If You Could Resurrect an Old Amp Manufacturer??

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I was good friends. We chatted amp stuff all of the time. I always wanted one of his Nick mods. I never had the money back then for a doner plus mod costs.
 
MetalThrasher said:
Whatever happened to DAR, they seemed promising years ago.
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He spent a ton of money trying to productionize the amps and the market didn’t support the investment so he went under. It was business reasons.
 
RaceU4her said:
You’re lucky to find a mig under a thousand these days, they went way up
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Well they deserve to be worth a lot more than what they used to be based on sound imo. I think I sold mine in the $700’s back in 2018
 
I wish the DAR’s sounded as good as they looked (coolest looking amps ever lol). I had a FBM & Forza and have tried my friend’s Tuzzia. They can sound decent to pretty good, but I had other amps at the time that I thought just sounded a lot better imho. The main thing that was a letdown for me is that I was expecting this really innovative, unique modern sound from them and I felt they weren’t really anything unfamiliar or that I hadn’t heard before. The FBM I was also expecting it to be tighter and more djenty. Not that it wasn’t, but I was just expecting a lot more. They also sounded more on the artificial/inorganic side, but not as badly as the Engl’s in that regard
 
Techdeth said:
Baron . Is Peters still going ?
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I had a Baron DHG for a while (they’re flagship model I believe it was). Had both the British (BM channel) & more American channel (K channel). Snakeskin looking tolex also. It was a pretty good amp, lotta amp for the money, hard to beat for the price if you want a modern metal type amp, but honestly I think some of the amps you have already are a lot better imho
 
braintheory said:
I had a Baron DHG for a while (they’re flagship model I believe it was). Had both the British (BM channel) & more American channel (K channel). Snakeskin looking tolex also. It was a pretty good amp, lotta amp for the money, hard to beat for the price if you want a modern metal type amp, but honestly I think some of the amps you have already are a lot better imho
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Interesting. Btw Tomorrow Mark is shipping ! Im pretty excited
 
I remember getting a used Rocktron combo back in the day. Are they still around?
 
Oh God, not another one of these!

(Edit - Whoops, sorry. I read "Old Amp Manufacturer" and automatically assumed this was another Larry thread. :))
 
I would say Cornford as well, given the rep they had. Since getting my Earhart a decade ago I've been hoping to find a Cornford MK50H II to compare it to (Earhart is a legit Jet City badged version of it), but since Cornford closed doors right before the Earhart was built, they're basically nonexistent these days.

Randall sort of went downhill for a while in the 2000s, then Fortin came along and gave the company a little momentum, but the steam dried up super quick and now Randall is nothing.

Krank was pretty cool, although a lot of the fanbase akin'd Krank to Nu Metal and was dismissed by a lot of players. Their amps sound great though. Played a Chadwick and Nineteen80 jr. Blown away with how massive that 20 watter sounded. Big bottles certainly helped. Sounded way bigger than my Friedman modded 20 watt Jet City. I thought Krank was coming back in business a few years ago, but that seemed to fizzle out.
 
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