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LA Amp Show ’10 – Morgan Amplification RCA35 Demo

www.premierguitar.com PG’s Joe Coffey is On Location at the 2010 LA Amp Show where he visits the Morgan Amplification room and gets the latest scoop on the RCA35 handbuilt by Joe Morgan. Joe Morgan’s RCA35 drew constant crowds where it was set up in the Mercury Magnetics room. The amp is a small, 35-watt, full tone stack amp with lots of volume, extremely musical chime, controllable breakup and jazz-ready cleans. Powered by Mercury transformers and two 6L6s (it can also run on 6V6, KT66, KT77 and 5881 tubes), the amp has two 12AX7s in the preamp and has a GZ34 rectifier. For more LA Amp Show 2010 videos, or to view Premier Guitar’s COMPLETELY FREE digital edition, be sure to visit http

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LA Amp Show ’10 – Vox Amplifiers AC15HW1X

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www.premierguitar.com PG’s Joe Coffey is On Location at the 2010 LA Amp Show where he visits the Vox Amplifiers booth and checks out the new handwired AC15HW1X. It has a handwired turret board construction, birch-ply cabinets featuring solid bracing and a natural high frequency diffuser, all-tube design, ECC83 preamp tubes (x3), EL84 power tube quartet; (AC30 models); EL84 Duet (AC15 models), GZ34 rectifier (AC30 models); EZ81 rectifier (AC15 models), fitted with matched Ruby Tubes that provide extended dynamic range, traditional VOX two-channel design, Top Boost and Normal, High and Low inputs for each channel, and the Normal channel provides an additional BRIGHT switch while the top boost channel provides a HOT/COOL switch to achieve even more gain. The Master Volume/BYPASS switch completely bypasses the Master Volume section, OP mode switch cut the amp’s Output Power level in half. It has a vintage fawn-colored vinyl, reminiscent of the 1960 classic AC30, which is either loaded with a Celestion Alnico Blue (AC15HW1X) or Celestion G12M (AC15HW1) Greenback. For more LA Amp Show 2010 videos, or to view Premier Guitar’s COMPLETELY FREE digital edition magazine, be sure to visit www.premierguitar.com