Garnet G15T Gnome

1976 Garnet Gnome all stock with 6V6 and two 12ax7's. Two input single channel with tremolo. I use this as my practice amp. I also replaced the 6v6 to a 6l6 to give it a little more headroom. Cranked on 10 with the 6l6 you get a decent tube distortion, but with more "push" then the 6v6.

Sounds like a small tube amp should. Clean at low volume, slightly distorted at high volume. Very similar to Fendor Champ or Princetons.

I changed a bia resistor to accomodate the 6l6 tube.

I've been playing 26 years and this is a nice little amp. If lost or stolen I would not repalce it. I also have a Marshall 5010 combo and would use that as my practice amp.

A pint sized, point-to-point wired tube amp from the early 70's, made in in the frozen waste of Canada. Two inputs (normal & bright - they sound almost identical) a volume control, treble & bass controls, and tremolo speed & depth controls.
Powered by a single 6V6, with a pair of 12AX7s in the preamp.
Oddly enough, for a class-A amp, it uses a solid-state rectifier, which makes it much tighter than the similar Fender Vibro-Champ.
Came with a ratty little 8" speaker, so I replaced it with a 10" since there was room in the cabinet for a larger speaker.
Bare bones, minimal features. The low rating shouldn't be taken as a negative...a lack of bells 7 whistles is a good thing in amp design.

This amp sounds amazing with any guitar...I use it primarily with a '66 Gretsch Tennessean, but I've played my Danelectro, my '56 Harmony H-62 and my '65 Fender Jaguar through it with equally satisfying results.
Like all class-A amps, it hums a little bit, but not enough to annoy.
This amp basically has one sound...and it's not loud enough to get any useable clean tones out of it.
However, with everything turned halfway up, this amp just screams.
The overdriven sound is sweet and musical, somewhere between blackface Champ and Supro Trojan territory...throaty but tight.
The tremolo is not very Fender-like, closer to a Supro tremolo.
This amp sounds amazing with my '63 Fender outboard reverb tank...it's not a loud amp, but it really sounds big.

I found this amp in the garbage last summer. That's right, it was inexplicably lying in a pile of garbage, next to the empty box from a Line 6!
It needed about $4 worth of parts. It's been doing duty as my rehearsal amp ever since, without any problems whatsoever.

My other amp is a '62 Fender brownface Super...this little thing doesn't compare, nor does it try to.
It's an excellent studio or rehearsal amp, and the sounds it produces are beyond reproach..it just isn't loud enough for anything but tiny hole-in-the-wall clubs.
Still, considering it was found in the trash and didn't cost me a cent, I've got to give it a high rating on the basis of the excellent cranked tone it delivers.

Tremolo, to inputs(normal, bright), TUBE!!

Sounds like a good little tube amp!

It's from the late 70's, and it has not broken down. At least not when I have had it. Robust.

Never dealt with them. But "they" have a website!

If you want to check out their website:

http://www.garnetamps.com/

it must be 70's but i don't no the year 1-6V6GT 2-12ax7 1-silver cylinder? Has vol,treble,Base, and tremelo speed and depth,speaker extension jack a 8" or 10" speaker it was pretty loud it's the size of a blues JR BTO whatever this amp sounds great

sounds better than the blues JR tweed i had great clean and even better when its starts breaking up no reverb but i don't care it sounds great for blues and rock i am playing a 335 a strat also sounded deadly. I would take this over a blues jr anytime

i just picked it up it is mint no blemishes nothing i pluged it in let it rip for about a half an hour and something went know i can hear it but it is at a realy low level must of blown something wow it sounded great while it lasted i will has to get a local Tech to check it out!!!!!!

They are long gone made in winipeg Canada but have a good rep with people that know there stuff.It sounds like a fender Princeton or amps of that nature.

Killer amp i hope it wont be much to fix better than my blues jr this little amp can't be beat for sound i really dig it for blues or Rock and it just loveds the pedals you can even get some modern sounds out of it.If anybody out there can give me some info on it (how many watts) it would be great!!!!!!!!!!!