The weekly tip on how to mount (solder) the copper buss wire to the front controls (potentiometers), and a jig. The buss wire can be found at any hardware shop and the one I’m using here is 14 AWG.
Stinger 7 review in Premiere Guitar Magazine
It somewhat a great way to start a day by waking up to news that your Gabriel 7 w amp got a stellar review in PREMIER GUITAR magazine. It’s a very concise and truthful review, fun to read and to the point. Make sure you listen to the recorded clips in there as well.
PREMIER GUITAR’s verdict:
“The Gabriel possesses a bluesy and rocking musical soul. Most everything there is to love about rock and roll is presented to you in this little combo—the irreverence, the fun, and the grit are all there for the taking. It won’t do super-saturated modern sounds, nor is it supposed to. But because it’s got the craftsmanship and essential musicality to compete with boutique amps at twice its price, the Stinger should be shortlisted if you’re hunting for a sweet low wattage screamer.”
Well, that cannot be worded better if you’ll ask me. So yes, indeed the Gabriel Stinger 7 got a well deserved exposure in the PREMIER GUITAR magazine which I might add that it is a publication I respect and you guys should subscribe to it!
Please understand from the beginning that I have nothing against the NAMM show. It is a wonderful trade show and I would like to go one day to look around and try out great gear!
Trouble is that the exposure of my amps to the NAMM crowd could generate requests from dealers which at this time I cannot… deal with.
MercyMe Gold Disc
It is a special thing to have the amps I build with a guitar player in a major band but it is really special to have all guitar players of the same major band using them! You know that people out there appreciate your amps when my good friends and guitar players Mike Scheuchzer and Barry Graul of MercyMe, surprised me one day with a package at my door with this superb Gold Commemorative Disc presented to myself! HUGE THANKS Mike, Barry and MercyMe folks!
Guitar pedal board routing
I’ve been asked numerous times about when will I make those Gabriel Ts available again. The task was always on my list but never got to it.
So finally here it is! The Gabriel Amps Clothing Line, a fashionable, wide variety of apparel in various styles, colors and sizes! Take your pick!
Gabriel T
From T-Shirts to coffee mugs and beyond am working on a couple more Gabriel products so check back regularly because I will be making these available as I finish them.
Show off that you are an owner (or a fan) of one of the finest hand-wired guitar amps on the market!
I couldn’t control myself. After seeing these cool demos of the Magick Eye tube, (a tube commonly used as a tuning indicator in old radios) I had to try them out in my amps. So I plopped together a quick video to see the dramatic and cool visual effect. I will probably tweak some values but overall I am very happy with the visual effect.
The circuit is nothing complicated. All you need is one of the many Magick Eye tubes existent out there, with many different beam patterns, that might need a slightly different pin-out connection, but all of them work in a main common way – it taps in the path of the signal level of roughly 10 to 25 Volts (depends on the type of tube used), and a high DC voltage of something between 200 to 250 (B+).
I used a Russian EM80/6BR5 I scored off Ebay. The EM80 tube has a “U” shaped fluorescent target and two rods connected to the anode, producing two angled shadows on the edge triggered by the control voltage (input signal).
The schematic I used is the one below, posted by Michael on the 18watt site.
I tapped the control voltage (signal) off one of the plates of the EL 84 tubes, and got the high voltage of about 250v off one of the filter caps.
Check this video out of how cool this can be!
In guitar amps, we always battle the signal-to-noise ratio. Of course we could never have the ideal guitar amp in this life because we are limited by the components we use that will dictate the final guitar tone and noise. And to be honest we don’t even need to push for a complete noiseless amp otherwise we would slide into the Hi-Fi zone and that’s NOT a field for tube guitar amps.
Justin Ostrander is an avid user of the Gabriel guitar amps. He is an active musician in the Nashville music scene, gigging with names like Mandisa, Whitney Duncan, Tammy Trent, SonicFLOOD, Julianne Hough, Aaron Shust, Shannon Brown, and with many others.
In this Gabriel V33 Guitar Combo Amp (2×12″) demo he demonstrates the versatility of using the amp plugged direct in as well as with numerous guitar effects.
So, I guess this is my first “official” demo of the Gabrièl V18 guitar tube amp. I just can’t believe after all these years I didn’t do any!
I had a couple attempts, but I tossed them because I thought they were “un-professional” or ugly, or I do to many “uhms”, etc. Slowly I am realizing that I will never get a perfect video, with a perfect script (Dang! I even tried to memorize a script – so LAME!), and all that!
I decided that in the end I’ll post an un-edited video just the way it is. This way hoping that the listeners will connect with the human, prone-to-failure part of me in some mysterious way, and hopefully get something educational out of it too! Heck if Julia Child did it… 🙂
I will have to say that Ed Dale’s videos of The 30 Day Challenge were of IMMENSE inspiration for me, right at the moment when I wanted to throw in the towel!
So, ladies and gentleman here is the unedited, uncut, first video of the Gabrièl V18 guitar tube amplifier:
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