Walter Woods "bass" amp for pedal steel?

Dean Parks · Post by **Dean Parks** » 23 Nov 2004 6:27 pm

Walter Woods made a small but powerful amp for bass years ago. Has anyone tried it on pedal steel?

-dean-

Brad Sarno · Post by **Brad Sarno** » 23 Nov 2004 10:00 pm

Isn't that what Tommy Morrell uses? Driving 2 JBL cabinets?

Brad Sarno

Chris Brooks · Post by **Chris Brooks** » 24 Nov 2004 5:18 am

I don't know about for steel--but here in Providence a bass player I gig with occasionally uses a Walter Wood. About as big as a cigar box with, I think, 350 watts per side???

But expensive . . .

Chris

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Nicholas Dedring · Post by **Nicholas Dedring** » 24 Nov 2004 6:09 am

http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum11/HTML/005725.html
http://www.acousticimg.com/index2.html

The acoustic image gear is the same kind of system as the Walter Woods rigs.

You can also get them to mod the mid control to allow tweaking the correct frequency. Hell of a lot cheaper than the Walter Woods stuff, and you can get them pretty easily.

I don't have one myself, but Jon is a damn good player, and if he digs it, it's worth looking at

Rick Schmidt · Post by **Rick Schmidt** » 24 Nov 2004 7:35 am

Hey Dean...I borrowed one of those to try it out on some steel gigs quite a few years ago. I remember it worked great with my Black Widow Cab and an SPX90. After I returned it, I heard from my bass player friend that it started arcing on a later gig and went out in a blaze of glory. Alot of voltage passes through those little cigar boxes!

Nowdays I use an A.M.P. head (like a Gallien-Krueger) as a second amp, and I've used bass combos on the road many times.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 24 Nov 2004 1:27 pm

I can attest that Tom Morrel has KILLER tone through this amp, and some oddball cabs.

I have played my Fodera 6 string bass in this amp, and it never seems to run out of head room.

But Wolf had a nice gritty but powerful sound.

Sam Marshall · Post by **Sam Marshall** » 24 Nov 2004 2:04 pm

I believe the Walter Woods power amp was class AB and the AI is class D. I found a good website for the WW that had a lot of rework instructions (photos, text).

Regards,
Sam