Built as a special request from Mark Knopfler. Mark was a big fan of the Trainwreck style amps, and had asked me if I would do a good clean amp in the style of the Trainwreck Rocket. This amp has the most beautiful shimmering clean tone. Its 4 EL84, about 35 watts, and sounds spectacular with a strat. It sounds wonderful with any guitar, but the clean tone with a Strat is just perfect. Not to say it won't overdrive, but it does have good clean headroom before breakup. When it breaks up, it gives you a very sweet, clear overdrive that just loves a fuzz/tonebender (did someone say Dirty Hippie) or dynaranger pedal.
Built with painstaking detail for tone. Custom wound power and output transformers. Custom made coupling caps mounted on a hand wired turret board. Heavy gauge aluminum chassis welded in the corners for strength.
Powered by a hand picked blend of 3 12ax7 preamp tubes and 4 EL84 power tubes, with a GZ34 rectifier for the perfect feel.
Controls are Volume, Treble, Middle, Bass, Cut, Presence
Short clip of the prototype, which Mark has. Just noodling with my new MK Strat. This is the bridge/middle position. Please ignore the playing...
The Talyn TM
Head $2100
1X12 Combo
$2275
Amp comes standard with current production tubes.
Optional Vintage tubes are available
The same clip for people with no Java player
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A few short clips recorded by my friend Brian Wooten, guitar player for Trace Adkins
Customer feedback
the tone from the Talyn is magnificent - congratulations. It just might be the best Les Paul tone I've ever had
Mark Knopfler
Just got the Talyn in yesterday, and after giving my eyebrow muscles a serious workout and ruining an otherwise perfectly good pair of underwear, I can firmly say this thing is THE BALLS. I was impressed with the sound clips and video online, but they really don't come close to doing it justice. The amount of depth, shimmer and headroom around every note, most notably on the 1st and 2nd strings, is astounding - I've never heard my guitars sound so big and bold, yet with so much clarity and note separation at the same time, eve with a healthy amount of gain dialed in. The cut control is incredibly useful to dial in more or less compression or a sharper edge.
You nailed the classic trainwreck tone, and I have a hard time believing that in some ways you haven't surpassed it - this is truly something incredible. I've owned and own everything from modern high gain boutique heads to vintage marshalls and vintage blackfaces, and I can say, for where my tastes and style lie right now, this is my new favorite amp. This is going to record beautifully. Thank you for the "Nashville" tube hand-selection and the personal attention to make sure this was tweaked in for exactly what I wanted. The overall build quality and component quality is just stupid - NASA would be impressed. Mike Soldano's got nothing on your crazy ass!
There's not too many things in life that are awe-inspiringly fun that my priest, the police, and a dietician with all agree are okay for me, but I have found an exception. Go ahead and bet your boots this will be far from my last purchase with you, sir! I hope a Sonoma and a V50 might be coming into the picture somewhere down the line...
Many thanks, and I'll be back!
John Ducci
