "11" amps will be major collector pieces at least tripling the value of the old vanilla "10" versions. They will certainly have more "mojo"! Andy, you could help this by casually mentioning something ab out the early capacitators being more robust than the later ones or some such nonsense.
