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They are here to help. Dating A Crate Vintage Club Amplifier You date Crate amps the same way you date Ampeg amps (SLM period only) which were owned by St. Louis Music and manufactured in St.
Louis from 1985 to 2005. They are essentially the same amps.
1985-2005 - These are the amps during the St. Louis Music (Crate Amps) period.
A new serialization system was developed and it became a code used for many years. This is the best way to identify the date of manufacture during this period. A 10 digit number is used as a serial number, which contains lots of information.
First world war. The number is set up like this: LLLCYMNNNN. LLL stands for the model, C stands for the country. (U is U.K., Y is Europe, W is Worldwide, and D stands for domestic or U.S.). The Y is a year code that is a letter, starting with A as 1988, (see chart below). What happened before 1987 for the year is unclear as very few amps were made because of bankruptcy for MTI.
The M is a number code for January-October. (Jan is 1, Feb is 2, Oct is 10, fill in the blanks.) For November and December the letters A and B were used respectively. The last 4 numbers (N) are the actual serial number for the instrument. A= 1988 G= 1994 M= 2000 B= 1989 H= 1995 N= 2001 C= 1990 I= 1996 O= 2002 D= 1991 J= 1997 P= 2003 E= 1992 K= 1998 Q= 2004 F= 1993 L= 1999 R= 2005. By the way, I wish I could have titled the thread differently because I knew there would be the requisite class clown posts but I wanted to make sure anyone who wanted to know when their Crate Vintage amp was made could easily find this.The title was perfectly suitable for the subject matter and allowed for a little joking around. How could it have been any better?
Your info was great and appreciated. I have one Crate but it is from the very inexpensive Palomino series. It sounds decent for a low wattage EL84 powered Class A amp.
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I used it for a short time when I was running two amps in small venues. Good information, though I don't think I'll ever need it. I bought a Crate GT80 brand new in the 80's, don't care the exact year. Bought it so I wouldn't have to lug pedals around for effects and gigged with it for a few. When it started failing after a couple years, I pulled the two Telefunken tubes out of it, left it on the street with a bunch of other stuff on Friday for garbage pickup day, come Monday it was the only thing still sitting there when the actual paid sanitation engineers came by to remove it. The title was perfectly suitable for the subject matter and allowed for a little joking around. How could it have been any better?
Your info was great and appreciated. I have one Crate but it is from the very inexpensive Palomino series. It sounds decent for a low wattage EL84 powered Class A amp.
I used it for a short time when I was running two amps in small venues.The one time I played through a Palomino, I accidentally channeled my inner Reverend Billy and played La Grange. I should have bought the damn amp. The one time I played through a Palomino, I accidentally channeled my inner Reverend Billy and played La Grange. I should have bought the damn amp.