![]() different from that of Fenders and other common amps. The low B+ coupled with the odd tube set resulted in a fairly distinctive distortion. Hound Dog Taylor is best known for his raw vocal style and searing slide guitar, using a cheap Teisco guitar and Sears Roebuck amplifier to great advantage. They also used their own, unique reverb tank that looked like it was home-made out of screen door springs. The strange transformer setup coupled with the unconventional number of speakers in that amp must have resulted in a "interesting" impedance match, but with the tubes running so cold it probably didn't cause any reliability issues. For example on the flagship "100 watt" Silvertone tube amp which had 4-6L6s into 6-10" speakers they used dual output transformers, one for each tube pair, in parallel (!) presumably so they could use the same trannies as in the 2-6L6 model. He was best known for his raw vocal style and searing slide guitar, using a cheap Teisco del Rey guitar and Sears Roebuck amplifier to great advantage. The thing about those old Dano amps was that not only did they run an uncommonly low B+ on the power tubes (resulting in a "50 watt" amp that really only did about 25-30 watts at clipping), they also used an oddball tube set and some other rather odd design quirks, some of which were almost certainly to save money. Hound Dog Taylor was an American blues guitarist and singer. ![]()
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