Don't play walk, just throw some big fat power chord into it! Dime would approve! thanks for not being mean about Dime Bag, he was a good human, and a wild man!
Tony Krank! For a while Tony was in the same office park as Fender's corporate office. If Lyle had seen Tony's first amps he would understand these wacky amps. I won't get into early Krank designs or what they were, how they were made or what amps they were modded from. Tony had a good run and he is a decent fellow.
Dimebag started using Krank in his post Pantera band Damage Plan, which is around the time of his death. I believe the Dimebag signature hadn’t been released or was just released when he died. Theres a Krank amps mini documentary on RU-vid, when you see the prototype you will be shocked. Seeing things like the way those pots and sockets are connected, I’m no longer surprised.
I’ve had 2 Revolution 1’s which are very similar circuits. The first one sounded great, the 2nd one had issues with oscillation/WAY too much gain/nasty top end. Once fixed it was just like the old one I had - the taper of the pots made more sense and it sounded a LOT better than when it was oscillating. I have a feeling the transformer was wired incorrectly and that was causing it. Apparently sometimes the brown and blue primary leads were the wrong way around. Could well have been a bad solder joint somewhere or something else though…. Slightly weird design but they can sound good when behaving.
Pot do not look like they pressed too hard against the board . Given how easy it is to get octal pcb socket that is sad. Given that the socket are chinaium . Xicon is one of the brand I avoid .
Shit, then just saw the tube sockets, WTH, weird, and the Frankenstein wasn't like the beginning of life of Krank on the contrary, was this a proto or something ? lol
When the amp is ready for the final playing test I'll listen to some Dimebag first. I honestly don't remember what he sounded like. The singer made me change the channel whenever they came on TV or radio, to be honest. I've never enjoyed metal. My "Cemetery Gates" is Johnny Marr. ;)
They had to pay for the unending advertisements in Guitar World somehow. The general "vibe" of the advertisements, company, etc. just seemed really off putting.