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Balinese Specs |
About Balinese |
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Controls: Volume, Volume, Tone, On/Off, Standby
Covering: Black Tolex, black/tan basket weave grille Logo: Etched Zinc logo Speaker: Celestion Vintage 30 Cabinet: Baltic Birch top quality cabinet construction Power Tubes: Matched pairs of 6L6's Pre-amp Tubes: 3X 12AX7 Rectifier: 5AR4 Power: 25 Watts Power rating: Class A Construction: Hand wired eyelet board |
We completed this amp a few weeks after my father died. Since his death, I had been listening to a lot of ZZ Top, one of my father’s favorite bands. When listening to the final product, a riff kept running through my head with a tone that mirrored what I was hearing from this amp. Turns out it was ZZ Top’s song, The Balinese. The Balinese was an infamous night club from down south in Houston on Galveston Island, and the subject of the song (“you can dance all night, if it felt alright, drinkin’ whiskey and throwin’ dice. . .”). As a kid, I wore out my father’s 8-track of ZZ Top Fandango, The Balinese being one of the most popular songs from that album. So it became the Balinese. Seemed like a good fit, particularly considering it also happened to me one of my father’s favorite ZZ Top songs.
The Balinese has vintage tweed-style circuitry with a 1x12” speaker. This amp is cathode-biased; no re-biasing is needed when you change the tubes. It runs a matched pair 6L6 power tubes and a 5AR4 rectifier and 3 hand selected 12AX7's in the pre-amp section. This amp is hand wired, Class A at it’s finest. It is so hand made, that Diamond even literally fabricates the eyelet boards it is built on. As is characteristic of Diamond, only the finest of components are used. True tube, true Class A, true clean/blues/vintage breakup, true Texas. |
