repoman wrote:I see quite a few accordion and combo organ amps on Reverb for cheap, I wonder if they are cool for guitar.
The amplifier portion of mine runs a push pull pair of
6v6, but the amp itself is just a slave (in combo form) wanting a line level from the other heavy cabinet which houses the generator and preamp controls.
I know there are solid state versions as well, but the long and short of it is: these are essentially organ amplifiers with little guitar-centric character. Probably make a decent clean pedal platform and a terrible blues amp, and only after you get your signal elevated to line level outside the amp if feeding directly or through the questionable utility of an onboard aux or mic pre.
I don't know for certain though because I haven't plugged the thing in on waiting for a rebuild. Plus connecting to this amp requires oddball multipin connectors, I might drag one out now that I'm reminded of its existence.
Edit, so I dragged one out (I have a pair) to double check my memory:
The amplifier section has a pair of 7591 and what I presume to be a phase inverter, so signal hitting this amp directly needs to be quite healthy.
While AC power enters this side, and the power transformer is on this side, the power switch is on the synth side, so there's a 120 volt send/return on this cable, in addition to B+ & filament send and signal return. Sort of a mess in terms of noise rejection.
Might be fun to repurpose the on chassis jack as an input, and dummy plug the AC switch. I'll dig deeper when I have time, and maybe start a thread in DIY if it goes anywhere.
STILL LOOKS COOL