1970s Sunn Concert Lead (Silverface) Amp Sound Demo - Great Rock, Stoner and Doom Tones!
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2024
- The Concert Lead was an amp head produced by Sunn in the 1970s. This is the first generation model, commonly referred to as the "Silverface" version. It works great for anything from sparkling cleans to doom and stoner metal.
Signal chain in order: HH Strat + Sunn Concert Lead + Traynor YGC-412 (w/Eminence Cannabis Rex Speakers) + Shure SM57 + PreSonus Audio Box USB 96. Reverb is from the DAW.
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The great Todd Rundgren used one these in the 70s on the Another Live album and yes he blew the Fu**king roof off the joint with it!!!
I had a concert lead for a few years, don't think my distortion was working at it's full capacity but I loved the attack of the thing and how clean it was. Traded it along with an acoustic 15 in cab and I've been regretting it ever since.
Now that’s a tone that puts a smile on my face.
The crunch in standard tuning sounds excellent, great for hard rock, glam and even heavy psych!
Nice demo man! Especially when you tuned down 🤘🏻 My dad back in the 70’s had two of these and two Ampeg V4 cabs, sounded awesome
Always loved the Sunn Concert Lead Head Amps. Back in the late 80's early 90's, my stack set up was 2 heads with one as slave on top of 2 Peavey 4-12 Cabs fit with Black Widow series speakers. Thing was a monster when cranked up, especially with an active BC Rich Bich 10, had to stand 20 feet or more away just to control the feedback. Unfortunately my stack and Rich Bich 10 were stolen from me, broke my heart for sure. Course this was quite a while ago. Been working on getting them replaced for a while, currently I'm half way there. Anyway, nice vid, definitely brought back some good memories. Keep on rockin' bro...
how the hell did someone steal a stack that big
@@chriswardlaw3691 Well, I had loaded my equipment into back of my truck with camper shell and went back into club for a few drinks before hitting the road. They must have been watching and waiting.
Anyway, they broke the back lift window of the camper shell and actually only took half of my full stack, probably because they didn't have room for everything. Items stolen = 1x Sunn Silverface Concert Lead, 1x Peavey Cab 412 Black Widow speakers, 1x BC Rich 10 string guitar and 1x Anvil Briefcase filled with various effects pedals, cords, tuner, etc.
I ended up putting the other half stack into storage and basically started over again, bought a Peavey 5150 212 combo amp, a couple other guitars and effects pedals. Yeah, I learned a very expensive and painful lesson that night.
Yeah.... the old good times, bro...
I remember these amps! Still sounds pretty darn good. Tubes? Meh...solid state, baby!
Ive got this exact amp and when I activate a pedal - the volume jumps up like insanely crazy! Not So sure why this is - Any chance you have this happen to you as well?
This sounded great. Nice photo editing too
Killer job. LPB-1 sounded great
Thanks! Ironically enough, the pedal stopped working right after recording this. New one on the way 😂
@@solidstateappreciation Too funny
@@solidstateappreciation How crazy it just quit-sounded good with the Sunn! I discovered how cool the LB-1's were when I was first starting out way back when with a 15 watt Heathkit I built myself. It was just to kick up the volume but discovered how good the amp sounded overdriven. Added a Crybaby wah and had a decent Hendrix and Cream tone-yes! May have to pick one up sometime...
at the moment the only sunn head that i can find at a good price is the concert head bass. but it's completely clean, i'don't know if with a distortion pedal i can achieve sunn tipical sound. what do you thinK?
Some of the older Sunn bass heads were pretty much identical to their guitar counterparts (minus reverb, tremolo etc), so it’s likely you can get the same sound with the bass version.
Jesus! Did I actually hear somebody play a bit of May Blitz on a demo?
Daryl Steurmer with Jean Luc Ponty
Hagstrom Swede through a Concert Lead
Very nice presentation no bullshit 👍📢🎸
I just picked one of these up for 200$ - seems to work perfect!
WHERE DO YOU FIND ONE FOR 200??
@@vine00 local sellers - I’ll probably end up selling it soon. The output jacks need replacing.
Damn that's a steal. That sounds like a mid 2000s price you lucky duck (they were around 300 bucks). I recently scored one for $550 in 2024 in great condition other than faded number pots. I wanted the silver face over the red knob as it has a slightly brighter sound than the red knob or the later beta lead. Get a bass cabinet and guitar cabinet and bam you have 2 instrument amps. Don't do any on the fly switching or overpower it, otherwise you're in good shape.
awh u didnt do the maxed out gain on the amp lol.. My fav thing to do with some amps. absolutely crushing tone.
Ha I would totally do that but I doubt my neighbors would appreciate it as much as I would 😂
@@solidstateappreciation Ah rip
Wonder if you can jump the channels? Might be out of phase 🤷
2:44 Sabbath!
I think frank marino was using one of these dateline 76
Does this amp normally run hot ?? Recently got one and it seems to be running pretty hot
Check 3:33
Hey man, i found one of these but it has red knobs, could it be the same version?
If it has the same control configuration, it’s possible it’s the same version that someone changed knobs on. Otherwise, it sounds like you have the later version.
A guy by the name of Neil Young used one of these on his 73 tour. No big deal.
Killer riffage as usual. Do you play in a band or do full recordings? I'd love to hear full stoner/doom tracks that you've recorded.
Thanks! I’m not in any bands currently, it’s usually just me goofing around. I’ve thought about recording some original stuff so that may happen in the future at some point.
please make a video with bass too!
It’s in the works 👍
@@solidstateappreciation niiiice, really like your bass demos!
this amp sounds killer, is it tube or transistor?
100% solid state/transistor