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I finally got my old early 60's gibson GA-5 amp fixed. A little background on this amp........... My grandad bought this amp for my dad and his brother brand new. neither of them really played it, so it had been sitting in a closed unused for probably over 30 years. After my grandad died I found the amp and of course it wasn't playable, so after having it for a few years, I finally took it to a tech who replaced some little parts and cleaned it up, and now it works fine and sounds great (believe it or not it still has the original tubes!). What this amp is, is a 5 watt combo with an 8" speaker, 2 inputs, 1 volume, no tone controls and uses 12AX7, 6V6, 5Y3 tubes. From what I hear, this amp is supposed to be pretty much the same as an old fender champ. With the 1 and only volume turned about 3/4 of the way up, with my PRS custom 22, it sounds exactly like "Paranoid"-Black Sabbath. Roll the guitar volume down a bit and you get a nice creamy blues tone. Roll it down a bit more and you get a very warm clean tone. I'll do a few recordings of the amp and post them in the recording section so ya'll can hear what it sounds like. Here's what the amp look's like 
