Dynacord gs 824

The amp was approximately made in 1982. It is a valve ( transistor ) amp with low and high gain inputs. It??s rated power is 2x60 Watts RMS through two Celestion 80 Super Leads. The Clean Power is overwhelming. Makes your walls rattle ( I could compare this against a Peavey Deuce VT. )It has a lot of features. Two channels, one clean, one overdriven. They share the same EQ, but Overdrive-Channel always sounds acceptable, I suppose this is due to refined PreEQ. It has two parametric EQ??s, q predefined, they range from 200 Hz to 6 kHz, then Bass and Treble shelving type. You can get a decent clean sound out of any guitar with this. The Overdrive channel is special, because it uses a technique to overdrive the power amps. There is a fix compressor built in. It has reverb, a stereo chorus, effects loop and a footswitch, where you can select channels, swith chorus and reverb on and off. The footswith has a power supply for pedals ( I read somewhere you can use 5 at once, not sure about that ). The inputs are also on the footswitch and the effects loop! The whole amp is very heavy ( well over 40 kg ) and built into a flitecase.

I play a standard strat and an Epiphone ET 270. The amp is very quiet. The clean sound is versatile, though I didn??t manage yet to make it sound like a Fender. But it always sounds clean, strong and not too harsh, because it has the Celestions and because it has an adjustable pre Gain, which I feel is very important to find that sweet spot, where things begin to compress, so the attack doesn??t hurt. Although it??s solid state, it has that sweet spot, which I miss on a Yamaha G 100 and others without master volume. You can??t get that inbetween sound a la Rolling Stones or Pete Townshand. It ??s either clean or distorted. I don??t give much about the chorus, I think it??s pretty ok, but takes away some power, makes the sound narrower and overplays the natural feel of your playing. A Guitarist that has tone should not always use a chorus to try to fake something that??s just not there. Reverb is pretty ok too, doesn??t sound like taht Fender thing, but I don??t use too much of that stuff anyway. I don??t really know how it breaks up on the clean channel, because it really gets that loud. I read on the Marshall site that stereo power amps that are connectes to a seperate speaker like here re more effective than one power amp through two speakers. I can only confirm this. I cannot think of any situation where the power of this amp would not be enough ( clean ).
The distortion channel is not very flexible, because it has that aforementioned pre EQ thing and I think it compresses a bit too much. I like the Peavey Deuce better here. But you can get it easy to feedback nicely like it should and the sound is always smooth and classic overdrive. And when you really need the authentic in-between-sounds use a good pedal. And in case you??re a metal head...you know.

The amp has been very reliable up to now. The footswith has a problem with chorus on/off but it should be very easy to fix. We have often misused it as an bass amp. That was a bit stressing for the celestions, but even there it could fill a room. Really powerful an reliable.

Never had to deal with them, but I only heard the best.

I play for 26+ years and I also use a Peavey Deuce VT. The Deuce has a very problematic sound, very thick not really sparkling. Almost no guitar off the shelf sounds good through this amp. Distorted it??s another story. I was always searching for something clean and versatile. I hate that ist??s so heavy, but I think this thing is made to put out the power that it states and you simply cannot cheat physicals laws.