Kool & Elfring / ACE COMBO / 2014 / Amp
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Mode 1: Clean
The gain setting starts at splendidly sparkling and dynamically clean. Beyond one o’clock the clean morphs into a clean sound with sweetly organic edge of breakup. Around three o’clockvery gradually the sound changes into a sweet and subtle 3d-crunch. The sounds of voicing 1 are best described as dynamic, three-dimensional, open and sparkling. It’s warm yet with good definition. Voicing 1 reacts perfectly to fuzz and boost pedals plugged into the front.
Mode 2: Super Lead
The overall sound is three-dimensional and open sounding with super tight bass response and very pronounced mids. Another huge benefit is the addition of the our acclaimed double master volume and SVC circuitry*. It adds enormous tone versatility ranging from ‘60’s 3rd stone from the sun’ all the way up to 'early 80’s back in black’. In addition it makes it possible for you to play at lower volumes without thinning up the tone or destroying the sustain. When the gain-pot is turned up, it is easy to ‘clean up’ with the volume-control-pot on your guitar, just like the original 60's amps.
SVC -Seamless Volume Control- Tube amp volume under control!
As the ACE has both gain and master volume controls, it’s easy to find your sweet spot. In the SVC power section you’ll find an extra ‘total’ volume control. It enables the amp to produce 0,1 Watt bedroom levels yet retaining great tone. So from now on the power-soak is a thing of the past!
Main Features:
- 1 channel with 2 footswitchable modes: 'Clean' and 'Super Lead'
- SVC - Seamless Volume Control: from 0,1 watt 'bed room' levels to 50 watt 'Rock Arena' levels (no tone loss at lower volumes, no need for power-soak)
- Ultra wide gain range control for ultimate gain versatility
- Outputs 4, 8, 16 Ohm or 2x16, 2x8 Ohm
Specification:
- Output: 50 Watts R.M.S.
- 1x Celestion G12M65 'Creamback' speaker 65 Watt R.M.S.
- 2 x EL34 power tubes
- 3 x pre-amp tubes:
2 x 12AX7
1 x 5751 - Outputs 4, 8, 16 Ohm or 2x16, 2x8 Ohm
- Weight: approx. 21 kg
- Handsoldered printed circuit board in the Netherlands by Kool & Elfring
- No connectors in signal path. (100% copper)
Finish & Construction:
- Handmade A to Z bij Kool & Elfring
- dimensions: H=50 cm W=50 cm D=25 cm
- 9 ply lightplex
- High quality vinyl covering
- Nickel plated corners
- Tolex: 'Black Bull'
Kool-Elfring, Netherlands 
Kool & Elfring is a privately owned company, located 45 km north of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The company was founded on January 1, 2007 by aeronautical engineer Floris Elfring and electronic engineer Aryjan Kool.
Commitment to building the best
Kool & Elfring is all about creating the most brilliant sounding, most durable and user-friendly tone-machines on the planet. We simply do not compromise on tone and quality. To achieve extraordinary high quality products we do not leave anything to chance.
- We design our amps without deadlines and budget limits
- We build our amps and cabs in our own custom shop in the Netherlands
- We combine ‘state-of-the-art technology’ with ‘old world craftsmanship’
- We use the best components and the finest materials available today
Passion for tone
Our amps are made to inspire and have a truly unique character and feel, a delicate blend of the perfect organic gain-structure, ‘punching’ frequency response, dynamic response, sustain and definition.
Maximum tone with minimum ‘bells and whistles’
All our products are slimmed down to what you really need: Amazing tone, easy to use with features that are truly beneficial to your playing.
Sustainability
We believe durability is the key to sustainability. Therefore our products are extremely low maintenance and designed and build to last a lifetime. Furthermore we use *FSC certified wood, **RoHS compliant materials and production methods combined with a strict waste-management.
*FSC: Forest Stewardship Council
