For Sale Steavens Poundcake Mk2 100w EL34

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Very punchy, raw sounding amp with an unloaded plate voltage of 538. 100w, EL34’s. As you can see in the pics the transformers are a bit bent and the Steavens logo was re-glued on, but the amp itself has no issues at all and was freshly serviced by my amazing tech. A step up/down transformer is also needed and can include mine if you don’t already have one

$2550 shipped

Just my opinion, but I haven’t tried any high gain under $3000 that can rival this, but it’s a great amp period independent of price
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This is gorgeous. I have a 25th anniversary poundcake, I wonder how it compares.

Question, why are there two knobs for clean, two knobs for heat, and what does the rhythm knob do?
Mine has different controls, crunch/meat/heat each has a gain and then I have two master volumes. No double knobs. Just curious...
 
TotallyRadGuitars said:
This is gorgeous. I have a 25th anniversary poundcake, I wonder how it compares.

Question, why are there two knobs for clean, two knobs for heat, and what does the rhythm knob do?
Mine has different controls, crunch/meat/heat each has a gain and then I have two master volumes. No double knobs. Just curious...
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Thank you. I played a friend’s 25th anniversary Poundcake. The 25th was a lot smoother, more polished sounding, more forgiving feel, more suited for leads imo. Sort of like a better XTC. This Mk2 is much more raw, rude/gritty, open, aggressive and punchier, feels also faster to me. Both have the overall Steavens sound though I think along with that precise German quality to the overall sound

The knobs all the way to the right are gain knobs for the respective channels and then the other knobs are each channel’s volume knob
 
Outta the MkI, MkII, MKIII and Anniversary models I’ve played / owned, I much prefer the MkII, followed by MKI.
Now, the MKI is darn good but it didn’t have the upgrades and features the MKII’s have.
Both MKIII and 25th anniversary sounded and felt more loose as a Bogner type flavor, a little tubby and not as tight as the MKII.
Like BT mentioned, the MKII has that Marshall upper register kerrrrang to it.
Meat (3) and Crunch (2) channels are my fav.

In my opinion, the Poundcake 100w (4 ch) MKII is a monster amp.
 
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