The Fender Hot Rod DeVille features three switchable channels – normal, drive, and more drive. The channels share the EQ stacks. The 212 version comes with a pair of 12-inch Eminence speakers.
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Introduced in 1996, the Hot Rod Deluxe updates the Fender Blues Deluxe amp, adding switchable gain levels to the amp’s single channel. This is a tube amp except for the rectifier and and reverb driver and recovery, which are solid state.
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Fender introduced the Vibrolux Reverb Amp in 1964 as part of a rework of their amplifier line, in response to the ever growing demand for volume. The Vibrolux Reverb featured 30 watts into two ten inch speakers, and was plenty loud for many applications.
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Yngvie Malmsteen exploded onto the music scene in his own band, Rising Force, in 1984. Known for extreme speed and technique, he combines neo-classical and rock values. As part of his growth, he’s used guitars with heavily scalloped fingerboards.
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Rickenbacker has a unique position in guitar history, having produced some of the very earliest true electric instruments – specifically, the ‘frying pan’ steel guitars of 1931. Rickenbacker instruments are quite distinctive visually and tonally; the chime of the Riki 12 on so many hit pop records and the bite of the Riki Bass are immediately recognisable.
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The Gibson CS-359 and its slightly less decorated relative, the CS-356, are made on the general design of the ES-335 models but are scaled down in body size (though not in scale length).
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