Ampeg VL-1002 full stack Lee Jackson - $2,500 (Newbury Park)
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Designed by amplifier guru Lee Jackson for Ampeg, basically a 100 watt Marshall on steroids. Very high gain with five 12AX7 preamp tubes, and lots of clean headroom too, with four 6L6 power tubes. Reverb is lush but not overbearing. Power attenuator works like a dream, and the 5 position midrange control on channel two gives a rainbow of tones. Amp has been gone through by Ed Goforth, giving it new caps and tubes, fixing the backlit logo, and bypassing that silly lock. Ed also removed the Molex connectors to the circuit boards and hard wired them for reliability. Speakers in both cabinets are Celestion G12T-75's wired to 16 ohms per cab.