Gibson seems to be teasing a re-launch of its cult traditional line of amps, 57 years after manufacturing ended.
A brand new touchdown web page on its web site that includes the strapline ‘Prepared For Flight’ gives a collection of containers for followers to enroll “for launch” with their e-mail addresses to be the primary to seek out out in regards to the firm’s developments. It additionally options a picture of a cream-coloured, Tolex-covered Gibson amplifier.
Nearer inspection reveals the amp pictured is a Falcon 20, a frequency dial and what seems to be a three-way toggle for full, half and low management parameters. It seems just like the Gibson Falcon tube amp, which has garnered a cult standing regardless of solely being in manufacturing for one 12 months, in 1961.
In 2021, Gibson CEO Cesar Gueikian hinted that the model’s amps could possibly be returning to cabinets nearly six a long time after they final rolled off the manufacturing line. This may occasionally properly have been made potential by their acquisition of celebrated boutique amp makers Mesa/Boogie that very same 12 months.
Certainly, Gueikian instructed Guitar World on the time that its acquisition of Mesa/Boogie helped fill the area that Gibson Amps had left. “We have been fascinated by what can be subsequent and we’ve at all times been about serving to to form and encourage sound. We had the guitars, however what would actually make a complementary expertise can be plugging these guitars into one thing,” he says.
“We don’t have Gibson amps immediately, so we began fascinated by who’s the very best on the market – not simply when it comes to their model, but in addition like-minded when it comes to leveraging the enduring previous and leaning into the modern future.
“We might have began the method of constructing amplifiers on our personal, but when we dared to dream, [as] are American-made and performed by the world, which might be the corporate we’d need to affiliate ourselves with. It might solely be Mesa/Boogie, with little doubt.”
On high of this, the pivot again to amp manufacture could have been pushed by the “unbelievable” discovery of a whole archive of pre-‘70s guitar amps and results pedal blueprints that was being offered on eBay earlier than they have been unexpectedly snapped up by Gibson.
Gibson manufactured amps between 1935 and 1967 earlier than they determined to focus on guitar manufacturing.
