You get substantially more power when the output tubes are overdriven. The other thing I forgot to mention earlier is that, while there is no industry standard for measuring guitar amp output power, usually the stated power is what you get with the amp still clean. I've been doing that at home with the SCXD for a long time now, to get good tone and low volume at the same time. It seems ridiculous and inefficient to generate too much (very expensive!) audio power and then throw away some of it as heat just to keep volume levels manageable, but it does work. Perch, as though you may have found a genuine pearl by stepping a little off the beaten path in your amp choice.Ĭlick to expand.There is always the speaker attenuator option. While I'm not an engineer, I think rather like one, and I'm much more impressed by the hardware inside the box than the advertising in the magazines. The same tactic might still work: after all you seem pretty impressed by how loud this "30 watt" amp is, compared to other brands of "30 W" amps out there. He figured this would keep his customers happy and encourage them to tell their friends what a good deal one of his engines was. Watt deliberately understated his engines ability (and oversized the unit he came up with, the horsepower), hoping to impress farmers who found that, say, a five-horsepower Watt engine could actually do the work of six or seven horses. During the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, steam-engine inventor and manufacturer James Watt did the same thing a one-horsepower Watt steam engine actually did more work than one typical farm horse could do. Perhaps Dean Markley also wanted to offer more value than Fenders bean-counting approach to amp design. While I don't have the schematics and other information to prove it, it would seem likely that the CD-30/CD-40 was actually a CD-60 running at a slightly lower voltage to turn down its power just a tiny bit. I'll bet this was partly done so most of the same components could be used in the CD-60 and CD-30/CD-40. Here we have tubes capable of 60 watts being asked to deliver only 30 or 40 watts instead.
It would appear that the Dean Markley CD-30 amp designer took the opposite approach, using hugely powerful tubes (which in turn require hugely capable transformers) and using them in an amp rated conservatively, and well below their capabilities. Remember, Leonidas was an accountant before he began manufacturing amps or guitars. Traditionally Fender amps use the smallest and cheapest possible components (tubes, transformers) and push them beyond the manufacturers stated maximum limits in the attempt to squeeze out a little more power at the lowest possible cost. In the Dean Markley CD-60, a single pair of 6L6GC tubes generate 60 watts. The reasons I believe the amps output power is underrated are circumstantial and historical: firstly the original 1980's CD-30 was subsequently re-branded and sold as the CD-40 (rated at 40 watts), and secondly a pair of 6L6GC tubes typically generate about 55 watts according to Wikipedia. The schematic I've seen does not include DC voltages or enough information about the transformers to make an estimate of the amps actual power. Many famous musicians use Dean Markley equipment amongst them the following Avril Lavigne, Bruce Springsteen, Foreigner, Gary Moore, GWAR, Lamb of God, Misfits, Nikki Sixx, TM Stevens and Bad Religion.The only thing I'm eminent at is sleeping-in improbably late on weekends. We extend this and offer a total 3-Year Warranty to our customers. The manufacturer grants a 2 warranty on all Dean Markley products. The current top seller is Dean Markley 2675 Blue Steel Bass XM an all time favourite among Dean Markley products is the following item Dean Markley 2556 Blue Steel Electric REG. We've had Dean Markley products in our range since 1993.Īt the moment you will find Dean Markley top sellers in the following product categories 050 4-String Electric Bass Strings, Magnetic Pickups for Acoustic Guitars, 008 Electric Guitar Strings and Tranducers. The official German branch office is the business Warwick GmbH & Co Music Equipment KG in Markneukirchen (D).ĭean Markley products exclusively come from factories in United States.Ĭurrently we have 41 Dean Markley products 40 of them directly available in our Treppendorf warehouse (and of course they can be tested as well in our shop). A total of 20 employees work for the business Dean Markley (status 2011). the business is situated in Santa Clara, Kalifornien, USA. The history of the business Dean Markley Strings goes back to the year1972, when Dean Markley laid the foundations for the company.
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