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John Fogerty's Amp [message #16833]

Tue, 27 March 2012 16:05

toopicky
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Registered: September 2011

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Just found a video that shows his Kustom amp pretty well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8PyvqsuYlU&feature=relat ed

Was wondering, what the purpose of two heads would be. (Yeah, I know, "Two heads are better than one". Very Happy

Seriously, as far as I could tell, he was only pluged into one of them. Didn't look like the other was even on. So why two heads, other than it looks really cool. Back up maybe?

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Re: John Fogerty's Amp [message #16834 is a reply to message #16833]

Tue, 27 March 2012 19:14

sunnhead
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Registered: June 2010
Location: Minnesota

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he has two Kustom 200A-4 heads, one he used as back up and the other was his main head. Cool amp, hard to come by these days.

-Steve

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Re: John Fogerty's Amp [message #16835 is a reply to message #16834]

Tue, 27 March 2012 20:10

pleat
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Registered: June 2004
Location: Belding, Mi

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I have an article from Dec. 69 Guitar Player Mag. that John Fogerty was asked: Do you hook your amps in series or parallel? John's answer is, The K200 and the K400 are hooked in series with a simple bridge connection from (existing) output of the 200 to the input of the 400. Obviously, this is only used for concerts.
So at some point John was using both the K200 and a K400 head. I'd bet he popped a lot of pre-amps if it was a direct signal from the output of the 200 into the K400.
pleat

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Re: John Fogerty's Amp [message #16836 is a reply to message #16834]

Tue, 27 March 2012 23:29

toopicky
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sunnhead wrote on Tue, 27 March 2012 18:14

Cool amp, hard to come by these days.

-Steve

I feel fortunate to have picked one up for free, just for taking it away. The person that had it, didn't have the cab and didn't know if it even worked, so I took it home with me and hooked up an old speaker I had laying around and it seems to work.

I've decided to build a cab for it and just about rounded up all the parts I need to make a faux Kustom cab. The only thing I won't be doing is the tuck & roll just because I don't have the equipment to do it and I'm a terrible seamstress anyway. To cost prohibitive to have it done.

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Re: John Fogerty's Amp [message #16838 is a reply to message #16833]

Wed, 28 March 2012 04:42

sunnhead
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Location: Minnesota

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yeah you are lucky! That is kinda weird how John took the preamp out and pumped it into the 400, true he prolly busted up the 400's preamp a few times. It wouldn't be too bad of an idea if he had the 400 modified to bypass the 400's preamp and feed right into the power amp. That would be boss!

-Steve

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Re: John Fogerty's Amp [message #16842 is a reply to message #16833]

Wed, 28 March 2012 07:05

stevem
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Registered: June 2004
Location: NY

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One would hope that he took the record out signal from the RCA jack and fed it to the poor K400.

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