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Garnet Herzog - Good or Bad Idea?
So, an acquaintance of mine wants me to build him a Garnet Herzog. It seems to be a simple enough project, but I am wondering how safe it is. From looking at these schematics, it looks to be similar to a Champ, with a resistor instead of a speaker:
It is kind of odd that the first schematic is missing the power supply filters, but no big deal.
Is something like this likely to have the output transformer go bad as a matter of course? I have always heard that a purely resistive load is bad for a tube amp.
Bill Brasky
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Messages 1,421 Herzogs sound like poop and they're too big. Just buy a used Tube Driver pedal, sounds the same.tedwoods
Member
Messages 680. or if you have the funds and a little patience you can try a Stephenson Stage Hog which is in essence a complete mini amp that's designed to run in front of your amp and sounds really good to boot.
LustandFury
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Messages 184A Herzog definitely doesn't sound like poop or a Tube Driver. I have heard so so reviews of some of the reissue models but they used a different layout then the original. Mine sounds amazing from nice crunch to super-saturated fuzz. And it cleans up beautifully by rolling back on the guitars volume. There are a few listed on eBay right now. I've heard the new reissues are very good as well. And they'll cost a less then the Stage Hog at $799!
You may have some luck posting on the Garnet Yahoo message board:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/garnet-amps/
epluribus
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Messages 9,169Why not just run a Champ or similar into a Weber Mass and line-out to the amp? Then ya get another amp out of the deal too.
Chrome Dinette
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Messages 14,366Basically, I have a friend who wants one. I have the spare xfmr's and a chassis lying around, so I can throw it together for cheap. I would rather build a small amp instead, and I just might, anyway.
I could put a switch in that leaves the amp normal, or selects the resistor on the output, but I was just wondering how safe it is to strap a power resistor acrosss the secondary of the opt xfmr in lieu of a speaker. I have always heard this is bad for the tranny, but the Herzog clearly does it.
tremolux
Member
Messages 136The fixed resistor could be heat-sinked and over rated on the watts to help stability. Which would be an improvement on the orig design!
Most Herzogs are still going strong. Possibly Garnets response to the common practice of front ending a Leslie with a Champ Amp for a B-3 in the 60s. but for guitar players of course, tho its never credited as such (might take some of the mojo away from Randy Bachmans/Gar Grilles story of building the Herzog?)
They can drive a speaker at Champ volume with a switching jack that bypasses the resistor. Reggie Young used one for a fuzz on a lot of Nashville sessions.
Garnet may have also had one amp that had an OD similiar to the Herzog OD built in?
epluribus
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Messages 9,169. Possibly Garnets response to the common practice of front ending a Leslie with a Champ Amp for a B-3 in the 60s.
No kiddin'? Musta been sleepin' in class the day they talked about that, what a cool idea, and a Leslie to boot. Wow. now that might be a kit worth building.
bolero
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Messages 494JJ Cale has a herzog on one of his tunes. cocaine
COCAINE - Reggie Young played the hot licks using an early 60's limited edition Fender Telecaster which has a special binding. His set up was as follows, Fender Volume Pedal, Garnett Pre-Amp. (Herzog) and a Fender Deluxe Amplifier with an Altec Speaker. I played the background guitar riff on my modified Harmony direct into an Auditronics mixing console. I overdubbed the riff three times, single string at a time. When I got through I found you could play the riff by barring a chord on the second, third and fourth strings alternating with your ring finger on the fifth fret and sliding to your first finger on the third fret. I played a similar single string riff on a Silvertone bass direct into the board.
soulsonic
Vendor Messages 1,323 I have always heard that a purely resistive load is bad for a tube amp.NOT TRUE.
A pure resistive load is the BEST thing for a tube amp! A pure resistive load means a perfect constant load for the output tube. Amps LOVE that. And with the small amount of power being dissipated in something like an Herzog, you can put a simple 8 ohm non-inductive 20 watt ceramic power resistor (the one Radio Shack sells!) in there and it will be perfectly happy forever. If the output transformer ever goes bad, it wouldn't be because of that resistor - no way.
Maybe some people have a bad impression of the idea of a resistive load because of crap resistive attenuators, but just because a Power Soak is a bad attenuator and it happens to use resistors doesn't mean that resistors are bad for amps. The Power Soak is a bad attenuator because it doesn't give the amp a good constant impedance. When an attenuator of any type starts messing up the impedance the amp sees, THAT's when you start blowing OTs. Almost every single attenuator on the market has resistors in it, even those that have "reactive" loads still use resistors in the circuit.
So what I'm saying is. sure, go ahead and build that Herzog for your friend. It sounds like a fun project. I might do one too! Maybe there's some cool mods we could come up with to get some different tones from it.
NOT TRUE.
A pure resistive load is the BEST thing for a tube amp! A pure resistive load means a perfect constant load for the output tube. Amps LOVE that. And with the small amount of power being dissipated in something like an Herzog, you can put a simple 8 ohm non-inductive 20 watt ceramic power resistor (the one Radio Shack sells!) in there and it will be perfectly happy forever. If the output transformer ever goes bad, it wouldn't be because of that resistor - no way.
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