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The Online Guitar Store - Pignose Original Portable Amp
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List Price: $119.95
Our Price: $68.00
Your Save: $ 51.95 ( 43% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Pignose
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Brand: Pignose
Color: brown
EAN: 0639586071007
Feature: 5 Watts
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Label: Pignose
Manufacturer: Pignose
Model: 7-100
Publisher: Pignose
Special Features: The Pignose guitar amplifier is the answer to the worldwide demand for a high quality, economical and completely portable amplifier. Itâs powered by six pen light batteries or by an AC 9 volt converter (optional) which can be stored inside the amplifier case. Pignose gives the electric guitar the same mobility as the acoustic. Pignose weighs only five pounds. You can attach a standard guitar strap and sling it over your shoulder. Itâs a Practice Amp Practice time doesnât always coincide with access to a power source and a large equipment supply. And you donât always want to practice at high volume. With Pignose, anywhere you practice, (hotel room. garage, limo, kitchen, dressing room or a place in the park), becomes your rehearsal hall. Itâs a First Amp For the student guitarist, Pignose is the ideal first amplifier. It combines economy with quality. Pignose will never outlive its usefulness as a faithful and dependable travelling, practice and recording amplifier. In addition, Pignose has a preamp outjack which makes it possible to play the Pignose through a large and more powerful amplifier. Many professional musicians have been using Pignose as a preamp while performing. Itâs a Performing Amp The Pignose sound has proved so desirable that it now appeas in live performance. Itâs not a question of hooking 600 Pignose in series: itâs done by playing into a singular Pignose and amplifying the result with the usual host of amplifiers.
Studio: Pignose
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Features
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5 Watts
5" Speaker
Powered by 6 AA Batteries (included) or AC Adapter (not included)
6-1/4" x 5" x 9-1/2"
Weights only 5 lbs.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Pignose guitar amplifier is the answer to the worldwide demand for a high quality, economical and completely portable amplifier. It's powered by six pen light batteries or by an AC 9 volt converter (not included) which can be stored inside the amplifier case. Pignose gives the electric guitar the same mobility as the acoustic. You can attach a standard guitar strap and sling it over your shoulder!
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Customer Rating:
Summary: here's an honest rating of this amp
Comment: I want to be honest so others aren't dissapointed when they order and receive this amp.
Its reallly overpriced for what it is.A tiny solid state amp which runs off of either ac power ,if you pay extra for an adapter,or off 6 double aa batteries which will last app 5-6 hours.
If you want this amp for a novelty type amp for its history and vintage looks and are not too concerned with quality or sound ,you may be satisfied.However,if you expect this amp to sound good and be used in any serious recordings etc,you most definately will be dissapointed.It has only a volume control which turns the amp on and off and adjust volume up or down.You get kind of a clean sound ,or kind of a muddy sound,or at full volume a useless sound which sounds similiar to a blown speaker.For the price this amp is,if you want a nice quality playing amp which runs off ac or dc,look into the roland micro cube.I have the micro cube also,and it totally blows he pignose away.Not evben in the same ball park.Also,when I received my pignose,it has very obvious splits in the fake pigskin covering on the bottom and the top of the amp which just shout out cheap construction.I emailed their customer service who said they all are like that due to no other way of seaming the material.Ok,that will be their little secret.
If you have money to burn and want the amp for its nostalgic look,go for it,but,if you want an amp that is portable and actually useful and sounds good,their are many others available out there for just slightly more money,such as the roland micro cube,vox,and others.This amp should be sold for app half the price it is ,in my opinion.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Practice amp
Comment: This is a great practice. At low volumes you can get a semi-clean tone to play some SRVs tracks like Lenny and Rivera Paradise. At high volumes the distortion is mild. Overall it is the best sounding practice amp I have ever used.
Customer Rating:
Summary: an important note
Comment: an important note
The Pignose cannot produce a clean sound. It is distorted no matter what you do. The distortion is not exteremly heavy, so if you want a good bluesy distortion this is great for you. But if you want to be able to hear chords clearly then you should know that this amp cannot do that. I am disappointed that it doesn't say anything about this in the description of the product.
I dont have any problem with the Pignose, just thought everyone should know about this.
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Summary: How to make a living using the Pignose
Comment: Once, many years when lunch was half a loaf of fresh bread (baguette or ficelle) and a bottle of white wine, I lived in Paris (France) and my entire income was derived from playing a beaten up Strat (I wish I still had that guitar!) through a Pignose in the Metro. The sound was perfect, the subway provided georgeous reverb, and the tone was thrilling. I played well enough that the cops didn't move me on too much, and the skinheads that surrounded me, despite my fears as I was a long-haired hippie in those halcyon days, loved my my extended version of "red house" - I dragged it out to nine or ten minutes expecting to be beaten up at the end! They over-tipped and and cheered like a football (ok soccer) crowd. Here's the secret with pignose amps, you can create all sorts of different tones by opening and closing the door at different angles, and how the speaker is pointed is crucial in a reverberent room - or hall. Sadly I have a real job now, but still play - with a much larger and more expensive amp! http://beesdeluxe.com
Customer Rating:
Summary: Cheap thrills
Comment: I bought this little amp along with a tele when I was under the misconception that I was a blues man and after watching the movie "Crossroads" (the 80's Ralph Macchio effort not the Britney Spears vehicle). How embarrassing that I was using Macchio as my blues man model when there were still so many real, great, authentic blues men still alive then.
So my motivation for buying the pignose was that this little thing looked cool and very American. As it didn't actually make me sound like a better guitarist it promptly got relegated to the shelf. Occasionally I would power it up and each time I did it surprised me with how capable it did what it did. True, it's a bit of a one trick pony; it has no EQ controls, just a single volume knob. Any tone adjustments you want to make will have to be via the guitar or an effects box, however, the concept of this amp is pure simplicity so I don't like to mess with it by throwing stomp boxes into the mix. Instructions I read suggested you could change the tone by leaving the case open to some degree but I was never as happy with this sound as with the case locked shut.
I do wish the amp had some kind of pilot light LED on the front but I guess that would somewhat ruin the relic aesthetic. Still, I'm always forgetting to turn it off so I often come back to the pignose to find the batteries drained. It is strong and incredible toughly built. As such it makes a great traveling amp that you can throw in a duffle bag and forget about. At less then half volumes it useful for amplifying things other than your guitar when you're traveling. I've used it to amplify my MP3 player at BBQ's and stereoless cabins with OK results.
Conclusion; not essential but cheap fun.
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