Dr. Z Surgical Steel Demo - Mike Daly & Dave Baker
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Surgical Steel Product Page: drzamps.com/pro...
I have always loved the haunting, sustaining tones that a pedal steel guitar added to a recording. This is why I was prone to design an amp for pedal steel use. The challenges were many… to build an amp that would clearly reproduce notes from an instrument with 70 gauge strings, to accurately generate correct frequencies when bending strings and using alternate tunings, and to output a rich and sustaining tone with adequate wattage.
I have succeeded in designing the perfect amp for the modern pedal steel player. The Surgical Steel incorporates my unique EF86 front end. This pentode tube can accept inputs of various voltages, like those from volume pedals, and reproduce them with accurate symmetry without distorting the signal disproportionately as 12AX7 input tubes do.
We have found the Surgical Steel to be a stellar pedal platform for 6 string guitar, as it’s high headroom and near endless sustain offers the perfect canvas for a variety of effects pedal configurations. A full balance EQ section feeds a pair of ultra-linear connected KT88 power tubes. These powerful tubes (approximately 90 watts per pair) produce a rich, articulate, and thick tone that is unattainable with a solid state amp. Between the preamp section and the power section there is a tube-buffered effects loop for placing delay, modulation, and reverb with stunning results.
This amp has 4, 8, and 16 Ohm speaker outs. I coupled the amp head with with our Z Best 2×12 cabinet loaded with Celestion G12-65 speakers for a punchy, clear, and neutral frequency response.
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I've been hoping someone would veer in this direction with a production model.
This has all the ingredients I'm after and nothing I don't want.
Sounds fantastic..... I'll be getting my hands on one for sure!
Excellent steel tone. Warm but twangy capable. It checks all the boxes.
Amazing work good Dr.
Sounds great!
totally picking one up. It'll be my Antidote's big bro!
id love to hear more rock, soul, blues, rnb, on the pedal steel guitar, instead of the twangy country its most famous for its an instrument and it has so much versatile abilities to it
Finally another KT88 amp from Dr. Z! ...so I read the text and now I ask, is this the Delta 88 with an fx loop? hmmmm.
The Delta 88 initially inspired this amp, but the addition of the effects loop, the phase inverter circuit, the power section configuration, and the treble, middle, bass tone stack are all new elements. The Surgical Steel has even more headoom, a larger and more robust bottom end, and a totally different tone stack. The EF86 preamp tube is pretty much the only circuitry they share at this stage.
Dr Z Amplification is the tone stack a plate follower? Hardly have enough tubes in there for anything else!
I'm not the man to ask. My knowledge is pretty basic, troubleshooting, basic maintenance. For tech questions email repairs@drzamps.com.
Awsome ! What's that little blue box plugged in steel guitar ? Thanks !
i'm going to guess that it's a peterson vs-II strobotuner...not being able to see a lot of it, i may be wrong...
after seeing a better picture of it, i'm changing my guess to a li'l izzy...
Its a little izzy
Wow, you'd know RIGHT away if your guitar didn't actually sound very good, wouldn't ya!? =| lol