He recorded his first couple albums with my amp and also took it to Woodstock in 1969. He had been searching for this type of sound, and it was really by luck that he found this amp that I created. He noticed that the amp had an incredible amount of gain so it would sustain sound forever. The following day, Carlos Santana came into the store and actually bought the amp.
The store's owner wasn't interested in it, but he was happy to sell it on consignment for me. One afternoon, I took the amplifier I had built into the store to see if they would be interested in purchasing it. Because power transistors couldn't handle that much voltage in those days, I stacked them in sort of a totem pole configuration which was an idea I borrowed from Hewlett-Packard.Īcross the street from Stanford, there was a music store called Draper's Music. It was rated at 226 watts which was a ridiculous amount of power in 1967. It wasn't part of my master's thesis, but for one of my classes, I designed a really high-powered, solid state guitar amplifier. Instead, I earned an engineering degree at the University of California - Berkeley followed by a masters at Stanford University. I was also really into electronics at that time, and I started making small modifications to my amplifiers.īy the time I arrived at college, I decided to not pursue music or be a pilot. A couple years later, I began teaching guitar there, and I had about 20 students. I began taking guitar lessons at Webb Music when I was in junior high school.
During high school, you would either find me at the local music store or at the airport. When I was a youngster, I either wanted to be a musician or a pilot. In this interview, Bob Gallien talks about his engineering philosophy, the changes he has witnessed in the amplification business, technology introduced by G-K, unique features found on G-K amps, neodymium technology, and the differences between ported and non-ported speaker cabinets. Found on stages and in recording studios throughout the globe, Gallien's creations are utilized by a genre-spanning artist roster of rock, jazz, fusion, and session bassists such as Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Velvet Revolver's Duff McKagan, Justin Chancellor of Tool, Ron Carter, Dave Holland, Charlie Haden, Norm Stockton, Jonni Lightfoot, and Leland Sklar. Along the way, this Stanford-schooled engineer created a product line that generates some of the most sought after sounds within the bass community and conceived a list of renowned innovations which are today recognized as standards in the music industry.
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Gallien has dedicated his ingenuity to solving the amplification problems experienced by professional bass players. Over the past 40 years, Gallien-Krueger has become a legendary brand name in bass amplification and the world-wide leader in the production of solid state bass amps. Since a low rumbling bass sound can screw up the entire mix of a show, producing a bass tone that has the punch of a kick drum has really been the basis of my designs," adds Gallien. There is the solid state G-K sound which is very articulate and punchy, and you also have the warm tube sound. "When you look at the entire bass amplification market as a whole and analyze all of the amps currently being manufactured today, you will find that there are really only two basic sounds that are being produced, and everyone is emulating one or the other. Building affordable and reliable bass amplification systems which are specifically designed for live performance is the foundation of everything we do," states Gallien-Krueger founder Bob Gallien. "There are so many amps that are being made today that sound great when you are sitting in your living room practicing, but then when it comes to live performance applications, they simply can't step up and deliver.
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