| Info on plush amps [message #9886] |
Tue, 11 November 2008 18:12  |
Snodgrass
Messages: 139
Registered: January 2008
Location: Bartlesville, OK
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does anybody own and of the plush amps? i've found a tube head with a matching 3X15 cab anybody have any advice or maybe know how much th eplush stuff is worth
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| Re: Info on plush amps [message #9889 is a reply to message #9886] |
Tue, 11 November 2008 19:50  |
LesS
Messages: 477
Registered: December 2002
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What condition and what color is it?
I own an Earth tube amp and 2x15 cabinet.
here is a Plush website: http://www.plush-amps.com/
Here is some info on Plush:
Plush was not related to Kustom.
Both Bud Ross and Fender took legal action against Plush – the Plush circuit was a direct copy of the Fender Twin Reverb.
The padding, knobs, chrome ports and possibly the lifetime guarantee were “copied” from Kustom.
Plush was made from 1969 to 1971 (and possibly a little after).
Plush amps were manufactured in NYC and Santa Fe Springs, CA.
Their most popular model - model # 1060 (bass) or 1000 (lead) -used four 6L6-GC tubes and was rated at 105 watts RMS in 1970 and 110 watts in 1971.
The cabinets were all 3/4 inch plywood and the speakers front-mounted; the back was non-removeable. (In contrast to Kustom, whose speakers were rear-mounted; the back must be removed to change the speaker. To change a Plush speaker, you just snap-out the grille and remove the four speaker bolts.)
All their amps – even the PA’s – were all tube and came in 60 watt (two 6L6-GC) , 110 watt, 160 watt (six 6L6-GC) , 200 watt (four 6550), and 310 watt (six 8417 tubes).
Their standard speaker was CTS in 1970 and “Electo-Tech” (which looked like Eminence) in 1971. Options were JBL, Altec, and EV.
They came in padded naugahyde - red, silver, gray, blue, black, cascade, gold, green, and tan, plus a matte black tolex.
-Les S
(The following was copied from the internet.)
The Plush amps are similar in design to Fenders. Plush went 'Chapter 11' bankrupt in 1974. In the early 70's the owners of Plush parted ways and the remaining partner started rebadging Plush amps as Earth Amps. (A few years later he switched and started copying Peavey's solid state amp design and cabinet styling.)
Any decent tech should be able to work on a Plush or an Earth tube amp - they are very well built, very straight ahead - essentially Fender Twin Reverb/Dual Showman clones but cleaner and fuller sounding. The layout is different but electrically it is a Twin. You can buy a schematic at Schematic Heaven for $8.
Being a tube amp and 40 years old, a Plush or Earth will probably need a complete overhaul unless it has already been done. The Plush tube stuff had excellent transformers, but many times the passive parts were surplus. It's not unusual to see six parts of the same value, and to have them be all from different manufacturers. Some of the parts were Canal Street surplus, often old stuff. With some care, a good technician can make a pretty serious amp out of one. There were a few Plush’s that used 8417 and 6550 power tubes that were Plush’s own designs, but very few were made.
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