DISC ENGL Ritchie Blackmore Signature E650 Head

Full Description

The Ritchie Blackmore Signature

The Signature ENGL Amp Had is equipped with a variety of powerful features, providing players with Ritchie Blackmore’s Legendary tones. Featuring 2 power channels, the Blackmore Amp delivers a wide range of tonal possibilities, with the clean channel providing an excellent crunch when the gain is increased while the lead channel’s tone gets heavier. A 3-band EQ, hi/lo gain switch, and the presence controls provides excellent tone shaping, allowing players to dial in a range of Ritchie’s icon sounds. Equipped with ECC83 and 5881 tubes with 100 watts of pure power, the ENGL Amp Head delivers incredible dynamics with plenty of headroom to hear every nuance of your playing.

Excellent Connectivity

The amp features a range of ins/outs for players to expand their performance, allowing the connection of footswitches to control the amp’s functions without the need to be near the amp. The 2 inputs allow players to control the master contour and the channels hi/lo gain setting. The amp is also equipped with a custom footswitch port, allowing the connection of ENGL’s custom footswitch to external control the main features of the amp. The featured FX loops allows the connection of external stompboxes, with a balanced control to adjust the level the effects unit influences the amp.

About Ritchie Blackmore

Ritchie Blackmore is an English guitarist and songwriter, and known as one of the founding members of Deep Purple. Born 1945 in Somerset, Ritchie began to learn the guitar at 11 when his father bought him one under certain conditions, and later developed under the guidance of session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan. In 1968, Blackmore was invited by Chris Curtis to join his new band Deep Purple, which went on to become one of the pioneers of heavy metal. As a part of Deep Purple, Blackmore's style became heavy and psychedelic, offering an incredibly wide variety of styles and tones which helped create Deep Purples Legendary sound.

Features

• Features clean/crunch, and lead/heavy lead channels
• Delivers Ritchie Blackmore’s icon sound and performance
• Powerful EQ and tone enhancing controls offer extensive tonal shaping
• 100 Watts of power suits any stage settings, offering plenty of headroom to hear tube dynamics
• Provides wide range of controllable parameters to offer total control over the sound
• FX loops for connecting external effect devices to expand tonal possibilities
• Footswitch inputs for external control and connecting ENGL’s custom footswitch
• Features 4 x ECC83 preamp tubes and 4 x 5881 power amp tubes
• Made in Germany

Specifications

General

• Power: 100 Watts
• Impedance: 4, 8, 16 Ohms
• Channels: Clean/Crunch, Lead/heavy Lead

Tubes

• V1(Input -Tube): ECC 83/12AX7, FQ Selected
• V2: ECC 83/12AX7 Selected
• V3, V4: ECC 83/12AX7, Standard
• V7 - V10: 5881 (6L6GC) Matched Sets

Controls

• Knobs:
  • Clean
  • Lead
  • Bass
  • Middle
  • Treble
  • Lead Presence
  • Lead Volume
  • Master A Lo Gain
  • Master B Hi Gain
• Buttons:
  • Bright
  • Contour
  • Gain Lo-Hi
  • Clean/Lead

Connections

• Input: Unbalanced 1/4'' Jack (Instrument)
• Footswitch: 2 x 1/4'' Jack (Master A/b Contour, Clean/Lead Gain Hi/Lo)
• FX Loop: 2 x 1/4'' Jack (Return, Send)
• Poweramp Output: 5 x 1/4'' Jack
  • 2 x 4 Ohms Parallel (1 x 4 Ohms, 2 x 8 Ohms)
  • 2 x 8 Ohms Parallel (1 x 8 Ohms, 2 x 16 Ohms)
  • 1 x 16 Ohms

Power Requirements

• Fuses:
  • External: 3.15 AM (Medium)
  • Internal: 4 AT (Slow)

Dimensions

• Length: 71 cm
• Height: 27 cm
• Depth: 27 cm
• Weight: 20kg