FA 70s Laney Klipp Valve.Tube 100 guitar amp - very rare

This rare guitar amp is in excellent condition, almost unmarked, complete with its original cover. This was an amp used by Black Sabbath (I know because I saw it at a gig in Leicester UK at the time) on the Master of Reality and Volume 4 albums.

Laney Klipps were also used by such greats as Bad Company and Slade.

This amp uses 4 EL34s with 4 preamp valves (tubes) to product a huge sound. The amp is relatively unused and has a full set of original Brimar vales (tubes) in good working condition. These vintage valves have significant value themselves. Cosmetically its almost mint condition.

The Laney clean channel makes my Marshall 2000 TSL stack sound surprisingly limited especially when the Laney top boost is engaged. Endless vintage sounds are possible. Driving the clean channel hard with a Les Paul (40 year old black beauty) produces some classic sounds through Marshall Celestion cabs (1060AV / 1960BV).

The second separate channel - the Klipp channel, produces a simply stupendous sound. I can't simulate it at all on my modern Marshall high gain kit. With a Les Paul at full gain with the top boost engage it produced a growl that could strip paint of a wall but is still remarkably musical. Very difficult to describe but it does have more 'teeth' than a Marshall and more than my impossibly rare Burman.

You might say why not keep this instead of the Marshall kit - well it does not have the channel switching of a modern amp and I've used Marshall kit since the 70's myself and well the sound is different. Actually I did use a Laney 200 as a slave off a Marshall at one point but that's another story.

Any Laney tube amp sounds good these days. Often overlooked by people who have never heard of them and presume they are a low budget entry level brand.