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Tell me about Sunn amps
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:34 pm
by aussy
From the few things that I've read, they're VERY clean
Would they generally be brighter or darker than, say, my blackface bassman
Also they seem to run pretty cheap on ebay... HMMMM
Re: Tell me about Sunn amps
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:05 pm
by Gopherbassist
Re: Tell me about Sunn amps
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:11 am
by aussy
Ok, so they're both VERY clean and VERY loud
The guys who usually like them seem to play sludge/stoner/drone/any thing heavy with copious amounts of distortion and fuzz from pedals
I'm guessing they're voiced relatively dark too, since they have a ton of bass output and the music they're now associated with is typically, well...dark
The research continues...
Re: Tell me about Sunn amps
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:02 am
by Gopherbassist
I can't say mine sounds particularly dark, but I do play it through the normal jack instead of the bright jack.
Re: Tell me about Sunn amps
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:02 am
by wsas3
I heard they're pretty good, yo
Re: Tell me about Sunn amps
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:06 am
by D.o.S.
They used to be cheap.
They're still loud.
Re: Tell me about Sunn amps
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:09 am
by wsas3
D.o.S. wrote:They used to be cheap.
They're still loud.
Yeah I was browsing old threads, and the comment about that made me
Wish I sprung for one then.
Re: Tell me about Sunn amps
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:23 am
by Demon666
They suck! You should send any link to any that you find for sale cheap.
Re: Tell me about Sunn amps
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:27 am
by Fuzz_Pi
Theyre loud and overpriced nowadays as said before
Probably brighter than yer bassman honastly, most of the bassy tone associated with sunn comes from lots and lots of clean headroom therefore lots of clean bass to be had and coaxed out with fat sounding fuzzboxs
Re: Tell me about Sunn amps
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:26 am
by new05002
clean, loud, hifi-esque (because they copied the output stages from Dynaco stereos), true point to point wiring on terminal strips. Usually easier to tech, fairly simple designs.
Price gouged, try to find a local cheaper unit on CL
Re: Tell me about Sunn amps
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:44 pm
by Seedy
My Sunn concert is all of the good things described here. I paid $200 for it on the bay, gigged with it for a year (on bass), dropped it, shit came loose. I paid a dude about $100 to completely fix everything and its amazing. I use it at band rehearsal at a volume of 1, I have lots of room to move. It LOVES my fuzzhuggers for bass and guitar. If this one ever goes south again I will continue fixing it or find another.
Re: Tell me about Sunn amps
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:01 pm
by theavondon
Wait, your Sunns sound clean?
*realizes all the knobs on my Sunn are permanently cranked*
Oh, yeah. Nevermind. Carry on.