Jimmy Page Sundragon Nymph: Stadium Sound for Your Living Room
Perfect for home or stage with its new direct output.
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Jimmy Page Sundragon Nymph: Stadium Sound for Your Living Room · Source: Instagram/Jimmy Page
Guitar legend Jimmy Page has announced the latest innovation from his boutique amplifier company, Sundragon: the Sundragon Nymph.
Sundragon Nymph
This new Sundragon Nymph low-wattage, small-footprint combo amplifier promises to deliver Page’s iconic stadium-filling tones in a package suitable for home use, featuring a groundbreaking direct post-speaker line output – a first for the Sundragon brand.
If you want that rock tone, but don’t want to deafen your neighbours, or you need something to record with, then this could be perfect. I’m guessing that it won’t be cheap, though!
I know he supposedly used small Supro combo amps in the studio with Led Zeppelin, so this new combo makes a lot of sense. As it will achieve break up and saturation at much lower volumes than a more powerful amp.
Sundragon
Page, who founded Sundragon in 2017 with former Marshall/Vox executive VP Mitch Colby and producer/guitar collector Perry Margouleff, revealed the Nymph tube amp in a recent Instagram post.
The single eight-inch combo, equipped with two 12AX7 tubes, can switch between 1-watt and ¼-watt power settings, making it ideal for practicing without disturbing anyone.
Crucially, it’s also capable of handling the demands of a Gibson EDS-1275 SG Double-Neck, states Page. I don’t own a double-neck, so this is not something I need to worry about, but Jimmy wanted to share that information with the world anyway.
Having a direct out post-speaker line output for recording will, however, make this little combo worth owning, especially if it has great tube amp tones.
“The idea came to us that we should create a new amp that embodies the sonic qualities I cherish in my favorite amplifiers, but in a smaller package,” Page explained. “One that would be suitable for playing at home, at levels that wouldn’t disturb the neighbors, while retaining the tonal characteristics of the larger amps I love. This would prove to be the greatest challenge Mitch and Perry had faced to date with Sundragon. It was no simple task, as certain elements of larger amplifiers are notoriously difficult to scale down.”
Pricing & Availability
While details on pricing and retail availability have yet to be released, guitar enthusiasts and tone connoisseurs are encouraged to visit the official Sundragon website for more information on this exciting new offering from the legendary guitarist.
I’ll put money on this being another limited run, so the FOMO will be strong with this release once it officially breaks with a price point and availability.
Price: TBC
Until then, you can always buy yourself a Page-inspired guitar!
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2 responses to “Jimmy Page Sundragon Nymph: Stadium Sound for Your Living Room”
it’s not hard to scale down amps… you just gotta think outside the box and do something different to get the small wattage circuit to get you desired tone. there are dozens of old amplifiers that I’d love to modernize. the trick is using crappy parts, the purity of today’s components is way more pure than the electronic components of the early 1900s. need to have the component makers dumb down the purity of all the materials they use to build each and every component. OR…. SUPER SILVER! It’s a super conducting alloy, alloy it to everything copper, traces, wire, component leads, solder… tube/transistor innards.
A manufacturer will do it if THE James Page asks them too. not like he can’t fund a pursuit for new tones. they should all get together… the top 50 guitarists should all pitch in some funds to get new types of components out here. new alloys for capacitors, super conducting black glass OC81D transistors…. make a few thousand with lower purities too. diamond has the same lattice as germanium so why’d there not diamond black glass transistors?? I’d so love to guinea pig all the new stuff. I really wanna put a small wattage practice amp circuits inside a tube amp… I love my little solid state tones so if I could get an entire practice amp circuit inside a tube amp channel I’d be in heaven. And I’d love to mix the brand new metal alloys myself too. have a metallurgist teach me how to do it. Imagine super conducting KT88s🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘.
Good marketing idea! 😂