I bought the 2x12 combo used back in about 1973-74. It was a 1968 model year and my first real amp with enough power to play in a band. The guy I bought it from had installed two 12 inch Electro-Voice SRO speakers with the big coffee can backs. What a great sounding amp! Unfortunately, when shipping it to Europe when I was in the military, the speakers were stolen somewhere along the way. I was devastated. Those were great speakers. I then did something I've been sorry about ever since. I cut most of the speaker section of the cabinet off and made a head out of it. I married it up with a 4x12 cab with Celestion Vintage 30s and used it that way for a few years and it sounded great. I still have the amp and a 2x12 cab. Right now the amp needs service (a little motorboat sound), but otherwise it still sounds great and makes a great pedal platform.
Your Sunn Solarus is not 1970's. It has the old-style grill cloth that was only used until 1968. so your amp is 1967 - 1968 vintage. Also, the tremolo section is all solid-state as is the reverb recovery section. Otherwise the amp is all tube.
Thanks for the demo. Sunn is back in business and our new combo was just released.
I bought the 2x12 combo used back in about 1973-74. It was a 1968 model year and my first real amp with enough power to play in a band. The guy I bought it from had installed two 12 inch Electro-Voice SRO speakers with the big coffee can backs. What a great sounding amp! Unfortunately, when shipping it to Europe when I was in the military, the speakers were stolen somewhere along the way. I was devastated. Those were great speakers. I then did something I've been sorry about ever since. I cut most of the speaker section of the cabinet off and made a head out of it. I married it up with a 4x12 cab with Celestion Vintage 30s and used it that way for a few years and it sounded great. I still have the amp and a 2x12 cab. Right now the amp needs service (a little motorboat sound), but otherwise it still sounds great and makes a great pedal platform.
I have a solarus amp exactly like that, with a Marshall cabinet plugged into it.sounds great with my les paul.
Same here. My cab from my JCM 900 4x12
this sounds amazing. great demo
THANKS! It is a weird amp, and I didn't like it at first, but after fiddling with it, I totally changed my mind.
@@stringedazuse the mid switch and then the eq knobs. Best amps ever.
Your Sunn Solarus is not 1970's. It has the old-style grill cloth that was only used until 1968. so your amp is 1967 - 1968 vintage. Also, the tremolo section is all solid-state as is the reverb recovery section. Otherwise the amp is all tube.
@@RyanPhelps-p4j Thanks for the info!
Was that Beavis and Butt-Head!!!!??
Shouldn't have sold mine.