This is what you didn't have.

Years ago we sat down with our fellow Americans to create what we thought would be the best sounding and most beautiful guitar amplifier. Check out whether you agree with us.

Klaus Somerkoski

Features

American sound, Finnish design.

Point-to-point handwired

All tube (6V6 / 5U4 / 12AX7)

Two custom made Fyr 10" speakers
(one ceramic, one AlNiCo)
by Weber, USA

This time both excellent clean
and excellent high gain
(plus everything in between)

Foot controller for tremolo
and gain boost with LED

3-spring tube reverb and tremolo

Ceramic tube sockets

Effect loop with mix control

Switches for 'bright' and
'12AY7 emulation'

4 inputs with different sounds

Cabin of genuine leather
on 25 mm Baltic birch plywood

Hand written face plate

Hand woven grille cloth

Hand made leather handle

Dimensions 62 - 25 - 45

Custom made flight case



American sound, Finnish design.

Tricks

Boost

Channel 2 is designed for overdrive. It can still be used like a channel switching function. When the gain boost is off, this channel cleans up nicely, and with the gain boost footswitch you can jump to nice rocky overdrive. Volume 1 adjusts now the level of the gain boost.

Jazz

Fyr has three options in ch 1 for jazz players. The lower input, the bright switch (in vol 2 knob) and the x/y switch in the back each make the sound smoother in a different way. Then turn up vol 1 and compress the sound with the soft power tube break up.

X/Y

Fyr has 12AX7 pre amp tubes. With clean channel and the X/Y switch in the back panel (in Y-mode) you get the mellow sound of 12AY7 tubes.

Jumper

By connecting the channels with a short jumper cable from ch 1 high to ch 2 low input you have an old school, two volume amp. Your guitar is then connected to ch 2 high input. However, some professional players, like Mr Jarmo Nikku, like to use the jumper from ch 1 low to ch 2 hight input and plug the guitar to ch 1 high.

Teaching

Giving guitar lessons is easy with Fyr, (if teaching is ever easy). You can play two guitars at the same time and have a separate channel volume for you and your student. It's nice for jamming, too. If you use ch 1 high input and ch 2 low input, you'll have clean sound in both.

Miking

Fyr has two slightly differently voiced speakers. The one with AlNiCo magnet has a beautiful smooth low midrange, while the one with ceramic magnet has a nice, punchy upper midrange grind. Together they give a very even and present sound, but you can mike either one (or both) and emphasize the desired frequencies.

Personal best

One of my favourite settings is the ch 2 on the edge of break up. With each guitar there is a certain point, where you can go from crispy clean to serious overdrive with just your fingertips (lick 6). Without touching even your guitar volume.

Have fun.

LICKS


By the way, ”Fyr” means
”lighthouse” in Swedish.

COLOURS

Pictures

Contact

Klaus Somerkoski

Taipaleentie 16

21140 Rymättylä, Finland

klaus@nic.fi

+358-50-5289393

Links

Sami Pitkämö
www.samipitkamo.com
Ruokangas Guitars
www.ruokangas.com