Flynn Amps's Blog

Current mood:voluminous

Hi all,

In march 2008 we flew down to London on a mission to try and recreate Rory Gallagher's favourite booster, the 'Hawk®'. With help from Rory's brother (and band tour manager) Donal Gallagher, Tom O'Driscoll (band amp tech) and Daniel Gallagher (Donal's musician son) we meticulously photographed and carefully measured every component on Rory's original Hawk. From these photographs and drawings our Rory Gallagher signature Hawk booster was born.

Unbelievable sustain, drive and dynamic range are all controlled from the guitar and the player. The Hawk is super flexible and works with virtually any amp. Classic Rory Gallagher guitar tones are best achieved with Tweed Fender amps such as the Bassman, Tweed Twin, Tweed Deluxe, Concert as well as Marshall combos and Vox AC30/ 15 amps but you'll find most valve amps will work really well with the Hawk booster.

The Rory Gallagher Hawk features Bass-Middle-Treble-Volume controls as well as a LPF switch which cuts/ boosts treble frequencies similar to a classic treble booster. With it's wide EQ control and variable output level (the original had 2 fixed volume levels on a switch) you can get your amp singing like never before and still be able to clean up your sound all from the guitar volume pot.

http://www.flynnamps.co.uk/hawk.html

Hope you like it!

Stevie Flynn

Current mood:vital

Hi there, we've now completed the fitting out of our new woodshop and the first cabs are now ready. We've built a multicab speaker test rig so you can choose which speakers to go inside your custom  cab and we have nearly unlimited finish options so you can have what you want on the outside. All cabs are made with 18mm birch ply and feature finger jointed reinforced corners for the ultimate in strength and tone. For more information please check out the main website.

All the best, Stevie Flynn.

www.flynnamps.co.uk