Article: Louis Electric KR M12.(from Louis Electric Amplifiers)

MANY A BUILDER OF BOUTIQUE AMPLIFIERS has gotten their start repairing vintage Fender and Marshall amps. Louis Electric's Lou Rosano says that working on those classics gave him lots of insight into how to design his own line of amplifiers, which range from virtual clones of Fender's '50s-era Twins and early-to-mid-'60s Marshalls to hot-rod models with high-gain preamps. Rosario has made custom amps for Duke Robillard, John Fogerty, Danny Gatton, and Hubert Sumlin, and he designed the KR M12 for Keith Richards, who had originally purchased one of Rosano's 25-watt M12 combos. The more powerful KR M12 (Richards owns two of those) is a plexi-Marshall/tweed-Fender-influenced ...

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