What Wiki does not tell you is that Conrad’s ‘solution’ was basically to add a pre-amp stage to a Dynaco Mark 3 home hi-fi amp and stick it in a big speaker cabinet. … Thus, the Sunn Musical Equipment Company was founded.” By 1964, the Sundholm brothers had designed a high powered concert bass amplifier. Sundholm enlisted the help of his brother Conrad to help solve his problem. Bassist Norm Sundholm discovered that his bass amp was not nearly powerful enough to play larger concert halls. Because the band was used to playing small hops and school dances, many of the members found themselves ill-equipped with the amplifiers that they were currently using. After their hit single, The Kingsmen soon embarked on a fifty-state national tour. state of Oregon, became known for the song “ Louie, Louie“. “In early 1963, The Kingsmen, a band based in the U.S. The CONCERT is a solid-state amp and it is not recommended. It basically kept him in a constant state of terror. Even if he was not touching anything else. For some reason, it regularly shocked the lead singer. We used it briefly in our teen-age garage band.

Growing up we also had one of these ‘Concert’ PA heads. The ‘hi boost’ and ‘low boost’ switches enable one to get some very modern sounds out of this ancient tube head much more versatile than, say, a Bassman. Since then I have re-tubed and recapped it entirely, and it is really a fantastic amplifier. E actually found this for me, deadstock, on eBay about 10 years ago.

I’ve been using a SUNN Sonaro as our ‘house’ studio bass amp for several years.

Models covered, with specs and photos, include: SUNN Dymos, Solarus, Sonaro, Sentura 1, Sonic 1-40, Sceptre, Sorado, Sentura II, Solos, 200s, 1000s, 1200s, and 2000s instrument amps plus Sunn Concert Sound System and Coliseum Sound System. Download the ten-panel SUNN amplifiers 1970 catalog:

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