Guys, someone tried Baron custom amps, or Titan amps or Mako amplification?

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What was the question?

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Wow what a throwback Pete. Awesome pics.

MetalJim said:
Wow looks great, so all the heads had different type of tone? can you tell us more about these amps, they rarely go for sale, So I guess the guy that used to make them build very few amps.
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Yes sir. All of them sounded different. The custom is just a combo of two circuits of your choice IIRC. Makoplex is modded Plexi, hence the name. Again, very dry and tight like a Splawn Quickrod but with more lowend and crispyness. MAK2 was a beast but the amps it seemed to copy or be based on (Uber and UL) performed better.
 
PurityS.L.G said:
Wow what a throwback Pete. Awesome pics.



Yes sir. All of them sounded different. The custom is just a combo of two circuits of your choice IIRC. Makoplex is modded Plexi, hence the name. Again, very dry and tight like a Splawn Quickrod but with more lowend and crispyness. MAK2 was a beast but the amps it seemed to copy or be based on (Uber and UL) performed better.
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Where they made them? do they had high end componets? Because right now in the market we have lets say 30 amp manufaturers and from those 70% use the same transformers brand, or capacitors or resistors, does Mako was using something different or was the same formula, like all the others?
 
MetalJim said:
Where they made them? do they had high end componets? Because right now in the market we have lets say 30 amp manufaturers and from those 70% use the same transformers brand, or capacitors or resistors, does Mako was using something different or was the same formula, like all the others?
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It’s been so long but I know he used unique components mounted on a turret board. It was super clean and a work of art. I wanna say the trannies were custom wound but I don’t recall for sure.
 
PurityS.L.G said:
It’s been so long but I know he used unique components mounted on a turret board. It was super clean and a work of art. I wanna say the trannies were custom wound but I don’t recall for sure.
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Great, that sounds like I need to try one, to see if theres any differences form all the actual ones that we have now a days.
 
krash said:
FUCK! I've been trying to get ahold of you for a week. Why'd you get rid of it? What's you replace it with?
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I have a large collection of tube preamps, and I never used that one, so put it for sale sold quick because is really good and bought another thing.
 
I have a Mako Dorado. It has some sort of depth/resonance mod. The knob isn't labeled so I'm not sure what Mako called it. But it's some sort of active/powered filter attached to a mini transformer inside the chassis. To be honest, I haven't played the amp much and I've had it for at least a year. But I did fire it up a few times and it sounds good. Quite powerful and authoritative. I liked it more than the Uberschall. It's way overbuilt though. There's no reason the headshell needs to be that large or that heavy. And there's no reason why there needs to be 6" freakin' railroad spikes holding the chassis in lol.

Also mine is PTP/tag board, but the circuit is gooped. So no way to repair it if something happens. Kinda BS for a company that no longer exists.

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MetalJim said:
I have a large collection of tube preamps, and I never used that one, so put it for sale sold quick because is really good and bought another thing.
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Jim!

You have my contact info, would you mind giving me a call? Just wanted to pick your brain on the pre...
Appreciate it.
 
MetalJim said:
I have a large collection of tube preamps, and I never used that one, so put it for sale sold quick because is really good and bought another thing.
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How’s that Black Widow pre? Literally no one uses one. Not a lot of content around it but on paper it seems awesome.
 
JerEvil said:
How’s that Black Widow pre? Literally no one uses one. Not a lot of content around it but on paper it seems awesome.
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Awesome preamp has all the stuff you need if you like to try several tones, for example one day playing blues with the fender channels and then you can tweek it in order to have fatter or dirtier tone, next day play hard rock you have options like the 800 the 900 and orange tone to get stuff like from the 80s or 90s then the next day your in the mood to learn some jazz or clean passages you have the blackface fender and a few other super clean tones form thin to fat, then if you're like me that like thrash from 85 to 95 high gain aggressive you have the powerball form engl channel or the VH3 diezel like I said a lot of stuff and very high quality very low noise floor.
One of my friends used to be a tech in the early 2000s and he help buckcherry for their south texas tour and he told they were using these preamps.
and in case you asked why I sold it is because I was offered a rare friedman modded cameron super lead 1959HW that in my opinion sounded godly and is a unique tone that you dont get in any simulator.
 
MetalJim said:
Awesome preamp has all the stuff you need if you like to try several tones, for example one day playing blues with the fender channels and then you can tweek it in order to have fatter or dirtier tone, next day play hard rock you have options like the 800 the 900 and orange tone to get stuff like from the 80s or 90s then the next day your in the mood to learn some jazz or clean passages you have the blackface fender and a few other super clean tones form thin to fat, then if you're like me that like thrash from 85 to 95 high gain aggressive you have the powerball form engl channel or the VH3 diezel like I said a lot of stuff and very high quality very low noise floor.
One of my friends used to be a tech in the early 2000s and he help buckcherry for their south texas tour and he told they were using these preamps.
and in case you asked why I sold it is because I was offered a rare friedman modded cameron super lead 1959HW that in my opinion sounded godly and is a unique tone that you dont get in any simulator.
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Thanks for the breakdown. Sounds cool. I was looking at these pretty hard a few years ago then kind of “fell off”. Looks like they’re still being produced.

I never really see them come up used that’s for sure.
 
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