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FOR SALE:
Garnet Mohawk amplifier: offers welcome (reserve price on it of $400 CDN/$310USD, which is what I paid for it, I will not sell it for a loss, it is way too good for that)
This is an extremely rare Garnet amp, signed by Gar Gillies, and sounds great. I only have so many dollars, and like all of you I am trying to get a studio up and running, so all of my capital is locked up in buying other gear, and I desparately need monitors! I also need mics/preamps etc. I just bought a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe that my wife was lovely enough to lend me money for, on the condition that I sell my other amps to pay her back ASAFP .
It is a 5-7W amp, so it doesn't get all that loud, but is phenomenal for recording. With a DI or preamp running into it, it can hold its own in a jam, and mic'd up it will be fine in a gig. It is dead simple in design (two knobs: master volume and tone, Footswitchable treble boost, extension cabinet capability), but complex in tone. I will kick myself later in life I am sure for selling this. In fact I am kicking myself now for putting it here, but the Fender Hot Rod I just bought is the tone I have been seeking for two years.
Here is a description of its history
from Pete at Garnet amps:
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There are currently only 5 or 6 of those kickin 'around.
There was competitor of Garnet's out of Brandon, Manitoba by the name of Johnson Amps. Unfortunately Mr. Johnson passed away some time ago and Gar bought a lot of old Johnson stock from his widow. One of the items was the blank Mohawk chassis, painted and silk screened but
with no circuitry installed. Gar designed a circuit for it and built a few. A sweet little recording amp with a footswitchable second gain stage and a spectacular new old stock Celestion speaker from the fifties.
Here's a couple of links:
More on the speaker at
http://www.mts.net/~triadpro/Celestion/celestion.htm
Those speakers have been verified by Celestion as being from the early 50's, predating most guitar amps. They were brand new in the box when installed in your Mohawk (sometime in 2000-2002). They're worth a good buck all by themselves as you can appreciate from the great tone.
But don't let me give you the idea that it's all in the speakers. That amp is a nice little class A, 5-7 watter and all Point to Point wiring. The second gain stage on the footswitch is trick too. It uses a solid state rectifier, a single 12AX7, and a 6L6 in the output. You can definitely plug it in to any larger cab (4 ohms is best, 8 ohms OK but will cut into the amps already meager power). Plugging a small amp like this into a large cabinet is an old recording trick.
Here's some shots of the cabinet,
http://www.mts.net/~triadpro/Cabs/0001.htm
And
http://www.mts.net/~triadpro/Cabs/0002.htm
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end copied message from an email by Pete.
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Anyone local (Victoria, BC) is welcome to come try it out. Let
me know if you are interested, and I will look into shipping charges (buyer pays shipping)
Garnet Mohawk amplifier: offers welcome (reserve price on it of $400 CDN/$310USD, which is what I paid for it, I will not sell it for a loss, it is way too good for that)
This is an extremely rare Garnet amp, signed by Gar Gillies, and sounds great. I only have so many dollars, and like all of you I am trying to get a studio up and running, so all of my capital is locked up in buying other gear, and I desparately need monitors! I also need mics/preamps etc. I just bought a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe that my wife was lovely enough to lend me money for, on the condition that I sell my other amps to pay her back ASAFP .
It is a 5-7W amp, so it doesn't get all that loud, but is phenomenal for recording. With a DI or preamp running into it, it can hold its own in a jam, and mic'd up it will be fine in a gig. It is dead simple in design (two knobs: master volume and tone, Footswitchable treble boost, extension cabinet capability), but complex in tone. I will kick myself later in life I am sure for selling this. In fact I am kicking myself now for putting it here, but the Fender Hot Rod I just bought is the tone I have been seeking for two years.
Here is a description of its history
from Pete at Garnet amps:
**************************************************
There are currently only 5 or 6 of those kickin 'around.
There was competitor of Garnet's out of Brandon, Manitoba by the name of Johnson Amps. Unfortunately Mr. Johnson passed away some time ago and Gar bought a lot of old Johnson stock from his widow. One of the items was the blank Mohawk chassis, painted and silk screened but
with no circuitry installed. Gar designed a circuit for it and built a few. A sweet little recording amp with a footswitchable second gain stage and a spectacular new old stock Celestion speaker from the fifties.
Here's a couple of links:
More on the speaker at
http://www.mts.net/~triadpro/Celestion/celestion.htm
Those speakers have been verified by Celestion as being from the early 50's, predating most guitar amps. They were brand new in the box when installed in your Mohawk (sometime in 2000-2002). They're worth a good buck all by themselves as you can appreciate from the great tone.
But don't let me give you the idea that it's all in the speakers. That amp is a nice little class A, 5-7 watter and all Point to Point wiring. The second gain stage on the footswitch is trick too. It uses a solid state rectifier, a single 12AX7, and a 6L6 in the output. You can definitely plug it in to any larger cab (4 ohms is best, 8 ohms OK but will cut into the amps already meager power). Plugging a small amp like this into a large cabinet is an old recording trick.
Here's some shots of the cabinet,
http://www.mts.net/~triadpro/Cabs/0001.htm
And
http://www.mts.net/~triadpro/Cabs/0002.htm
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end copied message from an email by Pete.
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Anyone local (Victoria, BC) is welcome to come try it out. Let
me know if you are interested, and I will look into shipping charges (buyer pays shipping)