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'DOUBLE BARREL' GUITAR AMPLIFIER
Last year
Kustom launched a neat little guitar combo called the 12 Gauge
– emphasised with a novel 12 bore shotgun cartridge
case end picture stuck over the speaker coil. The 12 Gauge
was a blast, taking the concept of using a small-ish watts
amp to drive a big speaker, for a huge – but easily
controllable – sound that’s loads of fun to play.
In the case of the 12 Gauge, the combo was based around a
16 watt amp driving a 12” speaker, and one of the 12
Gauge’s party tricks was that it could be hooked up
to a bigger speaker cabinet like a 4 x 12” for a totally
raging sound.
If the 12 Gauge was, and is, a ton of fun then joining two
together will be double everything – including the fun
factor! And that’s exactly what Kustom offer with the
Double Barrel – a double barrel 12 Gauge – a solid
state amp knocking out a healthy 30 watts into two 12”
Kustom speakers. If you use your amp for more than just blasting
away – sorry, practising hard – at home, then
the Double Barrel is a much more practical and useable proposition
with a fair old output on it, meaning you could use it at
rehearsals, jam sessions and on smaller gigs (if your drummer
isn’t too loud..).
The Double Barrel is a two-channel amplifier (Lead and Clean)
which features a sturdy plywood baffle board. Nice simple
control layout too, single jack input then Lead channel’s
Gain and Volume rotaries, a small push Channel Select switch
to the Clean channel’s single volume rotary. Bass, Middle
and Treble EQ controls next, nice and straightforward, and
the final rotary is Effect Level – one small switch
moves this between Delay and Reverb, while another small switch
on the other side of the knob selects the onboard Chorus option.
Just along from this is the Double Barrel logo, then a chunky
blue Power On jewel light, and the Power toggle switch.
Round the back, under the rear panel, sit a further four jack
sockets; Speaker Out, Line Out, Headphones and CD/Tape Input.
The Double Barrel is a steal. Armed robbery, in fact!
Kustom’s Double Barrel; twice the fun – load –
aim – RIFF!
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