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Benson Amps Earhart Reverb Combo 1x12 Night Moves Wheat Grill

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Cully Craft cover available for this amp. Contact us if interested in adding to your order.

Benson Amps Earhart Reverb Combo 1x12 Guitar Amplifier in Night Moves finish with Wheat Grill.
The Earhart amp in convenient combo form with Tall Bird style reverb.

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The 15 watt Earhart is our side hug to the top boost style of amplifier.  Not being into the whole clone thing, we took part of the tone stack from the original 60s design, modified it, and dovetailed into the Monarch platform retaining some of the trickery that contribute to that platform’s touch sensitivity and harmonic characteristics.  The Earhart also utilizes EL84 power tubes biased into class A.  The result is a dream come true for those seeking a top boost type sound with better clarity, harmonics and a three dimensional feel.

The Earhart features Volume, Tone, and a Normal/Top Boost switch that adds to the versatility of the circuit.  Normal takes away the chime and make the Earhart behave as a well balanced very good sounding amp much like the Monarch design.  The top boost setting adds the chime on top.  In both modes the tone knob control controls the balance between bass and treble frequencies…utilizing that in tandem with the volume can control the “tilt” of the frequencies allowing for many different sounds from a two knob amplifier.  The midrange is very slightly scooped, but not as scooped as the original top boost style amps lending a satisfying sweetness to the sound.
Specs
2 x JJ EL84 power tubes, 2 x JJ 12AX7 preamp tubes, 1 x JJ 12DW7 reverb driver,  5AR4 rectifier(default)
13-18 watts (depending on rectifier)
Speaker outputs: 1 x 8 ohm, 1 x 16 ohm

Dimensions/Weight:
23.5”W 17.5”H 10”D 39 lbs

Build
Point to point construction on terminal strips - no circuit, eyelet or turret board
Mercury Magnetics transformers
Carbon Comp resistors
Jupiter capacitors
DC filments for low noise
Dovetailed pine speaker cabinets
Baltic birch head cabinets

Speaker
Benson Custom Ceramic - Well balanced, punchy and warm ceramic tone
Amperian VSOP Alnico 30 - Sounds pretty darn close to a vintage Jensen P12N
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