Lab Series L5 - Swing and blues tones on Nylon string?

10 months ago
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Vintage L5 Lab Series demo with a vintage nylon string - will it do blues and swing tones? Robert Moog (rhymes with "doge") invented the L5 while he was with Gibson's parent company Norlin. This is a low-serial number vintage L5, 2x12 combo CTS speakers.

Demo'd here with a late 50's - early 60's rebuilt nylon string with an LR Baggs Classic passive pickup. Demonstration of the amp's clean and fx channels. On board compression, midrange dial-in EQ boost/dialout, multifilter, and reverb. This could be called the first modeling amp, as Moog was asked to design a solid state amp mimicking the Fender Twin. The L5 can clip, fuzz, blast, play sweet and clear - in short the amp alone can do Johnny Cash through T-Bone to John Lee with ZZ Top.
The sound characteristics change with every volume adjustment, but it settles in. The Multifilter functions a little like tremolo. The midrange adjustments alone almost brings the multiverse of sound into the room with endless possibilities.
Stay All Night - Bob Wills
Muddy Water - George McClure
EZ Blues - George McClure
https://officialgeorgemcclure.com

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