markmusicman
Experienced
I love to hear about the gear myself, I'm just across Lake Ontario from you just a bit south from Olcott which is about 35 miles across I believe. Anyways I have kept my Pearce preamp and currently have no plans to sell it. The clean channel reminds me of Eric Johnsons clean sound when adding a bit of Chorus. The distortion channel is also awesome, actually it would be a nice preamp for Cliff to mimic. Here is a link to that pearce amp I saw on Ebay.Yes, that's the Pearce company I'm talking about.
I originally bought a G1a combo amp, circa 1986.
I even had Dan Pearce do a few mods on mine at the Buffalo factory that I visited several times.
I'm from Toronto so it's just a couple of hours away.
I sold the G1a head to Reg Schwager but kept the cabinet, circa 1992.
It was replaced with a Mesa MKIII and a Simul-Satellite.
I almost bought a G2r at the time but I was trying get some session work and it seemed smarter to have a real tube amp at that time.
Eventually I bought a Triaxis and used it in stereo with the MKIII's power amp and the Satellite.
These Pearce cabs have a 2 space rack on top for any Pearce head or power amp, like the A1 that I also used to use when playing stereo back then.
FWIW My 1st album/cassette release, Time's Square, from 1988 was all done with that Pearce rig and a Strat with EMG SAs and an SPC.
My 2nd album and 1st CD release, A Strange Little Tune, was done with the Triaxis/Satellite rig and a Frankenstrat with passive pickups.
About 10 years ago I got pissed off at the jazz tones I was getting from my Triaxis/Simul-Satellite rig that I'd been using since 1993 (the Pearce was OK for rock too but not as good as the Mesa stuff I replaced it with) and asked Reg if I could borrow the head back to see if it really sounded as good as I remembered.
But in the months prior to that I also had a Polytone and then an Acoustic Image Clarus through a Raezer's Edge 2X10 cab, just for jazz.
Meh on both of those.
But Reg's G1a did sound as good as I'd remembered, so I started looking around for another used Pearce amp online.
[FWIW I found out after I'd bought my Ultra that the reason my Triaxis jazz tone was always a bit too bright was because its 2 Clean Modes both have a hard-wired bright switch that can't be switched off.]
I actually found a G2r in a pawn shop in Texas and bought that.
I think it was only $200.
But when I got it home the built-in digital effects board, by Alesis, wasn't working properly.
I did some research online and found out the likely culprit and tried to fix it myself but I actually fried the FX board completely in the process.
Later on I found another G2r on eBay (closer to $700 this time) and it works great.
I keep the first one for spare parts.
The Pearce G2r in the original Pearce cabinet (way back when, I replaced the stock EVM-12S that it came with with an EVM-12L), in an open back configuration (it can also be run closed back and has a port) is very satisfying as a jazz rig.
I never had to use it on a pop/rock oriented gig though.
I think the G1s sound even better for jazz but they have less gain available for rock.
I still use the G2r on small jazz gigs where I don't want to lug the Axe and my pedal-board etc.
But I'm getting even better tones from my Axe II and whatever I run that through.
I kept the Triaxis rig for pop/rock gigs until I got the Ultra in 2008 and then I sold it.
But I still have the Simul-Satellite.
It's currently in my teaching room at Humber College.
I bet that's more than you ever wanted to know about me or my gear.![]()
Vintage Pearce Amplifier Guitar 2 Channel G1B Wood Cabinet EV Speaker | eBay
Here is another one I just saw also
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Pea...808?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27dbc1d4f0
Pass along some of your tunes if you can I would love to take a listen
Thanks
markmusicman