any love for ben fargen amps?

oscar100 · April 7th, 2008, 06:13 AM

got a special custom fargen and it is sooooo teh business!!

GatorBait · April 7th, 2008, 10:29 AM

Yes! Ben's a great guy and makes an excellent amp. I have an older Fargen Epic (EL34, 2x10, green tolex w/cream faceplate). Excellent Brit/Vox sounding amp.

Geoff738 · April 7th, 2008, 11:13 AM

Can anybody comment about his mini-Plexi or whatever it's called?

Cheers,
Geoff

marc sosnoff · April 7th, 2008, 12:41 PM

i have had three of bens amps he made his first jazz amp for me
and them came a blackbird and a bordeau

all three were truely wonderful amps

my fargens were made way before he got a name of himself
the amps he is turning out these days look very interesting and i am sure they are

marc

Poppatwang · April 7th, 2008, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marc sosnoff

i have had three of bens amps he made his first jazz amp for me
and them came a blackbird and a bordeau

all three were truely wonderful amps

my fargens were made way before he got a name of himself
the amps he is turning out these days look very interesting and i am sure they are

marc

So now when you bring one home, does someone say "Another Fargen amp!"?

scooteraz · April 7th, 2008, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Geoff738

Can anybody comment about his mini-Plexi or whatever it's called?

Cheers,
Geoff

I have an early version. It is pretty much what is claimed, a low power Plexi. Love mine. Have used for small gigs. Sounds particarly great with my Strats, but decent with most of my teles (oddly never sounds right with my American Deluxe with the Scn pickups though...never figured out why). Anyway, I run mind though an Avatar 2x12 with a Vintage 30 and a G12H30 combination in an open back cabinet. I know that Marshalls are supposed to sound better with a sealed cab, but this still sounds great.

This amp has also sounded great (but not quite as good) through a cheap second hand marshall 1x12 open back cab that I got years ago.

Cool little amp. Oh, and by the way, Ben was great to talk to when I thought I had a problem with the amp a few years back. Good feel for customers.

oscar100 · April 8th, 2008, 01:34 PM

really fancied one of those

had some other makers el34 amps and not been blown away at all

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