You want tweed type tones, then you want to switch to a crunchy medium gain tone, and of course, you need a screaming lead tone right?. Gotcha covered! Why settle for a production line amplifier when for the price of a good tube amp, you can have a customized, one of a kind amplifier, built to your personal specifications.

The psychedelic 60's produced some of the best guitar tones ever recorded. That's when we found out that these old circuits took on some really beautiful distortion characteristics when cranked to their maximum. The CM50 amplifier starts at THAT point. Pure tube tone at its most basic.

But then, time marched on and guitarists decided they wanted a more refined distortion sound at reasonable volume levels. The CM50 jumps ahead a decade at the flip of a switch. Now you have a master volume and a gain control to fine-tune your tone.

As you well know, time waits for no man and guitarists found ways to create even more gain. The high gain decade was defined by technicians who added tube gain stages to these classic tube circuits to create silky smooth, thunderous crunch tones. With the CM50, you're one click away from one of the best hot-rodded, high gain modded tones your ears have ever heard. Three decades. One amp. The CM50 Triple Stage.

Play loud.

Here's a new song by Charlie Richards, playing a Gibson SG and ES335 into a Surreal CM50 Triple Stage amplifier.

Giovanni and Friends. Recorded by Steve Walton of Zoppa Studios, using a Gibson Custom Shop R0 with mid-70's T-Top pickups. Also a touch of Electro-Harmonix #1 Echo pedal. Recorded with a Heil PR20 about 2" from the 1978 Marshall cabinet's original speakers and an AT4050 about 15 feet away. The amp, of course, is the Surreal CM50 Triple Stage. Amp settings: treble and NMV at 7, Slope at 33, treble at 10, Mid at 5, Bass at 10, Presene at 10, and Attenuation at 8.

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