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Join Us at the Nashville Amp Expo
Demo some amps and meet the guys! We’ll be exhibiting at the Nashville Amp Expo again in 2010 and it’s this weekend. Admission is only $5 per day.
August 21-22, 2010
Saturday & Sunday 10am-6pm
Hyatt Place Hotel
Nashville/Brentwood
202 Summit View Drive
Brentwood, TN 37027
Cabinet Photos Posted
Our photographer did a fantastic job shooting full stacks of our True Replica Cabinets, both pinstripe and basketweave, and the pictures are now posted on the individual cabinet pages. There are detail shots of all the special features of the cabinets, including the soundposts, caster cups, handles, and more. To see them all, have a look at ourPinstripe Cabinets and Basketweave Cabinets.
Destroy All Guitars now a Metropoulos broker
We are happy to announce that Destroy All Guitars will now be a broker for Plexi Replicas by Metropoulos Amplification. You can find more info on the Destroy All Guitars web site.
Email: cliff@destroyallguitars.com
Phone: 919.552.3047
Pinstripe and Basketweave Cabinets
We are proud to finally add individual pages for our line of True Replica Cabinets to the Plexi Replicas web site. Many hours have been invested in the process of reverse engineering, CNC programming, prototyping, and research to arrive at the finished product, and the results are truly worth the effort.
The line consists of the 1967 Era Pinstripe True Replica and the 1968 Era Basketweave True Replica. The cabinets are structurally identical and based off a set of vintage 1968 Marshall straight and slant cabinets. The only difference is the grillcloth, with the 1967 featuring EC Collins’ “Bluesbreaker” pinstripe cloth, and the 1968 using basketweave grillcloth.
Both cosmetic styles are available in either slant or straight configurations. You can purchase the cabinets unloaded, or with Heritage, Austin Speaker Works, or Scumback speakers. Additional speaker options are also available. Visit the cabinet pages for pricing:
1967 Era Pinstripe True Replica Cabinets
1968 Era Basketweave True Replica Cabinets
True Replica Cabinet Prototypes
Cabinet prototypes are here! Our True Replica Cabinets are reverse engineered from my 1968 Marshall speaker cabinets to be identical in every way. In the picture you can see the original cab, stripped of tolex, next to one of the new cabs for comparison. The old cabinet was the guide to be sure every cut, hole, and detail was faitful to the original.
Get more info on the cabinet page – these will be for sale soon.
Happy GPM 45 Customer
We heard from a very happy Metropoulos GPM 45 owner who had this to say about his new amp:
Got the amp today! It sounds great! Very organic and earthy, good dynamics, easy to get a good sound. Perfect for the kind of music I play – blues and blues based rock. Now I just have to figure out how to get the money to get the 45/100 from you guys. There are times when I need more volume than the 45 can deliver, although the 45 will be sufficient for 95% of the gigs I do.
I am very pleased with the amp! It is just what I was looking for!
GPM 45 Head at NAMM
Want to try out one of our GPM 45 amps at the NAMM show? Stop by the Mogami cable booth, where a Metropoulos GPM 45 will be available for demo in Anaheim, California, January 14-17.
Sound Clips for 45/100 Block End
Listen to the Metropoulos 45/100 Block End Limited Edition amp in action GPM 45 Head with a selection of sound clips.
Here is a sample clip:
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Hear the rest on the 45/100 page.
More GPM 45 mp3 Clips
We’ve added more new mp3 clips to demonstrate the tonal possibilities of the GPM 45 Head. Now you get to hear different players approach to the same amplifier with some very diverse results that show the capabilities of this fantastic amp.
Here is a sample clip:
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Thanks to Doug Doppler for the mp3 files – you can hear them all on the GPM 45 Head page. Doug says:
About the audio samples, they reflect each of the four inputs, with the blues one being the top input on channel 2 with the low inputs jumped. By the way I just want you to be sure – I LOVE the amp!!!
Coming Soon – True Replica Cabinets
Plexi Replicas is proud to announce the imminent arrival of ’68 era Metropoulos True Replica Cabinets. Completed prototypes are expected in December 2009 and we are truly excited about the cabinets and the intense process we used to create such an exact replica. We took original 1968 slant and straight cabs, disassembled them, and micro-metered every piece individually to create full 3D CAD models accurate to .001 inches.
I went to great lengths to exactly reproduce my set of original cabinets. The metal parts were scanned and custom fabricated, all of the little irregularities of the original were measured and perfectly reproduced by CNC, we spared no effort and no expense to make a True Replica Cabinet. Find out the full details on our cabinet page.