Black Grill Dual Rec - HELP !!! RARE !!!

[aaron_van_riffenburg]

Hi im on the forum looking for information in regards to my Dual Rec ive owned for a number of years.

I believe it to be early 90s, its the Black Grill Chrome Chassis model (with red not blue light)
serial no. R 0078.

any information would be greatly appreciated.




You cant find a similar pic on a forum i commented on in the recitifer catagory - Poll: Blackface Recto Triplet

 

[YellowJacket]

Sounds like you have one of the sought after Rev C early 2 channel Duals. (Mark III transformer, super tight, terrible clean tone) Hold onto that amp, they are one of a kind. (Much more similar to a Soldano SLO than the later 2 channel, 3 channel, reborn heads)

When the boogie archives was up, there was a whole tonne of information there. I suggest doing searches of the forums here. 'pre-500' or 'pre 500 dual' would be a good place to start. Also try 'early dual'.

 

[aaron_van_riffenburg]

excellent !

really appreciate your help !

 

[aaron_van_riffenburg]

one more thing, i have been researching into the pre 500 "holy grail" lol
only thing is any i have viewed are chrome grill black chassis, but however mine is the opposite ??

 

[YellowJacket]

My Rev F Dual is a black face, chrome chassis with black knobs. I have also seen black face, black chassis with silver knobs; and chrome face and chrome chassis with black knobs. The chrome face and black chassis with silver knobs became a standard later but before that, it was a case of 'everything goes'.

 

[mikey383]

The first Rectifiers came with any combination of black/chrome, although it seems that the earlier they are, the more likely they are to be black grill/chrome chassis.

Congrats on the amp! It's a '92 Rev C, the 78th one ever produced.

The pre-500 is a misnomer. It's been documented that the infamous transformers used in the first 500 were also used into the upper 600s, and some various other things (which I can't remember at the moment) that made pre-500 more like pre-1000.

It's the Rev. G that's the most common, and I think those came somewhere around 1500 or a little later.

 

[YellowJacket]

Rev Gs are seriously more like 3,000+. My Rev F is 26XX.

 

[aaron_van_riffenburg]

thats awesome, really appreciate your help guys !

can be a bit of a minefield at times !!

Rock on.