Thread: ELK Echo
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Old 09-20-2006, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Arnieinthesky
Hey Cool! That's it! Mines one of the back ones. Pictures to small to read but I'm surprised you found it! Yeah it's always cool to have something no one has, but bottom line, it has to sound good. I've got a Velvetone amp made from the 70's. The chassis is steel and it has 7 tubes in it. Only one power amp tube. You can't saturate it. Turn it all the way up, no break up. It sounds "cool" but the more I used it, (playing, recording) the more I found it lacking. This Elk amp is really sweat sounding.

so how would you compare it sonically to the fenders of that era that it is (seemingly....at least from a design standpoint) trying to emulate?
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