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AL WINN unregistered Posts: 646 |
posted 20 March 2000 12:27 PM
CAN ANYONE TELL ME ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE SHO-BUD AMP I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO REALLY BUILT THEM AND AT ABOUT WHAT TIME. ALSO THE XMAS TREE HISTORY. |
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Johnny Cox Member Posts: 935 |
posted 20 March 2000 01:06 PM
Al, I will try. The first Sho-Bud amps to the best of my knowledge were built in the early to mid 60s by Jim Evans who continued to build them until he started his own company in the late 60s. They were called Compactra 100, and were tube amps about 50 watts with great tone but were huge and heavey. The next generation Sho-Buds were built by Kennith Cain in the early to mid 70s, these were the most popular. The single channel and the Xmas tree. These amps had the same power section, about 100 watts, but the pre-amp was a little different. The single had Vol, treble, mid, bass and reverb controls. The Xmas tree had two channels with reverb and tremelo but no mid range control. There was also a couple prototype amps made that had all the controls in a remote box that clamped to the legs of a steel guitar. These amps sounded good but were not dependable. The next generation of amps were the Studio-Stage 500, I think they were 200 watts. They were built by a company in Nashville called Bonitron to compete with the (new at the time) Peavey Session 400. They were never mass produced and I don't think ever caught on very well. These were built in mid to late 70s. I own two single channels and a Compactra 100. Robbie Turner has one of each amp Sho-Bud built. ------------------ |
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AL WINN unregistered Posts: 935 |
posted 20 March 2000 01:18 PM
THANKS FOR THE INFO ON THE SHO-BUD AMPS I THINK I HEARD YOU ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO ON THE GRAND OLD,. WELL YOU KNOW YOU SOUNDED GREAT BUT I WAS ALSO SAD ABOUT YOUR POST ON MAKING ANY REAL MONEY ON STEEL FULL TIME I GUESS LIFE IS NOT FAIR, I WOULD LIKE TO BUY YOUR NEW CD HOW DO I GET IT? |
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Jerry Roller Member Posts: 3906 |
posted 20 March 2000 03:41 PM
I have a ShoBud with D15 printed on the control panel and all the controls are vertical sliders. It has an 8 ohm James B Lansing F30 15 inch speaker. It was built by Baldwin Piano and Organ Co in Cincinatti. Model 7838. Does anyone know anything about these amps? It shows to be 75 watts but is quite large and heavy. I am curious about it. Thanks, Jerry [This message was edited by Jerry Roller on 20 March 2000 at 03:43 PM.] [This message was edited by Jerry Roller on 20 March 2000 at 03:44 PM.] |
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Johnny Cox Member Posts: 935 |
posted 20 March 2000 10:40 PM
Jerry, thanks for reminding me. Those amps were called the slide pot amps. They were just before the Studio Stage 500. They were built at Music City Manufacturing in the mid 70s I think. They were distributed by Baldwin. There was a single channel and a dual channel and also a bass amp. They too were not very popular among the pros. ------------------ |
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