NAMM 2024: Simply as CEO Cesar Gueikian instructed to us again in 2021, Gibson Amps are coming again and we now have the affirmation with a mannequin identify and a sneak peak.
‘Prepared for flight?’ asks Gibson’s new touchdown web page the place you possibly can join a mailing checklist to seek out out extra when the time comes – and we might guess on it being within the subsequent couple of weeks.
An overhead view of a guitar amp is proven above with a Gibson Amplifiers tag connected to the deal with. The amp is known as the Falcon 20 with what seems to be a cream Tolex masking, attenuation controls (Full, Half and Low) and a Frequency dial. Frequency for what – tremolo? We predict so.
This isn’t the primary flight of the Gibson Falcon – the unique tube amp (full mannequin identify GA-19RVT) was a 14-watt combo launched again in 1961 – the one yr it was produced. It had each reverb and tremolo and proved simply how forward-thinking the corporate was on the time by way of options. The primary Falcon had a 12″ Jensen speaker, 6V6 energy tubes like Fender’s Deluxe, a trio of 6EU7 tubes for the preamp, and a 7199 tube for its reverb circuit.
Gibson first began producing amplifiers approach again in 1935 however ceased manufacturing in 1967. Sequence just like the GA and BR have grow to be cult favourites however the announcement of Gibson’s acquisition of Mesa/Boogie in early 2021 noticed the concept of a return to US-made Gibson amps floor.
Later that yr Gueikian confirmed to MusicRadar that Mesa/Boogie founder Randall Smith was taking a lead function within the undertaking.
“Randy is engaged on the design of what are going to be the subsequent evolution of Gibson amplifiers as effectively,” the CEO revealed. “They will be made in Petaluma, California. So Randy’s been main that.”
You may signal as much as the mailing checklist to be the primary to seek out out in regards to the launch of Gibson Amplifiers over at gibson.com
