Thomas Brenneck

The in-house G-12 at Daptone's House of Soul was used for Charles Bradley's No Time for Dreaming, as mentioned by Brenneck in this March 15, 2011 Electronic Musician interview.

“Some of these tracks have the crunchiest organ and Rhodes sounds,” Brenneck explains, “because they were getting bounced with the guitar [a ’66 Harmony H74 through a ’68 Ampeg Gemini amp], and of course every time you bounce, you get another generation of tape compression. You don’t really need outboard gear when you do that, and you can end up with some really tough-sounding shit. Then you’ve got Bradley and the horn players just pinning the needles with tape distortion; there’s no way I’m gonna record it again if what they just did is magic. It’s all about commitment and hard work beforehand, and I think the sound just comes naturally as a result of that.”

The specification of a G-12 is made in this November 1, 2007 Electronic Musician article by Daptone founder Gabriel Roth (a.k.a Bosco Mann), who describes how he acquired it.

Ampeg Gemini G-12 guitar amp: “About 10 years ago, I was walking down the street on my way to the studio,” Roth says, “and as I passed a building that was being demolished, I felt a bang against my leg. They were gutting the building and one guy was throwing all the garbage out the door over the sidewalk to another guy on the street who was tossing it into a dumpster. That Gemini is what hit me in the leg on its way to the dumpster. How's that for fate? Didn't even need to repair it.”

Used with The Budos Band, as featured in this September 18, 2012 Instagram post.

Setting up for a Budos recording session.