If Fender Tweed is your thing, you will adore the Romany Plus. There
is a
presence and response to this amp (and the other Cornell amps) that
makes you instantly understand why you have paid slightly more money on
it, over a mass-produced machine made amp.
There is a very good reason why you don't see many Cornell amps for sale
2nd hand... because they tend to be 'keepers'!
We at Rose Lane
Music simply LOVE this amp, rich and warm with its sweet singing
sustain, rich musical, harmonically complex drive, this amp is the real
deal. Its audio equivalent of rich honey and we can't reccomend it
highly enough!
Dennis Cornell used to build the original 'Dallas
Arbiter Fuzz Face' pedals in the 1960's.
He now builds a range of boutique amps and effects used by legendary
players such as Eric Clapton, Robin Trower, Hank Marvin and Wilko
Johnson.
With a pedigree like this you can be assured that this amp will blow you
away.
In the words of Denis Cornell;
The Cornell-Romany has a natural distortion sound that was popular in
America back at the beginning of guitar amplifier design.
Amplifier-makers at that time sold it to the Blues heroes whose
technique has since become the classic distortion sound. The output is
produced from a single valve, known as "single-ended class A output".
The lack of cross-over distortion when the valve clips, results in the
Cornell-Romany tone.
The Cornell-Romany and Cornell-Romany Plus amplifiers employ this
classic output design by not having gain or master volume controls, only
the output valve is involved in the distortion sound. The drawback with
this design is that the distortion sound is only achieved at maximum
output, and at 10 watts the sound is enough to penetrate walls and upset
neighbours.
To overcome this we have a unique power reduction
design
that reduces the output over 4 levels; the maximum of 10 watts is
reduced to around 0.05 watts, (you will be surprised at just how loud
this is), although there is little clean head room when wound up. Even
so, it will still drown out the television, and for this reason we have
added a further reduction to around 1/4 watt. These 4 settings will
allow you to play from a considerably distorted sound to a clean 10
watts, that is more than enough head room to accompany an accoustic
piano, for example.
10 watts, switches to 1.5 watts, 0.3 watts and 0.05 watts,
single-ended Class A. Class A. Valve Line-up: 2 x 12AX7; 1 x 12AT7; 1 x
6L6GT
High impedance input. 2 band EQ. EQ defeat. Power reducer.
Controls:
Volume; EQ cut; Bass; Treble; Output A, B, C. Reverb.
1 x 12 Jensen speaker CH1270.
Size & weight (approx.)
height, width, depth:
380mm x 540mm x 255mm
15" x 21" x 10"
16.5kg / 36.5lbs
