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Title
SWR® - Amplify Your Future™
Description
In the late 1970s, the clear, full and powerful SWR bass sound existed only in the mind of company founder Steve W. Rabe. He simply thought that bass amps should sound better, and he envisioned a bass sound that would satisfy the needs of professional players at the highest level.
“They all just pointed their fingers at the studio monitors and said, ‘Make a bass amp sound like that, ‘cause that’s what a bass is supposed to sound like,’" Rabe said. "So that meant hi-fi, clean, full range.”
The SWR sound was brought to life after a painstakingly long research process in which designers tried out many different electronic circuits for the preamp, the tone circuit, the power amp and everything in between. After repeated listening sessions with Los Angeles session bassists, SWR's first “hybrid” full-range bass amplifier, the PB-200™ (later to become the SM-400), appeared in 1984. The first five units were made in a garage.
