Listen to the Douglas DB5A

All clips are Recorded with Royer 122
Active Ribbon Mic and a Douglas DB5A.

For more info, or to place an order
email info@douglasamps.com
or call (416) 603-9477

1968 Fender Telecaster

Blues

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  • Cabinet: 12" Speaker
  • Mic Placement: 8" from speaker

Clean

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  • Cabinet: 12" Speaker
  • Mic Placement: 8" from speaker

Dirty

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  • Cabinet: 12" Speaker
  • Mic Placement: 8" from speaker

2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard

Blues

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  • Cabinet: 12" Speaker
  • Mic Placement: 4" from speaker

Dirty

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  • Cabinet: 12" Speaker
  • Mic Placement: 8" from speaker

1969 Fender Precision Bass

Direct

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  • Cabinet: 12" Speaker
  • Mic Placement: 8" from speaker

Clean

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  • Cabinet: 10" Speaker
  • Mic Placement: 4" from speaker

DB5A Amp Specs

  • Sturdy .50 Cal Metal ammo box chassis
  • 5 watt Class-A single ended EL84/6BQ5 Pentode Power tube
  • High Impedance Instrument Input (1MΩ)
  • 4, 8, 16, or 32 Ω Speaker output impedance
  • High quality components. (Hammond power and output transformers, Jensen microphone and line out transformers, JJ Tesla Filter Capacitors, Illinois Capacitor polyester signal-chain capacitors)
  • Adjustable Front Panel VU meter
  • Volume and Tone controls
  • 1/4" speaker output
  • 5 5/8" W x 7 1/4" H x 11 3/4 D
  • Classic Tube guitar/bass tone!

DB5A Preamp Specs

  • Balanced XLR Microphone input
  • Variable Line level recording out
  • Optional TUBE KIT with 3 preamp tubes for a variety of applications: Microphone, guitar, bass, harmonica 12AU7 Low Gain (20), 12AT7 Medium Gain (35), 12AX7 High Gain (100)
  • Broadcast quality Microphone transformer (optional)
  • Transformer-Coupled Balanced XLR output (optional)

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