![]() it was powered by 6 volts- four penlight batteries IIRC. i remember the takamine cool tube preamp concept which used the 12au7, a low voltage cousin of the 12ax7 and put it in the preamp of an acoustic -electric. Also, the "P" stands for an on-board phaser. maybe something there too in the concept. The first version only ran from 1978-79, the second version ran from 1980 until the company went bankrupt in 1984. There are actually a couple of different RPs depending on the year some are 65 watts, others are 100 watts. The old Music Mans were hybrid amps - they have a solid state preamp with a tube power amp - the exceptions being the earliest models which did have some tubes in the preamp and that RD50 series that I had (the RD50s were single-channel amps that had a single preampt tube in the gain channel that was kind of like having a BK Butler tube driver inside the amp). Not the same model, but I would agree with Mpcoluv that they are in the Fender realm. I got mine new in the summer of 1981 and kept it until I quit playing in 1986 (I returned to playing in 1992). My first "good" amp was a Music Man RD50 -112 - which was their last amp model designed in 1981.
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