Well we have a few new clips for your listening enjoyment today. First up is our friend Jon Herington who recorded these two songs with drummer Takanori Niida www.takanoriniida.com The first is called “Tokyo - New York Express” and it does get the feeling of a bullet train from Tokyo to NYC! Listen to it here… www.gdsamps.com/audio/Tokyo - New York Express.m4a
Here is the second one called “Slow Jam” www.gdsamps.com/audio/Slow Jam.m4a
We also have a couple clips from our own Guytron employee, Dan Medawar. Check them out - he’s hot!
www.gdsamps.com/audio/GT20Demo1.mp3 and
www.gdsamps.com/audio/GT20Demo2.mp3
Dan & I have been working on GT100 F/V heads this week. Here is S/N 519 as it just completed final assembly. It needs to be burned in to make sure nothing is going to break down.
Here is another cool photo of Dan who built most of this amp.
And now for details of the rebate.
If you buy a GT100 F/V with one or two of the classic 2-12 cabinets that go with the GT100, you can send your warranty card in to us and we will issue you a rebate. If you buy one 2-12 cabinet, the rebate is $200. If you buy two 2-12 cabinets, the rebate is $300. Our recommendation is a closed back 2-12 and an open back 2-12. That way you can use which ever cab suits your particular gig each night. Then for larger venues, you can stack up both cabs for a huge composite sound that combines both the open and closed back tones. Dan says this is a “complete out of body experience.” See your local dealer for details.
We went through our first order of shirts, polos and sweat shirts very quickly. So, I made a big order and now we have all of the Guytron shirts in most of the popular sizes in stock. I’ll get them on the website soon but in the meanwhile if you would like to show off your great taste in guitar amplifiers, email me to order a shirt. Or you can just go ahead and send paypal to my email address for the amount below and include your address and I’ll send one right out. As in all Guytron products, the prices include shipping within the continental USA. if you want more than one, email me and I’ll come up with a better price that accounts for one shipping charge.
T-shirts (M, L, XL 2XL) - $25
Polo shirts with salt-n-pepper collars! (M, L, XL 2XL) - $35
Sweat Shirts (M, L, XL 2XL) - $45
Hoodie sweat shirts (M, L, XL 2XL) - $50
Guytron key fob lazer cut from stainless steel (also works great to adjust the GT100 impedance switch)- $15
I also still have a couple CD cases ($10) and small gig bags ($15)
Stay Tuned!!! - GDS
We finally got an order of T-shirts and Polo shirts with a cool Guytron logo on the left breast. The polo shirts have a fancy trim around the collar and sleeves which actually looks a little like our grill cloth (except for XXL - no fancy trim on that big guy! Sorry.) Here is our multi-talented Brandon showing off the polo shirt. (We didn’t shoot the t-shirt since a t-shirt is a t-shirt. Who doesn’t know what a t-shirt looks like?)
Price $30 (including S&H within the continental USA)
The t-shirts will be $25 (including S&H within the continental USA). To purchase, just send the correct amount to my paypal address with a note telling me what it is for and what size you would like. We have L, XL and XXL in both t-shirts and polo shirts.
We can also get sweat shirts with a hood and a pouch in the front which you can see in this photo…
Price TBD
As in early Ford Model Ts, you can have any color you like as long as it is black. :-) -GDS
We are shipping a few amps this week. We have a new GT40 combo going to Colin Hay (Men At Work) and another GT40 head with a lightweight 2-12 cab going to Music Gear Guys, our dealer in Colorado for a customer named Steve. http://musicgearguys.netWe are also welcoming our newest dealer, Allstar Music Academy in Flemington, NJ with a new GT20 combo. If you live near Flemington, please stop by and talk to Anthony at Allstar. Don’t forget to check out the new Guytron (if it isn’t sold already!) http://www.allstarma.net/
Our good friend, solder jockey and Guytron builder, Dan Medawar is also finally taking delivery of his very own GT20 head. He gets the extra special satisfaction of having built his own Guytron. If you have a new GT40 or GT20, there is a very good chance that Dan put much of it together.
November 21, 2008
The newest model in the Guytron lineup, the new GT40 is now shipping! I completed two of the new GT40s this week. I built a head and a combo. These two amps were intended as saleable prototypes meaning that they were built entirely with production parts but being the first to be so, they would be subject to some testing and evaluation before being approved for sale. In particular, I had to do some testing on the new GT40 transformers. They worked great so we have placed an order for transformers at a production level and hopefully within 3-4 weeks we’ll be building GT40s with more regularity. This first combo (Serial #001!) is going to a customer in Kansas City, MO while the head is going to a customer in France! Bon Jour Nicolas! Here are a couple photos of the head. I’ll post more later.
A-Channel
B-Channel
(Hint; open both photos and then hit alt-tab to swap between the two photos to see what happens when you change channels!)
Here are the specs for the new GT40 (subject to change of course):
- Power tubes - two El34s for roughly 40 watts
- Preamp tubes - four 12Ax7s
- Preamp - Guytron two channel preamp (protected by patent #6111961) with Gain, Tone and Volume in each channel.
- A channel has the classic Guytron clean tones with the tone stack before gain for those classic clean to low-gain overdrive tones.
- B-channel has the tone control post-gain plus it has two extra gain stages for a range of tones from a pushed clean to a raging all-out hot-rodded superlead distortion tone.
- Transformer-driven balanced line out, post-output transformer for a natural amp sound to the mixing board or to your slaved high powered amplifier.
- HLB™ microphone output (on combos only). The Sennheiser microphone element is permanently mounted in front of the speaker exactly where it should be mounted. The output is in a small panel on the rear of the combo where you can quickly and easily plug in your mic cable. No fumbling with mic stands and microphones, and no dealing with the variance of mic position night after noght. With the HLB™ the mic is always in exactly the same spot every night for a consistent mic’ed tone every time.
- Lighted top panel, lighted back panel, lighted logo and as a matter of fact, there is so much light that the whole inside of the amp is lit so you can see where that guitar cord is hiding.
- front panel lighting changes from blue (A-channel) to red )B-channel to instantly indicate which channel you’re on. Of course it will be pretty obvious from the gain and the attitude but everyone will think it is very cool.
- Guytron Bigtone™ 55 speaker in the combo.
All Combos and heads will be shipped with a custom embroidered Guytron cover and heads will als0 ship with a Guytron Bigtone™ speaker cable.
Send me an email if you are interested in this new GT40 or just to talk. I’d love to hear your opinions.
-GDS
[EDIT - The new GT40 output transformers have arrived so we’re building GT40s this week! -GDS]
