Product: Selmer Corvette 112 Combo
Price Paid: gift
Submitted
11/11/2005
at
03:58am
by
Ewan
Features
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3
I got this little amp about five years ago off my mothers mate. Sucker! I had no idea they were quite rare till 2 months ago.Has 2 channels, 2 volume knobs and 1 tone knob(which is also the on/off switch) No reverb circut, like some other corvettes iv read about. Think its 15 watt(all tube). Bedroom use but think it could deal with a small venue if it was well miked up.
Sound Quality
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7
Well the tubes are in really bad condition so i can only speculate on how it should sound.Would appreciate any info on what the tubes are, there are 3 - 1 EC833 but im not sure what the other 2 are. seems to have the really deep sound iv heard others talk about.Sounds nice clean with a (cheap) strat but you can coak quite a nice blusey distortion from it with a humbucker. Most suitable as a blues playing amp but sounds ok with effects too, unsuitable for high gain rock though and certainly not metal. To be honest, a dirty sounding little bugger of an amp, like travelling back to 1965 !
Reliability
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5
Well the amps about to blow up any day now but thats due to lack of service. The circitry is pretty flimsy and i doubt if its ever gigged. Has a tendancy to badly overheat but the blown tubes might have something to do with that!
Customer Support
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1
Selmer no longer make amplifiers. Hell, its taken me 2 months to find this site! Need i say any more?
Overall Rating
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7
Love the fact iv got such a cool, rare amp which seems to be rapidly increasing in value.