Note from the Builder
Thank you for choosing Tone King’s “Gremlin” guitar amplifier. The Gremlin is a new
design, and a bit different than its predecessors in the Tone King line.
The Gremlin was developed to deliver the big, bold sounds of larger vintage amps, but
in a smaller, more manageable package - weed champs, Supros, old field coil Gibson
amps, etc. The goal with this design was to maintain some of the loose, raw sound of
smaller amps, but without the raspiness. We also wanted to deliver the strong lows and
strident highs of a larger format amplifier.
There were two key factors to achieving this. First, the smaller port cabinet design,
coupled with a specially designed Celestion speaker deliver a larger sonic footprint than
the cabinet size would imply.
Next, we employed a single-ended output stage loaded stock with a KT66 output tube.
It’s cathode biased. Which means you can also substitute it successfully for a 6L6
(though that’s not the stock sound)
At 8W, the Gremlin was still too loud to be used in a home environment, so we added a
custom version of our Ironman II attenuator, with 6 levels of attenuation, to bring the
volume down by as much as 35db, all the way to a genuine bedroom volume.
In the end, the Gremlin turned out to have a wonderful variety of genuine old-school
tones, and be an absolute blast to play. We thank you for your purchase of the
Gremlin, and hope you enjoy playing it as much as we do.
Best Regards,
Tone King Amplifiers
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