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Don LaCourse Sr.

Now to be fair, I grade my amp performance at the lower power ranges. We seldom play a big room without miking the amps, so it's reduced on stage to monitor levels. You might run into some things at higher power that I never see because of my usage. But for my use on stage, smaller rooms, and to mike up with an old 57, it's a hard amp to beat. You should have great luck with it for your C6th swing work, all clean / no mud.

The High Voltage Thing to my best knowledge, was the design, when the amps were being built in Texas by Evans. The LV or Low Voltage Models came about when the Operation was bought out and Moved to North Carolina.

Bill tells me that He has tried the new Models at St Louis and the Other Shows, along with Peavy and they all Break up with the wide range of Frequencies he has on the U14 guitar. He uses two HV models each sitting on an aditional 15" extension speaker cabinet. Uses the standard Evans/eminence speakers. He gets the best tone I have ever heard on a PSG. A lot of the tone thing is in his hands and technique, But you have to use equipment that is capable of doing the job.

BTW
The first Evans amp I ever worked on was a all tube amp built on a wooden chassis, The holes for the tube sockets looked like they were carved out with a knife. it was the ugliest amp I ever saw, but had the best tone of any amp, I had heard up to that date.(sometime around 1973). I worked at a company Named Sound 88 for a few years diuring the 70's, while trying to hang on picking in Nashville and worked on many amps. The Evans had the Poorest workmanship of anything that passed through the shop, but they didn't pass through the shop very often. I got my first experience with the Evan Solid State amp on John Hughey's amp had to replace the output transistors and some emitter resistors. After that John insisted that If I changed jobs, I had to let him Know where I would be working. The cause of John's amp Blowing up? Somebody had used wood Screws to mount the output transistors to the sockets and the amp apparently got bumped or jarred and one of the oversized wood screws contacted the heat sink or chassis and shorted. Twenty six years Later I fixed an identical one for Kenny Dail and found the same identical cause. My opinion is that they were using these screws in the assembly of these amps at the factory. If you open up an evans and look at the wiring and printed wire boards, They look sort of sloppy and unprofessional, but I still haven't found anything that sounds any better.
Kenny Dail has one of the Smaller ones JE-200(in Mint Condition) with a 200 watt output and High Voltage Circuitry with a 15" speaker. I've told him that Sooner or Later I'm going to steal that amp. Its not a question of "if", just when.

I saw a recent post that someone made on Buy and Sell that said he had NEW HV Models. I suspect that Evans has gone back to the original design. Hope so anyway, because I want to buy a couple of the Je-200 HV Models this year.

Hey it worked

BTW
I emailed this whole thread to Bill and maybe we can get some comments from the old fart. He does not have any endorsement deal with Evans and will not BS and thats no BS.

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Sj
"The Carolina Wildman"

[This message was edited by Sleepy John on 28 January 2000 at 03:30 AM.]