COOLEST LOOKING GEAR

[echorec]

I wish I could justify buying one of these, but I can't imagine it would coalesce with the stuff I already use. (also, I may have shared these already)

https://shop.modular8.com/collections/r ... nter-white



So purdy...

https://reverb.com/item/1984130-zildjia ... h-zxt10trf

[repoman]

I love TK Smith guitars, this one is super cool looking

[dubkitty]

wicked!

[Chankgeez]

Yeah, TK Smith is one of my favorite more conservative builders. I'd, one day, love to have an instrument he built.

[$harkToootth]

These aren't "products" but what this guy does with gear is really cool looking and sounding. Ergo, I thought I would post it here. This channel is like Bernard Parmegiani and Delia Derbyshire meets the Brothers Quay.

[repoman]

Yeah, TK Smith is one of my favorite more conservative builders. I'd, one day, love to have an instrument he built.

Yea, they are super expensive though, like $7-9k

But he fabricates pretty much every single thing on them by hand except for the tuners, input jack and switch.
And another cool thing is that all the equipment he uses is super old school like lathes, band saws and scroll saws from the 40s/50s, and I don't think he does that out of gimmickry.

[Chankgeez]

I have his website set as my homepage.

Also, listen to what he just uploaded:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0f9bW4LXrA

[Chankgeez]

[repoman]

what is that? Accordion?

[Chankgeez]

Yah, electrified accordion.

[crochambeau]

That's a Cordovox controller!

The generator part looks cool as hell too:







http://crochambeau.blogspot.com/search/label/Cordovox

Still haven't done anything with these, there's a matching 2x12 combo cab that's probably in the 12 watt range.

[repoman]

I see quite a few accordion and combo organ amps on Reverb for cheap, I wonder if they are cool for guitar.

[fuzzonaut]

[Chankgeez]

Cray.

I see quite a few accordion and combo organ amps on Reverb for cheap, I wonder if they are cool for guitar.

Yeah, they are. They're voiced a little cleaner than guitar amps though. I have an Ampeg accordion amp. Sounds fine.

[crochambeau]

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