Standing in the Shadows

Tamla?? For those unfamiliar with the origins of this name, this might seem to be quite a strange choice. After all, it’s quite far removed from the puns you might have come to expect from the Preampus line. (A damn sight more subtle than Dick Head and Meat Head, that’s for sure!)

Well what the heck is Tamla? What does that mean? We’ll come back to that, let’s go for a description first!

Take yourself back in time to a point in History when MLK was still alive, the time of the Million Man March, a time of Riots and a time where someone refusing to give up their seat sparked a movement.

The Days That Spawned the Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement

This time in history was also rich in musical innovation; in particular, Motown Records. We could not do a classic set of hybrid amps without including these tones, so we bring you Tamla Head.

This amp is immensely inspired by The Funk Brothers (Who, if you don’t know the name, you would have undoubtedly heard play on a record. After all, they are arguably one of the most important bands, session or otherwise, in musical history.).

Through our research, we could not find any reference to the amps these guys used. It turns out they didn’t actually tend to record with an amp, they went direct into the board.

Because of this, our Tamla Head almost got put off, but then we thought…’Well, lets do a model of what those guitars would sound like into sound boards of that period’. We added an extra gain section just to make sure that Tamla was good for other uses as well. But it is, for the most part, true to its Motown roots.

Which brings us to the name, well, simply, Tamla was the original name of Motown Records, we thought an amp this true to its roots should be named accordingly!

The other amps in this series are most definitely more ‘out-there’ than Tamla, in fact, we’ve been talking all week about the ‘character’ of these amps, perhaps Tamla is the only female of the bunch (or if you want to think of Gimme Head as female, well, Tamla is certainly the only LADY of the bunch!). Tonally, she’s gorgeous, and we dig her for her super-clean tones. Even when she raises her voice and things get a little scary, we can’t help but love her! Let Tamla get you Standing in the Shadows of Motown, laying down the Tracks of Your Tears, and hopefully you’ll stop once in a while to say… ‘Isn’t She Lovely’!
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System Requirements

These requirements are what we've found to be a 'usable' environment for our plugins. By 'usable' we mean they run fine with low latency and acceptable CPU usage. Anything higher than these requirements will hopefully have you running things smoother than a sanded-down P. Diddy. Covered in silk. Or something …

• Pentium 4 Single Core 3GHz Processor or above
• 1GB RAM or above
• 100MB Free Disk Space
• Windows XP SP3
• WDM Capable sound card with ASIO4ALL, Or a Sound Card that natively supports ASIO