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👍 Thanks a lot!!! I still have the private home adress of the Admin (Tony aka menace) from sending a neckplate for a donation project some time ago, my user nickname over there is 88pcII Andi

As smart as Leo Fender was, his company sure did have an issue with understanding what "vibrato" and what "tremolo" meant, haha.

To be fair, I also read your post at 4:45 this morning with the morning news in the background so I didn't quite get what vibe you meant as in, "I get your vibe, man." Also, back when Fender introduced the tube driven tremolo they did call it Vibrato. And that circuit was correctly named. The future circuits were also called Vibrato when in fact, they are more tremolo. The Vibrato is actually a change in pitch where tremolo is a change in volume. I went down that rabbit hole for a few weeks recently when I thought I wanted another amp. Thankfully I remembered the "Tremolo" on the Tri-Tube TKI before I made that mistake.

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Not going to find one cheaper.

Haha I know right?! That looks like a beautiful example and somebody here will be very happy 😊

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I bought it FOR the tremolo more than anything else. I incorrectly called it a vibe in the OP, but I meant the Trem. When I first started playing, although all I wanted was all the metal and all the gain, I loved this Vibroverb reissue they had at the local music shop. Seemed like a one-trick pony to me though, and learning to play guitar in the 90s vs the 80s meant also learning to play in an era where tons of amps got all the gain you could ever want. The idea of needing pedals for dirt never crossed my mind. In fact, I was a member of this group and had been playing guitar for 20 years before I even understood properly what an effects loop did, much less a boost. Hell, I was buying boost pedals for a couple of years in the 2010s to use for distortion before I learned the trick turning the gain down and the volume up to hit the front end harder. This is all to say that I've always been a raging Marshall guy, and out of sheer ignorance was also a pretty much plug straight into the amp guy too in my salad days, which is weird. I went through the RIM program at MTSU, did a ton of studio and live stuff, was known locally as a pretty damn good player, and read guitar magazines religiously. Just never connected the dots that an SD-1 wasn't just for JCM-800s. The first time I ran a good boost into an already distorted amp, I thought, "Oh... so that's why everyone does that. What have I been doing to myself for 25 years?" So I've never owned a Fender-style circuit unless it was included in something - the clean channel on the BE-50 or the Shiva for example. This started out with the Royalist as an attempt to do a quiet stage thing but turned into an effort to get a good, Fender-style clean channel into a Quickrod or Helios. It's now expanded a bit beyond that.

A friend used to be a known Kramer collector. An e-mail was sent, if the address is still good. Maybe we will have some good news for you.

the VH tribute Best of Both Worlds has 5150 striped roll-up panels that look like stacked 4x12s, just graphics printed on a flat surface. They do the job pretty well

Empty Marshall Cabinet | eBay 😉

More often than not for band practice I'm using the IR-J because I don't want to haul anything. For shows though a full backline has "the look". 😄

Meh, if the band is doing it up right, they won't be paying attention to your amp/modeler (unless it some gear geek, like we have on here ) More to the point, 99% of the audience doesn't give a fat rat's ass about what guitar you're playing, what amp/pedals you're using, or even if you hit every note of that solo. Especially if they've been drinking. If it sounds good and makes life easier for you, re- load in load out, then fuggem.

There are several Spotify Playlists along those lines! 🤣

Ahhh, that makes sense... its the "50155"/"50156" following the first digit that I always forget about... I have a same color 1997 Standard... Thanks for posting that list 👍

I have four very good sounding tube heads BUT- if they all went away and all I had left was my IR-J and PS-2A I'd be perfectly happy, it doesn't look near as cool but..., 😂

Did you get your Uli Jon Roth flo on, @Dutchman?

I love my Tri-Tube Imperial Tone King. I have it plugged into the Cali Tweed mostly and it sits in front of me on my desk for easy access. It's a game changer in so many ways. I have been playing the hand wired Deluxe Reverb I got from @Dutchman for some time now (it doesn't have a FX loop so the TK wasn't used) and got up to put the guitar cable back in the TK. I was blown away once again as I picked up a Strat for the first time in a minute. I have been playing the SG/LPC almost exclusively as I do when I get great gear. So I plugged in the Strat and was blown away once again. After about 45 minutes I shut it down and marveled over the great tone. I went about my business and a few hours later I realized I had left the Tchula on from the Deluxe Reverb session. It was then that I realized I had never plugged anything in front of the TK. I also haven't plugged anything in the TK FX loop. So now I have a project in front of me to put a delay in the FX loop and more dirt in front. The TK has a perfect reverb and tremolo that can be used even when the TK is bypassed. If you haven't tried the tremolo yet, @LucSulla, it is remarkable and is designed after a harmonic tremolo. So you don't need a reverb pedal or tremolo pedal in the chain with the TK. The options are endless as @LucSullahas pointed out. Cray Cray.

According to the below source the first Hamer in 2000 was numbered 050156, which would tie up with Mike’s original claim of it being a 2006.

I looked through every serial number finder / generator etc….that’s what I got . But initially I thought 96 as well. I must admit when I picked this guitar up I don’t think I was paying much attention to what the owner was saying. I just wanted it. I’ve had it about 4 years now.

So I got a Tone King Imperial Preamp. After I tried running the Royalist in an effects loop I realized I got the wrong box because everything I own is "Marshall-esque." So I put that on the market (and one of you who has the opposite issue - all Fender or Vox and no Marshall tones - should buy it) and got the Imperial. OK, now the Bogner Helios has an amazing clean channel and several kinda dirt options along with it's killer lead channel. But I was now going down the rabbit hole after seeing all the possibilities here. So I picked up a Friedman IR-X to run as the "amp" with the Tone King Imperial. The Imperial allows you to program an IR onto the bypass, so the Friedman doesn't have to run out of the balanced out to still sound like a cabinet. What this means practically is that you can use the Tone King as the nerve center for everything, and I did. I ran it into a really shitty Peavey DM 112 powered main speaker. "Wait a minute... this is far from awful." What else can I do? OK, well, my Splawn is sitting here... what if I bypass the IR on the Friedman's output and that run straight into the return of the Splawn? Oh shit... now things are getting really interesting. This sounds great. In fact, the IR-X preamp section into the Splawn power section sounds better than the BE-50 ever did. But I'm not lugging around a full sized head. What to do about the a power amp... Use my Quiliter? by just hitting the return? Buy something like a Seymour Duncan Powerstage? Wait a minute! I own a Fryette PS2! I always forget that I own it. I bought to run with the Plex and decided to keep it despite moving the Plex along. Seemed like it might come in handy, but it really hadn't yet. So it just kinda got forgotten about. So I dig that out and run it into a 4x12 that has two Greenbacks and two Fane m65s. I run the IR-X out to the return on the PS2 with the Tone King still sitting as the control hub for all of this shit and, my god, it's great! I've got both channels of the Tone King, both channels of the IR-X, my pedal board works seamlessly with all of them with everything either in front or in the loop as I would with an amp, and I get the reverb and vibe from the Tone King even on the IR-X. The PS2 gives me presence and depth control with some additional EQ settings and the best damned "Master Volume" you could ask for. I can also run everything straight to FOH in mono or stereo via the Tone King's L/R XLR outs with IRs on that path but not going to the PS2. I can do all of this at the same time even. I could go with no cab at all (which will never happen) and do the whole quite stage thing (which I also hate) without substantially changing... well, anything. This is the lightest, most versatile, and maybe best sounding set-up I've ever run. I'm absolutely gobsmacked. Now that I "get" how this stuff can talk to each other, it's basically everything I liked about something like an Axe-FX or Helix without the other bullshit that gave me analysis paralysis. For you dinosaurs like me who have liked the idea of something more portable but still like actual fucking knobs rather than surfing through menus and sub menus, this is the tits! Even the software aspect of the Tone King and Friedman is really user friendly. The options all make sense, and you can fuck around with it while the units are plugged into whatever you want to run them through. It makes dialing it in really easy. Suddenly, I have a lot of gear that seems completely redundant.

Vornados are great. I even have a mini one for the desk.

I love my 3 hole Duo! I run it thru a pedal that has a Martin D 45 IR. Sounds as good as my son's Martin thru the FOH. Somebody buy this!!