Don't just nail vintage tone... CONTROL it. Maven Peal's patented Sag and Wattage control knobs give you the power to dial-in traditionally ear-blistering tone at volumes as low as one watt, up to 100 (depending on your model).
If you're researching guitar amps, you know there are literally hundreds to choose from. Many allow you to lower the wattage, but no other allows you to control power supply sag. Maven Peal's Sag knob gives you a virtual range of recitifiers to select, from 0% to 25% sag. All other amplifiers give you one sag setting (except of course, dual and triple rectifiers which give you two or three).
You can actually adjust headroom. You can adjust how much your strings "bloom" or "attack." You can a/b two different power tube flavors with the flip of a switch. You can bag your power conditioner. You can record without noise gates. You can "blast" without blasting. And you can do a whole lot more that you can't do with any other guitar amplifier ...
Orang Guitar Amps: To most in London, the second of September 1968 was nothing more than a blustery day. Little did they know that, in a dingy basement shop in Old Compton Street, the first legendary British guitar amplifier was being created!
Orange was founded by Mr. Clifford Cooper, who remains at the helm to this day. A quiet and reserved man, and certainly not one for the megastar lifestyle, Cooper is probably the last man you would expect to be behind such a highly-acclaimed musical company. With just £300 borrowed from his father and armed with the enthusiasm of a young man of the time, Cooper had set up the shop selling a variety of musical instruments.
Because of his age and low-profile establishment, the majority of the large manufacturers of the time were more than a little reluctant to accept Cooper as a dealer. So, if he couldn't buy them in, the most logical thing was to build them in-house. With a background in electrical engineering himself, he engaged a team of the best design engineers around who set about creating all-valve amplifiers just when the fine and well-established valve technology was being overtaken by transistor-based contraptions. This new wave of amplifiers were cheaper to produce, but could never capture the magical warmth and colour of the old valve setups.
Cooper had acquired a quantity of an orange-coloured vinyl, the material used to cover the wooden shell of amplifiers and cabinets, and it wasn't long before the shop was proudly displaying the very first amplifiers to carry the now famous livery. With that, Orange Amplification was born.
All rise
The thing was, these new peculiar-looking boxes sounded rather good, and the news of them was soon spreading like proverbial wildfire. So much so, in fact, that Orange was almost an overnight success. Before long, Orange was standard backline equipment for stages, studios and rehearsal rooms worldwide.
Shortly after this, the big acts of the time started snapping up the products for use as part of their usual set up. Fleetwood Mac were among the first famous Orange users in the UK, followed by Stevie Wonder in the States ...
At Damage Control we believe in leveraging evolutionary and revolutionary designs, branding products with emotive style, using premium quality components, quality manufacturing, and truly professional grade features.
We are dedicated to bringing musicians the absolute best with analog, digital, and hybrid analog/digital design applications. Our understanding and appreciation of the strengths of these technologies allows us to expertly employ the premium sonic characteristics of vacuum tubes and the expansive feature advantages of DSP.
Skydstrup: custom built audio and switching systems.
Does the Custom Shop design and build complete systems including all cable & wiring work?
The answer is Yes!
With the culmination of over 20 years experience in both designing and building complete rack and audio systems, you can relax knowing that your system will be designed and constructed to provide you with the best sounding and most reliable system money can buy.
Complete Rack or Audio Systems include:
- Design consultation & evaluation
- Custom designed & constructed by Steen Skrydstrup
- No tonal loss throughout your entire system
- No ground noise, no hum, and maximum protection against airborne interference
- All cabling hand made with special technique for optimal noise protection
- Road worthy construction that can withstand the rigorousness of world touring
- Tech support
Here at our in-house Custom Shop we can design and build just about anything you can dream up.
Perhaps you have some old stomp boxes that sounds cool but too flimsy to withstand the rigorousness of live touring?
Or maybe you would like a custom made interface to connect your wah, volume pedal, whammy and midi controller?
Whatever it may be, we can design and build it.
Everything from custom switchers, power supplies, interfaces to one-of-a-kind unique products ...