Product: Kay 001869
Price Paid: $12.50 (Canadian) used
Submitted
02/05/2000
at
07:20pm
by
Tony Alexander
Email: happybeetle<at>hotmail dot com
Features
:
5
This amp was made in '77 and in Korea.
This amp has held out so far. Then again, i've never used it live...
it will probably fall apart. I have a very abusive punk playing style and own several cheap guitars and two good ones.
It's got a volume knob, tone knob, and Tremelo knob.
The Tremelo is the only reason I bought the amp ($12.50 at a pawn shop) namely 'cuz it was f**ked up looking and had built in tremelo.
it has three input jacks and a head phone jack. It's a cheap ass solid state with chip-board housing.
I use this in my bed-room and in our bassists basement.
I don't know much else about it except for the fact it is a 6 watt
and has some fuzzy grill clothe on it.
I give it a five..It's a piece of sh*t
Sound Quality
:
3
I use this guitar mainly with my two "main" axes.
A Fender Jaguar re-issue and a '69 Fender Mustang.
The pickups in both are stock, for now. I'm to lazy and too
broke to modify them...
I also own and play:
3) Samick Strat copies. all stock except one which is fit with Duncan JB pick ups
1) Squire Stratocaster. Um...this is beaten up and fucked up...
1) Epiphone G-400. Completely stock.
I then put one of these guitars through:
Boss DS-1 (Or Ibanez Tube Screamer)
DOD ice box Stereo Chorus
Some home made Vibrato pedal my friend (guitar tech/junkie) built for me
Dunlop Crybaby Wah.. I dom't know it's proper use, I mainly use it for strange effects in "feedback" solos/Noise jams.
DOD FX-75 Flanger, same as Wah, only used more often
The amp is a real noisy pile of crap but works for jamming around home. Loud enuf to "get the feel" but low enuf so i don't get kicked
out of my apartment. (I almost did once playing my marshall 4x12 but thats another story)
The ONLY way to get distortion on this amp is to crank it right up.
And it STILL sucks and is very fuzzy, and lo-fi.
Feedback off of it sucks and is pretty much just one type of sound.
Our Major influences are:
Sonic Youth
Nirvana
Shadow cloud (Local band)
Skyhole (my big brothers old band)
So, you can pretty much see our playing style and my desire for feed back.
Reliability
:
2
I would not depend on this amp for a show, used it recording once,
good tone, but i wouldn't trust it for a gig.
Yeah, the amp is pretty broken down. neglect and age i guess.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Kay, are they even around anymore?
i'd NEVER heard of them 'till i bought the amp.
Overall Rating
:
1
If this was stolen would i replace it? hell no.
i've been playing since I was 12 (i'm now 17)
Other gear i own (that I havn't mentioned) are:
Marshall JCM 900 head and 4x12 cab
Peavey studio pro 60 (a 50 watt amp. my first amp)
Guild acoustic
Fender Twin (our singer/guitarist plays a reverb twin '65)
Marshall...i don;t know the technical term but "play-back amp"
and i also own a Boss Phaser, older brother sorta bummed it off
me, two years ago!! I really want it back, insane for "feedback solos"
I play fender califonia cables and Rap-co cables and i THINK i have
a whirlwind cable, somewhere.....
