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Originally Posted by Brent Hahn
From the title of the thread I thought you meant, "I did a bad job of playing it but I posted it anyway."
Not the case, apparently. I love your soulful voice and your playing. Really good recording and that amp sounds awesome. it's from a record player?
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Brent, the amp is a Webster-Chicago 166-1 which was a two input amp. It was small 8 watt system with a 10" speaker designed for home entertainment. You could sing along with your records if you had the amp and matching turntable. You know, a 1950's Karaoke machine
They have to be modified to be used for guitar as the microphone channel, where the gain is, has to have the input connector changed to a standard 1/4" TS jack. And most of these are so old that they need many capacitors changed out, ESPECIALLY the filter cap can.
One channel had a preamp for a microphone, and the other was for a matching turntable. Here's a shot from the original catalog...
I first learned about them when I was trying to figure out what amp the band Son Volt was using for lapsteel on their first album, you can see one here on the cover of the record...
