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This is a great, underrated amp! It's a vox with 6v6 power tubes, which sounds blasphemous, but it sounds way better than you would think. It is in great condition, pretty much flawless.

Vox TB18 Combo Amplifier Features: Single-channel tube combo amp, with circuit designed by boutique amplifier builder Tony Bruno Vintage American tube voicing Mid Boost mode gives you extra volume and bite Dark switch rolls off high frequencies, radically altering the sound and response of the combo Birch-ply cabinet construction is ultra-durable and helps maintain a balanced, focused tone One 12" Celestion G12-65 speaker, chosen for its classic tone and breakup characteristics Custom-made premium transformers

The F-2B was very first product to bear the Alembic name. About the only thing that's changed in the 30 years since the first F-2B is the chassis. What is it about the F-2B that's made it a classic? A simple to use Bass-Middle-Treble interface for each channel makes your perfect tone easy to find today, and to find again tomorrow. Its warm tube sound is musically useful not only to bass, but we've heard our customers use it for guitar and violin too! For fun, try cascading from channel A to channel B with guitar and discover a wonderful clear distortion. The F-2B contains two independent preamp/tone control sections. The amplification is entirely vaccum tube driven. Outputs are on the back panel: channel A out, channel B out, and a mono out that combines both channels.

The very first stand-alone effects unit for guitar was the DeArmond 601 Tremolo unit, devised in 1946 and more widely available in 1948. (A review in Music Trade Review in 1941 mentions two Story & Clark pianos equipped with DeArmond tremolos, guitar tremolos surfaced later.) One of the first guitarists to get their hands on one was legendary Bo Diddley. He used it on his first and only No. 1 hit, the polyrhythmic, bump-and-grind shuffle “Bo Diddley” for Chess Records in 1955. The uneven fuzzy warble of the DeArmond 601 trem pedal trailing Diddley’s provocative clave rhythm cemented the signature Bo Diddley beat, which was the rock that roll was laid on. Other famous users of the DeArmond 601 include ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons on “Zipper Job” and “Hairdresser,” Muddy Waters’ on “Flood,” and Mr. Twang Duane Eddy’s on “Rebel-’Rouser.” Read more

SIGNATURE Syrupy smooth warm tube dynamics with plenty of bark. This box is reminiscent of vintage tube amps pushed to their limits. Two- position toggle provides additional low end boost similar to a close miked amp. There is plenty of gain here, but this box is all about pick attach and tone. It is very transparent and responsive. The harder you play the more it bites back.

CONTROLS Presence Gain Output 2-position low boost toggle True bypass footswitch

SIGNATURE: Syrupy smooth warm tube dynamics with plenty of bark. This box is reminiscent of vintage tube amps pushed to their limits. Two- position toggle provides additional low end boost similar to a close miked amp. There is plenty of gain here, but this box is all about pick attach and tone. It is very transparent and responsive. The harder you play the more it bites back.

CONTROLS: Presence Gain Output 2-position low boost toggle True bypass footswitch

SIGNATURE Syrupy smooth warm tube dynamics with plenty of bark. This box is reminiscent of vintage tube amps pushed to their limits. Two- position toggle provides additional low end boost similar to a close miked amp. There is plenty of gain here, but this box is all about pick attach and tone. It is very transparent and responsive. The harder you play the more it bites back.

CONTROLS Presence Gain Output 2-position low boost toggle True bypass footswitch