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Post by wiz on May 20, 2014 16:42:09 GMT -6
Thats a great sounding amp.
Anyone got one/used one.
Really expensive here in Oz....but that sounds killer and right up my alley
cheers
Wiz
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Post by henge on May 21, 2014 7:26:15 GMT -6
Yeah that sounds real nice!
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Post by mikec on May 21, 2014 7:30:38 GMT -6
I am a big fan of the Tone King amps having owned the Falcon, Metropolitan, and now loving the Sky King. Although I've not owned one, I really like the Imperial and have played it numerous times. I was looking at the Imperial Anniversary edition and liked it a lot, just decided I preferred the Sky King at the time.
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Post by wiz on May 21, 2014 16:53:13 GMT -6
well, I will let you know next week.
I bought one!!
oh my.
cheers
Wiz
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Post by wiz on May 22, 2014 17:40:10 GMT -6
It arrived this morning.
Wasn't expecting it till Monday.
Just had a quick play through it.
Its really two amps in one.
A) its the best fender princeton I have ever played, period.
Everything I love about my 65 princeton re issue , but better. Tighter, better reverb, tremolo to die for.
Its like my old princeton is an interface preamp and this amp is a 1073. Damn its sweet.
If like me you love fender princetons, then this is pretty much flawless.
B) the second channel, or the LEAD channel as they call it. Its a Fender Tweed.
I am not so familiar with that kind of amp. But I can see its versatility, and pretty quickly I had "Keef" type
rhythm sounds out of it. But is has a MID BITE control (Don't think of it as a MIDS control on most amps) that changes the character considerably.
I need to spend more time on this.
If this was only a single channel amp, its still worth it. Its expensive, sure. But I am 50 this year, god knows how many more spins I have around the sun...
Its beautiful.
cheers
Wiz
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Post by geoff738 on May 22, 2014 20:31:10 GMT -6
Wiz,
I think you nailed it - it does the Blackface thing and the tweed tone really well all in one box.
I haven't played one in ages, and this was only in a guitar store. But they had a lot of nice amps in there and I'd play the Imperial and then something else and then the Imperial ... I just kept coming back to the Imperial.
Plus they just look really cool.
Congrats!
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by Martin John Butler on May 24, 2014 19:11:07 GMT -6
I played it once at Rudy's Guitars in NYC, and it was killer. Congrats wiz, you've got a keeper there.
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Post by wiz on May 24, 2014 21:54:01 GMT -6
thanks guys
cheers
Wiz
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