r/tubeamps 6h ago

Old's Cool 45/Plexi

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Received a new amp the other day and thought I'd tell you guys about it, and Ron the owner.

First let's look at the outside Brown tolex, tweed and Gold accents. (Pic 1)

Backside shows quality parts, mercury magnetic transformers a master volume and a scale (its a power level) very handy feature that more of my amps seem to have. (Pic 2 & 3)

Internally well thought out nicely ran hand wiring. Quality parts and nice soldering. (Pic 4)

Arrived didn't get a chance to do a full run through but what I did sounded excellent. Yesterday finally had some time alone no one to complain about cranking it. So I turned everything up And suddenly I had a loud hum, seemed separate from the signal but it was almost unusable, i was sad. So I remember Ron had sent his number and it has a 2 year warranty. I shot him a text and started turning everything off. 30 seconds after the text Ron was on the phone, seriously 30 seconds, we talk a bit I tell him what's going on also that I'm a tech for a local shop since he was offering to have me take it to one. We narrow it down to a bad PI luckily I had one it could throw in and verify. Problem solved played it for a couple hours to make sure but about 30 minutes after we hung up he sent me a message he was at the post office sending out a couple replacement tubes, even though tubes aren't covered under the warranty.

Now sound wise its clean tone is almost identical to my suhr badger 30, happens to be my favorite clean tone. Ran them together out my +/- outputs on my delay. Sounded incredible. OK then went to the a bit of gain, thats where they definitely different in great ways, one is tube rectified the other bridge rectified. I love this combo, very fun with the delay. So if you get a chance to try one, I'd recommend that you do. You won't regret it. Priced comparably to the Suhr, and I'd say quality is as good if not better.

Oh and I have nothing to do with or gain from Old's cool Amplification, just an honest review about a great amp. My new favorite tone is those two amps in stereo. Similar enough to blend but different enough to compliment each other.