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| 1534.1 | Out of the Great White North | AQUA::ROST | Chickens don't take the day off | Wed Oct 25 1989 14:57 | 18 |
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Yorkville Sound is the name of the company that makes/made Traynor
amps. Apparently Traynor was the last name of one of their designers,
I have a schematic with a signature that looks a lot like "Paul
Traynor". They've been marketing under the "YS" name for close to two
years now.
I gigged with nothing but Traynor stuff for about seven years and
currently still use one. Solid, reliable, no BS, meat-and-potatoes
amps. For a company that's been selling amps in the US for so long,
it's interesting that they have never really been big sellers.
BTW, I had never seen any name act but Steve Miller (in 1973) use
Traynor stuff. That changed about a week ago when I saw (Canadian) C&W
singer K.D. Lang and her band the Reclines on the tube. Sure enough, a
couple of old black-faced Traynor tube amps on the stage....
Brian
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| 1534.2 | from the Great White North - Aye! | USRCV1::REAUME | Supreme Court- Syracuse Hoop | Wed Oct 25 1989 15:29 | 19 |
| I've seen a Yorkville sound catalog that includes products under
a variety of names, but all say made by Yorkville Sound on the back.
It's interesting to note that the back of the catalog lists
distributors for all over the world. The following names are included
in the Yorkville catalog:
YS - BLOC amps and some low end P.A. cabinets
Yorkville - STAGE 90 amps (one for guitar and one for keyboard)
Elite - higher end P.A. gear
Traynor - P.A. cabs and power amps
Audiopro - low to mid P.A. gear (also called Micromix)
I remember a band out of Toronto called "Razor" that had Traynor
amps all over the stage. My old bass player had a BLOC 80 bass amp
that really kicked butt for it's size.
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| 1534.3 | more semi-famous Traynors | RICKS::CALCAGNI | punk jazz | Wed Oct 25 1989 21:16 | 4 |
| I remember seeing the James Montgomery band using Traynors once
back in the seventies.
Are "black-faced" Traynors "vintage" :-)
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| 1534.4 | ex | USRCV1::REAUME | KH,BC,LP,SGE,SP=ME | Fri Jan 26 1990 12:50 | 17 |
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I've done some biz w/Yorkville/Traynor lately!
I replaced my Peavey KB300 with a YS BLOC 100K keyboard
amp. It's smaller and lighter than the KB300 but is more expensive
(lists around $600) and kicks butt. A great sounding portable
100 watt keyboard amp that has great dynamic (peavey's DDT compression
comes on too early for my liking and I know I'm not the only one
that feels that way!).
I also set my P.A. system up with Elite cabinets. I purchased
the SW-600 subwoofers and M-600 mid/high cabs. Each of the four cabinets
is rated at 600 watts and uses R.C.F. speakers and drivers. These
are the same components that EAW (Eastern Acoustics Works) uses
and those are real high-end. The subwoofers are single 18's and
the mid/highs are 2 10's and a horn each. Nice rugged good sounding,
good looking P.A. cabs. They replaced my JBL Cabarets!
-BOOM
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| 1534.5 | Inherited old head, but I don't know what I got. | IMOKAY::magnell | | Thu Apr 01 1993 12:52 | 18 |
| Been awhile for this note, but it fits the bill.
I recently inherited a Traynor Head from a brother who was moving.
This amp of course comes with no documentation.
Does any one know:
How to contact Traynor? address, phone# (In Canada I assume)
I like to get a schematic from them if possible.
Are the speaker outputs typically 4 ohm or 8 ohm or other (or does
it depend on the model)?
If I remember tonight, I'll jot down some info from the unit and post
tomorrow.
Lance Magnell
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| 1534.6 | Traynor | SMURF::BENNETT | Made in Colorado? No Thanks. | Thu Apr 01 1993 13:07 | 3 |
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Speaker outs are typically 8 ohm.
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| 1534.7 | | JUPITR::DERRICOJ | Defy The Laws Of Tradition | Thu Apr 01 1993 13:24 | 10 |
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Here's the last known address that I've been able to dig up:
Traynor - Yorkville Sound
80 Midwest Rd
Scarborough, Ontario
Candada
M1P4R2
Tel:(416)751-8481
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| 1534.8 | . | IMOKAY::magnell | | Thu Apr 01 1993 13:27 | 2 |
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Thanks!
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| 1534.9 | | DABEAN::REAUME | light 2 dark,dark 2 light | Thu Apr 01 1993 15:06 | 6 |
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Yorkville does have a U.S. address. Check into a recent GP or
GW mag and it should be listed. I don't have one with me.
-B{}{}M-
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| 1534.10 | new # | JUPITR::DERRICOJ | Defy The Laws Of Tradition | Thu Apr 01 1993 23:23 | 8 |
| Well I called Yorkville yesterday. I also needed schematics for my old
tube amp - Buck may have a vague memory of the thing... Anyway, There is
a new number:
(416)837-8481 That's their Canadian number.
/J
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| 1534.11 | Traynor | SAHQ::ROSENKRANZ | Rock with Gene & Eddy | Thu Apr 15 1993 10:06 | 11 |
| Saw an interesting Traynor Amp at a guitar show recently. It looked
like it was brand new. It was a sort of squarish looking combo with
I one speaker, probably a 12". I peeked in the back and found that it
had 6, yes count-em six output tubes. Must be a monster in a little
box! But what first caught my eye about this amp, is that it was
covered in tooled leather with cowboy stuff. Looked like somebody ought
to be plugging their G-branded 6120 into this thing.
Has anyone seen one of these before or know anything about it?
jim
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