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Winfield Typhoon-TDPRI prize--review

goyo4400
November 30th, 2009, 05:18 PM
I won it last week in the giveaway-yeah me! First I should say that I am strictly a hobbyist, not a gigging player, so take my opinion for what it is worth. I do own a SFTR, a Peavy Studio Pro 40, and a Silvertone converted phonograph ( 2 6V6's). My ideal tone is "clean with a touch of hair". The first day I plugged it right in to my normal set up of CS3 compressor, Zoom 505 II (with reverb and 1 click of tremolo dialed in) and my AD-9 delay. That was plenty loud and crunchy. The next day I took the compressor completely out and just maxed the volume on the Zoom. I got all the volume I could handle in my garage (where I always play) with some added smoothness. I had first used my 2 16 ohm 10” Eminence speakers—later I changed to my single 12” Eminence Swamp Thang, 8 ohm, in a closed, ported cabinet my Dad built—that adds some more volume and thunder to the crunchy lows. The dynamic range from the piercing highs to the low end rumble is a new and wondrous thing for me. Of course all of my experimentation so far has been with my Tele clone evilbay partscaster—my baby, my one true love.

Winnie is my new best friend--since winning we have had several email exchanges and he is very anxious to please. A good guy to do business with. Thanks to him for a great product and for supporting our beloved forum.

BritishBluesBoy
November 30th, 2009, 05:20 PM
Awesome!! Congratulations on your win!!!

mistermullens
November 30th, 2009, 05:48 PM
Hmmm, Fort Valley, huh? Not too far from me. I guess I'll have to stop by and put that little monster through her paces! J/K. Congrats on the amp. Totally jealous.

jrich99
November 30th, 2009, 06:03 PM
You got MY amp! I want it back!

zook
November 30th, 2009, 09:44 PM
You got MY amp! I want it back!

I'm moving back to AZ in mid January, I can build you one and you can come and pick it up :smile:

Winnie

rangercaster
November 30th, 2009, 09:54 PM
congratulations !!! have you tried it without any effects ???

goyo4400
December 1st, 2009, 12:24 PM
No I haven't. Since I'm kinda addicted to reverb and delay (at least for countrybilly stuff) it would probably be a short lived academic excercise--but now that you've peaked my curiosity I'll try it this weekend just to see.

goyo4400
December 1st, 2009, 12:27 PM
....and Mr Mullens you are more than welcome to drop in and show me some licks on the Typhoon.

xjazzy
December 1st, 2009, 07:30 PM
goyo, congrats on the amp.
please, remove that Zoom 505 from the front of the amp.
You'll thank me later :P