Re: [Harp-L] Avenger Awesomeness

[Greg Heumann <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I second what Steve said. The Squeal Killer and AFB+ are great products for when you have to deal with an unruly amp. They are absolutely unnecessary with Sonny Jr amps, whose gain has already been properly set up for harp players. The Avenger is hands down the best harp amp I’ve ever owned or played. My amp has been played by dozens of harp players as it is the back line amp for our famous Redwood City Pro Jam at the Club Fox. Not only have I gotten great complements on its tone from lots of harp players who have played it, I get them unsolicited from other pro musicians. Garth Webber - (former guitar player for Miles Davis and Robben Ford) told me it was as good as any he had ever heard. 


/Greg

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> From: "Steve Power" <stevepower@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Avenger Awesomeness
> Date: April 18, 2015 at 9:55:45 AM PDT
> To: "Ronald Tuffel" <ronnyt@xxxxx>, "'Harp-l'" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Damn Ron. You own stock in Squeal Killer or what?
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> Before this gets turned into a Squeal Killer thread and all sorts of questions get sent Sonny's way, let me say catagorically in my experience, and I know personally of other SJ owners with the same experience, the SK or a Kinder AFB are totally redundant and will, despite any other claims, change the tone. It may be slight but it is always going to be something. You've added a circuit which was not part of the amp design. Of course it will.  I know of no internationally known SJ endorser who puts such a device in front.
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> On one occasion ,just for the hell of it, when I was trying to compete with our main man guitarist and our world class drummer who sometimes likes to kick the hell out if the kit - which I love -  I had the Super Cruncher bridged with the Normal channel flat out and the Bright channel around 7 and not a hint of feedback.  And to be honest I may have been plenty loud out front but on that occasion just wasn't filling the same sort of space as the guitars on stage. It may also have been I could have added even more projection with the Treble control. It may have evn been where I was standing on stage, pretty close to the amp which was on the floor.  It certainly was not something that could have been improved by a pedal and with other more restrained bands the SC has more than enough grunt. With the Avenger I fill all the space a man could want and I've got head room to spare.  Why the hell would anybody want to stick a pedal in front of it?
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> When I mentioned the hotter preamp tube causing a little feedback problem I do mean a little. It was nothing like the full on cat in heat feedback one usually gets, almost a perception more than a reality.  It was instantly cured by simply backing off the Treble about 1/4-1/2 a notch which also allowed me, if I wanted, to up the volume by about the same amount or even higher if I wanted to. Again, one tweak on a knob as opposed to $200 bucks for a pedal plus another thing to pack, unpack and generally mess with.
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> Now to be clear, I've got a Kinder AFB+ and I found it very useful with small amps or in situations where I have to use whatever is handed me, usually a guitar amp of some sort.  I understand the Squeal Killer is possibly an even better device for those situations and it is cheaper. A useful tool to have no doubt.  But neither one is necessary or even wanted when using a SJ amp. 
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