Need "rack" advice-- ? preamp?

all that heavy rock I post is w/ the PV preamp and a cheap cab simulator, through a real amp and cab it's truly frightening ( like an armadillo in your trousers! )

 
Hi,

A scored a killer preamp today, Its a Kitty Hawk Quattro. I saw it on e bay listed as broken,(got it CHEEEP) and I remember GP giving this unit rave reveiws in the 80s (I think). They were 1k+ new,if I remember right.

It took a little TLC to get it going, but man I have to say it smokes. Its going to need some new pots and such, but this is a definate keeper. No midi at all but it is still 4 very useable modes. All tube, no op amps or clipping diodes.

Glad I hung onto my peavey midipro.

Rob

 
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Hi,A scored a killer preamp today, Its a Kitty Hawk Quattro. I saw it on e bay listed as broken,(got it CHEEEP) and I remember GP giving this unit rave reveiws in the 80s (I think). They were 1k+ new,if I remember right.

It took a little TLC to get it going, but man I have to say it smokes. Its going to need some new pots and such, but this is a definate keeper. No midi at all but it is still 4 very useable modes. All tube, no op amps or clipping diodes.

Glad I hung onto my peavey midipro.

Rob
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Those Kittyhawk amps were great sounding, but, as you noted, had reliability issues. I passed on a 60 watt 1 x 12 combo locally recently for that reason.

 
Hi Tom,

I dont know about the amps but this thing looks really well built. Pihr pots and seimens relays, dont look like they cut corners on these.

The reason I love this preamp so much it sounds EXACTLY like a Valvetech original amp,has great clean to full bore overdrive.Of course they dont do the power tube crunch tone, but everything else. As soon as I got it fired up I thought to myself,I heard this sound before !!!!! Only they beat me to it by about 15 years.

Rob

 
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