Satellite Amplifiers

Slight price increase coming beginning of November. Costs have gone up, and we are trying to add to our labor force to help speed up build and ship times. The Scamp and RTS will remain at the same prices. This picture is from years ago at the old bunker. Bottom to top, Helion, Cuda, Cuda, Atom, Mudshark, and Neutron.

Old shot from when the Supersuckers were playing FarmAid in NY. Always got a chuckle at what the sound crew did.

A special one off Satellite Gammatron getting its final test play before getting shipped out to its new owner.

A customer sent me a shot of their Satellite pedal rarity collection. I love seeing stuff like this. Very proud.

I am going to file this under “things that don’t suck” as well as “things that can’t be digitally emulated” 1959 Fender Musicmaster and the earliest White Higher Fidelity Amplifier I have seen (serial 9084, if you were wondering).

A Satellite Neutron owned by that came in for a bit of light servicing. Got to blow some of the dust out late last night. Bit of a rant: I have recently seen a few large bands that went from being cool gear oriented to all digital modeling amps. It was depressing. Not just because of what I do. Part of the joy of playing is finding new (and old) gear. Experimenting with it. Sharing those findings and pieces with my friends and other gear people. Seeing major people all playing through the same grey all-in-one modeling amplifiers just sucks. Especially when it is people that have the money to play anything they want. Maybe they don’t know how inspiring they are when kids see their hero’s playing equipment and thinking they want to be like that person, and play that gear. Generating conversations. There is also an issue of diminishing innovators. In every industry. AI kills creativity. End of rant. Time for more coffee.

1962 Selmer TV8 was missing its back panel. So one had to be fashioned. Laser engraved the logo. Because lasers.

Satellite Neutron combo and my 73 Dart at the old shop. Very synonymous of each other. Strong enough for a lot of fun, not so strong as to destroy everything in its path.

I am always amused when I find badges from stores on vintage gear. This is on my 1976 CMI combo.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing well. We did two variations of New Yorker style pickup Coronet guitars, back before the lawsuit (thanks Gibson!). The 58 which was a spot on replica, and the 61 style. That is a New Yorker in there. Glorious.

Scamp photoshoot from the old shop location.

Evolutions of the Satellite Eradicator, from the very first to the latest board incarnations. Yellow board was the first, then a black V2 prototype that never went out, there was a short run green board, then the black variation V5 that is current. The revisions were for reliability, noise reduction, some parts availability issues (voltage regulator was next to impossible to find during Covid). I will shoot a first vs latest video later.

I forgot I had loaded a pair of these into a cabinet for Fun speakers.

I like well used gear. Just feels better.

Selmer Little Giant onto a Selmer 4x8 cab is just about as cool as can be.

One last play before boxing this one up to ship

Best amplifier packing I have ever seen.

One of my kids decided to embellish her backpack. Great taste, IMO.

The trio of rarities. These were all limited run pedals. All special. More in the works.

Satellite Scamp on a Satellite 1x12 cabinet

Show must go on. A great friend was playing and somewhere between the car and the stage, the impedance selector went missing. Asked me if I had any ideas. Took my keys off my key ring, bent the ring into this glorious loop. And the band never missed a moment. This was purely to get through an emergency, but I thought you all may be amused.

I will be adding this to my “things the don’t suck” list. Its also my answer when people ask me why I don’t like Twin Reverbs. 1958 TV Junior into a 1962 Twin is mind bogglingly awesome.

None funner.

Prototyping…. More to follow

Satellite Bass Cuda sitting atop a 4x15 cab. 1964 Epiphone Newport for scale.