Kustom Amps---Any Good?

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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by 1946dodge » Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:33 pm

My son is a pro and won't use it. I bought it for him a long time ago, so now it sits in my house and I use it once in a while. It  doesnt sound good anyway with that one 12" speaker, but like you said mechanically it isnt that sound. The tubes make noise until I wiggle them around, and then it stops until it randomly starts again.

I wonder how the heads like the Dual and Tripple Rectifiers are?
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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by Professor Plum » Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:59 pm

i wonder what amp with stll up to be the king of the road, or the road king if you will...  :ph34r:
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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by RumorsOFsurF » Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:45 pm

I like my Hot Rod Deluxe, and I've gigged the hell out of it for 3 years(I've had my Twin 1 year, and use the HRD a lot still).  I know there have been a lot of haters, but mine sounds great.
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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by RumorsOFsurF » Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:00 pm

Mine was partially a Christmas gift, so I'm not going to get rid of it.  It's just an inexpensive amp that I don't have to worry about.  Mine sounds great, too.  It sounds better than when I got it....Maybe that means it's getting ready to blow up.  :o
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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by JazzBlaster » Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:23 pm

HRDs rule! expesive gear is bratcore, making music is the point not owning amps.  :ph34r:
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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by JazzBlaster » Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:45 pm

All good points but I think you missed mine, it's all some of us can afford...  I have alot more respect for someone that is out there making great music with what they can get thier hands on. Sometimes on this site I kind of feel like people are bragging about what they own. [/rant]
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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by phibes » Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:10 pm

John Fogerty really really likes Kustom amps.

really really like Mesa Rectifiers.

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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by dug » Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:10 am

I think if you are gonna play live music you should have good gear.

I think the hot rods sound awesome, and I'd probably buy one. But alot of my music playing friends have had trouble with them.
That's the only thing I dislike about them. I've got $600 in my setup. Its a silverface bassman and an avatar cab.
Its easier to maintain and has more wattage. Moneys got nothing to having good gear, if you know what to look for you can get some pretty sweet deals.

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Post by dug » Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:36 am

And on the subject of Mesa Boogies.

I was in this band http://www.myspace.com/thesense and we had a single and dual rectifier.
Those amps are the most solidly built amps I've ever seen. We did tons of shows using the amps for 2 to 3 years, they never let us down.
We dropped the single out of the back of the van, it didn't make a mark on it. It fired right up and rocked for an hour.

We sold the amps and started using a marshall jcm and an orange ad30, but only cause of the tonez.

Then we broke up and I have a silverface bassman.

And we all lived happily ever after.

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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by Professor Plum » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:37 am

just to add to the previous post, the part i love about this place and other online forums is that you dont have to brag about your gear night and day but if you do get something cool, there are people who auctually understand! i can tell my family i just scored an old super and the missing maurader for $50 each and thell look at me kinda like this...  ???

where as the response here will be more like this  ;D :P 8) :? :ph34r: :-*


its just cool to have people understand and share you excitement over something you spend so much time and money and effort researching and doing...
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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by JazzBlaster » Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:28 pm

Unreliable? then why do so many people gig Fender hotrods, even people who could afford something more expensive? (Coldplay, The Strokes) Unless you are talking about Kustom amps then I totaly agree with you. (trying to get back to topic) Now that I mention it when was the last time you saw someone giging a Kustom amp? Enough said...
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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by JazzBlaster » Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:40 pm

Good point about the input jacks they do break pretty easy. My best friend has one of the first devilles that came out a blonde non HR it's been gigged all over and never beed serviced in over 10 years. I would never call the devilles unreliable, because I've relied on them again and again. I guess I was being a bit defensive, my apoligies.

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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by RumorsOFsurF » Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:49 pm

My band opened for Confederate Railroad last week (90's Country band, still touring), and one of them had a Twin Reverb Reissue, and another had a HR DeVille.  :wtf:

The lead guy had a Dr. Z, though....
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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by RumorsOFsurF » Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:18 pm

One of my favorite bands, Southern Culture on the Skids, always uses rented backlines that feature Fender Reissue amps.  At the bigger venue I saw them play, it was a Super Reverb....At the smaller, a Deluxe Reverb.  Sounded fantastic.  Rick Miller used an attenuator both times.  :wtf:

Sorry for the hijack.  :ph34r:
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Re: Kustom Amps---Any Good?

Post by luau » Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:34 pm

JazzBlaster wrote:Now that I mention it when was the last time you saw someone giging a Kustom amp?
Barb the bass player from House of Large Sizes in '94 or so IIRC.  :D
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