I went to a jam away from home on Sunday and played through an amp that really blew my mind - nondescript Strat through a Rocket Archer Icon into a Silverface Super Reverb.
I've always had a thing for Silverface amps - that's what we wanted when we were kids! This one is the best I've heard - huge, powerful, punchy, full of tone.
Perhaps it it shouldn't be - Silverface, Master Volume and it turns out to be a 1980, but it's wonderful. OK it weighs a ton....
Anyway, I spoke to the owner and struck a deal - and she is mine.
Happy.
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Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
Nice score, love it!
congratulations.
This one should be actually more like a 4x10" Twin in many ways - 70W, master volume (don't use the pull-distortion 'feature', it's horrible!), mid controls, solid-state rectifier… which is a good thing, to me.
A tip - if the voltage selector hasn't been hardwired yet (it really should be for safety reasons), set it to 260V not 240. This means the amp will be receiving slightly less voltage than it expects and will run cooler, sound softer and be less hard on the valves. If you're going to have it hardwired, do it like this as well.
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