Ampeg History

1969 was the year the Giants shocked the country, and wanted a great amp. At that point in history, rock music was the most evil man the whole damn city. Stadiums and outdoor festival was the place where this happened, the love of God Madison Square Garden. Fifty watts was not enough to move, that chick in the 61 line of hand-embroidered bellbottoms. It was not as if no one has seen filling a void of Marshall stacks, the mountains and trucks Hiwatts Showmans twice more to promote the generation of tinnitus is one of the second world war.

Only in America

Ampeg needed to compete. Team Ampere designer Bill Hughes and Roger Cox with contributions from Bob and Dan Armstrong Rufkahr determined to create what Cox called "the biggest, meanest bass in the world had ever seen." Using the same kind of frenzy that led Dr. Frankenstein, the team found a 300 watt all-tube-Phantasmagoria they called Super Vacuum Tube or SVT, to save on voice. To understand the enormity of their creation, SVT 300-watt output trampled the deafening 200-watt Marshall Major with a full 100 watts!

Unveiled at the 1969 NAMM show in Chicago, weighed 95 pounds head and SVT with fourteen tubes, six of which were massive 6146 power tubes. In the heat of all these tubes, transformers with enormous magnetic fields powerful enough to cause genetic mutations were needed. What kind of speakers were able to handle all that power? Nothing less than two cabinets sporting eight to ten inches of speakers and a weight of 105 pounds. each.

After reviewing its beginnings, Cox was really worried about potential liability when their engineers are warning against the potential harm that could result from their design, you better listen. Ampeg management has designed and read a warning label that:

"This amplifier is able to provide sound pressure levels can cause permanent hearing damage."

His Satanic Majesty Shakedown Cruise

Some say we are doing good luck, but usually are people who have all the luck. Luck came to Ampeg, not really, but the lack of information about international tensions of the Rolling Stones. Fender amps seem Stones transported on the state to carry out their soon-to-be-legendary '69 World Tour, are connected, they light up, and the resulting smoke and burn the first time in Roadies think Keith had nodded off, until remember that the UK power amplifiers have been created.

The Stones may have been "the biggest band Rock n 'Roll In The World", but like all bands, they seemed to Gear for free. In a panic, now deceased keyboardist and Stones road manager Ian Stewart contacted Rich Man Ella Ampeg Hollywood liaison, desperately begging for amplifiers of the tour, there was now only a few weeks.

Ella man, knowing a good thing when he saw it, loaded up all the prototypes and some old SVT 4x12 cabs in his van and headed down to the Warner Brothers lot, where the Stones were practicing in unused sound. Keith, Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman put SVT prototypes and continued to beat them at a level that reduces the hip not the flaming piles of goo. The stones may have sympathy for the devil, but they gave no such kindness to the SVT prototypes. Man Ella began to notice that the prototypes have been approaches to the merger under relentless denigration of Keith. Man Ella, everything he did in rehearsal "was just bigger and bigger and more fragile, with two or three heads per person. I will see amps, and when I saw one was about explode, I would just pass the head. "

Since this prototype SVT heads are the only ones there, the production was still a way off, it was decided that the good Smokey Room Mandella would tour with the Stones as a personal technical Ampeg. While the Stones rocked the audience and grooved, and the Angels of Hell has kicked the crap out of all living inside length of the pool cue, Rich Mandella is back behind the line to make sure everything was in order. If you want to taste the chaos, check out Gimme Shelter Stones' own 1969 documentary on the world tour. But if you want to hear the first explosion SVT all their value, soon down to the right and pick up the Get Yer Ya Ya's out, the best live albums ever made.

In a world of 300-watt amp, the prospect is difficult to obtain

Since then, the SVT was the bass rock bass players all dream, whether known or unknown. Ampeg SVT has changed the concept for a wide range of sounds, but fortunately, they are still SVT-VR, which is virtually identical to those of the stones used to make bottles of Jack Daniel on top. (The SVT-Classic is also available and is very similar to the original.)

Former editor Scott Bass Player Malandrone SVT put into perspective this way: "The SVT has made the bass sound than the Marshall Super Lead did for the electric guitar that gives the team an identity." I could say that we can improve.