Phoenix Rackmount

[dr. who]

From Howard Dumble Amp Wizard
"Well, the Phoenix series is where I've done that--so you can combine things--because it's a rack-mounted affair. You can by all the separate preamps, with or without overdrive, and a choice of 50-, 100-, or 150-watt power amplifiers, and hook them together. The overdrive section is expanded--instead of two overdrive controls, you have four."

What happened to these? Any schematics? Did Dumble ever make all of the different pre's with and without overdrive?

[Stanz]

sounds like a switching network or a multiplexer. So is it series or parallel (or both)?

Might go into the loop in order to stack preamp sections. If it is series though the gain would be pretty high.

[briane]

My understanding is it was not all that complex, but this is secondhand knowledge.

basically just a rack mount pre-amp, and rack mount power amp. hook the 2 together. What I think the marketing mojo is, is that any of these pre's could be hooked up to any power. Its just a method of making the different sections into components. Its a bit more versatile when joe blow shows up asking for 100 watts, and all you have to demo is 50 watters. I've been thinking about doing this myself.

Damn though, I cant believe HAD used the name phoenix, I was going to use that name for something. Guess I need a new cosmic event for the name.....