Guitar Gear Forum

Vladimir Putin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:09 pm What is Sunn's claim to fame? They're one of the only cult brands I have zero experience with other than that band Sunn))) but they suck balls.

Can someone give me some examples of good Sunn tone?

A cranked Sunn yields a distortion you will either love or hate. Like spawn said, they are loud and very clean (to a point of course), which makes them excellent as a pedal platform. That's how I use mine, and I like to think I have good toanz I think most sunn's of this era used ultralinear transformers which has a certain characteristic in the toanz.

The general consensus seems like their bass amps are beloved while their guitar amps, not so much loved.

Ah I gotcha. Definitely not hating on the brand, only the band that ripped off their logo

I'll check out some clips

Here is an ancient video from when I had my 200s

Ah yeah, that sounds heavy af. Really works well with the Muff in that video. I assume it was stupid loud?

Leslie West used sunn as well, but he used a Sunn PA head.

spawnofthesith wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:02 pm Here is an ancient video from when I had my 200s

killer toan!

Surprisingly not all that loud in that video if I recall. But it just got better the further up you went. Sweet amps for that sort of thing