Product: Premier RT-100
Price Paid: Canadian pesos $350 used
Submitted
12/06/1998
at
02:56pm
by
Zak Treblemaker
Email: zak<dot>treble at wid<dot>ca
Features
:
10
This amp has a single 12" speaker and a top-mounted (like a tweed Fender) control panel. Volume and tone controls for both channels and reverb and tremolo controls for the 1st channel. The reverb controls are reverb duration and reverb volume (like outboard Premier reverbs) and the tremolo has the usual speed/intensity knobs. The amp is covered in fake-woodgrain wallpaper type vinyl. It's an all-tube, military-grade hand-wired circuit circa 1962 or so, and there's no printed circuit boards in sight. It's power amp tubes are two 6V6s, so the output is about 25 watts. Not a whole lot of features, but a whole lot of great sounds without too many knobs to fiddle with.
Sound Quality
:
10
I've never tried this amp with anything but single-coils, but every guitar I've tried (from my '65 Jaguar to my friend's no-name Korean Stratoid) it with makes great sounds. The amp isn't noisy unless you crank the reverb most of the way up, and it breaks up in a very smooth and musical way if you get the volume past 6. Doesn't sound like any other amp I've heard except a tweed Pro (with a 15" speaker) I once tried. Very good for blues (I mean real blues, not SRV or Clapton),garage, rockabilly, or Link Wray!
Reliability
:
10
Always works and never complains. Not quite loud enough for gigging purposes (I like LOUD) but it makes an awesome studio amp. Don't need a backup.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
From a company that went out of business? Forget it.
Overall Rating
:
10
This is a great sounding low-power amp. I'd say it kicks the crap out of a blackface Deluxe Reverb any day. The name might be obscure, but don't let it fool ya, this one really delivers. I'd buy another one if I could, but I've never seen another one.
