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Re: Pearce Amp manual?

I've got a Pearce G1.7, which is a G1 modded by Dan to be a G2 (my words - he called it the "David Torn" modification).  I don't have the G2 manual, but I've got some Pearce documentation scanned here that might be helpful.  I too like the amp.

http://lainhart.net/Pearce/pearce.pdf

I believe that Dan Pearce works at Bose, at least, as of a year or so ago.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:31 PM, William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com> wrote:

The dip switches are  gain and eq presets, that give the pre-amp more distortion and more top end edge, and or bass response. There are a pair for each channel as I recall. I believe these are based on mods done for guitarist Ronnie Montrose, who along with Alan Holdsworth and Ty Tabor from King's X, were Pearce's most visible endorsers. I believe Andy Summers and David Torn used them as well. I had the preamp version of your amp, and before than I had a non stereo G1B, mounted in a cabinet and an A-I power amp mounted in a separate cabinet both driving EV speakers.  A real stereo rig.  Incidentally I still have an original pearce single button foot switch for channel switching if you need one. I'll let it go cheap even though by now, it's, you know, "Vintage". The only guy I know that might have one is Bill Delap, the Monterey based builder who made custom guitars for Holdsworth for several years before Alan took essentially the design Bill D. helped create, and brought it to Carvin to make an Allan Holdsworth model. That would be the Fatboy chambered guitar. Bill Delap is hard to reach and I don't believe has a web site, but as far as I know, Alan gave him a punch of Pearce gear, and he has collected that stuff for a long time. Pearce amps are very good quality, as good a solid state amp as you will find for guitar, smooth creamy distortion, great clean sounds, a built in limiter that really works. The only downside of the later models was a tendency for the Alesis designed digital effects to stop working due to, I believe faulty ribbon cable issues. The good news is this circuit can be disabled and the amp will still work fine. Last I heard, Dan Pearce was working at ART but that was ten years ago.

 Good Luck

 Bill

 

From: Travis Hartnett [mailto:travishartnett@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:08 PM
To: LD
Subject: OT: Pearce Amp manual?

 

I just picked up a Pearce G2r, and I'm having no luck googling up a manual.  Anyone have any info on exactly what the front panel DIP switches do?  Off-list answer probably best in this case.

Thanks,

Travis Hartnett