Walter Woods Electracoustic 1200 Watt Blue Light Amp £2100 Woking

[robbuu]

This amp probably doesn't need much introduction, given the focus of this website. I've had it for around fifteen years and when I got it was told not to remove the American mains plug as Walter Woods objected to having to find ways of adapting UK plugs to sockets in his workshop. I've no idea if this is true but I left it on anyway and use an adaptor.

 

A few years ago I sent it to a specialist in Berlin who serviced the amp as some of the pots were getting crackly and not responding to contact sprays. He did a great job and his label is on the bottom of the amp. I'd recommend him to anyone in Europe needing work on a Walter Wood amp.

 

I don't need a two channel amp any more and could use a few quid at the moment so here it is. Both channels work fine and the amp really impresses with the right speaker cabinet.

 

Pick up in person from Woking, Surrey.

 

 

 

Edited May 27 by robbuu

[mybass]

A little history of Walter and these great amps.....back in the 1980's I bought one from Walter Woods direct from the USA, they were expensive for the time but... double bass player Rufus Reid was playing one at Ronnie Scotts with the mighty saxophonist Dexter Gordon. I asked during a break what 'that little red box was' that was powering two Bose cabinets, (the ones used in PA systems). It was a WW 100 watt amp. He convinced me, a budding double bass player, to get one. I called Walter to order and asked how he made such a small amplifier and he explained that when the USA government started releasing previously held information from the public, he went to the N.A.S.A. info 'pages' to find out how a space craft could send a coherent voice signal from the moon to Earth and he nabbed the technology for his amps and so made possibly the first digital commercial amplifiers..

Good luck with the sale robbuu, the amp looks to be in great shape.

Edited June 1 by mybass